Cenk Uygur: DC is infested

Since 9/11 the US has changed a lot to combat the war on terror. Warrantless wiretapping is just one example of things that are now allowed as a result of September 11, but is the military industrial complex to blame? The Young Turks' Cenk Uygur continues this discussion and talks about the US' role on the war on terror and if America is safer after the implementation of the Patriot Act.

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[MrEmpathicus]

@esc1127 C) also, in the proposed model of TZM/TVP there is no leader, checks and measures would be in place so that human needs are met globally and any change to the operations made would be peer reviewed in complete transparency so abuses would not take place. There are more safeguards to what you describe in the societal model proposed than any iteration of the one we have at present. Check this out: edition.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/0­9/07/rushkoff.jobs.obsolete/in­dex.html

[MrEmpathicus]

@esc1127 B) in 15-20 years our energy infrastructure will be grinding to a standstill unless we apply 21st century thinking to our problems. There is free energy generated around every single home on this planet. In Germany there is a village that produces an excess of 300% energy for its consumption. If we treated energy in the same way as peer to peer internet and digital media storage, that would be giving power to the people quite literally. Quite the opposite of central by all definitions.

[megagagnon1]

Our civil rights aren't being in taken away because of the terrorists, they're being taken away for the sake of more big government.

[DTA550]

I came to this vid to get hear an intelluctual debate and im stuck looking at this sexy ass woman and I dont know what the hell they are saying.

[geffel]

@Koldness99 yawn

[geffel]

Cenk seems incapable of being wrong, on this subject at least.

[VerseInfinitum]

Cenk Uygur makes a good point when he says that the surgically pinpoint targeted operations have been helpful. But the general occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan and how the civilian population has been mistreated (to say the least) has been a catastrophe for the United States and its allies. He also said that by compromising our liberties helped the terrorists rather than hindered them. Mr. Uygur hits the nail on the head when he states that we're our own worst enemy, not the terrorists.

[UNIVERSITYHI]

@coopmuch56 al Qaeda is a CIA created bogey man. The myth is that: "19 Arabs brought down the biggest defense system in the world from a cave in Afghanistan." Philip D. Zelikow the ghost behind the 9/11 Commission Report did a college thesis on: "Public Myth Making."

[coopmuch56]

@UNIVERSITYHI what do you mean myths?

[MyTube22T]

Cenk Uygur still believes in fairy tales. Go back to mainstream media, Cenk.

[FSFchannel]

@sssssjjjj1

it's cenk, not "chink". you can see on the title. Hope I helped.

[MattSyTy]

We? It sure does suck to be included in this little jingoistic game by default.