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Summary: unbelievable
Review: Everyon must see this and pass it on. Proof that we do not have a democracy in Amerika
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Summary: THE TRUTH, AND, AS OF TODAY, PERHAPS JUSTICE
Review: First of all, whomever at Amazon who vets these ought to not post any reviews from someone who admits THEY'VE NEVER SEEN THE DOCUMENTARY (like the guy a ways below). I have seen the documentary, a few months ago on IFC.Secondly, the documentary goes out of its way to point out how Al Gore, idiot that he was/is, mis-handled the recount legality issues in the post-election days. Thirdly, and most importantly, the documentary makes it abundantly clear that SOME United States citizens, residing in the state of Florida, were denied their legal right to vote in 2001. After you have seen this documentary, there is no doubt of that fact. This is possibly the REAL story of how Harris (the then-Florida State Secretary), Bush & the Florida Republican-led Legislature fixed the 2000 Presidential election. And, for those of you exhausted on the subject, THE REAL STORY has little to do with the recount or "hanging chads". Prior to the 2000 election, Harris and the Legislature retained a company called DBS systems. The state paid DBS millions of dollars to compile a list of felons residing in the state of Florida. The stated intention of this list was to enforce an obscure 100-year old Florida law that prevents convicted felons from voting. In principle, however, Harris knew that a high number of blacks would turn up on any such list. Blacks in Florida have historically voted overwhelmingly Democrat (Jeb Bush was defeated in 1994 for Governor in Florida, when asked what he would do for impoverished blacks in the state of Florida if he were elected, replied "probably nothing"). At a post-2000-election NAACP-lawsuit trial, DBS officials gave testimony and documentation that Harris' office directed them to not match the first names, middle names or birthdates of anyone appearing on the list; DBS was instructed to only match the last name. DBS responded in writing that this would result in thousands of false positives, but Harris' office replied, in writing, no problem. And, when DBS reported that some felony conviction dates didn't match, Harris' office instructed DBS to remove the conviction dates from the list entirely! Working from DBS's submitted list, Harris' office then moved to delete everyone on it from the poll rosters. In the process, they deleted a then-unknown number of perfectly legal, eligible voters from the polls, many of whom showed up at the polls and were subsequently denied their right as U.S. citizens to cast their vote. And, as we all know now, Dubya only won Florida by 537 votes. Last month, the Florida State Board Of Elections admitted, under duress, that the list now has FORTY-SEVEN THOUSAND names. Today, a Florida State judge halted all attempts by the State of Florida to keep the list secret, and has ordered it released to the press and anyone who wants it. Hopefully, that just judicial ruling, and this documentary, will be viewed by history as getting us to where we are today: CLOSER TO THE TRUTH. It's going to be REAL interesting, between now and November, when the list has been independently vetted and we find out just how many of the 47,000 are false positives. It's also going to be REAL interesting, in November, in Florida, come Election Day, once EVERYBODY has the right to vote.
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Summary: Slightly "off-focus"
Review: First, I thank Amazon.com for having this--and related--DVDs available. They're not otherwise easy to find, and they all contain FACTS that need to be revealed before election day.
I vividly recall on election day 2000 that the networks announced before I went to bed that Gore had won Florida. I went to bed that night realizing that Vice President Gore had been elected. The next morning the newspapers announced an upset. But that was just the beginning.
The DVD indicates the efforts the GOP put into maintaining the myth that Bush had won the election. First, Katherine Harris, Florida's Secretary of State--and an avid Bush partisan--and her cronies delayed all the recounts, making them all but impossible.
What really got my gander was that there were Republican Congressional staffers--NOT from Florida--who were flown to Florida to demonstrate, raise hell, to discourage the recounts. These are the same conservatives who are spending OUR MONEY to make a sham of the electoral process. And it's pretty hard to question they were there; they're shown demonstrating outside the Florida offices!
But the story didn't stop at accusing the GOP. Commentators thoughout make it clear that the Gore operatives should have demanded a statewide recount, not just a few Democratic counties where the count was at least open to question. That, the commentators admit, was a Gore error.
Anyway, as we all know, the same Republicans, who when it's convenient proclaim states' rights, went to the US Supreme Court who, on the usual vote of 5 to 4, appointed George W. Bush as president. The four dissenters all wrote their dissenting opinions but, according to the DVD, the most biting was from Justice John Paul Stevens who, in essence, said, the whole democratic process has been ridiculed by the majority decision.
The objection I have to the whole "story" is that the emphasis seems to be that Gore won--by a little--and that wasn't announced even by the media until months after the election. I think there should have been MORE emphasis on the disenfranchised blacks who were eliminated from the ranks of voters by bogus criminal records. Greg Palast--who is among the commentators in the DVD--in his book "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy," also available from Amazon.com, makes a bigger issue of that, and rightly so. First, that reeks of conspiracy--which I believe this whole sham is, and should be treated as such. Perhaps even more important is that, if those tens of thousands of votes were included, Gore won hands down!
This is an excellent DVD, one I plan to use in some pre-election "salons," but do keep in mind that the election wasn't even as close as the DVD makes it seem once the votes of those disenfranched are included in the count.
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Summary: Study in the exercise of Power
Review: Forget about which "side" you're on. This is for the movie nuts among us. Plus watching "Unprecented" for the first time is like watching one of those "60 Minutes" segments when you feel like your head's about to explode because of what you just found out. Yes, it's about the Democrats being rolled over by an organized and ultimately more professional Republican political machine, but that's just the bare bones of the narrative. This is like a multi-character miniseries squeezed into a ninety-minute time frame, and some of the performances are memorable -- like the footage of Kathryn Harris in her role as the screen's first credible Lady Terminator, not even bothering to spin a cover story while operating as both Florida's election-supervising Secretary of State and chairperson of Bush's Florida campaign. But back to that "60 Minutes" context: When was the last time you saw the subject of one of "those" interviews tear off his lapel microphone and stalk off? Just because the questions were getting a wee bit too specific? The award goes to Robert Clayton, head honcho at the State of Florida's Division of Election. Then there's the courtroom subplot, which kicks in at about the half-way point, and is nutty in a whole different sort of way. You'll probably have your own favorite scene. Mine was the freeze-framed local TV station's hallway shot of the principals in the "citizens' spontaneous protest" just outside the offices of the recount they were protesting against. Until they succeeded and the local officials gave up and quit. Whatever other emotions you have when that freeze-frame identifies those key "protesters," you won't be able to repress a feeling of
admiration at their unblinking assertion of raw power. Because "Unprecedented" is ultimately about power. Like an afternoon spent reading Sun Tzu's "The Art of War", "Unprecedented" is an immersion in the study of the successful wielding of power. And if you're a real movie buff like me, watch it one afternoon or evening at home on a double bill with the artillery explosion-stuffed Ian McKellen version of Shakespeare's "Richard III", set in a timewarped 1930's England. If you're interested in studying the successful exercise of raw power, there's a double feature for you.
This one's about Power. Strategy. Tactics. Winners. And losers.
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Summary: please read the other side of arguement
Review: Hello, everyone.
I am an open minded person, I thought the documentary was interesting with some of the depth, But I beg people to look at what republicans did and felt and why, I have to say maybe if this film showed some more from the right side,I would maybe like it more,so please everyone read At Any cost, how al gore tried to steal florida, farenhype 9/11 or celsius 4.11. They kinda give you what the right side thinks.
Just remember - between two biases . the truth is in the middle somewhere. Thank you
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Summary: Biased, Boring, but completely True
Review: I bought this video on the strength of the reviews, and the fact that I think that George "Dubya" Bush is a liar and a cheat. I eagerly popped it in my machine and was ready to hear the truth. What really happened.
Well, I was basically bored the entire time. It is not a documentary that allows you to become interested in it. I like that they made the point of how Al "Bore" [messed] up the florida win by not trying to get a statewide recount.
The movie brings up some good points and it shows how evil conservatives are, as they storm the doors trying to disrupt things. They wouldnt want to know the truth or anything...
It is a good addition to anyone's collection of political documentaries, and I do recall having discussions about it afterwards, but it was a little dry.
So watch it anyway, it has its moments, but slow. But not everything has to be a circus of fun! Plus Jeb Bush is in it, and he just looks like a tool. And his wife was caught trying to smuggle thousands of dollars of goods. High class eh?
Other documentaries that I found to be more entertaining are Dark Days, Salesman, and Uncle Saddam...
Happy Viewing.
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Summary: SHAMEFUL
Review: I cannot believe that you people who have reviewed this "documentary" thought that it was a fair representation of what occurred in Florida in the 2000 Election. You people must seriously have your heads stuck in the sand because you clearly have not seen the real news reports that covered the election. And to the gentleman from Washington, D.C., who said that President Bush learned from President Nixon the tricky ways to steal an election, I think you need to look no farther than the Democratic martyr of a president, President Kennedy, to show you how to really steal an election; from dead people voting in Chicago in 1962 to dead people voting in Florida in 2000. You people need to get out and watch some real news and read some real books, not watch these "documentaries" that attempt to rewrite history. Of course, reqriting history is something Democrats are quite good at, especially Hillary Clinton in her awful "autobiography" (which she did not even write herself). It is a shame that I cannot give this "documentary" less than one star. It is truly deserving of less.
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Summary: Felt unsatisfied...
Review: I just saw the video, and I didn't like it. If the makers of this documentary wanted to be taken seriously, they should have had commentaries from both sides and analysis from independent observers. As it is, most commentators were from the Democratic party, NAACP, and people that wrote books with titles like "The Plot to Steal the Presidency" and "Betrayal of America; How the Supreme Court Undermined the Constitution and Chose our President". The video didn't even try to make it look like they were being unbiased... And the points were biased or incomplete. For example, one of the first points they make is that Jeb Bush used an old "ex-con" law to prevent black voters. Specifically, the video alleged black disenfranchisement saying that black voter rights were reneged when DBT linked names with ex-convicts. Well, I think that the DBT/Florida handling of this was terrible, and I'm not surprised. I've never known a government agency to do something well, and do it cheap. It's astounding that such idiotic and loose guidelines could have been used. However, I don't see the link between this and a systematic black disenfranchisement. The video says that since a majority of the ex-cons were black, the disenfranchisement targeted blacks. If there was some right-wing conspiracy to deny black voters, the "evil republicans" would have MADE SURE that the ex-con list matched EXACTLY the voter who was denied the vote. Afterall, 50% of the ex-cons on that list were BLACK. Otherwise, a black ex-con's disenfranchisement could have been applied to a white person. In fact, the two examples that the video outlines, clearly prove this. Ex-con John Fitzgerald Jackson was matched to citizen Johnny Jackson. But, John F. Jackson's race is listed as BLACK and Johnny Jackson's race is listed as UNKNOWN. So, rather than taking away a black person's voting rights, DBT took away the voting rights of a person of unknown race. If the republicans are trying to target the blacks, using loose guidelines would ensure that this happens frequently. The other example was Thomas Cooper. Supposedly, blacks were randomly targeted, even if they were not convicts, such as Thomas Cooper who is supposed to have committed a crime in 2007 (future?), and their right to vote was stolen. However, first, this was obviously a typo in the date, not some evil agenda. Second, Thomas Cooper's race is listed as WHITE. So, again, the process was dumb, but there was no concerted effort to eliminate black voters. If anything, the opposite happened, where black ex-cons were able to vote and white citizens were turned away at the voting booths. Yes, the DBT ex-con list was terribly flawed, but the video does a stupid job of trying to link this to black disenfranchisement. It was just a flawed system, and DBT was to blame, not some "right-wing conpsiracy". And, this is proved at the end, when the video states that as part of a lawsuit settlement agreement, DBT would help identify disenfranchised voters. NOT the state of Florida, Jeb Bush, and Kathleen Harris, even though they were also sued...
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Summary: A Well-Investigated and Thought-Provoking Movie
Review: I just saw this movie and we had the opportunity to speak with the directors afterwards. It was a thoroughly investigated and informative look at the 2000 election. To counter comments made in a negative review--regarding the lack of Republican interviews--this question was asked of the directors this evening. Requests for interviews were sent to all key parties involved in the election, Republican and Democratic. All major Republican players declined their invitations. As well, many key Democratic officials declined to interview. The directors of this movie went to great lengths to show only those issues that were well-corroborated. There were many topics that they left out, such as rumors of police turning voters away, or stolen ballot-boxes, etc. because of lack of supporting evidence. I urge everyone to watch this movie, Republican, Democratic, or otherwise. This movie will force us all to take a long, hard look at the flawed election system in the US and ultimately, to think about what we need to do to fix it.
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Summary: UNHAPPY CUSTOMER
Review: I ORDERED THIS MOVIE ALMOST A YEAR AGO,
PAID FOR IT BY CREDIT CARD,AND NEVER RECIEVED IT !!!!
NOW I CAN FIND NO RECORD OF IT ON AMAZON.CA.
FOOL ME ONCE, THEN SCREW YOU, THIEVES!!!!!!
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