Issues 101
Issues - Civil Liberties Part 1

 


1 hour 8 minutes

Unconstitutional: The War on Our Civil Liberties, is the third in a series of Public Interest Pictures films that follows Unprecedented: The 2000 Presidential Election and Uncovered: The War on Iraq. True to their legacy, Unconstitutional provides the facts and stories that illuminate administration lies, wrongheaded policies, and the real victims of these actions--the American people.

Here, you'll get the real story behind the USA PATRIOT Act and other administration policies and the gut wrenching stories behind those affected--from law-abiding store clerks to United States Olympians unable to travel. It'll remind you of what America used to stand for and what it seems we're falling for now. In short, this one-hour film will affirm why you're angry and give you a tool to help others join your ranks
Ron Paul on Civil Liberties Erosion

In the wake of Sept. 11, 2001, perhaps it is time we paused, took a deep breath and ask ourselves if the quantum leap in privacy invasion and the erosion of civil liberties in America has made us safer and if it has been worth the cost.

Sadly, most Americans could care less - unless they happen to be a presidential candidate whose private and confidential passport files have been searched by Bush administration employees.

Also sadly, it has been an issue ignored in presidential debates and on the campaign trail, except for Ron Paul, ironically, a Republican one might expect would be fully supportable of his Republican president, George Bush. This could be because both Democrats and Republicans heavily favored the USA Patriot Act and all subsequent acts that continue to turn the United States into a police state reminiscent of the old Soviet Union, with its midnight raids on critics of the communist regime. Many of those people were whisked away to concentration camps for "rehabilitation" but in fact were never seen again.

One cannot debate the Iraq War, as our presidential candidates have done, without debating the consequences of that war. The main casualty of the war has not been Osama bin Laden, but the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights.

A hundred years from now, if this country survives that long, it will not be terrorists who bring us down, it will have been the establishment of a police state that set set the stage for a dictatorship which destroyed the very principles upon which the United States was founded.