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  • ZIONIST "JEWS" ARE THE "NEW WORLD ORDER"

    GOOGLE; "SATANIC TALMUD"

  • @ThePatrioticAtheist that is the damn truth man, im also atheist myself

  • Its really a shame... I drive thru the South sometimes and see the Confederate flags flying... the descendants of the dumb Southern whites that fought to help their oppressors keep the source of their wealth and power are still are doing the same thing today... being manipulated by the elite into voting against their own economic interests with the same divide and conquer strategies and playing to "identity" politics...

  • Howard Zinn at his best. Awesome talk.

  • Howard Zinn is made of awesome. Does anyone else think he sounds like Christopher Walken?

  • people like zinn and chomsky are so good with dry humor. xD their jokes intertwine with their speech because they don't change tone or expression, but that only helps to make it that much more funny.

  • "DId you know?" haha, I love this man! RIP.

  • On January 27, 2010 the world was losing such a great man. Rest in peace.

  • A rare bird. A leftist historian criticizing the Civil War. You are missed Prof. Zinn.

  • no one, nor nothing is independent - especially that played out, over the hill, ugly bitch beggar, amy g

  • If there was a god, Howard Zinn would be alive.

  • 27:08 Funny moment when he wonder's if he has time for WWII. Every American History class I've ever taken runs out of time before the WWII.

  • No, Canada is NOT independent of England.

    Canadians are "told" they are but just look at the political structure and events. Sorry, the Queen "owns" Canada and all the Canadians in it.

    .

  • You're a complete idiot, the Windsors are nothing more than ceremonial figures in Canada. Crown-Corporations are either private or public institutions, and the re-re-named "Royal" Armed Forces do not actually take orders from the Queen, or Governor-General.

    Yes, Canada is still technically part of the British Commonwealth, but British politics haven't held any remarkably significant influence on politics here since the rise of nationalism in Canada in 50's and 60's.

  • piss on him, dead man in a box....

    The world is a better place NOW.

  • @ASentinel2 obvious troll is obvious

  • Zzzzzzzzzzzzzz

  • Zinn = zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

  • @aristophnaes

    This is exactly what ZInn always talks about. You've (incorrectly) made an assumption without enough history. Howard Zinn is one of the big reasons you did get to hear such things while growing up. Back in his time History was taught in a very, very different way. You must always strive to understand context, life (and especially human history) are ever so rarely about absolutes.

  • A TRUTHFUL history lesson.

  • "Have you ever heard anyone say something bad about the Founding Fathers?" Uh. . . FUCK YES! All through under graduate and graduate school. Howard has made a career of creating false premises and then arguing against them.

  • RIP Howard Zinn, an amazing man.

  • What will we have but a war when so many foreigners come into this nation to take it over? Do we lay down and die for them ?? They sure ain't MY friends! John 15:13

    Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

  • Good...finally...he's dead.

    Now rest in piss...

  • @ASentinel2 Have some respect. if you don't like it then don't watch it. keep in mind that people he's close to might come across these videos and they definitely don't need to read humorless, and stupid comments from a jackass that didn't know him and just for that, slap yourself.

  • @ASentinel2 why would u post such a thing? :S

  • @Oxa1 because I am very glad that the dirtbag peice of shit it DEAD !!

    Dead man in a box !!!! Rest in piss.

  • @ASentinel2 unlike you he will be remembered even after his death....no normal person speaks like u

  • @ASentinel2 you sir are a complete and utter moron

  • @ASentinel2 how hateful must you be to say that? Zinn is the last person who deserves to be insulted in such a way. Agree wit him or not, he deserves the respect that any accomplished intellectual and activist deserves and shame on you for not doing that

  • I am proud to be called a zinner.

  • Its a good thing that war is so awful , our we may become to love it "General Robert Lee"

  • I don't dispute anything Professor Zinn says. What I do dispute is his thesis. What socialists such as Chomsky and Finkelstein do is decribe data points in very great detail without actually showing you the entire curve or trend line. What great leaders have always understood is what it takes to establish a stable society which benefits people in the long run. To do this you need knowledge of the empircal data of 5000 yrs of history. Unfortunately the immediate human cost is always terrible.

  • @cornelius596 however, if you grow up thinking that "there will always be human suffering and that is acceptable" of course you will think war is okay, supression and so forth. These people, and many others, belong to the category that lives by the thesis- "no matter what decision, one should strive for reducing the human/ecological suffering in the vastest extent possible".

    We grow up accepting casualites, until we experience it ourselves.

  • Should we have avoided killing 150,000+ Iraqis in the name of fighting terrorism? The bottom line is war is never a just cause. Oil is not a just cause, neither is 9/11, neither is nation building, neither is 'homeland' security. I'm fed up with it all.

  • @jakiner Me to, O was not born stupid and I am glad you were not either!

  • @jakiner always depends on the priority of the ruling elite/class.

    Lives before money or vice versa?

    US is a really good example of the money over lives/dignity- school..

  • @jakiner I only wish more people were fed up as well

  • @jakiner move.

  • @jakiner FYI 9/11 was 89% our fault you see in the 70's the USSR invaded Afghannistan and america didn't want communism to spread so they armed thousand of them, gave them training, weapons and all. and Osama Bin Laden was actually trained by C.I.A.

  • @ThePartioticAtheist I completely disagree. I'm familiar with the concept of blowback, but I would never think the 9/11 attacks were justified. We had great relations with Saddam, Bin Laden family and many more American threats, but did these political ties turn sour? Is Israels occupation of Palestine or American intervention in Saudia a reasonable excuse for killing 9000 (Twin tower attacks) and thousands in the "counter terrorism" wars? I don't think so.

  • @jakiner it is interesting that good people are led by psychopathic sadistic paedophilic money hungry elites. The only thing people have to gain by war is to survive it. Bankers on the other hand have everything to gain. When did you ever hear of banking families and their electives fighting on the front lines?

  • @jakiner I respectfully disagree. I am very critical of war, but to rule out war entirely is entirely ideological. Howard Zinn like many critical theorists would not rule out the possibility of war. Circumstances and interests vary (intrest groups from ordinary people to corporate/elite interests). We're tribal wars in response to genocide wrong? Maybe, but let's keep our minds open to all alternatives.

  • @jakiner its well over a million now, that 150,000+ number is really old

  • @jakiner we killed 150,000 iraqis? first of all we didnt second of all thats nothing compared to the 380,000 kurds and iranians that died very painful deaths from daddam husseins chemical poisons. anti war? bullshit you just dont want it on your front door step.

  • because there are very few people that speak the truth and think like this man

    ...sadly we repeat History

  • It is the soldier, not the reporter who has given us freedom of the press. It is the soldier, not the poet who has given us freedom of speech. It is the soldier, not the campus organizer who gives freedom to demonstrate. It is the soldier who salutes the flag and whose coffin is draped by the flag who allows the protester to burn the flag."

  • @BigBadMous there will always be soliders ready to fight in any society,its a natural law.

    In this sense, soldier meaning someone who will fight for a cause, in forehand knowing he/she could die for it.Its not okay when soldiers are used in any other purpose than protecting his/her own society.

  • @Oxa1 that becomes a difficult definition. What is protecting his/her own society? Does preemtive war such as the Bush doctrine constitute self defence or is merely protecting yourselves from an actual invasion count as protection? I believe that no nation has the right to invade, coerce, bribe, extort, intimidate, harass, etc. another nation and if that is followed than wars can become a thing of the past as they should have become already.

  • @Braindrain3 Protect your belief =)

  • @Braindrain3 What is wrong with coercion. Look at Coercive Diplomacy since the Second World War, many nations have used coercion in a non-violent means or as `limited war` which is described as `surgical`. Killing is bad, but if you could take out Hitler personally, like the US has tried with Saddams Baathist extermination squads is this killing not honourable? War doesnt need to be "industrial" or "attrition", if it is surgical, like many sub-state wars with modern technology. Means and ends.

  • Impressive.

  • RIP you badass.

  • American Revolution - not a revolution. Anyone that has studied revolutions knows this fact. Just because it is called a revolution does not mean it was a revolution. People once thought the earth was flat.

    Civil War - ends 1865, slavery abolished, and 1877 we see it re-established. The Civil War was about the right of states to leave the Union.

  • This is the history that should be taught in every high school. This is not his-story, its the untold our-story.

  • @jowns0 Wow. Even if you don't agree with his views, that means he deserves to be dead? You're a horrible person.

  • RIP Howard Zinn

  • 2 aGothicStory:In this day & age, I'm leery of buying anything since my purchasing power is a vote of support.There are definitely ways 2 get around purchasing, but Zinn really doesn't arouse my interest enough to spend 2 much time (another hot commodity) checking his references.I feel like he would've appealed 2 me more in my rebellious high school yrs. A quick search&I found criticism of his sources or lack there of.u can find it on amazon.com. Questioning shouldn't end w/ those who question

  • I love the fact that Howard Zinn was unafraid to be critical where criticism and further analysis was due.

  • FUC&ING NUT !!!!!

  • @jstef928 What world are you living in. I am no facist. I have no problem with someone having a different way of thinking. I just think someone who constantly bashes this country and says nothing good about it yet enjoys all it's freedom is a hypocrite. My uncle fought in WW2 and is buried in Normandie. He fought and died for people to have their freedom. He is my hero. He didn't fight and die so somone can sit on their fat ass and put down this country mercilessly.

  • First of all, its not the country he's bashing, its the government. Read his book, he states that a country is not defined by its government, its defined by its ideals. He has lots of good things to say about the ideals of America's people, and the spirit of working throughout our history. So he does say good things about it.

    But when there are threats to those freedoms, or really bad things about the way our country is going, why would you not speak out and raise you voice?

  • @southbronxkid He's defending and giving credit to ppl like your uncle. And taking the glory from the war mongers that start these conflicts. You should learn that criticism of our government is not a attack on our country.

  • I'd love to see this guy's sources. Not all the founders were rich. Washington was asked to lead, because people believed in him.

    Note that his arguments are against the wars of the US. What about the wars of other countries?

    Let's see some proof. There are plenty of books that rewrite history, but have no sources to back it up. Yes, question everything, but back it up.

  • Buy a copy of the people's history, and take a look at the bibliography for yourself.

  • A breath of fresh air the man was very sincere.

  • What a great historian! Thank you for your knowledge and wisdom!

  • So true...

  • Is there any books by Zinn on this subject???

  • LMAO 0:12 to 0:22 he sounds crazy.

    RIP Howard Zinn, LUUUUUVVV YAAAA!!!!!

  • I love Howard Zinn. God Bless you. Thank you for everything. Thank you for showing that History does not belong to the higher ups. It is A PEOPLE'S History

  • He was my favorite writer. I read a peoples history of the U.S. when i was 12, and have watched CSPAN ever since. I feel bad. I didnt know he died until today. Hats off to you Mr. Zinn... You inspired me and many others!!! This beer is for you bud!

  • We must always remember Howard Zinn's advise to President Obama:

    "Ask yourself what would Martin Luther King do?"

  • Fuckin Bravo! this guy makes some very interesting points!

  • the masters of the war,

    but the rich ones of the world, they are those that gave(lent ) the government of Ronald Reagans, 1.5 trillones of dollars for purchase of arms (guns)and technology for the war, this money comes of the called evil state bank of the federal reserve that is property of the family rothschild through its mandators. bu they do not want to that is known. PLEASE WAKE UP.

  • slow

  • it sounds like zinn wants just to preserve life!

  • Mr Zinn says "yeah, we defeated Hitler", like it was nothing to do so. He says we could have done this without war. How? Ask Hitler to stop the war please!! Are you kidding mel! He goes on and on about it could have been done without war but gives no examples. Typical case of liberalism being a mental disorder

  • 'Typical case of liberalism being a mental disorder', that is prob one of the stupiudest comments ive seen on youtube. Can you elaborate?

    Because in the US what they call 'Conservatives' (so Republicans I guess) are more Liberal than anyone else. Well in the original meaning of that concept anyway.

    You apprently have the mental disorder.

  • @xdeliriumx1 Yes, extreme liberalism is a mental disorder - they don't see reality when it's in front of their face. He only saw the negative, not the good in the country yet he lived here and enjoyed all it's freedoms. Very hipocritial.. If he hated it so much why didn't he get the hell out.. HIs passivity doens't work in the real world. A bully only responds to force. If someone hurt someone he loved would he think of a thousand ways to deal with it. Yes liberalism is a mental disorder.

  • @southbronxkid You might enjoy my tribute to Zinn. It's "Liberal Lunacy #6 Howard Zinn" Good comments here.

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  • @southbronxkid very facist way of thinking. people who think opposite of you are not simply in disagreement but are less than human. that's how genocide happens.

  • @southbronxkid Liberalism being a mental disorder? Lol.

    Sir, were you in World War 2? No you were not. Howard Zinn has the right to talk about the matter specifically because he fought in World War 2. He won medals. Yet out of the war he came out as a pacifist.

    What happened after the great evil Hitler and the ideology of Nazism was gone? Did the world suddenly live in peace? No, then you had the Cold War which reshaped the planet. After Cold War, it's the war on Islamic Jihad. On and on.

  • Utopia Mr. Zinn, there is none. . If we followed your thinking, we would still be under British rule or Germany/Japan's rule - we would have no country at all. In your class distinction tirade about the Revoultionary War, you conveniently left out that the The Declaration of Independence was signed by what you would call "rich people" who were putting their lives on the line by signing it. It was their death sentence if the British won.

    Many of their lives along with the poor were taken

  • He makes a slight error in his discussions of the Revolutionary War and the American Civil War by focusing on the MILITARY losses. While civilian deaths are much mroe difficult to count, they must be added to the tally as well.

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  • I admire Zinn so much for his criticism of his own nation. Its very difficult for one to confront the crimes of one's own group wholeheartedly, but its absolutely essential to admit our own wrongs to advance as a nation and species. We must demolish our own myths and look critically at all the stories we've been spoon-fed. The abolition of this cancer that is (militarist) nationalism is a precondition for the survival of humanity on earth. FACE THE TRUTH! THEN MAKE IT BETTER!

  • Zinn is worm food.

  • @CHARESTHEHAMER Yes Native American worms!

  • @TheKuffarKid

    meaning?

  • @CHARESTHEHAMER Meaning the worms that will eat his remains are native to America.

  • @TheKuffarKid

    So?

  • @CHARESTHEHAMER Zinn was one of those that hypocritically harped about "stolen native american land." So my comment was a JOKE.

  • i go around looking for people that think like me also...thank god for howard zinn...and rest in peace.

  • I liked Zin in BU, but I am tired of hearing everything we did wrong, not right.

  • Except that's not what Zinn says, unless you buy into the propaganda that "we" = "government policy."

  • tired o f hearing what we did wrong?see,hear no evil?Those who fail to remember the past are domed to repeat it. quote was said by someone unknown to me.STOP THE BRAIN WASHING ALREADY.i WANT TRUTH! DON'T YOU?

  • the truth is a not that completely clear, it can be spun, Zinn had his spin. Making that winning against the British to as a result the indians were persecuted is not truth. Its spin. Everyone even Zinn's teachings needs to be questioned.

  • and patriotism is not allways bad, America is not allways bad, matter of a fact better than most superpowers in history, that he could have mentioned.

  • @terrablader That's exactly what happened after the Revolutionary War. Soldiers were rewarded with Indian land, and they pushed the Indians off. My home town in east Tennesse was founded by some of those Revolutionary soldiers. It's not something Zinn made up.

  • Indian genocide was not a direct result of winning the revolutionary war, England would have pushed out the Indians too should they have kept North that was just progress, good or bad. You have to disconect yourself from the message to evaluate it.

  • Zinn didn't say Indian genocide was a direct result of the war. He said that the revolutionaries abolished the British treaty line and took over the western territory, which is what happened.

    If you believe the Declaration of Independence, the British government was regulating population growth in the colonies. The Revolution did away with that too.

    You're blaming Zinn because you didn't listen carefully.

  • the genocide of the Indians was 'just progress' lol

    It was a brutal and savage genocide that's what it was.

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  • what is was , was a nomadic people versus aggerian, its has been the same story all over the world, its tragic yes. But its not due to the revolutionary war...

  • Zinn says exactly what you stated in "the future of history"

  • was i just marketed on/to for charity?!?!

  • My history teacher gives our class readings from his book in our packets. I didn't like the book, or his ideals, but at least he tried.

  • Which ideals didn't you like?

  • well Richie maybe you should try opening your mind and letting your history teacher enlighten you some, your teacher is trying to help your dumbass

  • One of the greatest thinkers of our time.

    RIP

  • @FuckUSAEmpire a second rate "doer" is much more worth while though.

    As the venerable Joey Shithead told us: Talk - Action = ZERO

  • @NOmeansnoFAN Good intentions + Action - TRUTH =< 0.

  • @tstruss912 true but wouldn't make as good of a punk album name.

  • @FuckUSAEmpire

    Just read Marx. He's just watered down Marx.

  • @PersianGuileAgain You hate people just because of their beliefs? That's sad to me. Why hate them?

  • @tstruss912

    What are you referring to?

  • I was hoping to have something uplifting to say but after finding scorzeny45's comment I had to resond and in a way keep on the Zinn tradition of presenting information that may be helpful to future. But for fans of Zinn or freedom or justice or equality scorzeny45 comes off as a coward attacking a dead man before his grave is cold. R.I.P. Howard Zinn

  • I would like to point out that scorzeny45's comments show a willful ignorance and racism that must be rejected if we the human race are to live together peacefully. Suggesting undesirable political actions have a genetic basis goes beyond the point of just a joke, and steps into the realm of something akin to nazi propaganda.

    let me just say that scorzeny45 is an obvious racist and a 1 dimensional political idealogue

  • Do you know why Zinn became a Communist?

    He was a democrat at first but then he and some other people were beaten by police while protesting "Hitlerism" and urging the world to fight Fascism.

    He then joined the war effort and met a gunner who argued with him about politics and told him that the war was an Imperialistic one. All wereEmpires trying to get more influence over the world.

    After the war Zinn became an Anarchist and rejected the Soviet style of Socialism as inhumane and Fascistic.

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  • people like you are so ignorant and so proud to be an American you fail to properly study history and develop any intelligent skepticism, fail to really interpret history for what it is, you are a pathetic coward my friend to denounce a hero like Howard Zinn, what have you accomplished in your life? It's one thing to be critical and question, another thing to be blatantly anti-semitic, ignorant, and discard the truth. Ignorant, scared, sheep-like cowards like you MAKE ME SICK.

  • Agreed. We need to look back on our past and admit our wrongs if we ever hope to move on

  • @scorzeny45 you are scum

  • Amazing man...

  • Howard Zinn, you will be missed.

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  • @debull136

    Clearly you must get all your info from FoxNews and cable. Here is a thought...instead of dumbing yourself further with your American bs cable how about you open 'a book' why dont you READ some Zinn, Chomsky and Parenti and then 'critique' their work. I can assure you their assertions are sourced properly and verified and I would be more than happy to debate you on any issue.

    Zinn's passing saddens me deeply he was an incredible humanitarian, activist and historian. ~ RIP Zinn ~

  • @debull136

    Have you even bothered reading a Peoples History of the United States? Do you even know how many natives were slaughtered and annihilated due to white settlement?? Do you have a clue as to WHY the US was pro-hitler initially and that the US joined the war at the 11th hour?? The US had information about the concentration camps and knew that millions were being exterminated but it suited their geopolitical aims to keep out. So pls spare me your deluded bravado and learn some history

  • @debull136

    You have the mentality and intellect of a 5 yr old retarded kid.

    Why dont you read some real history and get your facts straight before you spew your nonsense?

    Howard Zinn was an incredible historian and activist just as Chomsky and Parenti are. If you bothered to read their work you would see that the truth is anything but the right wing delusions you have acquired from 'FoxNews'.

  • ISAhub - while your intent is honorable, hi have a 6 year old retarded child who is quite intelligent, and knows good when she sees it. I take offense. Please don't bring down the developmentally disabled with these kind of comments. Thank you. RIP Howard Zinn.

  • I just learned of howard zinn tonight for the first time, as I watched this it dawned on me that if Jesus has leaders in his "army" This man must have certainly always been standing somewhere by his side.

  • @ dabull136 so war is the only way to accomplish change? if you believe that, then you're the idiot.

  • History is written by the victors. Their history proves what they want. Clearly you don't know or understand history and even worse....you think you do. Ignorance is bliss.

    How about Vietnam? A war to end the Red Chinese communist threat! Millions killed. Billions spent. Millions of families destroyed permanently...FOR WHAT? So we could lose and Red China could end up our biggest creditor.

    Turn off Faux News and open a book. I suggest Zinn's "A People's History of the US."

  • "History is written by the victors."

    uh huh and how do you explain howard zinns books then?

    You can't can you.

  • @ CHARESTHEHAMER clearly you've missed something. Dr Zinn's versions of history are not the "facts" written in American text books are they? Why? Because the approved version of American History is what they are teaching, the version written by the victors and the version they want believed.

    I can and I did.

  • You stupid cunt maybe you haven't noticed but Zinn's book is used as a text book in public schools across america.

    STFU till your brain starts working.

  • You should take your own advice. The fact that you need to use misogynistic terms to make you baseless point proves the weakness of your arguement and your mind. Zinn's book is NOT used across the country as a basic text and you know it. That is an outright lie.

    Not even a good try.....go away little man.

  • Oh but I do know Zinn's book is used in many public schools as a text book.

    You on the other hand know jack shit and need to stfu before someone gives you an education.

  • @jerseygrl5 Indeed. And after the Pentagon Papers were released, the myths of Vietnam War were exposed. The reason of "staying" in Vietnam and trying to win the war instead of pulling out early was not because of the threat of the domino effect, the main reason was to "avoid an American humiliation," with the second distant reason being to prevent Chinese influence in Vietnam.

    They barely teach that though in America. It was in the NY Times, everywhere, but people forgot the Pentagon papers

  • Speak you Mind, even when your voice is trembling. That's the true essence of what Howard Zinn meant and means to the discussion of human rights and political misuse of power. Not irony that he passes away following the Martin Luther King, Jr. Birthday holiday... Thank you and RIP Mr. Zinn.

  • Dear Dr, Zinn, you will be greatly missed. Rest in peace my Historian hero..we learnt a lot from your inspiring life and work. Thank you very much.

  • at 33:55:

    "In between war and passivity, there are a thousand possibilities"

    Has anybody said anything wiser than that?

    Howard Zinn, you will be greatly missed sir.

  • Chares, you're never gonna get even 1% of the love and respect that Howard Zinn enjoyed from all over the world.

  • RIP

  • Howard Zinn passed away on January 27, 2010

    rest in peace my hero

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  • One of the few heroes in my life. R.I.P. Howard Zinn...

  • A great voice for sanity, reason, and truth has passed from this world. The world's a bit darker today than it was yesterday. R.I.P., Dr. Zinn.

  • There are few men I admire as much as this good man.

  • let's leave our baggage at the door, start to get along, stop killing each other for any reason, obama has killed more than bush in his first year, wtf ! all these religions have more in common than differences: love, compassion, where did all that go? change yourself first

  • I enjoyed Howard Zinn's speech. I find we are of like mind. :o)

  • I recomend anyone else feeling so threatened by isalm as this coward ignorant omcorc is to PM me ask me anythign you like debate me in anythign or check otu my channel and see some of my videos or skip all of htat take the time out of your day when possible and watch this series called the arrivals to understand what it is we are resisting against and fighting for in our own words not our ignorant enemies.

    arrivals.technocrazed . com/

  • I have read many Civil Rights & Civil War books & know about John Brown who played a major role in starting the Civil War... Great movie about struggle in Queen with Halle Berry the paternal side of Roots... Man goes off to war leaves his family home to work in the fields quite fitting for what they did but they didnt like it one bit! Lived in different class systems since a kid.. Middle Upper to Lower Middle to Middle to Lower I know & People Wake Up They Really Dont Care About Us! Peace.

  • hes in his fucking ninetys first of all, and second of all everything he says makes complete sence

  • hahaha the first few minutes are kind of funny. zinn has a good sense of humor, which i think is why much of his writing stands out from the rest

  • Amazing man!! In his imperfections he reaches perfection!!

  • Thanks for posting - superb!

  • This man is right on. History has been skewed to brainwash the citizens.

  • Hey McCarthy, it's not the 1950s. Move on.  We're fear-mongering about Islamo-fascist-socialism now.

  • You don't even know what fear is. But you will...if the left is allowed to continue down playing the threats America faces from Islamic terrorists.