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41-Years Ago, “Barney Miller” Warned About What’s Happening Today
The Liberty Daily ^ | Apr. 16, 2022 | J.D. Rucker

Posted on 04/16/2022 8:38:11 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

Growing up, I would catch scenes from the show “Barney Miller,” a sitcom centered around a New York City police precinct. I was too young to understand most of the jokes but my parents loved it (my dad was a cop). In four decades, I hadn’t seen a scene from the show since they originally aired.

When the video below was sent to me, I figured it would be another loose connection between what we’re seeing today with a mention of “The New World Order” or something. As it turned out, the predictions (predictive programming?) were striking. Replace the bad guys joked about in that clip with the bad guys of today and… hmm.


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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: barkingmoonbats; nutjobs; paranoia; paranoid
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1 posted on 04/16/2022 8:38:11 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I watched a lot of Barney Miller when it was in first run.

Like so many TV shows, it was good entertainment, but almost every episode had some sort of “woke before woke was cool” message.


2 posted on 04/16/2022 8:40:14 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Oy thanks for posting. I do remember seeing that several years ago. Good to post it now.


3 posted on 04/16/2022 8:43:16 AM PDT by MomwithHope (Forever grateful to all our patriots, past, present and future.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
I finally got a chance to watch "The Princess Bride". There's a scene where the masked character is asked why he wears a mask. His answer is that it makes him look good and in the future everyone will be wearing masks. It will be all the rage.

A stretch, I know but...

4 posted on 04/16/2022 8:43:28 AM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear (This is not a tagline.)
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To: Yo-Yo

Unbelievable! That episode wouldn’t be allowed to air today.


5 posted on 04/16/2022 8:44:13 AM PDT by Macho MAGA Man
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Seems to put down the ‘warning’ as some kind of nut-job conspiracy.


6 posted on 04/16/2022 8:46:23 AM PDT by TexasGator (UF)
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To: Macho MAGA Man

Lol. You wanna see what couldn’t be shown today, not even in theaters without an “R” rating.. Watch s1e1 of “Sanford and son”


7 posted on 04/16/2022 8:48:18 AM PDT by Ikeon (The truth wont dent a persons argument who wants to believe a lie)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I watched occasionally, but missed this episode.


8 posted on 04/16/2022 8:48:27 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: Yo-Yo

That’s true.
One episode has me thinking of the Doris Day song as “gay sir rod sir rod.😏


9 posted on 04/16/2022 8:48:49 AM PDT by BiteYourSelf ( Earth first we'll strip mine the other planets later.)
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To: TexasGator

It wasn’t a warning. It was ridicule. The CIA invented the term “conspiracy theory” to cancel The John Birch Society, which was saying the same exact things.


10 posted on 04/16/2022 8:50:21 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Depopulate the depopulationists. --FJB)
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To: All

Jeffery Tambor always looked old


11 posted on 04/16/2022 8:50:30 AM PDT by escapefromboston (Free Chauvin)
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To: Macho MAGA Man
If it aired today, it would be the Rothschilds, not the Rockefellers creating a one world government.

Suspicions about the true nature of the Trilateral Commission was a thing in 1981 (the date of this episode,) so this episode wasn't very prophetic, it was more a reflection of the times.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trilateral_Commission

12 posted on 04/16/2022 8:51:48 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
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To: Ikeon

“what couldn’t be shown today”

Every episode of “All in the Family”.


13 posted on 04/16/2022 8:52:31 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave)
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To: Ikeon

I remember my father being utterly amazed that Redd Foxx was even going to be on TV. Like a lot of men of his era, he had heard some of Redd’s nightclub material, NSFW by *any* standards. Redd was a master of comedic timing second to none.


14 posted on 04/16/2022 8:52:42 AM PDT by Aeneas2112
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To: Macho MAGA Man

“Unbelievable! That episode wouldn’t be allowed to air today.”

Lots of shows today like this one ridiculing nut-job conspiracists.


15 posted on 04/16/2022 8:53:14 AM PDT by TexasGator (UF)
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To: Aeneas2112
I remember my father being utterly amazed that Redd Foxx was even going to be on TV. Like a lot of men of his era, he had heard some of Redd’s nightclub material, NSFW by *any* standards.

Lawanda Page had a bit out called Backdoor Daddy. It was filthy.

And funny.

16 posted on 04/16/2022 8:56:51 AM PDT by Mr.Unique (My boss wants me to sign up for a 401K. No way I'm running that far! )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“Behold, a Pale Horse,,,”
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Another Warning.


17 posted on 04/16/2022 8:56:52 AM PDT by Big Red Badger (On the Other hand,,, Free Men Choose- - SLAVES OBEY)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“Has anyone seen my legs”?


18 posted on 04/16/2022 8:57:01 AM PDT by bramps (Fonzie did it, so you can too Trump. Admit that your endorsements have been horribly wrong)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

later


19 posted on 04/16/2022 8:59:31 AM PDT by libertylover (Our BIGGEST problem, by far, is that most of the media is hate & agenda driven, not truth driven.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

David Rockefeller died in January 1979 in a place he owned in Manhattan, where a 25-year old aide lived. Unless you think he faked his death in a highly embarassing way?


20 posted on 04/16/2022 9:03:51 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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