He's one of the "smart educated Americans."
It's one thing to be concerned and active when it comes to protecting your civil liberties.
It's a different situation, and counter-productive, to engage in such reckless and idiotic scare-mongering like these terrible propaganda videos engage. Unless you really think President Bush, and all of the good people who work for them, are engaged in a giant conspiracy to crush dissent. Otherwise, you turn the issue of civil liberties into a joke.
If you want a real example, look at someone like Pinochet. George W. Bush doesn't give a crap whether you agree with him or not. They aren't databasing names, they aren't throwing hippies into political prisons. Bush isn't going to continue on the agenda that HE thinks is best, and then he's going to retire to Texas. He doesn't give a crap if you like him or not.
That's his strength... and on a few significant issues, that's our curse.
Protest all night and all day, he's not going to lose sleep.
And he'll even say "God Bless America, that's your right to do so."
I only watched the beginning of the video, but I got the point. It appeared to be the late 2003 Bush protest in Portland Oregon. Bush was having a fundraiser in the hotel when a couple thousand leftists and tree huggers showed up. They were pissed Bush won the 2000 election, and they were pissed that Bush had been supporting a law that would have allowed foresters to cut dead would from fire prone areas, something that would REDUCE the likelihood of wildfires. An issue of importance that was later realized in California last year.
Those cameras do scan the crowd, but just like the cameras on police cars, they are there to protect the officers. To record the manner and behavior of the crowd, in that case, was on the verge of being a mob and rioting. Because, undoubtedly, those "activists" are the first to lawyer up and sue the city or government after they are arrested or trip.
That's nearly a FIVE YEAR OLD video of the anti-bush crowd in Portland. A few thousand protesters showed up in front of a hotel that Bush was fund raising at. They harassed the people entering the building, assaulted them, they banged up the police cars near the building. And despite having a protected area set aside for protesters, they refused to stay in the area, and when asked to disperse and not block the building, they refused to do so.
While they have a right to protest... those that wanted to support Bush had the very same right to enter the building without being harassed or assaulted as well....
Bush isn't "Hitler." Every time a statement like that is made, the person chanting it looks stupider. And the appearance of stupidity increases exponentially each time they repeat it.