Documentary Recommendation: Lake Of Fire

Readers often complain about documentaries that don't tell "both sides." Those who care deeply about the issue of abortion in America, no matter which side they are on, may complain that "Lake of Fire" tells the other side. This is a brave, unflinching, sometimes virtually unwatchable documentary that makes such an effective case for both pro-choice and pro-life that it is impossible to determine which side the filmmaker, Tony Kaye, stands on. All you can conclude at the end is that both sides have effective advocates, but the pro-lifers also have some alarming people on their team.

One is an earnest young man named Paul Hill, neat haircut, aviator glasses, who says we should execute all abortionists. He doesn't stop there. We should also execute all blasphemers. What is a blasphemer? he's asked. Well, he says, people who say "God damn it." Anyone who says "God damn it" should be executed? "Yes," he says firmly. Later, he murders a Florida doctor who performed abortions. It's one of two murders in the film which result in the death penalty, which pro-life advocates generally support.
-Roger Ebert
The documentary gives a unbiased look at both sides of the issue, but also explores grim truths about both camps. The hacked and certainly human-looking remains on one side and the extremist views and associations of the other (as well as the graphic results of pro-life terrorism) are thoroughly explored.

In one segment, a pro-lifer argues capital punishment for blasphemers. That sort of made me want to punch his face in.

Reviews:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0841119/
http://tinyurl.com/nbjnfy

Here's a torrent, if you are the pirating type (that I did not actually download to test, so be warned!):
http://tinyurl.com/lsmq5m

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[tygerreye]

@halolIlmao0 it is

[DaZeDmerlin]

Abortion is sometimes the best thing to do, our world is getting full, we kill and kill and kill, look at how we need to treat animals for our nutritional benefits, look at how we need to treat aboriginals and indigenous peoples for our living space, look at how we need to polute nature for energy and trafic purposes, when you know your child will grow up in bad condition why is it so bad to prevent it to be born? ignorance is bliss huh?

[halolIlmao0]

Prove to me that The Mighty Lake of Fire.is not form Egyptian mythology.

[valerie374]

Interestingly, the world's largest pro-life religious group opposes the death penalty in almost all cases....

[CadicusTheDamned]

@ProfMTH Yeah, I'm doing okay. Living in Anchorage. Looking forward to New Year's Eve at Mad Myrna's, a gay bar that happens to be within walking distance. That's important in this arctic wonderland.

[ProfMTH]

@CadicusTheDamned No worries. I hope you're doing well. Happy Holidays. All good things in 2011.

[CadicusTheDamned]

@ProfMTH Sorry, about the post above. I was off my medication for a while. I'm schizo-affective.

[mwells219]

@thefitzs No you're wrong. The vatican has been saying contaceptives are evil since the 1960's. And no religion gets to decide for anyone else what a "loving" relationship is until you can actually produce god and use scientific observation to show that he actually exists, otherwise you're going off of man made mythology.

[mwells219]

@thefitzs well then it's a good thing we have separation of church and state in america otherwise no one would be legally able to have sex unless is was by the prohibitive rules set by your wacky cult.

[TheCoxblox]

Save America from morons like these! Abort your unborn child today!