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  • This excerpt from "Overview of America" is one of the best videos produced by The John Birch Society.

  • I love it. 

  • Thank You

  • I wonder if CNN would air this??

  • Good video thinks.

  • i'm an independant who usually leans left so we probably disagree on a lot of things but I will agree that the constitution is the most important document in this country and people should be more informed. and this video is correct. We have a democratic republic, but nonetheless it's a republic because democratic is just an adjective meaning we elect the leaders.

  • this video is terrible

  • good video, i think the only change is to switch democracy and republic in the political spectrum, because if the republic means the law rules, that means more government power than majority rule.

  • not really...rule of law limits the power of the government. mob rule can seem like anarchy, but it uses the democratic government to infringe upon the freedoms of minorities. Thus, it is to the left of the Republic.

  • ooh yea you're right. they set up the laws which in a sense gives govt power, but the whole idea is to really limit what they can and can't do, so less power.

  • I suggest all of you Read the Tenth Amendment. Your Answer Is right There. The problem is is that THE PEOPLE Don't Know what the Constitution or Bill of Rights Says None of them have been Taught our true past.

    He Who Controls the Past controls the Future, He who controls the present controls the past. 1984

    The left have skewed our educational system with social indoctrination and guess what You Paid for it. Everyone paid for it through Complacency

    The Complacency of fools will destroy them.

  • hmm.. i liked your video but just 2 things about this.

    1. the 10th ammendment says that responsibilities that the federal govt doesn't take care of is allotted to the states and becomes their responsibility. it says "or 'the people'" in it but that has nothing to do with people knowing the constitution.

    2. I was in public school last year and we had to memorize all 27 ammendments and the 7 articles so don't blame it on the left! blame it on apathetic children with no will to learn.

  • I Point you to Article I, Section 8, it specifically lists the powers granted to Congress: The Limit's Government can and can not cross.

  • Oh and section 9

  • Well said... THE PEOPLE (most) Ignore or don't even know the full Constitution.

    Keep up the good wrk by posting more alike videos.

  • Ironically enough, George Orwell himself was a democratic SOCIALIST. This video is complete bullshit, the guy doesn't know anything about the political spectrum and completely strawmans both democracy and anarchism. By the way, anarchism is actually a philosophy of the RADICAL LEFT. not the right.

  • This video never grows old. It is a constant reminder! THANK YOU for posting it.

  • We were founded as a constitutional republic...not as a democracy. But we have forgotten that. And since we have forgotten, the government has taken advantage of our apathy and is rushing to transform itself into a marxist oligarchy.

  • We have already found ourselves living under the tyranny of the elite

  • stumbled upon

  • Wonderful video, excellent quality and crystal clear. I agree with you in almost everything.

  • Horrible definition of anarchy. People like this only perpetuate the idea that anarchy is total chaos, no law enforcement, no nothing. This is not true on the grounds of mutalism, and by people working together to benefit everyone. This is total freedom, and it is enforced by the people. The idea here is that if you want protection you pay for, say, a group whose sole job is to protect, if you don't, then you don't have to.

  • Will everyone be able to afford protection?

    And if they can't, do they lose what little they have because they are poor?

  • The idea is that it replaces taxation, even the poor make some money and pay taxes, instead of taxes they pay for protection. Yes it's a mafia-like system, but if only the human element wasn't in the picture it would be next to perfect IMO.

  • Total anarchy would be total chaos, and for the most part I guess complete anarchy is just theoretical, just like complete control, now, it can be close, but you will always have at least a few people who question, which that alone would not be complete control (unless the media wanted you to question it). Both extremes might only be theoretical, anyway, the human element. Altruism is one of those elements, and Game Theory leaves that out in it models of society, hence the world we live in.

  • good video

  • THANK YOU SOO MUCH FOR PUTTING THIS ON HERE!!! I have fought my teachers at school about the fact that we ARE a republic and NOT a democracy. Its ridiculous that the school system has no curriculum for teaching the truth. I want people to finally see what I have been trying to defend. Honestly, how hard is it to hear the pledge of allegiance and see that it says and to the REPUBLIC for which it stands. not to the democracy.

    well anyways thanks for this :)

  • Our forefathers sought to deny tyranny.

    We have destroyed what they did for us.

  • at 4.20-4.40ish you made the bullshit argument.. Bullshit is just that. Leave it at that.

  • @retepvosnul It's easy to call something bullshit, it's much harder to have enough intelligence to make an effective counter-argument. Do try harder next time

  • @bendnlsn Nah, perhaps I'll just make a condescending troll comment next time, like yours !. Off topic, ad hominem and probably the easiest of all possible replies. When not agree, attack persons intellect. Good man !

    I call bullshit when I see it and I'm not planning to change that on account of your dumb ass. If you are so fucking hell bent on "effective" argument (you pretentious little fucker!), why then didn't you make the extra effort ? How'bout a nice cup of Shut the fuck up

  • Starting minute 8:21..the last 2 minutes and 15 seconds of this video, hold a great lesson for the American People.

    I am confident the signs of the times will be recognized, and power hungry, deceitful politicians in Washington, will not be allowed to destroy this great Republic, which has worked for 233 years.

  • Amen.!!!!!!

  • complete distortion and misinformation, eventually all of you people are gonna keep getting your facts from each other for so long, that you will be the new minority, "sheeple", we will call you, while we watch the 'feed the poor stupid starvin' sheeple' commercial on super huge 3d tvs:)

    ....no really yall are gonna have to read something that WASNT recommended by your gods....ya know...glenn beck, bill oreilly, palin, hasselbeck..and that skeletor curnt:P

  • I believe that Plato was correct in his version of "The Republic" because the people don't know what they want or need, you need an intellectual body to support, or the general will of the stupid will waste all resources.

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  • Multiculturalism? Really?

  • This is wrong. I like the political compass better. Right and left and top to bottom. Top is authoritarian and bottom is libertarian. It is right about the word democracy.

  • Righteous!

  • I, as an American who has lived long enough to have enjoyed life in this country the way it USED to be before liberalism began to take it's deadly grip upon the hearts and minds of Americans -- (through many avenues) -- I have just as much fear as the rest of you seem to about the current state of our nation. My dismay at the outcome of the past election is unbearable at times. But, I believe God allowed it for a reason. He's still on His throne, and fully in control of the situation.

  • Yes! We Christians must not forget that God is still on his throne! He is not in Heaven saying "Oh Myself! How could this have ever happened?"

    We still can pray for our nation! This is a time when I know God will be calling more people into faith. He always can use bad situations and turn them around for good and for his glory.

  • "Oh Myself"!".....lol I don't know if you meant that to be humorous, fatdanios, but it is. God probably got a chuckle out that one Himself.

    It's very, very difficult to not have a lot of fear living in this world today...But the truth is, we are told over and over in God's Word, to FEAR NOT!....No matter how bad things look. He is a Sovereign God, and by definition, NOTHING is out of His control. We may not understand it, and we may not like it, but God is GOD. Fear not! As He said.

  • Oh, indeed I was injecting humor~ We run around going OMG! Who ELSE can he swear by?!

  • Religion has no place in Law or the rule of a country it only creates conflict because every has their own faith and no one persons faith should ever rule over another. Religion and faith should always be kept at the personal level never impending laws on the public which can cause strife.

  • Don't you tell me what I can pray about!

  • Hey dumb ass read what I put before replying to me Because I know you didn't seeing from what your response was. I'm not telling people how to pray jackass I am talking about public affairs and government not about when you pray.

  • Then why did you write to me in the first place? I was talking to someone about praying for the nation and you decide to jump in with your random nonsense. You calling me a jackass says a lot more about you than it does me. Now bug off.

  • Oh, one other thing~Worry about your OWN country instead of mine!

  • You must be really stupid to say something like that to me seeing how the American economy Affects not only Canada but is a major player in the world economy So I will so why don't you just quit before you embarrass yourself further. This discussion is done.

  • The Earth is my country, and to do good, my religion. The longer we see ourselves as separate, the longer we will remain separate.

    Look at the Earth as a single organism, and we it's inhabitants. An organism at war with itself is doomed.

  • if you argue with a pig you get muddy and the pig doesnt know the difference, this is obviously one of "those folks" that blame others for their problems and do nothing but tell them truthful info they will argue themselves off the preverbal cliff and lie at the bottom and say you chased them off.

  • thanks for publicly sharing your political and religious views and not keeping your conflicted life style to yourself

  • Whoever created him.

  • What is all the talk about Bi-partisanship? There is no such thing as a Republican Socialist. The Constitution is being usurped everyday by this administration by giving "stimulus" money with strings attached in order to create their socialist oligarchy. Whoa, I ALMOST sound like I am capable of learning something.

  • So much for our freedoms. The purpose of government was to SERVE the people, not the other way around. That bail-out that just passed is another classic example of how we the people are puppets to the government and how big government is dangerous, and will soon need to be abolished. This is a constitutional protection, for people to overthrown the government when it becomes tyrannical.

  • It's true, "unashamedevangelist", the Constitution does offer us protection from the government, but that has been usurped nearly completely now. Yes, "We the People" do have the right and duty of "overthrow the government when it becomes tyranical...But, will the majority of "the People" have the will and the mind to do so, now that so many have already become "dependent" upon governmental handouts?

  • That's a very good question MomOfSRK. Honestly, I do not know if the American people would be willing to overthrow tyranny or just co-exist with it. We have become too dependent on big government and this has led us into a very dangerous situation.

  • I don't personally believe that they will. People in this country are becoming more and more indoctrinated everyday, to an "entitlement" mentality. I'm sure that's how socialism gets a foothold in ANY country.....By first endoctrinating the citizens into believing they are "owed", and "have a right to" be "taken care of" by SOMEBODY. And the scummy politicians in this country are all to eager to convince them that they CAN take care of them.

  • Yeah, I agree, that pretty much sums up what is going on in our country. Obama is using tactics of fear, humiliation, and rhetoric (just like Hitler) to get things passed (like the bailout) that he wants to see passed for some selfish reason or another. We are being spoon-fed lies and many people are falling for them. I can't stand that I work hard, but my tax dollars go to someone who just doesn't want to work, not out of work or laid off, but someone who doesn't want to.

  • There is already an alarming...and disgusting...number of perfectly able-bodied people in this country collecting "SSI" and "Disability". It just sickens me everytime I see one of them, and know that they are perfectly able to work, but just don't WANT to, and have found a way to get the goverment (a.k.a. You, the taxpayer) to pay they useless way.

  • It's going to be eugenics soon, plain and simple. It's a pity how the liberals didn't read a word of the so-called "stimulus" before signing it. They only thing they are going to stimulate is the death toll for the unborn babies and old people.

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  • I'm sorry to hear that you are disabled. I hope you know I wasn't referring to people who really NEED Disability assistance.....I was talking about all the fraud that takes place within that program -- as it does with EVERY "governmental handout" program. When it does, it's very maddening to see. Just like when I see a perfectly able-bodied, young person pull into a "handicapped" space and hop out, and run into whatever place without any problem...OR shame.

  • I hear ya, and no problem~ I can see what you meant. It's all good!

  • Indeed. And, unfortunately, our "Republic" is now, in light of the past election, gone forever. We will never see this country return to what it once was. The final nail has been pounded into the coffin, as this country has been slowly dying for the past 40 years. The election of barak hussein obama (backed by a democrat-controlled House and Senate), has sealed our fate as a once-great nation. We wil soon be as a socialist state, no longer a free republic.

  • I feel you are right. However, I would prefer to think we still can fight. We need to have OUR voices heard. Laws can be changed (and quickly if you follow our current administrations example). We can help turn it back. I am going to stand outside my Democrat Pelosi Puppet Congressman's office with a sign and HOPE people join me!! We have worked too hard too long to let this go unchallenged.

  • Who is narrating? It sounds like Rudy Giuliani.

  • I give this 5 star also. But you are missing one extra choice at the end of your video. There is one or the other, but What about them both together. A mix of republic and democratic. Seems like Obama's intentions are to get just as many republicans on his side. Perhaps this might one day mean a consistent balance of the 2 with more freedoms as the result. I hope you will accept my video response I think it would make a good addition to this video, thanks.

  • You can't have a combination of republic and democracy. They are two different things. As long as you elect people to represent you it is a republic. Of course Obama is trying to get republicans on his side. Bush tried to get democrats to side with him as well. It doesn't work because the core beliefs of each party differ in a lot of areas.

  • Sure, but situations also differ in a lot of areas. Thus they should be both important with the majority as the final consensus, based on wide votes on what should be done about the different situation. What I mean is republic rules based on a situation that pertains to them, democracy for another. Keep in mind, the majority of people as the final deciders. The gvt just pass the bills, etc.. If they don't follow the majority of people they must get out.

  • That is a choice, if the right people allow it.

  • this a a great video! i am going to share it with as many people as i can. this is what should be taught in our schools.

  • A long time ago it was taught in our schools!

  • Great video. Thank you for posting!

  • interesting vid norm!

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  • Hahahahahah Boy with a profile about his 12 gauge and his knife.... what a joke... Then she comes here with her Obama chant. Hahahahah... The very person who is going to take that little ole 12gauge away from her... Pitifull.

    Well I'm leaving this comment up of yours just to show your stupidity with your poetic Insinuations... Hahahahah But sorry little punk trolls like you get Blocked. Bye Bye Now.

  • Obama is merely a puppet of the central bankers just as Bush was. Our government has been high jacked by these quadrillionaires, which sadly means that our beloved republic has been taken over by criminals. I'm all for restoring our Constitutional Republic anytime everyone else is, but too many folks are living in denial.

  • I'm not sure it's denial as much as people not understanding history. We can fix this problem by reminding people of their obligation to understand the true foundations of what they claim to support. We should also remind the ill informed that the best way to garner what will happen in the future is to use examples from the past.

  • Five Stars.

  • It's too bad we are just waking up to this fact. 5 stars

  • cool Norm...I was hoping this video would be here.

  • Great vid Norm, thanks man, regards!

  • Thask you Steve. God bless.

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