MTV Martial Law Warning

[Evandril]

Fact: We're really, aside from some rah-rah material and brandishing of fists, not interested in taking on Iran or North Korea, much as we are NOT interested in Cuba. We're very happy to maintain the rhetoric, but frankly, we'd need full deployment and drafts to hit them. No thanks.

With the new people in charge, I'm much more inclined to believe that now I always knew it'd be a *BAD* idea...but was honestly surprised some of our actions concerning Korea didn't have them at our throats a while back. *shrugs*

[ditchdj]

Oh no the Patriot Act really isnt THAT bad. Unless you do something "naughty" like discipline your kids or make out on a plane....

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationwo...9.story?page=1

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap_travel/20...nfrontations_1

----One reason why I won't fly. Makes me wonder what some people's definition of martial law really is when you can be thrown in jail for putting your freakin' head in someone's lap and slapped with a FELONY! Yet not one terrorist attack was thwarted by this thing.

[Shangri-laschild]

I found the ad on the think.mtv.com website (http://think.mtv.com/044FDFFFF009BD7C900170098F589/). It looks like the video is sponsored by the Gedenk Movement. Their website doesn't seem to still be up, but when I googled them, it showed up (with a broken link) with this:

"The Gedenk Movement (Remember!) A humanitarian campaign to raise youth awareness about genocide through art and education."

I was also able to find this website: http://holocaustshoeproject.org/gedenk2.html It honestly does sound like a youth awareness project. A lot of kids (and adults) tend to see history as just something in the past that doesn't affect them or have anything to do with them. I don't know that I see anything wrong with that, and MTV does seem like a good way to reach a lot of younger people.