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...mistake, an apology that doesn't quite cut it with Yunis. The filmmakers also tell us there is no record whatsoever of Yunis in his captors' files. Bureaucratically speaking, he's just another non-person, no different from the millions who have been reduced to that status by other totalitarian systems during the last hundred or so years...
...Prague to celebrate an act of courage they jointly undertook 30 years ago. In 1977, a decade after Soviet tanks had crushed the last flowering of free expression on their city's streets, these men and women signed Charter 77, a human-rights declaration demanding freedoms suppressed by the totalitarian communist regime in what was then Czechoslovakia...
...been forced to deal with what it sees as an economic problem as well as a serious addiction. The government has decided to forcibly limit the playing hours of its more than 20 million daily gamers through a system of punishments within the virtual worlds themselves. Under a totalitarian regime, this form of restriction might be achievable, but it is unrealistic for a free society such as the one we live in, whether that is America in general or in the unregulated confines of our dorm rooms. Is Harvard prepared to meet the challenges that seem to be coming...
...Parker said of welfare recipients. Instead, Parker advocated an emboldened work ethic, reforms in education, and encouraging charity as alternative approaches to confronting poverty. “We’ve got to regulate behavior or we’ll have absolute chaos which will lead us to a totalitarian state,” she said. Parker, the founder of the Coalition on Urban Renewal & Education, a non-profit think tank, referred several times to her welfare days in Los Angeles. “I bought the lies of the left,” Parker said...
Hoberman says this sort of thematic juggling-act is characteristic of Cold War-era films. He cites anti-communist sentiment and the fear of dehumanization at the hands of a totalitarian power as important concerns. “They’re themes that different filmmakers apply themselves to and that different audiences respond to,” Hoberman says...