Video - Celebrities "Stop Watching US!" they Blast Obama’s Surveillance State, Repeatedly Invoke Richard Nixon
From Will at THE OTHER NEWS:
Video - Celebrities "Stop Watching US!" they Blast Obama’s Surveillance State, Repeatedly Invoke Richard Nixon.HT: NewsBusters.By Matthew Sheffield.
Actors Maggie Gyllenhaal, John Cusack, and Will Wheaton and director Oliver Stone, are among several others appearing in a new video promoting a march in DC this weekend under the tagline “Stop Watching Us.” Even more interestingly, congressman-for-life John Conyers (a prominent Democrat) also appears in the clip as he and others compare the NSA’s spying on Americans to the Watergate scandal.
No one mentions Obama in the clip but it’s interesting also that no one mentions President Bush either, the man who usually gets the main focus of left-wing ire on such matters.
The clip begins with the leaker of the “Pentagon Papers,” Daniel Ellsberg and then continues in a prolonged narration with each successive person in the frame building on the argument.
“Every American is at risk of getting caught up in the NSA dragnet,” Stone says in his first segment.
Cusak points out, correctly, that the intelligence agency’s data collection also includes average Americans who are not suspects in any crime.
“We’ve been misled,” Conyers states as the clip cuts to testimony of the current U.S. director of national intelligence, James Clapper, outright lying to Congress about domestic surveillance.
The clip then alludes to former President Richard Nixon although it does not state in any sort of detail that staffers working for his campaign had engaged in the planting of secret recording devices inside offices of his rivals at the Democratic Party.
“It was wrong then, it’s wrong now,” Cusack adds. “The tools for surveillance have never been more powerful. And the threat to our civil liberties has never been greater.”
The video continues and then gives a plug for the website “Stop Watching Us” which is an effort supported by an across-the-spectrum group of public policy organizations such as the ACLU, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Libertarian Party, and FreedomWorks. Read the full story here.
3 comments:
OK...I watched the whole thing.
Not one mention of Obama and his regime. As if this is something that is simply happening on its own. Every one of the people talking on this video is an Obama voter and an Obama administration enabler. And not one mention of his culpability. Each and every one of these fucking turds are part of the problem.
It is a absolutely ridiculous to see how much time they spend indicting Nixon. THEY are the problem! Obama is the problem!
Gotta start someplace.
Humans are not going to hang an "I WAS STUPID, BUT NOW I AM FOUND" sign on their chests.
I'll take it.
You NEVER, NEVER, NEVER tell the schmuck, I TOLD YOU SO.
You just hope the pressure of the desire to do so, doesn't blow your front teeth out
The reason they mention Nixon so many times is to draw a shocking parallel with the present situation. EVERY ONE viewing that video knows who is responsible for it. The present administration, the one they voted for, with Obama at the helm. There is no need to state the obvious and antagonize people who otherwise agree with what it's being said.
I think this is a great start. We need people to see the light, and for that they cannot be defensive.
It's becoming clear for everybody that this is an anti-American administration. It's taking time to sink in, but hopefully more and more people will wake up.
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