You can buy a PC and CD ROM system and tune in to some of the most sophisticated levels of organized information in the world. You can tap into mainframe information banks. This was unheard of as little as 20 years ago. As young people come up in a society that's increasingly dependent upon information, if they have this kind of access they could influence debates, they could begin to think for themselves, they could begin to search out other like-minded folks. This you see in its most bizarre form in the right wing's use of the Internet.
Information is intelligence, the ability to make intelligent decisions.
And it shows that the way that we dealt with that was to organize in our communities around those issues that related to people's lives. And we showed that we were ready to stand fast against that type of repression, and indeed, if necessary, kill in our defense of these ideals. These three messages come across clear in the movie. And it is for those reasons that I appreciate the movie. What it didn't show was that the consequence of developing a revolutionary consciousness would inevitably mean that you were going to become the targets of the state.