Unconstitutional: The War On Our Civil Liberties (2004)

Self-important, over-dramatic, uninspired.

Sadly Over-hyped

Gripping story with well-crafted characters

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

A very biased take on this important subject. The Patriot Act is a very troubling law that deserves attention and debate, however this is another one of those instances where those on one side of the political aisle sees an opportunity to push their ideology at the expense of reasoned argument

A must see, especially for conservatives who never took the time to understand where this was all going because they were too busy panicking over the next terrorist attack. They've invalidated the Constitution in the name of fear. Lets hope the majority will wake up and smell the coffee someday. I read the released version of the patriot act, and it is at least what is depicted in this documentary.Yes, this documentary has spin, but so do school text books.The fact is there is no reason to go without civil liberties for citizens when very few citizens have ever been detained for terrorist activities using the partriot act.

This movie is disturbing because it is purely factual and it documents insidious activities (carried out by the Bush administration) that are taking place this very second in a country that claims to support "freedom." People are being detained without any access to family or legal representation and they haven't even been charged with any crime. People's privacy is being trampled all over as the government secretly searches library records, e-mail conversations, phone records, etc. without notifying people. The government is infiltrating peace groups...the list goes on. See this movie and find out how your civil liberties are in serious danger.

Making its television debut on one of the darkest days of American history--Election Day, 2004--Unconstitutional takes a look at the passage and implementation of the USA PATRIOT Act, a piece of legislation that none of our duly elected legislators were allowed to read before they voted on it. To their undying shame, the vast majority of those legislators, cowed by the bullying of the Bush administration, voted for it anyway. The result? We have all been stripped of many of the civil liberties we have long taken for granted. Concentration camps in Guantanamo (and, undiscussed in this film, elsewhere), American citizens held uncharged and incommunicado in South Carolina naval brigs at the behest of the American Imperator, sneak and peek searches...and now we have four more years for Karl Rove and company to add even more onerous restrictions on our freedoms. Watch this and weep.