If you are an American

[HiInombamfs]

Videos like this put me into "Conspiracy-Mode" where I start bitching about the goverment and Illumanati.But honestly,doing that is a waste of time.There's "proof" and "disproof", bit I'll be dead before the change in the world I want to see actually occurs.

[Ben1607]

@HiInombamfs -- YES good point:

beware of 'Conspiracy Mode'

-but totally lame that you are willing to totally give up like that and hide in consumerism

[HiInombamfs]

@Ben1607 Indeed :P totally,sir,totally 

[hkmartin13]

As the world looks upon our history will they see faliure or triumph!!? What they will see is a Faliure so huge that tears of virgins can do nothing to change it . The time has come For us as human beings to take a stand for the right to ARE FREEDOM. I look upon the killings of innocent people knowing that people we killed ARE OUR BROTHERS. It does not matter that they are of different race or Religion . It should matter that they died!

[tpsossff]

1Master Smiley

**We fucking get it you prick. you want sex, you desperate peanut eating banana sucking ass ramming fudge packing butt humper. desperate mother fucker. **

Don't know who you are talking to there Smiley but if you need virtual gay sex this bad you really ought to see a doctor or otherwise get an education....... better still a brain.

[tpsossff]

The internet can be both knowledge and pure ignorance. Just as America can be both the champion for freedom and the jackboot in the faces of those nations that have something America wants.

Unlike the old westerns all the good guys don't wear white hats and the bad guys black. The real world is not that simple.

[stairwy2heven]

you make a good point!

[maryjaneofthejungle]

good video

[birke79]

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

[SalmanSaqib]

Thats true nature naver changes....

[1MasterSmiley]

We fucking get it you prick. you want sex, you desperate peanut eating banana sucking ass ramming fudge packing butt humper. desperate mother fucker.

[MrRossyvalentino]

What?

[RamzGT]

we are only as free as the internalizations we have failed to process, I think freedom comes from within, it is not a social measure or understanding... society changes to our collective internal states, not vice versa

[RamzGT]

yeah its a little too ideological IMO

we are used to some standard of living, which is propagated by consumerist ideology... how do we take action? the future will tell...

[Verdruc]

Sometimes, I worry about people who define freedom as the right to shoot people and get away with it.

[lawrabastos]

Whats the name of the song of the video? awsome video by the way

[tankatruck1243]

Lux Aeterna By Kronos Quartet. It's originally from the movie Requiem for a Dream.

[jenrykke]

i dont know the name of the song . but i know it from a movie called requiem for a dream

[ilikepie019]

so true

[duhmasolL33T]

Haha. People don't realize..that America isn't 100% free. You can't just go around with a gun shooting anything that walks...but America is more free than most countries.

[JohnRolfsson]

"but America is more free than most countries."

Mate, on what basis are you implying that America would be more free than most of the other countries in the world? And which countries are you referring to?

I don't think is more free than other countries if you look at the norms of society, the fear of attacks and so on.

[greenbugy]

why do you title this if you are an American when in the video it says as a planet we have been lied to also some of the pics in the video have nothing to do with America as in some of it America was not at fault for

[KrazyWill09]

ANACRCHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

[KOKOON57]

GRAZIE per questo video... GLI ERRORI NON SI DEVONO DIMENTICARE !

THANKS for this video ... THE ERRORS ARE NOT FORGET!

[Jrezky]

I agree with everything said except that the internet is not the only way to be educated. There are people out in public trying to educate, the answer is not to isolate within your own home but to go outside and connect with other people.

[sicoairforce]

Well Put

[robinbreeds]

yeah totaly when ever i try talking oh NO that was in the past it wont happen now ... rite ok people so self preocupated to not care about others

[ilikepie019]

finaly SOME FUCKING BODEY KNOWS THE TRUTH! I LOVE YOU BRO!!!!!!!!!

[spitlord]

Hope you are all ready for "Internet 2.0"

[Sassykittenpie9597]

Wow this is really good!

5/5 stars

I totally agree with this video. In the future (I'm only 12) I'll be paying 3X then what we pay today! And those people in other countries are doing nothing really to harm us back then, but America is STILL bothering them which makes them attack us, which we call a war now. I really feel worse about the extinct animals and endangered ones. I hope not all animals will die. :-(

But we're like this, but one mind can set of others to make a difference.

[ironwar23]

Its good to keep the fact of extraterrestrials

in there. Enyone who denies a giant face of an ailen holding a disc with binary code on it is completley idiodic.

[videogameMAN104]

this vid fuckin scares me when i see it but good work the vid was the best so far

[Alastair]

Those crazy humans have been chopping each other up for thousands of years, y'know. The industrial revolution is what first lead them to becoming a major threat to things besides themselves, though imperialism and pre-indutsrial consumerism are also up there. I figure it will take a really huge disaster for them to learn something enough that it would be passed down through the generations. Of course, I mean something that impacts the environment they depend on, instead of people they hate.

[Alastair]

Of course, that's not how it has to be. But what are the chances or it going any other way? Humans not only contain traditions based in biological dominance but also due to ideological propagation and isolation. Not too many of them have advanced to the point where they can coexist with every other kind of being and advance further as a lifeform.

[mrshall4]

1:05  \m/

[skimyy]

YOU CAN NOT creat a utopian society that is without killings and genocides .

No matter what country it is, there is evil.

I would still say USA is more decent than any other country in this world for ALOT of reasons

That is the only belief that leads me to love America and I would stand to defend it.

[aeronaut174]

um, america is still free. just because nothing has changed since the beginning of the 20th century, doesn't mean that this country istn't a better place now. did you think war, pain, hunger, and sickness would all miraculously disappear within a mere 100 years?

[Ben1607]

wooohwooohwooh.

for a moment i was going to unload a bunch of anger on to you.

hmhmhmhm

but- that is not my statement. I never said anything like

*By the 1900's i was expecting humans to do away with everything unpleasent in a hundered years.*

and you seem to create a strawman argument to imply that i have made that kind of a claim.

Let me elaborate on what i mean by *I am not free*

[lordchipppey]

You know what's significant, we are actually celebrating the holocaust of animals, putting them into concentration camps to finally eat them. But the morbid thing is that the jewish ideology names all non-jews goys what's hebrew for cattle.

[furgloves]

I looked online, goy = nation, people or non-jew , but cattle ? It seems not (perhaps I missed something or are you saying that cattle, sheep and all sorts of animals are 'non-jew' ?

[ElyanSun]

- Yes Goyim means cattle : note that , gentils= non jew = goyim= human cattle(Pig, that need to be lead by God's Elected people.-accurately-)

- Read the catholique bible (Old Testament called - Pentateuque or the 5 books of Moses) or Torah which is the very same Text, you will see by yourself, what's these words means in their context. Thanks Byes

[papasmith1nc]

I was a history teacher. A basic lesson I tried to teach was, just what people are capable of. This is one of the lessons of this video and one that we all need to keep in mind for the sake of what freedom we still have left.

[EaterOfCakes]

:( What a shame. People are terrible. :(

[readymade98]

saddest shit ive seen

[Ben1607]

go to a bar at one in the morning

[smushbox]

nice clint mansell

[Vintage772]

"what a wonderfull world (8)" my ass -.-

[blacknephlim1111]

Tsk, tsk. It's true. I think that America is no more free than China or Russia. Can you REALLY say anything? Hm? I strongly believe in the right of Freedom of Information, but I fear that it will no longer apply in the coming years. And what's more scary than anything is that most Americans are clueless as to what's really going on with "The Elite" and their secret organizations. This video hardly scares me though, because it was merely stating what I already know.

[ladyofkingdomhearts]

my god...the brutality, the death...i got sick after watching this video! i literally screamed when the video showed the death. this is horrible! and happening all around us?! what the fuck!!!!!!!!

[chafenhimer]

i lol'd at the end

[Ben1607]

hmhmhm

it seemed dramatic when i made it

[gaddes01]

1:05-shocked-me.

[blacknephlim1111]

It didn't shock me. Lulz.

[gaddes01]

just to see them doing it so openly.

[OrchidMaroon]

They do everything in the open, and they tell us about their plans in great detail. We all look but only a few see. It's amazing, really.

[VedicAwakening]

Powerful.

[KarmaEros]

Powerful stuff man... Keep it going

[brokenhinata]

I liked it.... I know this has nothing to do with it really but I made a stop teen suicide video and like I showed my frineds and they said it was bad because it made themSCARED. and it needed to be happyer. How can a video on a topic that is so SAD have a HAPPY tune to it.

its like,..... " ooo suicide is horrible but its still glamorus and pretty as butterflies.

Question,.. dont take it persenal or anything or go crazy but are you a Libral?

[landlockblues]

Obnoxious, I think. You're so self-righteous, instead of doing things to better what you believe is wrong in the world, you make a video which encourages hate speech against people who have a different opinion of the world in which we live in, and the politics of our nation. Yea, those were some unfortunate images... but in no way are conservative, patriotic people the cause of those miilions of deaths in Africa and such.

[Ben1607]

"You're so self-righteous"

you got me- i was trying to be dramatic

"you make a video which encourages hate speech"

no i dont. Hate speech comes from hate that allready exists. Dont blame me for your issues.

"but in no way are conservative, patriotic people the cause of those miilions of deaths in Africa and such."

as you so eloquently proove- ignorance and innocence are not the same thing

[onehalfgoingwhole]

Nice.

[hjxo29]

why are you using the example of pol pot in cambodia to say that we are not free? the united states aided cambodia in reestablishing its government after the treacherous genocide by the khmer rouge. you cannot say that the us has done nothing to preserve rights and liberties of people here and abroad.

i like you but show me a country that is perfect.

[icefirerose]

great video..it's all true and for all those brain washed retarded patriots..everything people tell you is a lie...the system doesn't give a shit about anyone only power and money...people are nothing to them.

[melynassumeras]

nice vid ceep it on...

[BniggaFosho]

hey queer if you dont like the country get the fuck out... im proud to be an american because i know im fuckin free and i know that i'll never be threated by another dumbass country yea so what if theyre are retarded people in nigeria that live in mud huts and get one meal a week guess what WHO GIVES A FLYING FUCK ABOUT THE OTHER COUNTRIES IN THE WORLD america is the best and always will be get over yourself you fucking QUEER

[bakergreen5]

i like that sign at the end we are free because they fight well it makes sense no country was every built nor stabilized with out a conflict or death

[lonedevastater3]

Made me cry now im sad: (

[GoC]

I'm sad now as well :(

[Nobody45700]

By the way, Stalin killed more than just 7,000,000.

[Brawler484]

The world isn't perfect, get over it. Some humans deserve to die for what we do to the planet and to wildlife. It's balance in nature

[jdpinc123]

Hello all!! How many can tell me what type of nation we were founded as? That's right most of you can't. You have been BRAINWASHED. The majority of people believe our country was founded as a Democracy. WRONG!!!! (you are the weakest link, GOODBYE!) Our country was founded as a Federalist Republic. Where not even 99% of the people could take away the rights of one percent of the people!! OOOpppssss tooo late. We have started doing that, that is why we are not free any more. Open your eyes!!

[viciouslemontree]

lame. showing images of death doesnt make a video impactful, not even the movie preview music, stop making these pieces of crap. and for the disney subliminal messages, as someone who knows past disney illustrators,theres no big conspiracy, the word sex isnt intentionally put in there 651 times, and if it is, its funny, theyve been working on the same scene for 6 months and got bored. and theres 1000 videos out there like this, whats the point in making what others have already made.

[lordchipppey]

I love these wake up videos, especially this one, because it badly gives me the creeps.

Unfortunatelly many emotionally maimed people react with hatred, when someone tries to open their eyes.

peace bro

[Colleen9000]

Really powerful message. Especially that last part about the suppression of critical thinking skills.  In this society, if you make an uncouth comment you are portrayed as a villain. People don't like things because it challenges their ideas of themselves.

People are going to criticize this video because they don't want to admit their own follies. But keep it up anyway. You had very good comparisons.

[LBGJustin88]

whats he song?

[jebril]

The hate is strong within you stupid one. >]

[Kohana1dreamer]

That was so powerful to me, especially the part about the industrial revolution. And thank you so much for not letting Rwanda or Nanking be forgotten.

But there is still much I don't know, what websites do you recommend, do you have a blog? -Maria Romanov

[heathergertenbach]

Ben Most of this video is True but The SOLDIERS FIGHT FOR YOUR FREEDOM my husband is a soldier and he is over seas right now and trust me he dont want to be there SUPPORT THE TROOPS NOT THE WAR.

[Ben1607]

support the "troops"

what the fuck does that propoganda even mean?

[Ohioan0897]

duuuude.............

[Ben1607]

idk- its a start and sounded dramatic to me at the time hehe

[SheenaIsAPunkRocker]

No I liked it, it was full of win, I was following suit. xD

[SirenSima]

Your video is true. That's all I have to say.

[noobz121]

ben you obviously know that your word will be spread but not cared for. everyone should just stop with the nonsense posting. it is leading us nowhere

[jimmy2180354]

every country has its own problem.

[BFM57]

Seriously dude? don't you even think for a second that the reasons that these events occurred is because the cause felt that they were better than the people they oppressed or were just plain crazy? I hate to tell you this but there are just plain bad people out there (Bush and his supporters not included) this video is full of fallacies and shouldn't be taken seriously

[Ben1607]

i dont understand what you are talking about

"this video is full of fallacies"

explain

[BFM57]

You use a number of different types of what is called "logical fallacies" to convey your opinion

1. faulty cause and effect - picked many random events in history to say that they are the cause of all the war and suffering.

[Ben1607]

faulty cause and effect - picked many random events in history to say that they are the cause of all the war and suffering.

I did not do this- they were examples.

[BFM57]

2. Emotionally Loaded words - you compare current situations to the holocaust. Thats just a line that shouldn't be crossed and would piss a lot of people off

3 hasty generalization - you said that we are not free but you have no basis for that. i assume you mean that you can't do everything you want so you make the argument "there are restrictions there for i am not free" we enjoy freedoms but complete freedom can not exist without anarchy

please take it into consideration in your next protest

[Missbiccan]

Thank God, I'm not...

[Ben1607]

"from your "knowledge" you should know you can't do shit."

yea- good faith effort id like to say... but now im busy saving my own ass

[boomya555]

great vids.

[xAlemx]

Soundtrack?

[Ben1607]

motzart, requiem for a dream

[NEOLightJak]

Good job dude this changed my mind you should make more videos like this and change more peoples minds dont listen to the assholes out there who say your videos suck , youtube is full of assholes now . But your not.

[baltoczar]

educate?

[woahmagical]

Hi. :( I'm 12 years old -- and all of your videos are incredibly inspirational. First off, what do the diablo hand signs mean? I see them everywhere.

And I have always supported Bush as an individual, but there's really no reason for us to be in Iraq. You're so right -- oil, money, and no amount of land could make up for the deaths.

- Off to watch more of your videos. xD

[XBangBangShootEmUpX]

"freedom isn't free"

Quote.

You're right, we have to WORK for our freedom, we have to strive to be the "better man" and yes, some choices in life are already chosen, but others aren't.

And before you critisize me for being a "propoganda parrot" I'd like to say, you're video is FREE speech.

;]

Think about it..

[Ben1607]

A sign i took a picture of in a montana DMV (or MVD is it now):

CONDUCT DISRUPTIVE OF PUBLIC ORDER MONTANA LAW 45-8-101

PROHIBITS the use of loud and/or abusive language and it will not be tolorated

free speech?

this video has been taken down as well for "offensive images" or some bullcrap of the like. my speech is free until it crosses the line... then there are the "free speech zones" ive heard about in new york...

[apeape06]

If you're talking about not being free in military sense and protecting other our country. Tjose soldiers are FREE to decide whther they want to serve they're country and those of us wiling are heros and true Americans who want to fight for the life we all live. What does Rape of Nanking have to do with us and Stalin famine. If you're attacking OUR land of the free then you should understand that the point is not many other sountries have land of the free.

freedom isn't free,ur right

[Ben1607]

"protecting other our country"

"serve they're country"

"those of us wiling are heros"

-it always fucking creeps me out to read stuff like this... you parrot propoganda WORD FOR WORD...

and actually believe it.

[zipperpea1]

POWERFUL!!!

After only this video, I subscribed to Ben1607. Eye-opening and truly astounding to say the least.

Ben1607: You have a gift! You will reach many people with your videos!

[yoyloy]

Brilliant

[LetsStartAStupidRiot]

You're totally right before is sometimes better but usually After in this case is ALOT worse

[alice9justownedyou]

this was seriously an amazing video

[SeekNTruth]

Great vid Ben!

[ehe3000]

Good job.