Michelle Bachman exists... 'Nuff said.1. I do feel comparing the situation with the USA and the NSA today to witch burnings in the Middle Ages is a tad off base.
-I think it was used by kleinbl00 to make a point and I think he did so well. That said, I do think that we as a society have short memories. It wasn't so long ago that "The House Un-American Activities Committee existed. Wasn't so long ago that we had Japanese internment Camps. Currently Muslims are a target etc...
I wasn't super excited about doing this video at first. I am kinda lazy about privacy. I live a SUPER vanilla life and I think the boredom of spying on my would kill the average NSA employee. But the more I read, and the more I looked into what's going on, the more I realized that it's not about me and my vanilla life at all. It's about a fundamental abuse of power. It's about an invasion of our established rights. And I think thenewgreen is wise to draw these other correlations to the recent witch hunts and prison camps. Sure… 50 years sounds like forever ago… but the reality is - your parents were alive when this happened. And if not them, then certainly your grandparents. Your grandparents and parents KNEW PEOPLE - American citizens who were put into camps on American soil… because they were asian - This wasn't even limited to citizens of Japanese decent (as if that distinction would have helped). We're talking about Americans of Asian decent whose families may have been in this country longer than yours… relocated and shipped off because of their heritage. Other citizens were questioned, arrested, and had their lives ruined because of the House Committee on Un-American Activities. We don't talk about this stuff. We're doomed to repeat history. I'm not the dumbest kid in the classroom, and I didn't learn about internment camps until I was 23.