A good movie for the 4th..was America built on plunder ?

“America” is like a Fourth of July sparkler held high in the night air. It’s dazzling in its defense of this nation and patriotic to the core.

anna bartsch ‏@annabartsch

Everyone PLEASE go see "America". What a brilliant movie. Had tears in my eyes throughout. Thank you @DineshDSouza. #AmericaTheMovie

TEOTWAWKI wrote:

“America” is like a Fourth of July sparkler held high in the night air. It’s dazzling in its defense of this nation and patriotic to the core.

anna bartsch ‏@annabartsch

Everyone PLEASE go see "America". What a brilliant movie. Had tears in my eyes throughout. Thank you @DineshDSouza. #AmericaTheMovie

Where is it playing

Found it at the Carmike 18 on W starts July 2nd

What Mr. DSouza outlines in the trailer is correct: America is built on plunder! That doesn't mean that Americans aren't good and just people who try to do what's right as they understand the term.

What it does mean is just what the film's producer explained -- we did steal the country from the Native Americans, we did enslave blacks to build the country, we did steal land from Mexico, and other than in WWI and II, most of our wars have been conducted to acquire resources and to exploit native populations.

That's history, and anyone who disputes those facts is a liar.

Including Mr. DSouza.

Wordslinger wrote:What Mr. DSouza outlines in the trailer is correct:  America is built on plunder!  That doesn't mean that Americans aren't good and just people who try to do what's right as they understand the term.

What it does mean is just what the film's producer explained -- we did steal the country from the Native Americans, we did enslave blacks to build the country, we did steal land from Mexico, and other than in WWI and II, most of our wars have been conducted to acquire resources and to exploit native populations.

That's history, and anyone who disputes those facts is a liar.

Including Mr. DSouza.

I love how you spin things to make it seem as if the USA was the DEVIL. While we did take from the Native Americans and treat them badly, the rest of what you say isn't entirely true in the context you present it.

Slavery was a Brit construct that carried over past the Revolution. By the time of the Revolution, the South's economy depended upon that type of resource as it lacked the natural resources of the North that provided that region a hand up for industrial development.

Stole from Mexico? Really? What about that exchange of money after the Mexican-American War called the Gadsden Purchase? Forget about that little part in history because it doesn't jive with your own lies?

http://history.state.gov/milestones/1830-1860/gadsden-purchase

The Gadsden Purchase, or Treaty, was an agreement between the United States and Mexico, finalized in 1854, in which the United States agreed to pay Mexico $10 million for a 29,670 square mile portion of Mexico that later became part of Arizona and New Mexico. Gadsden’s Purchase provided the land necessary for a southern transcontinental railroad and attempted to resolve conflicts that lingered after the Mexican-American War.

We won that war fair and square.

It was God's will that Manifest Destiny be our goal homey. That all started with the Louisiana Purchase by President Thomas Jefferson.

PACEDOG#1 wrote:

Wordslinger wrote:What Mr. DSouza outlines in the trailer is correct:  America is built on plunder!  That doesn't mean that Americans aren't good and just people who try to do what's right as they understand the term.

What it does mean is just what the film's producer explained -- we did steal the country from the Native Americans, we did enslave blacks to build the country, we did steal land from Mexico, and other than in WWI and II, most of our wars have been conducted to acquire resources and to exploit native populations.

That's history, and anyone who disputes those facts is a liar.

Including Mr. DSouza.

I love how you spin things to make it seem as if the USA was the DEVIL. While we did take from the Native Americans and treat them badly, the rest of what you say isn't entirely true in the context you present it.

Slavery was a Brit construct that carried over past the Revolution. By the time of the Revolution, the South's economy depended upon that type of resource as it lacked the natural resources of the North that provided that region a hand up for industrial development.

Stole from Mexico? Really? What about that exchange of money after the Mexican-American War called the Gadsden Purchase? Forget about that little part in history because it doesn't jive with your own lies?

http://history.state.gov/milestones/1830-1860/gadsden-purchase

The Gadsden Purchase, or Treaty, was an agreement between the United States and Mexico, finalized in 1854, in which the United States agreed to pay Mexico $10 million for a 29,670 square mile portion of Mexico that later became part of Arizona and New Mexico. Gadsden’s Purchase provided the land necessary for a southern transcontinental railroad and attempted to resolve conflicts that lingered after the Mexican-American War.

We won that war fair and square.

It was God's will that Manifest Destiny be our goal homey. That all started with the Louisiana Purchase by President Thomas Jefferson.

Pacedog writes: "It was God's will that Manifest Destiny be our goal homey."

Yeah, it was God who wanted us to exterminate Native Americans in order to steal their land. And no matter how you want to excuse it, California, Oregon, Arizona, New Mexico and much of Texas used to be owned by Mexico -- until we beat them at war and made them an offer they couldn't refuse!
Yessirree, sir, God made us fight the Spanish in Cuba so the Cubans wouldn't form their own government when the Spanish were ousted.

And God told us to colonize the Philippines.

Here's a secret, Pacedog -- your God's a murdering thief, and America's people were his henchmen. Reality!

Do you think we invented these things? Human history is littered with similar acts and events... it is or was human nature.

Depending upon ones enlightenment I suppose. I think our species could do with a bit more natural selection.

But then I don't tend to bother with pretense or pc narratives.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2014/05/20/dinesh-dsouza-pleads-guilty-to-campaign-finance-fraud/

May 20th, 2014
05:10 PM ET
1 month ago
Dinesh D'Souza pleads guilty to campaign finance fraud
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CNN's Dana Davidsen
(CNN) – Conservative commentator and author Dinesh D'Souza has pleaded guilty to violating federal campaign finance law, prosecutors said on Tuesday.

D'Souza, 53, of San Diego, admitted to exceeding donor limits in 2012 by arranging for others to give to the New York Senate campaign of Wendy Long. He also admitted to making false statements about those donations, the office Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said.



According to the indictment, D’Souza and his wife contributed $10,000 to Long's campaign. He then directed associates to contribute on behalf of themselves and their spouses, totaling $20,000. D'Souza was to reimburse them.

Federal election law limits individual campaign contributions to a federal candidate to $2,500 each for a primary and general election campaign.

The law also bars any person from making contributions in the name of others or reimbursing another person's contribution.

A noted conservative activist, D'Souza is a former policy adviser to President Ronald Reagan.

He also directed a 2012 documentary, "2016: Obama's America," that was highly critical of President Barack Obama and based on his book "The Roots of Obama's Rage."

Long lost to Democratic incumbent Kirsten Gillibrand in 2012. She and other Republicans, like Sen. Ted Cruz, have argued the government is unfairly targeting D'Souza for his political affiliation.

D'Souza argued for the charges to be dismissed on grounds of selective prosecution. Last week, a judge denied that motion, citing "no evidence" to support it.

“Following the court's ruling denying Dinesh D'Souza's baseless claim of selective prosecution, D'Souza now has admitted, through his guilty plea, what we have asserted all along – that he knowingly and intentionally violated federal election laws," Bharara said in a statement.

"As our Office's record reflects, we will investigate and prosecute violations of federal law, particularly those that undermine the integrity of the democratic electoral process, without regard to the defendant's political persuasion or party affiliation. That is what we did in this case and what we will continue to do.”

D’Souza faces a maximum of two years in prison.