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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."
Wow, you're asked a simple, straightforward question, and you still can't find a single truthful example. None of the things you have mentioned began with Bush, and none of them have been found to be illegal. And no, "Well, I don't like him therefore everything he does that I disagree with should be illegal" does not make it so.
I'm sure you'll happily explain that executing Saddam was wrong because he didn't get a fair trial and he was democratically elected, and you also believe that Bush does not need a trial to be executed for war crimes. I dare you to admit that you disagree with that statement.
Because this is /. and here he is in the minority. Your reasoning is also why the big fans of Linux here are utterly incapable of convincing anyone to switch to that OS, etc. I'd warn you not to make them aware of their style of conversation having an obnoxious body odor, but I know them well enough that they aren't going to learn or change.