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In the Name of the Father - Why now NDAA?

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Yesterday evening my sons and I watched the 1993 movie  In the Name of the Father  . It was my youngest son's suggestion. He and I had watched the movie just a few weeks ago - something in it caught his attention and he wanted to watch it again. If you have not seen the movie, I highly recommend it. It is more than just a true life story, it is one we all should remember and learn a lesson from. The movie begins in 1974 Belfast and is the story of Gerry Conlon, his friends and family, and how an over zealous government detained them, relentlessly  interrogated them to the point of mental torture which caused their spirits to break and confess to a crime they did not commit. The crime they confessed to was for a bombing of an English pup where 5 people lost their lives. A crime that was actually committed by the  Provisional Irish Republican Army    (IRA) and who also took credit for it. It all happened during a  time when tensions between the Catholics of Northern Ireland a