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Douglas Carpenter

(20,226 posts) Fri Mar 14, 2014, 06:51 AM Mar 2014

Michael Moore Interviews Tony Benn (Tony Benn, veteran Labour politician, dies aged 88)

see this thread in LBN

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014754927

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Michael Moore Interviews Tony Benn (Tony Benn, veteran Labour politician, dies aged 88) (Original Post) Douglas Carpenter Mar 2014 OP

Maybe this is the same video as that one is not available in the US. canoeist52 Mar 2014 #1

thanks for posting that Douglas Carpenter Mar 2014 #2

RIP Tony drynberg Mar 2014 #3

A great loss! swilton Mar 2014 #4

canoeist52

(2,282 posts)

1. Maybe this is the same video as that one is not available in the US.

Reply to Douglas Carpenter (Original post)

Fri Mar 14, 2014, 08:21 AM

Mar 2014

"Keeping people hopeless and pessimistic - see I think there are two ways in which people are controlled - first of all frighten people and secondly demoralize them."

Douglas Carpenter

(20,226 posts)

2. thanks for posting that

Reply to canoeist52 (Reply #1)

Fri Mar 14, 2014, 10:08 AM

Mar 2014

drynberg

(1,648 posts)

3. RIP Tony

Reply to canoeist52 (Reply #1)

Fri Mar 14, 2014, 10:35 AM

Mar 2014

Thanks for posting this "reminder" about the Big Picture.

swilton

(5,069 posts)

4. A great loss!

Reply to Douglas Carpenter (Original post)

Fri Mar 14, 2014, 07:42 PM

Mar 2014

Just watched the movie Seven Days in May for the first time...The President Jordan Lyman (played by Frederic March) makes the astute observation (this was the 1960's) that he hated technology because it eroded democracy by making the public think that they were powerless.

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