The End of the Republic: Tyranny Rising!

Tyranny Rising! This popped up in my Facebook account today posted by one of my friends. It's long (2 hours and 25 minutes) and scary. Is it valid? Take a look and make up your own mind.

Well I've watched it all now and I'm inclined to think it is pretty extreme. Is it possible, well maybe, and that's scary enough. The problem is that to believe it you have to imagine a global conspiracy and that's a bit too much like all the other global conspiracy theories that have been floated in my life.

But shy of that, on the less than total global conspiracy side, the idea that a bunch of oligarchs are trying to accomplish something like this isn't all that far-fetched. So where to draw the line? Also what to do about it?

We need to make sure that we act in a fiscally responsible way and stress distributed power and not centralized power. HERE's a review. HERE's another review. HERE's a Wikipedia piece on Alex Jones.