David Zeiger on Sir! No Sir! in the L.A. Weekly
by Andre Soares
Chuck Wilson in the L.A. Weekly: "Then again: Once a radical, always a radical. Ask him about the American public’s reluctance to question the Bush administration’s march to war and [filmmaker David] Zeiger replies, ‘The government today has been very effective in using fear as a motivating factor, to carve out their own agenda and make it difficult for people to have any sense of purity about opposing them.’ Purity isn’t a word you hear too often these days, but it calls to mind Keith Mather, one of [Independent Spirit nominated documentary] Sir! No Sir!’s most eloquent voices. Mather was a member of Nine for Peace, a group of soldiers who refused Vietnam duty and were arrested in the summer of 1968 after chaining themselves to sympathetic clergymen at the Haight Ashbury Community Church. Mather was then imprisoned at the Presidio, the San Francisco military stockade, where he and Army medic Randy Rowland, who also appears in the film, helped organize the ‘Presidio 27′ sit-in, a spontaneous action prompted by the cover-up of the killing of a prisoner by a guard."
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