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and criminals like Raplin get their just due.
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- Have you been to Washington before?
- Yes. This time is special.
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It's a new town now
because Bob Roberts is here to stay.
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[Bugs] Iran-Contra happened because no one
did anything substantial about Watergate.
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And Watergate happened because there
were no consequences from the Bay of Pigs.
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They're all the same operatives.
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The soldiers in the Bay of Pigs,
the plumbers busted at Watergate,
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the gun-runners in Iran-Contra,
all the same people.
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It's easy to figure out the connection -
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a secret government beyond the control
of the people and accountable to no one.
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The closer we are to finding the connection,
the more Congress turns a blind eye to it.
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"We can't talk about that in open session,"
they say. "National security. "
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The truth lies dormant and they stay blind
out of choice. A conspiracy of silence.
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I think the entire Congress is quite aware
of the National Security Council
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and its powers and its functions and the fact
that this is a national security state
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and less and less of a representative one.
1:26:09
It's... You know the story of the frog
in the... in the pan of cold water?
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If you throw a frog into hot water,
it'll jump around and suffer greatly and die.
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If you put the frog in a pan of cold water
and put that on the stove
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and you heat it to the boiling point,
the frog doesn't stir, he doesn't feel it.
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And at the end of it, he's dead.
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These things happen incrementally,
they're gradual.
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Are we complicit? Yes, we are.
Are we revolutionaries?
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How do you do it once you're here?
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There are no Mr Smiths in Washington.
Mr Smith has been bought.
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Just a bunch of deal-makers.
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No visionaries. No one really concerned
with the disenfranchised.
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Just a secret state of business liaisons
so out of control
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that they're willing to send American soldiers
to war to protect their business interests.