We watched the notorious Loose Change video last night. It’s very interesting, if not necessarily for the reasons the film-makers suggest. I love the critical, storm-the-king’s-palace, attitude of these young kids. Question authority! I also love the power that’s been given to 20 somethings with laptops and internet connections. What talk-radio was to the conservatives in the 1980s, blogs and the internet are to the neo-radicals today. Power to the people!
But why should I go on and on about it when I actually can show it to you:
So, did Bush do it? Of course not. Not even Dick Cheney or Rumsfeld. They clearly aren’t well-organized enough. This kind of an operation would have required “military precision,” but we all know what American military precision is worth.
What I do know is that if more people like these kids had been speaking out three years ago, the Iraq war could have been prevented. Most Americans are such flag-waving dupes, but this film reminds you that there is another American tradition of irreverence and critical thought. Great stuff.