As a child, I admired politicians. They were smart people, tackling difficult problems as they served their city, state, or the nation. Then I learned more about history, and read books like 1984, Brave New World, and Fahrenheit 451. I’m much more cynical today. I still respect a few of our leaders, but they must earn that respect. I don’t give it.

Police State is a one-hour, fifty-minute docudrama written and directed by Dinesh D’Souza, Debbie D’Souza, and Bruce Schooley, and stars Nick Searcy and Dan Bongino a former New York City Police (NYPD) officer, who then served as a Secret Service agent, and is now a radio commentator.

You’re sure you didn’t do anything wrong. It was just a political rally. At worst you trespassed, like hundreds of others with you. However, this is a free country and the buildings belong to the people. Don’t they? Then, before dawn a few days or weeks later, the FBI arrived at your home. They broke down your front door. They handcuff you, your wife, and children. Then the FBI threw you in jail and you’ve been in solitary confinement ever since. You don’t even know what you’re charged with. That’s the country described in the documentary Capitol Punishment.