Taking Liberties (film)

Taking Liberties also known as Taking Liberties Since 1997 is a documentary film about the erosion of civil liberties in the United Kingdom and increase of surveillance under the government of Tony Blair. It was released in the UK onJune 2007.

The film starts with three coaches of peace protestors on the way to the RAF Base in Fairford, Gloucestershire onMarch 2003 held for two hours by 100 riot police and escorted back to London denied the right to protest. An animated sequence profiles the key events of WWII Reichstag fire, Kristallnacht, the invasion of Poland, allied victory and the subsequent European convention on Human rights designed to ensure it never happened again. Archive footage of Tony Blair defends New Labour laws which undo this convention and which theJuly 2005 London bombings survivor Rachel North rallies against.Tony Benn introduces the story of the expulsion of Walter Wolfgang from the Labour Party Conference for protesting a speech by Jack Straw. Toby Rhodes of Splash Clothing relates the story of a 20yearold student stopped by police for wearing one of his companys Bollocks to Blair Tshirts. ........

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