Entry 8

Loose Change 9/11 was horrifying. Though it was a conspiracy film produced to question the facts of 9/11 according to the government and imply something suspicious had occurred, that they were able to find that much information was incredibly suspicious and raises questions. if the government was being completely truthful, would they have been able to gather this much information? Though they spoke only passingly of the Patriot Act, the film raises questions about it as well. The Patriot Act was one of the worst things to happen to the Bill of Rights and the Constitution in quite a while, yet it was still passed because of how frightened voters, and as a result, the people they'd put into office were about terrorists. Was the system in place so bad that this backstep in civil liberties was necessary? People were scared because of the image presented by the media and the President. If you say Iraq has weapons of mass destruction enough, maybe they'll magically appear. If you imply that exercising your right to free speech by protesting is unpatriotic, people will believe that to be true. To even suggest that the US is good and everybody who stands against it evil is horrifying.