I'm Getting Into Trouble Again on the Interwebs.

[eldritchhobbit]

I've committed another made-for-YouTube video.

My others are as follows:
* Is Katniss a Modern-Day Spartacus?
* Forgotten Rebellion: Black Seminoles and the Largest Slave Revolt in U.S. History
* The Expulsion of the Acadians
* Andrew Jackson: The First Imperial President
* The Trail of Tears: They Knew It Was Wrong
* Protest against the Trail of Tears


Here's my new kid on the block: The Rise of the Mockingjay: From Ferguson to Hong Kong.

If you check out any of these, thanks! :)

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[eldritchhobbit.livejournal.com]

To clarify regarding Ferguson: I see clear parallels between the events in Ferguson and those depicted in The Hunger Games. Where citizens of the United States - and, indeed, the world - expected to see a police response in Missouri, they instead saw a military response. Ferguson is only one recent and highly visible example of the increasing militarization of the U.S. police. The way the authorities mistreated and attempted to suppress the press in Ferguson offers another compelling point of comparison.

I would recommend checking out "We Awaken to National Militarization of Police, Not Only in Ferguson," by Cato Institute Senior Fellow Nat Hentoff, as a reader-friendly commentary about these issues - from, I should point out, a conservative point of view. He not only offers a concise appraisal, but he also points readers to the work being done by Constitutional lawyer John Whitehead of the The Rutherford Institute, Walter Olson of the Cato Institute, Senator Rand Paul, and others on this very topic.