I watched was Peter Walker's Punishment Park (1971) tonight.
Some great quotes in there
"Ladies and Gentlemen of the tribunal, I would like to read you something: "The streets of our country are in turmoil. The universities are filled with students rebelling and rioting. Communists are seeking to destroy our country. Russia is threatening us with her might and the republic is in danger. Yes, danger from within and without. We need law and order or our nation cannot survive". We might all be forgiven for supposing those to be the words of our President. But they are not. Those words were uttered in 1932 by Adolf Hitler"
or my favourite (and one which very much applies today when it seems every institution in our capitalist western world is criminal in some form or another)
"At another time, the honorable thing or the right thing to do might be to be a policeman or to be President. Right now, I think the honorable thing to do is to be a criminal"
Last edited by Buboven; 12th September 2014 at 09:12 PM.
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