Liberia (documentary- graphic and depressing)

[Velokid1]

This is very graphic and very depressing, as well as being poop-yer-pants frightening. But it's also important.

A friend sent it to me as 'proof' that Americans have nothing to complain about, let alone protest about. To me it seems like comparing apples to orange rainboots, but the video has also haunted me for a few days now.

The first part of a multi-part set of videos on YouTube that comprise the whole documentary.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQSjyYRT ... r_embedded

[hippiewannabe]

That's what I've been trying to say.

Forget the meaningless skin color; genetically, that's each and every one of us.

AK-47's are more efficient than rocks and clubs or swords, but that describes most of human history.

We can do better, of course. But it infuriates me when people take for granted what we have achieved and obsess about our failings and minor hypocrisies.

[Velokid1]

I see your point but the love-it-or-leave-it mindset is oversimplification that appeals to simple-minded people, so you have to be careful how you move around it.

A crook shouldn't be let off the hook just because a child molester lives next door.

[hippiewannabe]

I see your point but the love-it-or-leave-it mindset is oversimplification that appeals to simple-minded people, so you have to be careful how you move around it.

A crook shouldn't be let off the hook just because a child molester lives next door.

OK, I'll take it. The greatest country the world has ever known, in the best time to be alive in all of human history, can do better.

[turk]

The fact is, with all the criticism aside, this country has done more than any other in history I know, to give individuals freedom and opportunity.

[Velokid1]

It's the Superbowl of Nations! Life's a football game to the average American.

[skin daddio]

It's the Superbowl of Nations! Life's a football game to the average American.

i'm anticipating spread with steel toward packing.

[glasseye]

The fact is, with all the criticism aside, this country has done more than any other in history I know, to give individuals freedom and opportunity.

The English might take issue with that oft-heard claim.

[Cindy]

The fact is, with all the criticism aside, this country has done more than any other in history I know, to give individuals freedom and opportunity.

The English might take issue with that oft-heard claim.

As would the Haitians.

Cindy

[Elwood]

The fact is, with all the criticism aside, this country has done more than any other in history I know, to give individuals freedom and opportunity.

The English might take issue with that oft-heard claim.

I did watch a bit of it but not all. I saw no freedom or opportunity from anyone. Only horror and sickness. We (The United States of America) have got a long way to go to make claims of heros.
Every country we visit in war, has land destroyed and families torn apart. We so proudly offer them refuge on our land after we bomb theirs to nothing.

Peter you got mail

[Sluggo]

I just watched the whole series. That is the most disturbing thing I've ever seen. It's like every documentary about a horrifying place rolled into one. Any truly evil thing you can think of happening all at once. I have a feeling that General Butt Naked will return. Maybe using the power he has gained as a minister to start another army.

I'll be saving this directors page and watching the rest of his stuff. Truly fearless journalism.

[skin daddio]

butt naked is on facebook under his real names.
check out his friends.