Today is the fifth of November...and freakishly I saw the movie "V for Vendetta" again, a year after it was released. My question is are we willing to do something about all of this. Ironically, everything in the movie is becoming a reality with the passing day. Federal agents pull out a 14-year old from her classes to question her about her myspace comment about he she hates Bush. The state of California announced yesterday that elementary school kids will be fingerprinted. The kids I am sure are a very big threat to national secutiry. And England has just been declared the most spied on nation in the world. England has the biggest closed circuit monitoring system in the world. Biometric systems are being integrated for things like passports. England is the closest thing to a Big Brother society that we have today.
What do you have to say? I would love to hear from some English people.
I am posting this in several categories because I want to get a range of responses.
2006-11-05 08:49:21 · 2 answers · asked by The Prince 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
Well, things were bad during WWII, with internment camps in the US, but not as bad as in Europe, with occupation and Nazi death camps and stuff. Things were bad during the McCarthy era, but not as bad as Afghanistan under the Taliban.
I won't say I'm not concerned, but I have faith that things won't get *too* bad in the US because we value our freedom and rights. I think a big problem is that people vote for candidates based on single issues--I call it "Trojan Horse Politics."
Like, Reagan got into office mainly based on his anti-abortion politics. Then, he offered to kill off revolutionary Catholics if the Catholic church would kill off Communists. There was the El Salvador thing, where the US spent billions of dollars backing a bunch of drug lords because the revolutionaries were communists. We bankrupted the Soviet Union...and the Balkan states commenced to butchering each other and blowing historic sh!t up just like they did before WWI (which they started.) While they were under Soviet control, they weren't committing mass rape and murder and genocide. But after the Soviets lost control, they started fighting each other just like they'd wanted to that whole time.
Bush is kinda the same deal. He was actually pro-Mexico once upon a time, and seemed friendly toward immigration. Not anymore. People voted for him because he seemed like "such a nice Christian" kinda guy. Not really, but that's what he portrayed himself as. So he gets in office, a few terrorists blow up the WTC, and...massive incompetence and fear-mongering ensues. He's a Trojan Horse!
People need to think critically--people, you can't vote in a candidate based on abortion, gay marriage, or gun control issues! There are sooooo many other issues that are more important, and you aren't even finding out what the candidates think about those issues until it's too late--they're already in office and unless they really screw up, you can't just fire them. You can barely impeach them! People, think critically! It's the American Way!
2006-11-05 09:03:54 · answer #1 · answered by SlowClap 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Guy Fawkes Guy Fawkes twas his motive, to explode the King and Parliament. Guy Fawkes is one in every of my favourite historic folks. He will have failed in his challenge, however he layed down the groundwork. Plus I love V for Vendetta. If simplest extra folks had been inclined to get up in opposition to their govt.
2016-09-01 07:41:26 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋