(03-25-2018 10:08 PM)Fort Bend Owl Wrote: Can you stream it online anywhere?
Not sure.
Apparently Obama took an already powerful Patriot Act and put that sucker on steroids. I was taking notes during the film so I could look up many of the references at my leisure.
If you haven't seen it, it's worth the watch. Won a piss-pot full of awards.
For the record, I was as gung-ho as anyone about the Patriot Act and protecting Americans against terrorism. That changed dramatically after I saw Obama and his administration claiming that the rule of law and following the US Constitution were the most important things his administration could do, and then watched as an American citizen paid the ultimate price without so much as a criminal charge or a day in an American court before Obama ordered his murder.
Was the guy a terrorist? Yeah, I'm sure he was, though I'd like to have seen him at least charged with a crime in the US court system before his execution.
I'd always felt that we should hold the execution of American citizens to a higher standard than how we treated non-Americans. I still feel that way. I think Glenn Greenwald, who also was a major feature in the film, said it best.
Quote:"to me, it's a heroic attribute to be so committed to a principle that you apply it not when it's easy...not when it supports your position, not when it protects people you like, but when it defends and protects people that you hate"
I hate terrorists, but Americans, all Americans, are supposed to have constitutional rights.
