Freak Power: The Ballot or the Bomb

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.

Cast

Hunter S. Thompson

Self (archive footage)

Bob Braudis

Self

Joe Edwards

Self

Alex Sweetman

Self

Ed Bastian

Self

Travis Fulton

Self