Twenty years after 9/11 I am stirred to rememberthe innocents who died on that daybut I am...
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Twenty years after 9/11 I am stirred to remember
the innocents who died on that day
but I am also stirred to remember the purpose of that vicious attack. It wasn't to win a war it was to provoke us
to abandon the principles of democracy we claim to live by. The forever prisoner
is a living reminder of one of the ideals we abandoned,
equal justice under the law. As the saying goes,
there is no them, there is only us. If we believe in that idea,
how can we imprison a man without charge
for the remainder of his life? Not for what he did to us,
but for what we did to him
the innocents who died on that day
but I am also stirred to remember the purpose of that vicious attack. It wasn't to win a war it was to provoke us
to abandon the principles of democracy we claim to live by. The forever prisoner
is a living reminder of one of the ideals we abandoned,
equal justice under the law. As the saying goes,
there is no them, there is only us. If we believe in that idea,
how can we imprison a man without charge
for the remainder of his life? Not for what he did to us,
but for what we did to him
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Twenty years after 9/11
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I am stirred to remember
the innocents
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who died on that day
but I am also stirred to remember
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the purpose of that vicious attack.
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It wasn't to win a war
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it was to provoke us
to abandon the principles
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of democracy we claim to live by.
00:00:17.076 --> 00:00:19.084
The forever prisoner
is a living reminder
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of one of the ideals we abandoned,
equal justice under the law.
00:00:24.032 --> 00:00:28.004
As the saying goes,
there is no them, there is only us.
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If we believe in that idea,
how can we imprison a man
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without charge
for the remainder of his life?
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Not for what he did to us,
but for what we did to him.
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Movie Summary
Follows the story of Abu Zubaydah, the first high-value detainee subjected to the CIA's program, later identified as torture by those outside the agency.