All the President's Men and mind control

So, just finished watching All the President's Men, the movie about how Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein basically single-handedly brought down Nixon.

Essentially, the movie blows my mind every time I see it.

Now not only are Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman super fine,

but it also reminds me of how much I love Canada.

Because of course after watching this movie, I obviously had to Wiki Watergate and I end up looking at all of the covert CIA Family Jewels, which details all the bat-shit crazy stuff the CIA carried out on citizens in the states some examples:

-Assassination plots to kill Fidel Castro (this one was approved by Bobby Kennedy)

-Super crazy experiments conducted on citizens with LSD to control their behaviour - fun little fact: the unibomber was a participant of some of these ridiculous and super-crazy experiments

-Surveillance of dissident groups from 1967-1971 (including over 30 universities in the States)

-Opening all mail going to and from the Soviet Union and China.

So the reason I love Canada so much is because no one really cares that much about us, so our government feels no desire to control us. We are very much like the forgotten middle child. We go off, do our own thing, and no one pays any attention.

So thank you Richard Nixon, for epitomizing evil and getting caught by two crazy little journalists at the Washington Post, who then wrote a book that got a movie deal who's Wikipedia page has links to all of the crazy shit the CIA has done to Americans, which makes me SO happy I live in Canada where no one cares enough to try to alter our behaviour with LSD or plot to kill communists in far off lands, or even to bug the headquarters of someone as boring as George McGovern. As ridiculous as Stephen Harper and his little sweaters are, I do love that there was never a giant mind-control operation here, and that no one would really ever try to do that, because, let's face it: No one cares enough about the forgotten middle child. Let's just go and get our tongue pierced or something.

-Ariel.