Special Reports & Tweets - 20120907_SpecialReport_Alex
Aired: 2012-09-07
Duration: 03:19


=== Judge Dredd's World (03:19) ===

[00:00:00]  Judge Joseph Dredd has come to the screens once again.
[00:00:12]  This time the adaptation simply titled Dredd.
[00:00:15]  I'm Jakari Jackson for the Info Wars Nightly News.
[00:00:17]  Let's analyze this trailer to find the fact behind the fiction of this new film.
[00:00:22]  Spoiler alert!
[00:00:23]  You know how often we get a judge up in peace trees?
[00:00:26]  Well, you got one now.
[00:00:31]  The Judge Dredd storyline takes place in 2070, after war has devastated the majority of the United States, leaving only a few large sections of land known as Megacities inhabitable.
[00:00:40]  800 million people living in the ruin of the old world.
[00:00:44]  Mega cities are full of cramped skyscrapers that house the city's population.
[00:00:48]  Agenda 21 highlights include the destruction of the family unit in the name of sustainable development.
[00:00:54]  With people being forced to live in tight, compact cities in high-rise stack-em-and-pack-em apartments no bigger than
[00:01:01]  this 16 by 16 foot space.
[00:01:02]  space.
[00:01:03]  See any similarities?
[00:01:05]  No.
[00:01:07]  I'm not sure.
[00:01:15]  There we saw a drone patrolling the city skies.
[00:01:18]  Now this is probably the least futuristic aspect of the entire trailer.
[00:01:21]  Mainly because there are drones patrolling the U.S.
[00:01:24]  skies right now.
[00:01:25]  It wasn't long ago that it was said that drones in the U.S.
[00:01:28]  would be unarmed.
[00:01:29]  But even relatively small law enforcement agencies have been able to secure them for their own purposes.
[00:01:34]  This one's even designed to carry weapons.
[00:01:37]  You have a stun baton where you can actually engage somebody.
[00:01:39]  Let's take a look now at a judge's uniform.
[00:01:42]  Black.
[00:01:43]  Heavy armor.
[00:01:44]  With a helmet that doubles as a mask.
[00:01:46]  Back in 1977 when Judge Dredd first debuted, it was considered science fiction for police to dress like this.
[00:01:52]  Now, in cities such as Colorado Springs, it's standard issue.
[00:01:56]  Also, take note of a judge's lawgiver, a biometric firearm that can only be fired by its designated user.
[00:02:03]  A modification that the New Jersey Institute of Technology has been developing for years.
[00:02:08]  Now it's important to point out that even though judges are charged with executing quote law, they are not police.
[00:02:14]  Judges came into power at the end of the 21st century when they overthrew the U.S.
[00:02:18]  Constitution.
[00:02:19]  But I'm sure nothing like that could ever happen in our time.
[00:02:22]  I've told my administration we're going to look every single day to figure out what we can do without Congress.
[00:02:29]  What can we do without it?
[00:02:32]  Do I think that our actions in any way violate the War Powers Resolution?
[00:02:38]  The answer is no.
[00:02:40]  So I don't even have to get to the constitutional question.
[00:02:43]  Now, I'm not saying that Karl Urban, the writer, the directors, or anybody else involved in this film is purposely pushing a police state agenda.
[00:02:51]  I'm just saying that this film is a great example of what a police state can be, and as you've seen from this short video, we are not very far from it.
[00:02:59]  Now, here's a good spoiler for all you fanboys out there.
[00:03:01]  At the end of the film, Dredd kills the movie's villain, Mama, by throwing her from the top of a 200-story building.
[00:03:09]  The sentence is death.
[00:03:14]  Dread has already been released in the UK and is set for release here in the States at the end of September.