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PBS : The Secret Government: The Constitution in Crisis watch!

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  • reaperhatch, on 01/28/2008, -1/+20whenever I watch a documentary about the government I always end up getting pissed off.
  • aristotle0dude, on 01/28/2008, -0/+23"It's just a piece of paper." - George W. Bush.
    • mrgreenjeans, on 01/28/2008, -0/+7“Stop throwing the Constitution in my face,” Bush screamed back. “It’s just a goddamned piece of paper!”
      http://www.comlinks.com/polintel/pi051214.htm
      • Terr01, on 01/28/2008, -0/+1To head off the "OMG NO HE DIDN'T LIBTARD" folks, it's from a news article with three anonymous staffers. So it's not super solid, nor disproven.

        However I believe the empirical evidence when it comes to the behavior of the Administration, legal positions, court cases, actual gulag-ment of US citzens, etc. shows that it's certainly a plausible quote.
  • poiuytrewq44, on 01/28/2008, -0/+9I always thought it was ironic that PBS, the public government funded broadcasting station provided the most liberal, and oftentimes anti-government sentiments in their documentaries, not that they are undeserved.
  • h4ckler, on 01/28/2008, -0/+7interesting documentary...filmed what? 20+ years ago?
    • sharkd, on 01/28/2008, -0/+5200th Anniversary of Constitution = 1987
    • obliviousfool, on 01/28/2008, -0/+9We need these reminders. I'm guessing that much of Digg's population was too young to remember Iran-Contra and that whole big bag of lies. If anything, the "secret government" that made that whole episode possible is even stronger today. Twenty years ago we had a whole summer of televised hearings. Today such things would never even make it to congressional hearings.
      • cranium, on 01/28/2008, -0/+2I wonder if Watergate would even get a headline if it happened these days.
    • jeffiek, on 01/28/2008, -0/+2What makes you think anything has changed?

      The movie is timeless.
  • sharkd, on 01/28/2008, -0/+10Hmmmm... you'd think, that if the executive branch repeatedly, flagrantly acted outside of its authority and abused the basic tenets of the Constitution that there'd be some sort of complimentary structure -- a check and/or balance, if you will -- that could investigate the allegations of criminal activities, and submit the findings to a court composed of, say 100 people -- nice round number... sounds like a good idea, but where, oh, where can we find, oh, say 435 people who have the time, and the inclination to do something like that? Oh, well... if wishes were horses...
  • zoomsixx, on 01/28/2008, -9/+3Getting Diggs from spamming front page storries. Lame
  • clogger3030, on 01/28/2008, -0/+3I don't wanna sound queer or nothin' but I think Bill Moyers is kick ass!
  • theNazz, on 01/28/2008, -0/+4No Habeas Corpus... wiretaps without warrant... rendition/secret imprisonment... I don't know why anybody is even acting like the US has a Constitution. The US follows the Patriot Act now which supersedes all previous laws on the books. The Bush Administration got the final nail down on the coffin that was a long time in the making. Want it to change? Too bad. You'll be labeled a domestic terrorist for even suggesting it.
  • Satanscock, on 01/28/2008, -0/+2just change the clothing and the hair styles and the names of a few countries and you'd think it was made this year
  • Khyber00, on 01/28/2008, -0/+0Oliver North LOL, is working for fair and balance and deceived us again in 2003 analyzing middle east to make it fair and balance for us.
  • methylamine, on 02/05/2008, -0/+0It's so far gone I believe we'll have to invoke Jefferson on this one:

    God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion. The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions, it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. ... What country before ever existed a century and half without a rebellion? And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.
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