Excellent parallel to Amerika's Police State of 2004

Rating: 10/10 (19 December 2004)

As an American dissident and Mayflower descendant, I am both English and Irish, having both bully and rebel in my blood. It was therefore with complete empathy and fear that I watched this movie. Have you ever been harassed by the police for exercising your 1st Amendment rights, threatened with arrest for carrying a sign and drinking coffee at a restaurant? If so, and it's been done repeatedly, you'll know what a fine feeling it is, as it was for those marchers, to finally say, "Enough. I'm not going to take it anymore."
Watching the lying by the British brass, done much more skillfully by the top dog than the cowed troop, I am reminded of Ashcroft, Rumsfeld and the entire Bush administration. They pretend to be patriotic, getting rid of the terrorists, but wind up planting nail bombs on the dead innocent. This is what we're looking at in the U.S. with a Red Sox fan killed by the 'pepper gun', a non-lethal weapon, in Boston with a gun meant for the 'dissidents at the DEmocratic National Convention' (i.e., people like me). When people have the weapons and go out to meet the protesters as these soldiers did, they are ready and armed to kill. Troops /police in the confusion of a protest will use whatever weapons they have with them: so Kent State, so the Red Sox celebration and a dead fan, so the Inauguration will be with troops and police brought in from all over to quell the furious masses (such as moi). When a government is not OF the people, as the Derry government definitely wasn't, the resentment is real, true and deserved. So also is our federal government, one by the corporate 1% who rule us, who manipulate their lackeys (i.e., the Bush mafiosi). Look for more violence in our future: we got rid of one king George. As the Irish did, we'll get rid of another set of bullies.
Great movie, because it shows so well the confusion, the horror, the lying and the deliberate planning to kill that was done by the Brits. Every Boston policeman should be required to watch this movie, especially the Irish ones. This is a story of power gone amok, not just by the Brits but by ANY group. It's happening here, right now, in the U.S., formerly the land of the free.