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... muss immer mal wieder hochgezogen werden: A clip from the 1957 movie, A King in New York, starring Charlie Chaplin and his son Michael Chaplin.


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Toll diese Augen: Der Blick des Kindes ist immer noch da ...



... der das Wesentliche fokussiert:
We are talking about passports!

Travel around a bit and then you will see how free they are.
But you didn’t let me finish…
They have every man in a straitjacket and without a passport he can’t move a toe.
But if you will allow me to finish…
If a free world they violate the natural rights of every citizen.
But you don’t let me fully…
They have become the weapons of political despots.
Yes but may I…
And if you don’t think as they think, you deprived of your passport.
But, will you allow me…
To leave a country is like breaking out of jail and to enter a country is like going through an eye of a needle.
But…
Am I free to travel?
Of course, you are free to travel!
Only with a passport!
Will you allow me to say some…
Only with a passport!
Ba…
Do animals need passport?
Ae...ae. Are you finished?
It’s incorrigible that in this atomic age of speed we are shut in and shut out by passport.
If you will you shut up and let somebody else talk?
And free speech, does that exist?
No you got it all.
And free enterprise.
We were talking of passports.
Today is sole monopoly.
All right! Now will you…
Can I go into the automobile business and compete with the other truck.
If I can get in a word…
Not a chance. Can ago into the grocery business and complete with the chain store?
Will you shut up!
Not a chance. Monopoly is the menace of the free enterprise. As I look back sixty years ago…
Where were you sixty years ago? [] Very well now, have you finished? Now let me say something. Let me tell you how wrong you are. In the first place…in the first place…now I have forgotten what I wanted to say.
On the atomic bomb.
Aha..
It’s a crime that when the world cries for atomic energy, you want to make atomic bombs.
Me! I am against atomic bombs.
You want to wipe out civilization. Destroy all life on this planet. You don’t…
I lost..I lost my throne because I didn’t want atomic bombs.
You and your kinds think atomic bombs can solve your problems.
Listen you little rat…
Today man has too much power. The Roman Empire collapsed with the assassination of Caesar and why?
If you…
Because of too much Power. Feudalism blew up with the French revolution and why?
aa…
Because of too much Power.
And today the whole world will blow up. And Why.
[Because of Too Much Power]
The monopoly of power is a menace to freedom. It’s grave and victimizes every individual. And where is the individual.
I don’t know!
Locked in terror because he is draped in hate instead of love. If the civilization is to survive we must combat power until peace and dignity of man are restored. (Transkript von At The Edge)

Archäologie CCLXXIII: A King in New York = Grundkurs Politik: Aktuell not-wendig


Nachtrag:
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Is a typeface that replaces the word refugee with the word human.

Being a refugee is a temporary status, being a human is permanent. Humans are amazing. A stamp on their passport should not let us believe otherwise.

Rewrite, retype, rethink.
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