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Liberty Bound
2004 · Film · documentary · 90 min
Directed by Christine Rose
Liberty Bound takes an entertaining look at America's ongoing struggle to keep a comfortable balance between democracy, capitalism, and fascism. This is a film about historic events that shape history. It is a film about courage and fear; ignorance and knowledge; propaganda and rhetoric. Through original footage, archived footage, and interviews with people such as Howard Zinn, Michael Parenti, and Michael Ruppert, Liberty Bound explores the state of the union and its ostensible move toward fascism. We talk with people who have been interrogated by the Secret Service and threatened with arrest for doing such benign things as sending an email, turning around during a Bush speech, and having a philosophical discussion on a train.
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I think it's a welcome wakeup, although it might be too late to affect real change.
I was telling my friends about the USA PATRIOT Act in 2003, and they were unfazed. Maybe some of them are finally waking up.
Although it focuses on Bush, the 10-year-old film "Liberty Bound" ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEgvGLlgnqY ) was the proper warning and applies as much today to Obama as it did with Bush. Watch it and see how true it rings today.