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At Sundance, an experimental documentary places the story of an artist's arrest within the larger context of post-9/11 paranoia.

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Karina Longworth blogs about film at Spout.com. She co-founded the film blog Cinematical in March 2005, whilst simultaneously completing an MA in Cinema Studies ...

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STONERS
Jan. 21, 2007, 3:36 p.m.
Great submission Karina,thanks:}:}
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wilkokke
Jan. 21, 2007, 4:53 p.m.
This is Police State USA. What is Joe Stalin Bush going to do with his victims? Is there an agreement wih Russia in place to exile them in Siberia? Or will they be shot and will the police then fake fake "asaulting an officer" charges to "justify" first degree murder?

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  DanmLiberals
  Jan. 22, 2007, 11:03 a.m.
  wow wilkokke, ur so smart. I Never heard anyone call Bush a Hitler or Stalin before. It's nice to know there are so many intellectual people out there.
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AnvilHead
Jan. 21, 2007, 7:16 p.m.
This kind of Duma$$ policework isn't new or unique. It is all to common for law enforcement to look for any thing to justify their actions once they discover their innitial assumptions are completely a$$backwards. It's part of the legal culture, they believe this further abuse of an innocent will prevent a successful lawsuit.
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1-2-Oscar
Jan. 21, 2007, 9:06 p.m.
I had wondered how this would pan out. With C. K. Sample gone, the remaining Anchors will lead the conspiracy theorists instead of fighting to keep control of their website.

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  mamasan
  Jan. 21, 2007, 10:06 p.m.
  hey ding a ling...this has nothing to do with 911..it is about calling 911.
  did you read the story?
  
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    Jan. 21, 2007, 10:44 p.m.
    mamasan,
    My post did not mention 9/11, the tragedy at the world trade center. What the story does have to do with is accusations of government abuse of individual rights.
    "The experimental documentary places Kurtz's story within the larger context of post-9/11 paranoia, with its potentially devastating impact on civil rights."
    Maybe you missed that in your haste to attack.
    Maybe you don't realize that blaming a government conspiracy for EVERYTHING is a mindset which is not productive.
    Of course, when the police are called to a house to cart off a dead woman, and find the premises packed with lab equipment and bacterial cultures, they should not have taken anyone into custody, and they should not have autopsied the body--don't you agree? After all, the guy was an ARTIST, fer chrissakes, and therefore incapable of having done anything wrong. Obviously the police were wrong to investigate. Don't you agree?
    
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      Jan. 21, 2007, 10:45 p.m.
      But it is also possible, mamasan, that you simply didn't understand the article. The crux of the tale is that government authority is bad.
      
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        mamasan
        Jan. 21, 2007, 10:52 p.m.
        you sound like a conspiracy theorist.
        Meeting is at 9am room 911 third floor.
        
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        Jan. 21, 2007, 11:15 p.m.
        I was certain that you'd know where they met.
        But aren't you glad I explained the article to you? Now you can sleep soundly tonight knowing that the government is out get ordinary citizens.
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        hamy
        Jan. 22, 2007, 12:24 p.m.
        So let me get this straight. If you were arrested in the middle of the night and your dead spouse was taken and dismembered by the government, with no proof of any wrongdoing and you were fighting the government in a huge legal battle that you could never win which would end in you spending the next 20 years in prison, you would be thrilled? You wouldn't want anyone to help you defend yourself? You would just chalk it up to bad luck. Is that your point?
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Jan. 22, 2007, 6:24 a.m.
And certainly it must be difficult to conduct an accurate and thorough inquiry when your prime suspect is a self-righteous a$$hole.
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contrast
Jan. 22, 2007, 11:30 a.m.
is it paranoid to acknowledge there is a determined enemy or paranoid to think we will all be marched off to concentration camps? in this day and age we each decide that.
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hamy
Jan. 22, 2007, 1:04 p.m.
It wouldn't need to be an issue if people weren't being sent off to concentration camps by our federal government. If the fears of being taken away and not being allowed even basic human rights weren't valid then we wouldn't need to fear it.
America used to be a shining beacon of human rights. Now we are no better than countries who cut off hands for stealing. We torture for our own benefit, we kill for our benefit, and we should be ashamed of what has been done in our name.
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Amazing1
Jan. 22, 2007, 3:03 p.m.
Well, now. Imagine that. The police jumped to the wrong conclusions and now the guy is facing the possibility of 20 years in jail. Because they can't back down now. They have to save face. And after all, this was after 9/11.
And we have nothing to fear from our government? Humph!!

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  1-2-Oscar
  Jan. 22, 2007, 8:53 p.m.
  The police and prosecutors have to submit evidence to a jury of his peers. If the evidence convinces those twelve that he has committed a crime, then he may indeed be sentenced to twenty years, and probably should be.
  If there is not sufficient evidencce to convince those jurors, beyond a reasonable doubt, that this individual is guilty, then he will walk away a free man.
  Are you ready for jury duty, or have you already condemned the police, the investigators, and the prosecutors? Remember that what was presented in the film is NOT sworn testimony, and it is subject to a good deal of "artistic license" to make whatever point the filmmaker intended.