Let’s not jump to conclusions. I’m not saying the videos are not authentic, I’m just saying the conclusions [in some cases] are nuts.
Jim, one of the most attractive features of FreeRepublic is that it offers its readers the opportunity to brainstorm pertinent contemporary issues. As you no doubt intended, those issues include concerns that may reach the highest and most important levels of our nation.
In fact, your tagline: “Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!” can be read in our current setting as a battle cry for all Freepers, not just individually but as a nationwide group of patriots. Our nation is currently in a struggle for its soul, and it is today quite valid to think in terms of a tyrannical government.
There has been a lot of pure speculation at the national political level since 2008 and some, perhaps even much of it has come true. One hopes FR will continue to operate as it has, and allow its contributors to explore and exchange ideas however seemingly outlandish or intellectually provocative.
There’s stuff in the video that didn’t get there by accident. I’ve welcomed people giving their theories about what that stuff is and why that stuff is there.
For instance, what appears on the video to be a wave with sunlight shimmering off it turns around at one point and you can see what appears to be the face of a black man in a gray hoodie-type outfit, with a yellow light at the top of the “hood”. I showed that image and asked “What do you see?”
Nobody addressed that, but it is there and it is bizarre. Why was that there?
Ive given my theories and if you think they’re crazy that’s fine. If you can give reasons that my theory is impossible that would be good. And if you can give a theory that better matches all the evidence that would be best. I’d love to hear your theory for why this stuff was out there. That’s why I asked the questions.
As theories are brought forth the evidence in the video and other evidence can be considered to either support or refute that theory - as others are able to use evidence to either support or refute my theories. Because of the set-up of Free Republic, that kind of analysis is made possible here in a way it is not possible in other places. That is the glory of Free Republic and a large part of why it has so many followers and contributors (including myself) making sure it continues to exist. The free exchange of ideas and information allows theories to be fully vetted and stand or fall on their own merit.