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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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To: E. Pluribus Unum

They did try to get Reagan to pick Ford as VP, but he said, “No way.”


21 posted on 04/16/2022 9:05:03 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

That was Nelson Rockefeller, and he died having Sex with a beautiful woman.


22 posted on 04/16/2022 9:05:34 AM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
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To: Yo-Yo

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

Nah, that was for the most part just the last season or maybe two — coincidentally, once Ronald Reagan was in office — did the leftist/faggot writing team of Frank Dungan & Jeff Stein and possibly others inflict upon us constant episodes about homelessness, Agent Orange, police brutality, anti-nuclear activism, sacred “Native Americans”, enlisted women having to work as prostitutes because Army pay was so low, etc.


23 posted on 04/16/2022 9:10:44 AM PDT by PermaRag (We have SO many targets, and -- for now -- the means to see they get what they deserve.)
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To: nickcarraway
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?

Tell me you're not really that dumb. Please.

FTFA: "Replace the bad guys joked about in that clip with the bad guys of today and… hmm"

24 posted on 04/16/2022 9:12:28 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Depopulate the depopulationists. --FJB)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Because you’re both scripted by the KGB?


25 posted on 04/16/2022 9:16:33 AM PDT by Justa (If where you came from is so great then why aren't Floridians moving there?)
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On one hand the scene was set up to make fun of conspiracy theories. But on the other hand, Archie Bunker was created to make fun of conservatives and it backfired on them in a big way.


26 posted on 04/16/2022 9:17:09 AM PDT by proust (All posts made under this handle are, for the intents and purposes of the author, considered satire.)
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To: proust

Yep.


27 posted on 04/16/2022 9:25:11 AM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Miss you Rush!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Barney Miller. Fernwood Tonite, Dangermouse, The Jeffersons, All in the Family, Sanford & son, and Kolchack, The Night Stalker.

Best television ever made. Sometimes Rockford Files.

28 posted on 04/16/2022 9:27:46 AM PDT by blackdog (Today's "disinformation" most often turns out to be tomorrow's facts. )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I laughed at those ideas back then…I’m not laughing anymore.


29 posted on 04/16/2022 9:28:38 AM PDT by Shady (The #JihadJunta: "We are now a nation of Men, Not of Laws. You are not as equal as we are...")
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To: escapefromboston

>>Jeffery Tambor always looked old<<

One of thise guys like John Carradine who was born looking old.


30 posted on 04/16/2022 9:30:29 AM PDT by freedumb2003 (What’s the point in drumming up anarchy if you don’t use it to promote tyranny. /BenLurkin 12/21)
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To: Mr.Unique

Moms Mabley was a real hoot too.


31 posted on 04/16/2022 9:42:18 AM PDT by jmacusa (America. Founded by geniuses. Now governed by idiots. )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Wow!!, the skit was right on the nose.
Today that program would have been censored by the media.
But that is the world we live in today.
We are living in an Orwellian Commie Socialist dystopian world.


32 posted on 04/16/2022 10:11:14 AM PDT by Doc91678 (Doc91678)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“The CIA invented the term “conspiracy theory” to cancel The John Birch Society, which was saying the same exact things.”

The actual history is the CIA did popularize the term “conspiracy theory” but they had a simpler motive.

They wanted to shut up folks who kept blaming them for the JFK assassination.


33 posted on 04/16/2022 10:15:20 AM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Turns out most all the so-called tin foil hat conspiracy theorist, were 100% correct.


34 posted on 04/16/2022 10:49:29 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Barney bump...


35 posted on 04/16/2022 10:51:32 AM PDT by newfreep (“Leftism, under all of its brand names, is a severe, violent & evil mental disorder.”)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

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.
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Is the tri-lateral commission the same as what I call Davos?


36 posted on 04/16/2022 10:57:24 AM PDT by BarbM (Men who look at porn are impotent to God. )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
didn't get a chance to watch Barney Miller back then but am catching episodes no on late night tv.....what a hoot....sophisticated yet lighthearted....

oh yeah...we've been getting hints of the new world order for quite some time....

first time I heard it of course was that evil arse Bush senior...may he rot in hell.

37 posted on 04/16/2022 10:59:21 AM PDT by cherry (;)
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To: nickcarraway

My understanding is he died on the downstroke.

Any truth to that rumor?

5.56mm


38 posted on 04/16/2022 11:52:00 AM PDT by M Kehoe (Quid Pro Joe and the Ho need to go.)
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To: Captain Peter Blood; E. Pluribus Unum; M Kehoe

If the Rockefellers were so powerful, why were they eaten by cannibals? I’m not powerful, and no cannibal has eaten me so far?


39 posted on 04/16/2022 12:41:04 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: Captain Peter Blood; M Kehoe

He died in the early morning hours in an apartment lived in by his 25-year old aide. Who knows if he died during the act, that isn’t necessarily true.


40 posted on 04/16/2022 12:42:35 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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