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Old 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

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In 1971, Daniel Ellsberg, a leading Vietnam War strategist, concludes that America’s role in the war is based on decades of lies. He leaks 7,000 pages of top-secret documents to The New York Times, a daring act of conscience that leads directly to Watergate, President Nixon’s resignation and the end of the Vietnam War. Ellsberg and a who’s-who of Vietnam-era movers and shakers give a riveting account of those world-changing events in POV’s The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers by award-winning filmmakers Judith Ehrlich
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To be branded America's most dangerous man by Henry Kissinger and to be called a traitor by Richard Nixon, two of the most dangerous people in the history of the human race, is praise indeed.
This documentary is more timely than ever, in light of the revelations of what our leaders did in our name and with our tax dollars in Guatemala.
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Old 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.
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Old 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.
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Old 10-06-2010, 05:19 PM   #4
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Don't have to, I saw it in real time.
Me too.
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Anyone but the this most fuked up President in History in 2012!
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Old 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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Old 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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Old 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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Old 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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Old 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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