Men In Suits

I was watching "Mega Carrier: The Construction of the USS George H. W. Bush " on the Military Channel. There were some shots of dignitaries hanging around when then-President Bush was giving a speech and their faces were blurred out. Now why would the editors of this show do this? Well, it could be that they were unable to get permission from those people to show them in this film. That could be because they were unable to contact them, or they were unable to determine just who they were, or they were turned down.

However, this was at least a semi-public event and an official government function, so I don't think such permission would be necessary. My conspiracy theory antennae makes me think they were people who weren't supposed to be there. Or maybe the raw film was provided by the government and all the NSA / CIA / SS operatives are blurred out as a matter of course.

Then I followed a link from Robot Wisdom Auxiliary to an old Bob Dylan video on YouTube. The video took forever to load. It took at least 15 minutes to finish loading a 3 minute video, and I have a FIOS connection to the net. You can watch it if you let it finish loading first. Get it started and then go out and mow the lawn or something. Anyway, back to the video. There are a bunch of guys in suits standing around in the background and some of them wearing sunglasses. I'm wondering if is this the spooks again, keeping an eye on the radicals? Actually, no. The most dangerous looking one comes up and adjusts the microphones while Bob is singing.

So just because they look like Agent Smith, does not mean they are Agent Smith.

More grumbling: Bob only appears in the first 30 seconds of the video, then we switch to a view of the crowd for another 30 seconds, and then the cameraman points the camera at the Washington Monument and zones out. Stoned, I imagine.