Act of Valor: propaganda
Jeff Moses
I’m sorry to be the one who says it, but it has to be said. The new movie Act of Valor is a piece of propaganda worthy of Joseph Goebbels himself.
A two-hour commercial to join the U.S. Navy by making their elite seal team look to be Sylvester Stallone’s The Expendables.
The film is clearly a ploy to get average citizens to both accept and embrace not only the soldiers but the war they are fighting as well.
Using active duty Navy Seals to provide entertainment isn’t only insulting to the thousands of people who have actually been killed by Navy Seals but it’s downright scary.
Who else throughout history blew their military heros up to be some sort of god-like executioners who kill without a thought for “flag and country”?
That would be Nazi Germany.
With the passing of the National Defense Authorization Act, SB1867, it would appear the U.S. government is preparing the “final solution.”
The Stop Online Piracy Act and the Protect IP Act were the Internet’s equivalent of a book burning and now propaganda films outlining the infallibility of American soldiers.
I’m not writing this to be alarmist, I am writing this because I am scared.
One day when they look back on history I fear that the invasion of Fallujah will be regarded in the same vein as the German blitzkrieg attacks on Poland.
The brainwashing is already in place. I recently met a man who thinks all Muslims hate Americans because it’s in the Quran, and I thought we got passed those thoughts in 2004.
It’s amazing how we are able to gloss over history and feel sanctified in our belief in America simply because our government says it instills freedom everywhere it goes.
News flash: Hitler made the same claims. It’s not as if he stood on podiums telling Germans “I am slaughtering people because I’m an evil megomaniacal psycho path.” He claimed he was protecting the freedoms of all Germans.
Hitler was once the “hope” of the German people, and for me seeing active duty military in feature films is a big “change.”
