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10-06-2010, 09:52 AM | #1 | ||
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POV - David Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers
It will take 90 minutes of your time, but this program is the definition of "civil disobedience"
Please plan to watch it because it is the history of the VietNam war and what gives hope for the USA PBS presents POV episode The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers Online: October 6, 2010 through October 27, 2010 Quote:
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10-06-2010, 09:57 AM | #2 |
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Don't have to, I saw it in real time.
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The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump. |
10-06-2010, 10:46 AM | #3 |
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So did I ! It was a very dramatic time in our lives.
But there's a lot in this program that I didn't know. |
10-06-2010, 05:19 PM | #4 |
“Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo”
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Anyone but the this most fuked up President in History in 2012! |
10-06-2010, 09:00 PM | #5 |
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When Nixon resigned, I took a deep breath, let out a sigh of relief, and decided it was time to quit obsessing about how much the government sucks, get on with my life.
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10-06-2010, 09:06 PM | #6 |
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I took a wrong turn down a road called apathy.
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10-07-2010, 03:01 AM | #7 |
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gots it on the dvr for later. morbid curiosity trumps apathy.
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10-07-2010, 08:31 AM | #8 |
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It's depressing, because I know all we learned was for naught, nothing has changed excepts the names. Although a simple sentence by my mother, "I guess you were right", 20 years later, was gratifying.
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10-08-2010, 12:22 PM | #9 |
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made some think more critically after, balance that idealism, blind patriotism with a deeper understanding/awareness of power, ideology, global relations, and what is understood as public good
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