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HOMELAND SECURITY

By | October 2004

An honest discussion of homeland security, and the Patriot Act, and what they really mean could make for an interesting film. Even the way this particular work plays out might have a redeeming quality or two if it somehow demonstrated how our current police or military force could evolve into a group of men clad in black, meeting by boxcars…

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