Q3 Blog #15 final outside reading post of the Q

This post had to be about someone overcoming odds, so I decided to talk about the movie In the Name of the Father. In the Name of the Father is about an Irish father and son who were wrongly convicted by the British government of bombing a pub where many British soldiers went. The main character is sentenced to life but he overcomes odds and gets out after many years. Unfortunately his father died in prison, but his son clears their name. This movie was based on a true story which to this day shakes the foundation of the British legal system. The father and son were easy scapegoats for the bombing because they were Irish. The case also included several other Irishmen and woman who were also wrongly convicted. The convicted were tortured physically and mentally, basically forcing them to confess to a crime they did not commit. Also evidence was illegally kept from the defendants attorney so that they could not win the case. It amazes me that this story actually happened. It is incredible to think that a government would actually wrongly convict someone just to "close the books" on a case. It is like catching the real perpetrators isn't important, its just about PR. They would just cast away peoples lives because they know they can get away with it because they have an easy scapegoat, in this case the a couple of Irish. In the Name of the Father is a powerful film that I would recommend to anyone, it is certainly one of my favorites.