Classic 50 Year Old Video… you Won’t See This Shown To The Kids Today
“Make Mine Freedom” delivers a vitally important message. Produced in 1948, at the beginning of the Cold War, it underscores how utopian fantasies can lead to extreme forms of statism. Exposing the poisonous effects of collectivism and its appealing philosophy, this animated short film explains why American free enterprise is the antidote to the tyranny of the government-issued “-ism.”
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Need to find a way to show that to more kids.
We need a way to show this to more adults!
someone please tell me how to get a copy of this!
It’s on youtube and/or go to the website at the top of the the page…www.tcotreport.com
Glad you like it.
Thanks MD_Vet
“When anybody preaches disunity, tries to pit one of us against the other, through class warfare, race hatred, or religious intolerance, you know that person seeks to rob us of our freedom, and destroy our very lives. And, we know what to do about it!”
I only wish the last statement were true. The (albeit slim) majority of “sheeple” in this country apparently don’t care who leads them so long as they are comfortable.
“The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it always to be kept alive.”
“The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.”
Thomas Jefferson
Atilla…that first quote from the film sent a chill down my back…Tom
Amen! Now let’s get some!!!
Wonderful video. Only one problem with it though, at 1:44 it says the “right to vote.” Sorry but there is no constitutional right to vote. The only thing in the constitution about voting rights is that the privilege of voting cannot be prevented due to sex, race, or age.
Two thoughts:
First, my Constitution Camps. Send kids (and adults) to Constitution Camps.
Second, how would we take control of the airwaves and show this?
The only way to do it would be to organize a hostile takeover of a major media company. That would require serious financing, but is not an impossibility.
You mean the free public airwaves?
now there’s a concept
It seem’s so simple, yet we still are having this debate today….F Obama for bringing this up again! Aren’t there more important things to worry about?!
I completely agree with the first part of your statement. This should not even be an issue at this point. It is very disturbing that it is even being discussed.
As for Barack Obama, he’s just a symptom of the potentially lethal collectivist disease that has infected this country’s government and body politic.
Our country has been taken over and is being destroyed by communists. That’s definitely something to worry about.
This is a great learning tools for kids today..!
Should be shown in every classroom.
some souvenirs (via the blogshevik) :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCgFmXGKQrs
Pass it on to everyone you know who has kids. Grassroots, people. I actually found this on a music production forum last week, nice to know I’m not the only conservative with a recording studio.
Great vid. I found it myself last year and emailed it to my kids and everyone I know since.
I just added this to my Facebook page.
Freedom really is so simple when you cut through all of the egg-headed bull[censored]!
I had a conversation Friday night with what I surmised was your average ‘higher-educated’ leftist. I came to the conclusion that he was, indeed, a leftist based on his answer to one simple question that I asked him. Well, truth-be-told, his nearly obsessive preoccupation with everyone’s racial and ethnic identity sort of left me with this impression even before I asked him my ‘test’ question.
This person apparently is a great admirer of ‘professor’ Noam Chomsky, who I have actually heard of before (all of it bad) but really didn’t know all that much about. So I looked him up. Chomsky is exactly what I figured he would be, just another lifetime academic central-planning “statist” know-it-all trying to pretend he is something other then what he is.
Hell if Wikipedia’s ‘glowing with admiration’ page about Mr. Chomsky gives me the impression of a man, who at the very least is, plagued with philosophical inconsistencies and irreconcilable ideas; then what sort of impression would a ‘critical’ article about him actually leave me with?
Of course most of our conversation took place outside of the bar. Due to Maryland’s smoking ban, which the young people of today completely accept as necessary simply because government says it is. The brainwashing is considerable ‘out there’ I think. Hopefully the seeds I planted in his mind will take root.
“The destroyer of weeds and thistles is a benefactor whether he soweth grain or not.”
- Robert Ingersoll
So what was your test question?
I knew ’someone’ would be interested in knowing what the question was. I can’t remember where I first heard this… but it goes something like this:
Do you believe that for some men to become richer, other men MUST also then have to become poorer?
It is a simple Yes or No question.
But the answer does determine whether one possesses real knowledge, as it pertains to the very existence of our civilization… or whether one is just another of the liberal intelligentsia’s thoroughly indoctrinated drones.
The more things change, the more they stay the same. We can learn a lot from those who have “been there, done that”.
Sigh,
I can remember a time when i went to school when video’s like this were shown to teach us of the evils of communism. I wish schools would again begin to teach the true meaning of communism and use the horrible examples of the Bolsheviks, Mao’s purges, the Khmer Rouge, Pathet Lao, Vietnamese Mugabe and Chavez as living brathing monuments to their evil.
Fat chance, the schools are now run by the communist NEA. Private schools are the only hope of properly educating our youth,
Billy/madjack
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I don’t want to hear any whining about Obama from anyone who gives money to the NRA and similar groups, who did everything possible to help Obama become President by doing absolutely NOTHING to oppose him before the election!! I will never give another red cent to the NRA no matter what they say.
Everything that the Democrats are trying to do now was well known by these chumps before the election, but they didn’t care about anything but their revenge against their enemy McCain.
Not to beget internecine conflict, but I must strongly disagree with the erroneous assertion the NRA ‘did nothing’ to prevent the election of Obama.
The National Rifle Association OFFICIALLY endorsed McCain/ Palin in the 2008 presidential elections.
The NRA gave their lowest rating to Sen./ Pres. Candidate Obama (F-)on gun related issues.
Obama was the subject of NEGATIVE cover stories and virtually EVERY issue ot the NRA ‘Americas First Freedom” political magazine for the entire general campaign.
The NRA website and internet radio was wall to wall anti-Obama(and basically anti-democrat period, for that matter).
Other than opening up the NRA firearms museum to an amgry mob or Wayne La Pierre personally assaulting the Democratic convention, the NRA did everything an organization such as theirs can do.
Obviously I am partial to the NRA (proud LIFE MEMBER), but they ARE the reason you can still own a firearm.Bill Clinton agrees.Obama doesn’t even give GOA lip service. It is the NRA whom the democrats publicly demonize.
I fully support the mission of groups like GOA, JPFO,SASS, etc, but they do NOT have anywhere near the impact of the NRA.
Lastly, whether it be NRA GOA or any other firearms ownership group, IT IS IMPORTANT TO JOIN ONE OR MORE OF THESE GROUPS.
Don’t let the 4-6 million members (5 million of which belong to the NRA)of these groups carry the water for Americas 100 million gun owners.