Freak Power: The Ballot or the Bomb

2020 · 90 min · DocumentaryR

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.

Hunter S. Thompson went to the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago as a journalist and returned home disgusted, yet motivated by what he’d just seen: violently suppressed protests, riots, corrupt politicians, and abusive cops. Back in Aspen, he finds more of the same. The local police and sheriff’s departments are targeting young people, harassing and charging them with absurd crimes and trying to push them out of town. Hunter decides he has to do something to change the police brutality that has become the norm.

Directors: Daniel Joseph Watkins, Ajax Phillips
Released: October 23, 2020
Language: English

Cast

Hunter S. Thompson
Self (archive footage)
Bob Braudis
Self
Joe Edwards
Self
Alex Sweetman
Self
Ed Bastian
Self
Travis Fulton
Self

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