Two thousand years after he formulated it, Juvenal’s test of republican government – “who guards the guards?” – has buckled under the War on Terror. Who’s checking the excesses of the Patriot Act: datacollection from anyone using a phone line; imprisonment on the basis of belief; a Chief Executive who maintains he is not bound by courts or Congress? The answer is no one – or no one imagined by the Founding Fathers. But if Jefferson didn’t envision Saw or Bourne, Minority Report or 21 Days Later, Disturbia or Turista as doing the Constitution’s work, he should have. And you should, too! Join Terry Diggs (U.C. Hastings College of Law) for a lively discussion of how a few feature films aim to bludgeon us back to the Bill of Rights.