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Seriously. DONT WASTE YOUR TIME! life is too short to waste on such nonsense.

I downloaded the Road To Tyrany about a year ago and I am ashamed to say I wasted the best part of an hour watching this american conspiracy theory nonsense. It starts okay, with pretty standard stuff about prior knowledge, vested interested, double dealings and hypocrisy of the american government and obviously leading onto stuff about skull and bones / global eliet etc. However, things start to get really wierd as this ranting Alex Jones character steers his conclusion towards environmental organisations such as greenpeace being at the top of the piramid of the global eliet.

Please, don't waste your time. Alex Jones / ROad To Tyrany IS TOTAL NONSENSE!

Yes, Ben, I have to agree that when I first watched '911: The Road to Tyranny' in March 2002, I found the whole bit about the UN a bit shocking but the stuff about the environmental movement just too much to swallow, not least since I have always been an admirer of Greenpeace actions from my earliest recollections of them. I later became an activist and worked on several campaigns on three of their ships. The idea was unthinkable. However, there was a huge change in Greenpeace over the period from the late 80's to the mid 90's when I was involved.

The beginning of this period was the pinnacle for the green movement, 'green' was a buzz word and there was so much money flowing into the organisation they didn't know what to do with it all. Some was squandered on rediculously ostentatious attempts at seducing politicians. Some was wasted on law suits between different GP offices in the US and the ship's crews were increasingly professional and the whole concept of being a GP volunteer went out of the window by 1991. Incredibly there was talk from the top that there were plans afoot to end all actions. That didn't happen, at least not as it was planned, perhaps because the organisation then found itself running out of the money it had got used to spending and which was attracted by the very actions which they were going to stop. They still wasted money and some of the things I witnessed were beyond belief for a so-called ethical organisation.

I now understand from an insider that something which was mooted in the mid 90's, i.e. corporate co-operation, is now a reality. I have heard of GP endorsed goodies and suggestions of deliberated hands-off policies regarding some of the sponsors. Apparently there was enormous controversy about whether Greenpeace should even have a position on the war in Iraq. Whilst the war was on they were very conspicuously involved in the Amazon logging campaign which culminated in the sad death of Emily Craddock. And whilst the US is now in the midst of a disasterous and bloody occupation in Iraq and eying up its next target in a war which can only be about the dominance of world energy, what is Greenpeace doing? Lobbying for an end to sea bottom trawling. Thier website has a pitiful section which talks about a team of 'specialists' who have gone to monitor the uranium which Iraq posessed under Saddam Hussein (no mention of the tonnes of DU the coalition has dropped) and a few pages which pay lip service to the anti-war movement. Other than that they seem to have gone a bit soft on their old adversaries.

Elswhere on The Road to Tyranny, it might be of mere curiosity that the WWF is patroned by the Prince Phillip, the notorious exponent of an 85% reduction in the world population.