The communist slur [against the ACLU by the right-wing pundits] was idiotic from the start, of course. What, after all, is the (entirely accurate) critique of communist governments? That they operate in secret, invade their citizens' lives with spying and wiretapping, practice arbitrary imprisonment, make dissent illegal, destroy due process and generally terrorize the people with a brutal law enforcement system whose job is to maintain the power of the state rather than secure justice.
What are the very things that the ACLU spends nearly all their time and effort fighting against? Each and every one of those practices. The irony is that many of the very same people who scream about the ACLU being communists support many of those items when done by their own government. They defend warrantless wiretapping, the arbitrary suspension of habeas corpus and a weakening of due process protections. All you just have to do is scare them enough, by talk of communists or terrorists, and they instinctively become the very thing they claim to despise.
But the question all consumers must ask before plunking down that precious 50 bucks is: Do I already own the Indiana Jones collection released in 2003? If the answer is yes, then there is no reason to buy the new one. All three of the movies -- "Raiders of the Lost Ark," "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom" and "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade" -- look exactly as they did on the previous collection; none of them has been remastered since then. And while the bonus features on the newer model are decent, they don't veer anywhere near the greatness of the two-hour making-of documentary found on the first Indy DVD, which boasted tons of behind-the-scenes material and footage of other actors (Tom Selleck! Sean Young!) auditioning for the leads in "Raiders."
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