Anybody seen this?
Unprecedented. It’s a documentary (leftprop) about the recent unpleasantness in Florida’s presidential election. From the website:
Unprecedented: The 2000 Presidential Election is the riveting story about the battle for the Presidency in Florida and the undermining of democracy in America. Filmmakers Richard Ray Pérez and Joan Sekler examine modern America's most controversial political contest: the Election of George W. Bush.
What emerges is a disturbing picture of an election marred by suspicious irregularities, electoral injustices, and sinister voter purges in a state governed by the winning candidate's brother. George W. Bush stole the presidency of the United States… and got away with it.
I haven’t seen the film – I only found it was playing after it had come and gone. Nonetheless, some of the accusations are a bit… troubling.
(from the Bradenton Herald) :
Why were thousands of non-felons, most of them blacks, taken off the voter rolls as part of a felon purge list? Why were Republican staffers allowed to disrupt a legal recount in Miami-Dade County? Why did Al Gore seek a recount in only four counties instead of in the entire state?
The day after the inauguration, Sekler and Perez decided to seek answers to these and other questions. Using money from Sekler's retirement fund and frequent flier miles donated by friends, they packed their bags and headed to Florida to make a documentary.
The result is "Unprecedented: The 2000 Presidential Election," a report on what the directors call "the undermining of democracy in America."
Copies are available for sale on the site.
Anybody know anything about Greg Palast? Anybody think maybe this is the start of something grim? |
