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British Civil Liberties Film Released
An anonymous reader sends us to a BBC article about a British film likely to attract the attention of civil liberties supporters. The film, Taking Liberties , is a documentary about eroding civil liberties in present-day Britain. It will be showing in cinemas in major cities across the UK starting next weekend. From the article: "Director Chris Atkins wants Taking Liberties to shake the British public out of their apathy over what he sees as the dangerous erosion of traditional rights and freedoms. 'This film uses shock tactics. We needed to be unashamedly populist... Once you give up traditional liberties such as free speech and the right to protest you are not going to easily get them back,' says Atkins."
Actually, the way that he distorts the truth and offers obviously one-sided arguments is what turns most of the people I know away from him. He's not waking up the sheep, he's pissing them off and making them less likely to listen to a similar message, but one that's presented in a way that they'll listen to. Just because "HE'S FAT" doesn't mean that's what people ignore him for.
Also, you yourself will never be effective at influencing people, because you're so fucking confrontational and arrogant that you think other people who think differently than you are actually "sheep." In actuality, a lot of very intelligent people support viewpoints that are different than yours because they're priorities and assumptions are different.
I know that I'm being a troll here, but I don't understand how an arrogant asshat like yourself, who believes so sincerely that you know better than everyone else, gets away with not having a troll label.
And then we withdrew... from Detriot and Washington DC, leaving it to the gangs that make it more dangerous than living in Iraq.