Traitor - moviefone.com
1h 53min - PG-13 - Drama
Starring: Don Cheadle, Guy Pearce, Saïd Taghmaoui, more
An undercover CIA agent within a terrorist cell is marked as a terrorist suspect by the FBI in Overture Films' upcoming thriller Traitor. Don Cheadle produces and stars in the film as the operative under Guy Pearce's... more
Now, as we discuss, if we should consider modifying our laws to handle traitors in this new world, maybe it is time to do some thinking about what the word traitor, once meant, and how seriously we took the word, traitor!
After the 2nd world war, forgiveness was still important, even to those who had suffered, and psychiatrists blamed mother fixation, underlying homosexual tendencies, the need to belong, etc., and thought that if we stayed true to our beliefs in the world, that we would be able to re-eduate the aberrant souls.
Jonestown suicides, show that re-education is not enough, it is not fast enough, sufficient enough, etc. The ability of cults to destroy families, and individuals, is proof that we can not deal with aberrant behavior in manners that take a long period of time, alone.
Yes, our freedoms are most important, but, our society has a duty to it's people to protect them , with the risk on the individual who chooses to be a traitor, not on society. So if we look at the status quo, from the point of view of the majority, can we come up with something that protects society , yet does not hinder our individual right to dissent? I guess it boils down to, "peaceful dissent", and when it goes beyond peaceful dissent, you are looking at the danger zone of individual freedom.
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Obviously, we are not dealing with people who are willing or want to change their thinking because they have been indoctrinated into a belief. We know from our experience with the Jonestown suicides, how deeply people can be indoctrinated.
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