Can simply asking a question about a historical event land a person in prison? Can the mere act of posting a question on the Internet regarding a historical event cause a person to be deported to a foreign country and thrown into a prison cell halfway around the world?
The answer to these questions is, tragically, yes. "El Gran Tabu" ("The Great Taboo") is a startling new documentary film that exposes the attempts by governments in the West to silence questions about a pivotal historical event. You'll hear directly from people currently serving long prison terms for simply asking historical questions, and you'll learn about dangerous new legal theories regarding the Internet that could, conceivably, make any of us internationally-wanted criminals.
What type of historical research is so controversial, so threatening to the governments of the West, that they have tried to outlaw it? What kind of Internet post can cause someone to spend a decade in a prison isolation cell? What kind of question-asking would cause U.S. authorities to seize a legal immigrant, take him away from his wife and child, and extradite him to a waiting prison cell in a foreign land?
"El Gran Tabu" provides the startling answers to these questions.
