Trading Freedom for Security

Rating: 10/10 (2 March 2017)

The theme of this film-- hey, your government is now out of control. "Homeland Security" is the new Secret Police. 9/11 was won by Bin Laden, lost by the US (we lost our civil liberties and gained a National Security State). That we spy on our own citizens and anyone else in the world at will. That the internet has become a vast spying arena.
Obama, after promising to dismantle these things, turned around and used them more than ever. Big Brother was 20 years late for the party, but he's here now and there's no turning back-- bar a revolution in thinking, which is impossible to fathom in a Trump administration.
Benjamin Franklin had it right: "Those who trade freedom for security deserve neither." When did we as a nation become so fearful that we allow the government to run amok; to trade away all our privacy rights?
A great and factual film by a brave and fearless director, Oliver Stone. Applause for him. Kudos all around. The acting is superb. If you don't follow these issues, they will be shown in all their evil. Watch carefully, things come fast and thick. Snowden was a patriotic geek working for the NSA, who saw things that turned him into a truth teller, and he had to leave the country or go to jail for a long, long time. Applause for him.