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Freak Power: The Ballot or the Bomb

"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.

Top Cast

  • Hunter S. Thompson

    Hunter S. Thompson

    Self (archive footage)

  • Bob Braudis

    Bob Braudis

    Self

  • Joe Edwards

    Joe Edwards

    Self

  • Alex Sweetman

    Alex Sweetman

    Self

  • Ed Bastian

    Ed Bastian

    Self

  • Travis Fulton

    Travis Fulton

    Self

Overview

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.

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