Taking Liberties - the movie
Thursday, May 3, 2007 
When I launched this blog a few weeks ago and named it Taking Liberties I had no idea that a film of the same name was about to be released. Taking Liberties - the movie - is a Michael Moore-style documentary which focuses on the erosion of civil liberties and the increase of surveillance under Labour. The director Chris Atkins said this week that he wanted to expose "the Orwellian state" that now threatens Britain as a result of Mr Blair's policies.
The film argues that civil liberties have been seriously eroded under Tony Blair. It is said to tackle some of the most contentious decisions taken by Blair's government, including war in Iraq, its approach to the US military camp Guantanamo Bay, identity cards and limitations on public protests. According to Atkins, "It is a call to arms from the people - you've had enough of our freedom and we want it back. We've deliberately held off for the month of Blair's departure," he said. "But when Blair walks out of the door of Downing Street we're not going to suddenly get civil liberties back. We take a good, hard look at Mr Brown as well."
Reader Comments (1)
It looks good but.........
The implication is that the enemy is this government, the labour party, and that if we only had the "right" people in power then everything would be alright.
It should have been framed differently. I'm not saying that the Labour government didn't do bad things. I'm saying that the power of the state allowed the Labour government to do bad things. The problem is the power of the state not whoever happens to have access to it.