Have you watched "Overview of America" yet?

[FrankRep]

Have you watched "Overview of America" yet?

Overview of America
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6732659166933078950

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[evilfunnystuff]

excellent flick the john birch society scored a home run with that one

 

[FrankRep]

I think this video is rather important. bump.

 

[FrankRep]

I encourage the people who said "Not yet" to please watch the video.

 

[princessredtights]

This is a great video!

 

[Deborah K]

Thank you, FrankRep. I am sending that to everyone I know. I am also going to become a member of the John Birch Society. I've been thinking about it for a while anyway.

 

[LibertyEagle]

I watched it. Several times.

I think it's very good.

 

[FrankRep]

Thank you, FrankRep. I am sending that to everyone I know. I am also going to become a member of the John Birch Society. I've been thinking about it for a while anyway.

Awesome! Welcome aboard.


To the people who voted "Net yet," have you watched it yet?

 

[FindLiberty]

My two kids both took the JBS's "Overview of America" DVDs with them to school...

One was immediately played in the classroom (and also played for other classes taught by that same teacher)!!!

In classic gubermint school style though, it was the classes of younger 4th grade students that were allowed to view the DVD, and not the more age appropriate 7th grade class.

The DVD was very good, but it could have been better.

We also need another “school DVD”, that really spells out the economic mess, tweaked for 4th graders* and up. In turn, the kids could then explain the unconstitutional federal reserve fiat scam and inflation to their parents over the dinner table by illustrating Jekyll Island and Ponzi "math" schemes on a paper napkin.

Ron Paul is quite correct, young kids can easily understand it.

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*In order to motivate and appeal to those young minds, the video should also tell ‘em that they’ll know that they've successfully explained these concepts when their parents spontaneously spit out a mouthful of food or drink at the exact moment of comprehension and realization.

 

[Conza88]

Seen (awhile ago) said I disagreed... Only about the anarchy part... but that's not the point of the video.

As an overview - correct.... and brilliant introduction.

Anarcho-Capitalism defs a massive pill to swallow.. takes time for shiz to come to the proper realization.. we're all better off without the state.

Anyway; defs worthy of spreading around.

 

[Richie]

This is an AMAZING video! I highly recommend spreading it around!

This site has a lot of cool stuff worth looking at on it. http://www.trueworldhistory.info

 

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This site has a lot of cool stuff worth looking at on it. http://www.trueworldhistory.info

Thanks!

 

[1000-points-of-fright]

I disagree with the notion that one must be religious in order to be ethical. I don't murder, cheat, or steal. Why? Because I have empathy for others. I wouldn't like it if someone did that stuff to me, so I don't do it to others. It's not because I'm afraid of God sending me to hell.

Other than that one point, good vid.

 

[danberkeley]

Seen (awhile ago) said I disagreed... Only about the anarchy part... but that's not the point of the video.

As an overview - correct.... and brilliant introduction.

Anarcho-Capitalism defs a massive pill to swallow.. takes time for shiz to come to the proper realization.. we're all better off without the state.

Anyway; defs worthy of spreading around.

They weretalking about "revolutionaries" who want to overthrow a government for the purpose of replacing it with one of their own. A la Castro revolution in Cuba.

 

[adamni]

I disagree with the notion that one must be religious in order to be ethical. I don't murder, cheat, or steal. Why? Because I have empathy for others. I wouldn't like it if someone did that stuff to me, so I don't do it to others. It's not because I'm afraid of God sending me to hell.

Other than that one point, good vid.

Totally agree.

 

[StilesBC]

Yup, good vid. But agree with the other poster that religion can be left out of it altogether and not change the message. One need not be god fearing as a prerequisite to morality.

I understand that America is a very faith-based nation, but the JBS would not be offending Christians by leaving it out. They do, however, offend people of other religions or of agnostics. Perhaps enough so to scare them away entirely from a message they would otherwise believe.

I have the same issue with those that tie the abortion issue to the freedom movement. Ron is guilty of this also.

 

[FrankRep]

Where do our rights come from?

 

[Scofield]

Where do our rights come from?

Our creator (for religious folks), or nature (for non-religious).

Our government PROTECTS our rights, they do not GIVE us our rights.

 

[Swmorgan77]

Right.. the point is that they are "A priori", intrinsic, an inherrent part of human existence BY DEFINITION.

Your rights transcend and pre-date any form of government bestowing them upon you. The distinction between whether they were granted by a religious deity or by nature or a natural process means very little with relation to government, unless you think that in either case government can overrule the creative process to take them away.

I also think that the founders, while VERY suspicious of institutional usurption of government by any one religious system, or vice versa, also would argue that a moral code of the type that is usually furnished in society by religion is crucial to fill in SOME of the gaps, with voluntary social contraints, between what government can not do under a free Republic and would use force to accomplish in totalitarian system.

The video illustrates this very well, but maybe a little more emphasis on the fact that there is plenty of room for competing religous views in society since on the main necessary components of social influence all world religions are fundamentally the same.

They all have a sense of "reciprocity" (the Golden rule under Christianity, Karma), Accountability to a higher judge even than government, and basic moral codes prohibiting fraud, theft, murder etc.
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I am really impressed with this video, and it will be a teaching tool that I rely on heavily in my family and among those friends who seem willing to understand

 

[USAFCapt]

A JBS group from Washington sent about 100 OoA DVDs while I was deployed. I placed them in common areas and they went fairly quickly. That was the first time I had seen the updated version, it was good.