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Did anyone actually watch it?


I'm reading the comments and it appears that everyone watched about 15 minutes and then made assumptions about the rest of the film. While it's not a great documentary and it steers so clear of choosing a side (on anything), it does give us a very solid perspective on one thing. We spend so much time worrying about a handful of radicals (and yes, when 20,000 out of 1.9 billion are radical, it's a handful), when we have large radicalized terrorists living right here in our backyard.

I think what many people missed and the documentary made little effort to show, was that these people weren't trying to push their ideology on their neighbors, they were trying to run a city, in the United States of America, based on their made up, hate filled religion. Not only is this unconstitutional, but their attempts to force elections, by buying real estate and planting "citizens" is also illegal. The real story was that they were attempting a hostile takeover of an entire town, and despite its size, they failed. This is not a pro-Nazi story or even a flag waving Americana piece, it's a story about what happens when a small group of people face insurmountable odds and use their common bond (in this case location) to protect what's theirs...not with guns, but with their wits and determination.

People are calling this pro-Nazi, pro-hate, pro-segregation, but if you watched until the end, the only thing they won was the fear they instilled. That's terrorism and that's the point of the entire movie. The real enemy is here...in this country already. We need to stop looking for the boogeyman, when he just might be our loudmouth neighbor.

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I don't see how this film is pro-Nazi at all. They were showed as complete idiots. All they had to do was open their mouths when the camera rolled.

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Yeah, to me this comes off as an anti-racist documentary, or at least impartial. The racists are not portrayed sympathetically in any way. The whole documentary is about an entire town coming together to kick out some white power bastards. Unfortunately, in America many people have lost the ability to rationally discuss race or racism, and there is this misunderstanding that just because something, a documentary or a piece of art, or whatever, simply addresses racism, that the point of the view of the filmmakers must be racist. People have lost the ability to think rationally about such things.

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I'm streaming it on Netflix right now, and I agree! I'm already hating Cobb and that other weird guy. These people have a very warped interpretation of the Constitution. The only place they will end up someday is prison. Rooting for the other townsfolk fighting to get them out of there.








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Wait. What law makes it illegal for persons of any particular ideology to buy a lot of land in one place, move in and then dominate local elections by sheer force of numbers?

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