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"Britain has become the 51st American State"
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Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
02/03/23
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Quite scary showing how now our civil liberties have been eroded. And very informative. Tho ironicly it seems this was not due to a conspiracy but to general incompetance on behalf of Blair and his government.
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01/26/23
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Everyone in the UK should watch this. Made my blood boil with a lot of the things hightlighted on there. One possible critcism is that it maybe went into too much detail a few times. Very similar in makeup to "Fahrenheit 9/11" and "Age of Stupid". Definitely recommended.
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Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
02/21/23
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If more people saw this documentary then the UK would be a much better place and everyone would have a greater understanding of why our civil liberties (things like having the right to freedom of speech and the right to privacy) are so important in the fight for democracy. In this day and age many member of our government seem to have forgotten that protecting civil liberties should be the fundemental issue when it comes to 'protecting the people', rather than slowly getting rid of them and claiming it is for our own good. I'm not sure how taking away a persons right to a fair trail, letting them be taken away from their homes, families, countries, etc, and then allwonig them to be tortured is really going about ensuring their protection.
It was also well researched and almost well balanced (in terms of the difference in people interviewed - campaigners, politicians, human rights leaders, etc) for a documentary. And it was most certainly thought provoking, I don't think I'll be able to sleep for hours I'm that pent up over the state of the government right now.
I'd certainly recommend this documentary if you're interested in human rights and politics and I'd recommend it if you weren't. Even if it is not what you are really interested in it will still make you think and hopefully value your civil liberties that little bit more.
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01/16/23
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Presenting occasionally deeply flawed arguments, and the comparisons with Nazi Germany are over the top, but this is at times a deeply worrying portrait of modern Britain
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02/27/23
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Anyone in Britain has recently enjoyed a few months worth of "tsk tsk-ing" about China and the lack of allowed protest at the summer Olympics yet here were are in a society where the police about terrorist legislation to arrest protesting grannies. In a rural field.
I liked this film. The producers got the key interviews and met the key people involved with many of the famed recently moments of outrageous British liberties issues.
There are approaching 5 million CCTV cameras in Britain watching citizens. Want some perspective? 20% of the CCTV cameras ON EARTH are in Britain. Considering that Britain occupies 0.2% of the worlds land mass that is really outrageous.
http://www.newstatesman.com/200610020022
Next up for our society are new technological means of "engagement" such as directional micro-phones and facial recognition software.
This leaves the filmmakers wondering if Britain is the "Perfect Prison", which has some resonance here. However too few politicos are interviewed for this film until the the loose cannon (with a huge axe to grind) Claire Short laughably weighs in. HAHAHAHAH. That current London Mayor Boris Johnson is allowed to waffle on about the history of British civil liberties is a massive (if funny) error.
Overall, this is a very timely and interesting film. Do you recall that Tony Blair and George Bush were jointly nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize? haha. Amazing.
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Rated 4 out of 5 stars
01/18/23
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