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Originally Posted by BBKing
Having gone to see it this afternoon, it's excellent - some of the police tactics around the Fairford and Brighton protesters shocked even me, and I'm fairly cynical. Excellent archive shots of Blair boasting about freedom of speech in Britain, intersposed with Walter Wolfgang getting manhandled out of the Labour Conference.
What's best though is that it isn't a polemical humourless left-wing piece or a clone of Michael Moore - it shows that the people opposing civil liberties violations are more-or-less you or me - ordinary Brits, with all the eccentricity and bloody-mindedness that goes with that, which is why we dislike humourless authoritarians of any colour - they're just not British.
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But you are more prone to such liberal films are you not? I think its unfair to make a comment about free speech and Walter Wolfgang since he went to cause a protest inside a convention for members of the labour party. Its slightly different and not a fair comment at all.
My main problem is how 'liberal' has been hijacked to mean things it didnt mean not so long ago. You used to be able to support Israels existence, support intervention in places were governments are killing their own people, and believe in fair debate. Somewhere along the line people like Repect and others have hijacked the term