"How Do You Feel About The War In Iraq?" (Telegraph Ave, Berkeley, CA)

[majoono]

EliteStudioz: do you have any videos relating directly to your opinion of the war?

[ThingsThatVexMe]

The Hippies in the vid did sound ignorant, but we knew that going in. Besides would you like these guys holding some kind of political office? No thanks. So they are doing all they can. Being ignorant is a full time job in San Fran.

[ThingsThatVexMe]

I don't believe in the war in Iraq or Afghanistan but do support the troops. They are just doing their job. Please someone tell why we are truly there. Democracy has to be earned not imposed. But since we are there building a new country. Why can we not get our money back from Iraq oil revenue? Our troops cost money, the Iraqis should pay us back in black gold.

[quake1991]

What is the point of this video? Without maybe a stratified sample of people in a place such as Berkeley, all you can expect is an unreliable bias.

I'm a student at UC Berkeley, and I know if I waked down Telegraph and asked people how they felt about legalizing marijuana, I would get a lot of support for legalization. However, those peoples' opinions can't even come close to being considered representative of most peoples' opinions, so again, what's the point of this video?

[thotkrime]

The camera guy sounds like a stereo typical pretentious berkeley douche.

[cmswannaloveu2]

True, there are a bunch of weirdos in Berkeley but if you grew up there you learn to love it, there's no place like my hometown, that makes it unique even though a lot of people hate us :)

[Streatham1966]

I don't know why I found this so frightening and embarrassing. Really worth doing, I think. Perhaps Berkeley was also like this in 1968, the year of years. Can anyone who was around then tell me?

[papamalo]

As little as I like "hippies" I am the son of one of the biggest hippies on telegraph in the 60's. I can say with accuracy, that NONE OF THE PEOPLE IN THE VIDEO ARE HIPPIES.

Perhaps some pseudo leftist. cafe latte chugging, artsy internet cruising, wannabe's but, nary a serious activist among them.

I on the other hand am no spokeseperson for hippies, but I AM The spokespersaon for telegraph avenue. self appointed. sue me, I know more.

Piero

(pio from "the ave)

Feel free to test my statement.

[MRR8746]

like those hippies nowaday know shit about what's going on, they so fucking high and fucking poor

[EliteStudioz]

Which moron were you in the video...?

And actually, this being America (I know Berkeley likes to think they're apart of Europe) ... you are allowed to film in public. Yes, even people's faces.

[wtvricanttinkofaname]

i used to live in Berkeley.... i miss it

and the war should stop

i love how u quoted the monty python thing at the end!! I love that peasant dude who actually says that!

Peace

[BMulletar]

Cool video. Even better than the reactions in the video are the reactions on Youtube. :P

[CATCH23dotcom]

You guys are not very smart - stick to filming your relatives.

[Freaknfrogger]

This should be called dumb asses questioning random people on the street because they have nothing better to do.

[EliteStudioz]

That was the initial title but we decided to go another route. (I assume you are the bearded guy near the beginning).