Greetings Earthlings Earthlings.

Welcome to the Roseanne Barb podcast.

I have such an interesting show today

because I have a fantastically interesting guest

and I'm very excited.

I watch his film last night. He's a great filmmaker and a great

thinker and a great American citizen.

Dinesh Desusa, hi. Hey it's great to be here and kind of a real experience for me to be sitting next to you.

And you'll see my patience is growing. And I'm looking forward to this. Yeah, I want to go right into watching your film which is called police state, right? Yes, it, you know, I came to the country, to the United States in 1978 as a teenager, and I was

exhilarated by American freedom opportunity, but also these unalienable rights.

And there they are in the Bill of Rights, you know, freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, right to assemble, right to petition the government for

grievances, equal rights, equal justice under the law. And so here we fast

forward to now and I realize suddenly, whoa, all these rights have come into jeopardy. And the pretext might vary. You know,

it's 9-11, it's due to COVID, it's due to now in January 6th, but whatever the rationale, the movement is in the same direction

toward the extinguishing of our

watching our liberties and that's why the startling question, which really I couldn't have made,

I couldn't have asked 10 years ago,

are we becoming a police state? That's the theme of the film.

Well, I love the film I wanted to say because, and I want to thank you for giving us a

cohesive timeline because I think that that's very much missing and I think that

it's missing on purpose because they don't give us the

what's the word Jake when things go in a certain order it's sequential

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