DamianTV
03-04-2014, 05:36 PM
http://www.activistpost.com/2014/03/1946-archive-film-proves-despotism-has.html
The Declaration of Independence boldly states:
When a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
Thomas Jefferson, writing on behalf of the independent-minded colonists in 1776, backed up the Declaration’s conclusion with numerous examples of British tyranny, stating: “To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.”
Compare them to the United States and global system we live under today.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=xdkU79nZIq4
Are we now free? Examine the balance of power between individuals, endowed with natural rights by God, and government, Constitutionally bound to only limited powers, as well as the leading corporations of the private sector.
A 1946 national archive film released by Encyclopedia Britannica titled “Despotism” outlines several yardsticks for measuring the balance of power of a free society and that of an outright a despotism, according to scales of respect, power, economic distribution and information. Concentrated power and wealth, centralized information and monopolistic or oligopolistic control in any one of these areas tends to negatively affect the others, and renders freedom a mere illusion.
(more on link)
There are a few flaws.
Most notably, the scale between "Democracy" and "Despotism" IMHO should have been a Constitutional Republic, not "Democracy". Minor difference as we can still get the point. I dont even think a Republic is a proper term, so I'll try to generalize even further by calling for a "Balanced Govt". This could be a point of debate, but misses the point of the video. The video expresses that Govt has absolute power and people have none. That is as far from a Free Society as we can get.
The Declaration of Independence boldly states:
When a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
Thomas Jefferson, writing on behalf of the independent-minded colonists in 1776, backed up the Declaration’s conclusion with numerous examples of British tyranny, stating: “To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.”
Compare them to the United States and global system we live under today.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=xdkU79nZIq4
Are we now free? Examine the balance of power between individuals, endowed with natural rights by God, and government, Constitutionally bound to only limited powers, as well as the leading corporations of the private sector.
A 1946 national archive film released by Encyclopedia Britannica titled “Despotism” outlines several yardsticks for measuring the balance of power of a free society and that of an outright a despotism, according to scales of respect, power, economic distribution and information. Concentrated power and wealth, centralized information and monopolistic or oligopolistic control in any one of these areas tends to negatively affect the others, and renders freedom a mere illusion.
(more on link)
There are a few flaws.
Most notably, the scale between "Democracy" and "Despotism" IMHO should have been a Constitutional Republic, not "Democracy". Minor difference as we can still get the point. I dont even think a Republic is a proper term, so I'll try to generalize even further by calling for a "Balanced Govt". This could be a point of debate, but misses the point of the video. The video expresses that Govt has absolute power and people have none. That is as far from a Free Society as we can get.