Of war and democracy. It is great to see you all here, and to have our friends at cspan sharing this wonderful content with their feelings. To their viewers. To those watching on our livestream at home, welcome. I would like to take a moment to recognize some individuals. First off, to we have any world war ii veterans or home front workers in our crowd tonight . [applause] do we have any veterans of any other era . Please stand. [applause] and do we have many members of our board of trustee . Thank you all for your service. Summer, we here at museum have been busy commemorating the 75th anniversary of major events in world war ii, the biggest of which was june 6 for dday, invasion at normandy. Some other recent major anniversaries include last month , on july 20, the assassination in the bunker. Er landings, the dragoon in Southern France took place. This week marks the 75th anniversary of one of the most glorious moments of the war, when the city of light, paris, w as liberated after
G. L. A. Shown anymore and that this is a conspiracy one thing you do notice is that they do not appear on the day anymore because the police have successfully kept them from there so paris is a sprawling city and there are continuing to be protests despite you know having been august and they dont come back from Summer Vacation until mid september but one thing i wanted to note is that there is a lot of attention that has been paid to the ongoing you know unrest in hong kong the protesters there and something remarkable happened that really stood out to me because it reminded me of what is happening here on the phone this globalization of not only protest but also globalization of Police Military Tactics Police surveillance tactics National Nation state surveillance tactics and here is an image from hong kong this before kerry lamb back down but this is a poster this is a nurse with a eyepatch and sir you forgot your conscience it says Hong Kong Police attempted to murder hong kong pe
Is now happening more on the local protest so you know we normalize the idea that civilians are targeted in a war now they used to be against the Geneva Convention and used to be against the rule of the war but now this is been normalized and so now on their day protests. You know you also see the militarization of protests in the targeting of civilians with the military grade weapons well actually what you see with Robert Chalmers piece in g q is there not specifically randomly necessary targeting ordinary civilians theyre targeting people who are journalists medics and bloggers people who get interviewed participants in israel asian who get targeted because they go on the news and they tell the story so thats why i think its quite interesting that the i the eyepatch that i being taken out 24. People here in and france have lost their eyes at these the weapons that they shoot are from switzerland and they have laser precision so the fact that 24. 00 eyes get taken out it seems almost
Here, sharing this content with their viewers. To those watching on the livestream at home, welcome. Moment,like to take a as we start, to recognize some individuals. First, do we have any world war ii veterans or homefront workers in our crowd . [applause] do we have any veterans of any other era . Please stand. [laughter] [applause] and do we have any members of our board of trustees . Thank you all for your service. The museum, we at have been busy commemorating the 75th anniversary of major events in world war ii. ,he biggest of which was june 6 dday, the invasion at normandy. Some other recent major anniversaries include last month on july the 20th, was the assassination attempt on bunker. N the lagoon landings in Southern France took place. This week marks the 75th anniversary of one of the most glorious moments of the war, when the city of light, paris, was liberated after four years of German Occupation. On the Eastern Front, following the massive soviet summer offensive, the r
People who get interviewed participants in this relation who get targeted because they go on the news and they tell the story so thats why i think its quite interesting that the i the eyepatch that i being taken out 24 people here in and france have lost their eyes at these the weapons that they shoot are from switzerland and they have laser persistence so the fact that 24 eyes get taken out it seems almost intentional but in this day and age where we talk about big brother the eye in the sky orwellian like totalitarian states surveying everything and also at the same time like in the past week the u. S. Department of defense is now going to save us from social media viral stories that they say are not true and that theyre going to suppress these that suddenly theyre taking over social media they want to control what we see so. Here theyre targeting according to Robert Chalmers journalists who report the situation whats going on here what people are protesting that. People that are tel