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Reflecter
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 Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2007 9:51 pm Post subject: Taking Liberties |
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A former thread on this film is about but I cant seem to locate it via searches.
Chomsky Torrents (Now onebigtorrent) is currently hosting a version of this film here http://onebigtorrent.org/details.php?id=2156 so for any that haven't seen it yet and haven't bought a copy (which I recommend) or read the book, then go check it out.
I met the director a few weeks ago and quizzed him on a few things (though he is not interested in 9/11 truth, claiming his research team had written it off as groundless) that are raised in the film that I am toying with getting involved in. I detail that here in a blog rant for anyone that can bear the shoddy grammar http://danhughes.phurix.com/node/87.
Nice bloke and good film. May not go far enough in some areas but it needs to be seen imhho by as many as possible.
If anyone is interested in helping out with the issue I mention then get in touch to discuss it further.
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| Posted: Sat May 03, 2008 1:59 pm Post subject: Taking Liberties |
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Two for your diary: TV programme on More4 on Tuesday 10pm called 'Taking Liberties' presented by Chris Atkins looks at how our civil rights have been undermined.
Before that is the last part of the Age of Terror series on BBC2 at 9pm which this week is about 'al-Qaeda' & Osama bin Laden & will include 9/11 footage.
Both will be worth a watch.
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| Quote: | ... the last part of the Age of Terror series on BBC2 at 9pm which this week is about 'al-Qaeda' & Osama bin Laden & will include 9/11 footage.
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I missed the beginning, but although the journalist was sceptical, a lot of convincing evidence got through.
It's the job of a journalist to be sceptical, but the end bit did seem a bit sneering and out of sync with what had gone on before.
We've come a long way since the BBC did their hit job.
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| Tonight, BBC2 @ 9pm wrote: |
BBC TWO Listings
Age of Terror
Tue 6 May, 9:00 pm - 10:00 pm 60mins
Website: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/age_of_terror/
4/4. War on the West
Peter Taylor tells the story of Osama bin Laden's declaration of war on the West.
In 1998, a truck bomb exploded outside the American embassy in Nairobi, killing more than 200 people and injuring thousands. This film tells the survivors' story with moving interviews and archive, and features an extraordinary interview with the FBI agent who tracked down and questioned a suspected al Qaeda bomber. |
| Tonight, MORE4 @ 10pm wrote: |
MORE4: DOCUMENTARIES
Taking Liberties
Tues 6 May 2008 10pm
A revealing and entertaining look at the shocking number of government attacks on civil liberties since the New Labour government took power in 1997.
"We're not living in a police state," insists Tony Blair towards the end of the film. But as Taking Liberties all too clearly demonstrates, we're well on the way there...
About the film
Riding in on a wave of optimism and real belief in their mantra that things can only get better, they proceeded to enact some of the most authoritarian legislation in recent history.
With fast-paced satirical style, this Bafta-nominated film shows how, in just over a decade, some rights and freedoms that took centuries to build up have been rolled back or cut away.
Erosion of civil liberties
The entitlement to habeas corpus – no detention without trial – established when the barons took on King John in the 13th century has, in some circumstances, been abolished.
Millions of CCTV cameras up and down the country undermine our right to privacy.
A series of measures has made it more and more difficult to exercise freedom of speech and already led to the arrest of a large number of peaceful protestors.
Director Chris Atkins has assembled footage to demonstrate how oppressive these new powers can be.
Walter Wolfgang
The 82-year-old holocaust survivor was lifted bodily from a debate at the Labour Party conference for, as talking-head Tony Benn points out, "rightfully" saying that Jack Straw is talking "nonsense" about Iraq. We see a man who tries to protest against the treatment of this old man also set upon by security, and learn that he was later handled roughly – and that poor old Wolfgang was next detained by the police under the 2000 Terrorism Act.
Moulad Sihali
We meet Moulad Sihali an Algerian refugee. He was cleared of all charges relating to a non-existent plot to manufacture the poison Ricin (a non-conspiracy that was "discovered", conveniently enough, in the propaganda run up to the invasion of Iraq), but has now been made a prisoner in his own home. He's been fitted with a tracking device, is only allowed outside at certain hours – and then only within a one mile radius of his house – and is forbidden to meet anyone who hasn't been vetted by the Home Office. The specific charge against him? There isn't one.
We hear how Maya Evans, a vegan chef, and her friend the writer Milan Rai were arrested under the Serious Organised Crime and Police act for reading out the names of people who have died in Iraq and occasionally ringing a (very quiet) Buddhist bell. |
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