I created this video based on what I have learned from the Society. It highlights issues related to legality and the sheer number of “US Persons” in Canada. It doesn’t demonize the present government in Ottawa as to date they have been helpful.
I created this video based on what I have learned from the Society. It highlights issues related to legality and the sheer number of “US Persons” in Canada. It doesn’t demonize the present government in Ottawa as to date they have been helpful.
Funny Petros, another in a serious of Hitler’s downfall lampoons. But it doesn’t work as well for me because I understand German. It fits though, the look on Hitler’s face after when you subtitle something like “Canadian law won’t allow that”.
Obama is not Hitler, neither was Bush, but they are both wrong in their own ways. At least Barry is articulate.
I hope Canada stands its ground. Switzerland as a country of direct democracy and previously fiercly independant might just follow suit a bit.
*Hysterical! I sent it to all my expat friends.
@Jeff, note, this is from a new author, Joe Smith, who however is not new to Isaac Brock.
I am of the school that once you compare your opponent to Hitler, you forfeit the argument. Nonetheless, this is satire, and I enjoyed it.
*@Joe, Very Funny!! Got a good laugh out of that, Especially about the Ford Brothers.
When you think of the comments made by democrats and republicans alike about us, the proposed fines and threats of imprisonment, and the utter disdain for the rule of law by the US in other nations, the comparison with Hitler is not that far off. A number of years ago the owner of a site about expatriation from the US suggested that I consider myself as being a Jew dealing with the Nazi government when dealing with the US government.
Petros et al, I just heard of a new site called https://www.thunderclap.it that looks like a neat way to encourage social sharing and spreading of a cause. For instance, if we wanted to start a campaign to spread word and raise support for the ACA’s residency-based taxation proposal–though we’d be wise to wait until the ACA has at least a form for contacting Congress, as I’ve already suggested to them over a month ago, so people have a way to take action easily instead of just shouting in our echo chamber. Anyhow, it could being a good tool to raise support and virally spread the message of our cause at critical junctures if we are smart about it and don’t overuse it.
Favorite line: Who are these people anyway?
My favorite: “And then we go after Globe and Toronto Star columnists. Their bios have where they were born.” lol
@Petros as to your July 24, 2012 at 2:24 pm I must have had several windows open to IBS and somehow I got confused about who did what! Getting tired, was a long day. Sorry folks, and thanks Joe Smith for your subtitles.
@usxcanada as to remark about “Who are these people anyway”: Mostly just hard working middle class dudes and dudettes contributing to the economy where they live and taking care of their families and friends, and who want to be left alone so that they can be productive in their communities.
Consider sending the link to all the expats you know and have them forward it…I do not think people realize how the banks will be complicit in this.
Hilarious!!!!!
Choice to make “not just between two political parties”…ha ha ha. why do we only have two choices Barry ? If you really want CHANGE and HOPE, see if you can open things up to a multiparty system, rather than the bipolar schizophrenic system we have
@Jeff, Obama is a liar, liar, liar, pants on fire. He said in the video that they will ask the wealthy to pay more taxes (expats, he means you too), so that they can pay down the debt. After adding trillions to the debt, do you think Obama plans to use any tax of wealthy to pay down the debt? Anyone who does, guess what? The word gullible is not in the dictionary. Obama is a pathological liar, liar, liar, pants on fire. I’m not a racist for saying this. I just hate being lied to. Mr Obama can tax the wealthy all he wants but he’s not going to pay down even one penny of the debt. Not one penny. That’s because the United States is insolvent. He can’t do what is mathematically impossible to do without first cutting all the entitlements, medicare, Social Security, welfare, and he’s not gonna do that so he is a liar, liar, liar. Now please, someone find Romney saying he’s going to pay down the debt and we can call him a liar, liar, liar too. The deficit this year is over a trillion. Obama “budgets” have projected similar deficits for the many years into the future. He’s not planning to pay down debt but add to it, notwithstanding his plans to raise taxes on the rich.
And that is the best that Obama can do: lie:
Why People Are Calling Obama’s New Ad His Best Ever
@Joe, thank you – hilarious. Made my day. I’m glad I can’t understand german, because it worked perfectly for me. Now if you could only replace Hitler’s face with Shulman’s.
Obviously Romney is at least not lying about government spending and debt. From his website:
Now if Romney thinks the US can solve its fiscal problems this way, he’s sadly mistaken. Nothing less than a full 1/3 cut of the budget will stop the continue bleeding and the decline of the US dollar. That means cutting full agencies, defense budget, Social Security, etc. The Federal Reserve has to allow interest rates to rise. It’s not gonna happen. But at least Romney doesn’t claim that he can start paying down debt without making cuts. Obama speaks to the American people like they are little children who think that their parents (the rich) have unlimited amounts of money to buy them candy and toys. But you can’t tax the rich out of this problem. It is a spending problem.
The Hitler video has to be one of the sickest most disgusting things I have ever seen. You think this is funny?
@ Steven, Your reaction is interesting. Perhaps you could explain why you think that this video is disgusting. Was there something in particular, or is that just your general reaction to the whole thing? Please flesh out your comment.
To be honest, I don’t think that being threatened with 383% fines of my financial accounts is funny. This video mocks what the United States has really done: the USA has threatened its expats overseas with extortionate illegal and unconstitutional fines which are abhorrent to civilized people everywhere–even to some of the finer human beings that live in the United States, such as Roger Conklin and Monty Pelerin. That’s why we call it reductio ad absurdum: it shows the true nature of the US tax jihad by taking it to its logical conclusions.
You know, I never thought about this at the time, I just thought it was funny, but given Steven’s reaction, it occurs to me only now that to some people using Hitler to create a spoof would not actually be considered funny if they were old enough to remember, or who had their families affected by, WWII.
To me, it would have been just as funny if it had been Napolean, or Genghis Khan or even Pierre Trudeau, because, although I am aware of course, of what went on, it is only something I read in textbooks or saw in documentaries, there’s no emotional component. I can see, tho, that others might not see it in the way that I did.
@ Outraged, Steven reacts like this a lot. Then a number of people start agreeing with him, because they like him. But just maybe someone who suffered under Hitler would actually think this video is appropriate, because the US tax jihad is once again going after the money of the Jews, like Denise Rich whose family fled the holocaust and Eduardo Saverin; and the tax jihad is going after the Holocaust money that’s still sitting in Swiss banks that the Swiss finally returned to the heirs of the victims–that’s the money that Hitler failed to collect, Obama is trying to get it. Not Jews only, but Jewish people are among the victims this time.
@Petros, you may be right. I guess I just hate to see people upset. Both you and Steven have given me lots to think about around this. I do know that there is no pleasing everyone, but I still struggle with it, I’m afraid.
*30 Year IRS Vet, I’m not sure of the intent of the person that posted
the video. I will let you know that that same short video segment has
been used thousands of times with various subtitles, I first saw it
during the 2010 World Cup, in that version Hitler was complaining about the sound of the vuvuzela during the soccer games.
Most versions are of Hitler complaining of trivial matters, including
one of Hitler reacting to You Tube removing these videos for copyright
reasons. There has never been an attempt in any of the videos I have
seen to equate Hitler with the subject matter. The humor has usually
been a very angry man reacting to some unimportant matter, and relating and timing the subtitles to the action in the picture. I do see how this particular video may have been taken by you, but I don’t think the intentions of author were as bad as you might think.
As a Jew who had relatives who died in Europe, and is under threat of having himself thrown in jail and my family made destitute by the US government, I think the Hitler comparison is rather appropriate. Why not ask some Vietnamese about it?