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leftchick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-22-08 12:16 PM
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The Most Horrifying Movie Ever: The Road To Guantanamo
Edited on Sat Nov-22-08 12:21 PM by leftchick
I can not begin to express how ashamed I am to be an American after watching this. It exemplifies why this administration has to be held accountable for crimes Against Humanity. Warning, Viewing it prompted me to feel, shame, disgust, revulsion, pity and heartbreak for these so called 'worst of the worst'.

God Forgive America!

:cry:




http://www.roadtoguantanamomovie.com/



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The.Road.to.Guantanamo.2006.LiMiTED.DVDRip.XviD-PROMiSE.(PeerWeb.org).avi - 92 min - Oct 1, 2006
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Starring: Farhad Harun, Arfan Usman, Rizwan Ahmed, Waqar Siddiqi, Shahid Iqbal Directed by: Michael Winterbottom, Mat Whitecross 95 mi...all » Starring: Farhad Harun, Arfan Usman, Rizwan Ahmed, Waqar Siddiqi, Shahid Iqbal Directed by: Michael Winterbottom, Mat Whitecross 95 minutes, UK (2006), In this compelling docudrama by Michael Winterbottom and Mat Whitecross, the 'Tipton Three' narrate their own experiences in America's controversial offshore detention camp The Road To Guantánamo opens with archive footage of George W Bush, flanked by a stern-faced Tony Blair, declaring his certain knowledge that all the detainees held in Guantánamo are "bad people". Everything that follows is designed to turn these words inside out, as three young British Muslims tell the story of how they came to be in US custody at Guantánamo for over two years, and discuss the Kafkaesque horrors that awaited them there, until finally they were released without charge or apology. The title may evoke the Bing Crosby and Bob Hope 'Road' movies of the 1940s, travel-themed musical comedies with a vaguely racist depiction of non-Americans, but the exotic journey embarked upon by the so-called 'Tipton Three' was to take them into areas that were politically incorrect in an altogether different way. It would be easy to criticise The Road to Guantánamo for being one-sided (it is), and for failing to contextualise the conduct of the US (there is not even a passing mention of 9/11), but such objections miss the point. Many times Bush, Blair and other politicians have used their considerable public platforms to present a similarly partisan, at times even subsequently discredited justification for different aspects of their 'War on Terror', including the unlimited detention without trial of men like the Tipton Three. The trio, and the more than 800 prisoners who remain at America's Cuban base, were not able to communicate their version of events to a lawyer or judge, let alone to the outside world. The Road To Guantánamo gives them their day in court, and the story these "bad people" tell is one that well deserves a hearing.«
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NJCher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-22-08 01:05 PM
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1. I had a chance to watch it last night
And didn't because I was afraid I'd be a wreck after watching it.

You're a stronger soul than I am.



Cher
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leftchick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-22-08 01:11 PM
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2. I cried quite a bit
and I can't help but wonder about those service people who torture innocent people. They must be sociopaths.

:(
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saigon68 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-22-08 02:59 PM
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3. Creeps and Murderers
Every now and then payback happens
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leftchick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-22-08 03:15 PM
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4. another one of the reasons this bothered so much
The bushco policies are an instruction manual to incite terrorism! That is all they have accomplished besides murder, creating more Jihadists. But then perhaps that was part of the plan.
:(
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Orangeone Donating Member (395 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-22-08 08:35 PM
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5. Has Anyone seen: Taxi to the Darkside?

I'm a little scared to see that one...
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leftchick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-23-08 12:01 AM
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6. yes I have seen it
but somehow this is so much worse.
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readmoreoften Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-23-08 12:12 AM
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7. Wait. It's WORSE than Taxi to the Darkside. Oh fuck...
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leftchick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-23-08 09:53 AM
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8. to me it is
there were moments I could not stop crying in this movie. What America has done is worse than any 'radical regime'. Because America does it and claims freedom and democracy while torturing and killing. At least Stalin and Mussolini never claimed such bullshit while doing the same.
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