War Correspondent Chris Hedges on OWShttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4wlvM-0Cxg"This One Could Take Them All Down" Writer Chris Hedges spent 20 years abroad as a war correspondent. He says he came back and discovered that "Corporations had carried out a coup d'etat in my country." He says: "I was with the leaders of the opposition movement in Leipzig in East Germany on the afternoon of November 9, 1989 and they said that 'perhaps within a year, there would be free passage back and forth across the Berlin Wall.' "In a few hours, the Berlin Wall didn't exist. "I don't think there's any danger of this movement becoming co-opted by MoveOn.org - which is a reprehensible organization - or the Democratic Party or anyone else - or the Teamsters. "What happens is in all of these movements ... the foot soldiers of the elite -- the blue uniformed police, the mechanisms of control -- finally don't want to impede the movement and at that point the power elite is left defenseless ... the only thing I can say having been in the middle of similar movements is that this one is real, and this one could take them all down ... I can guarantee you that huge segments of those blue uniformed police sympathize with everything that you're doing." -- Pulitzer Prize winner Chris Hedges brings his 20 years of experience as a war correspondent, having covered movements and revolutions throughout the the world, to the discussion. ------------------------------------ [watching HC is unbearable; vomit material] |
Saturday, October 22, 2011
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