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--- Begin Message --- -Caveat Lector-please help counter the facsist thugs and get this available in every population center. if the election isn't even close they can't easily steal it, i hope.From: "Joseph Cassles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
Subject: Take a Date To the Movies--& bring a hanky or 2
Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2004 17:17:23 -0600Fahrenheit 9/11: Why the Far Right is
Trying to Keep Americans From Seeing It and the
Lies, Frauds and Deceptions They're UsingBy Anthony WadeOpEdNews.comIs there any doubt left in America
about the shamelessness on the right? I have read
all week long about Michael Moore's new film
Fahrenheit 911. I read about how there was a
Republican PR machine behind a bogus grass roots
website that was making threats to theater owners. I
read, and responded to, a ridiculous hatchet job by
Christopher Hitchens. I read about how there is now
a documentary being made called "Michael Moore Hates
America". I thought, wow, there is really going to
be a split in this country over this documentary.
Now that I have seen it I am left wondering only one
thing. How in the world can any reasonable thinking
person see this movie and not be completely stirred,
and wish to move toward changing the road we have
gone down over the past three years?I have heard the arguments and they
simply do not fly in the face of the realities of
this picture. Is this propaganda? The dictionary
defines propaganda as "information that is spread
for the purpose of promoting some cause". Michael
Moore has made it abundantly clear that his goal is
to enlighten people to the corruption of this
administration, in the hopes of regime change,
starting at home. To that end, this movie is, no
doubt, propaganda. However, so are the attempts to
smear him, the attempts to use McCain-Feingold to
shut down the advertisement of this film, and all of
the rhetoric coming out from the right, who
despicably are using the soldiers for their
political benefit. Propaganda is at the heart of all
things political. Does that mean the movie loses
value? Of course not, that would be silly.The issue then becomes, is the movie
accurate? Do the Saudis own 7% of this country? Does
the President's family have deep ties to the Bin
Laden family? Did the President arrange for the Bin
Laden family to be flown out of this country on
09/13, while there was a ban on flights, and then
lie about it for two years? Have they made the
billions of dollars from the Saudis that Moore
asserts? Did the Taliban meet with GW Bush in the
late 90s to discuss a pipeline through Afghanistan?
Did GW Bush sit in that classroom reading My Pet
Goat while we were under attack? Did he use macho
tag lines, while soldiers were dying, such as bring
em on and we're gonna smoke em out? Did the White
House really turn over the President's military
records with the name of James Bath crossed out with
marker? Did the Patriot Act get passed without being
read? Did that mother lose her son in Iraq? Did
those children die, and are they still dying in
Iraq? Did Halliburton make billions upon billions of
dollars in no-bid contracts from this war? Did Dick
Cheney used to run Halliburton? Is that profiting,
from a war, which some are calling war profiteering?
Was the man GW Bush named to run Afghanistan, Hamid
Karzi, a consultant for Unocal, the same company
that wanted that infamous pipeline? Is there more
than one Senator who has a kid in Iraq right now?
Did Bush spend 42% of his first year on vacation?
Did he not read the intelligence briefings, which
may have tipped him off to 9-11? Were the soldiers
lied to about how long they would be in Iraq? Is the
predatory nature of recruitment for the armed
services aimed at minorities and the poor? These are
just some of the facts asserted in this movie and I
challenge anyone to actually prove any of these
wrong. I understand that the right desperately wants
to prevent the American people to connect the dots,
but that does not take away from the credibility of
the film. They can parse words and confuse the
issues but at the end of the day, these are facts
and they are not disputable.Having established that it is
propaganda, as is everything in politics and that
this movie deals with the truth, where does that
leave us? It leaves us wondering why there are so
many people on the right who are trying so hard to
minimize the amount of people seeing this movie. To
summarize:The PR firm that handled the Recall
Gray Davis effort and the banning of The Reagan's
miniseries, started a website, pretending to be a
"grass-roots" effort to stop this film. Efforts
included harassing theater owners, including
threats.In response to this documentary, there
is now in development, a documentary called "Michael
Moore Hates America", which is an obvious attempt to
smear him, and thus take away some of the legitimacy
from this movie.A conservative group, Citizens United,
has filed a complaint to stop advertising for this
movie, using the campaign finance laws. Ironically,
the ads wouldn't be in violation, even if it is
found to have substance, for another two months.Right wing pundits and assassins, such
as Hitchens are dispatched to discredit the film,
before it even opens.This is a lot of effort to try and
stop you from seeing this movie. You have to ask
yourself why? Is it so bad that you might get a
dissenting opinion from this movie to counteract the
daily spoon-fed media drivel? Why would so many
people, go to such extreme lengths to stop you from
seeing this film?To hear some of these people explain
it, they are angered at Moore's film, as a statement
against the soldiers fighting the war in Iraq. The
reality of course couldn't be farther from that. Not
only did Michael Moore dedicate this film to those
soldiers, but also he brings up the most salient
point of this movie towards the end, about these
brave young men and women. To paraphrase, he asks
how ironic it is that those people who are raised in
the poorest areas, with the least opportunity, are
the first ones to jump at the chance to defend the
way of life that perpetuates that cycle, and all
they ask in return is that they are not sent into
harms way, unless it is absolutely necessary.
Considering all of the reasons this President has
said we went into these wars have proven to be
false, I am afraid we have broken that covenant.This movie is not anti-soldier. Moore
understands that they are simply trapped in a bad
policy. They are trapped in a war that was based on
lies, and is now too big business to simply back out
of. He poignantly captures the grief of a mother who
lost her son in this war, for nothing. No, I am
sorry, but if you go to this movie with an open
mind, you will come out of it a better person, but
be prepared to not like what you hear about your
country.This movie is not anti-soldier, it is
anti-war profiteering. There are a lot of people
mobilizing to prevent you from hearing that message.
They stand to make a lot more money from these wars
continuing. They think if they wrap themselves up in
the soldiers, smear Moore as unpatriotic man who
hates America, then they can keep you from seeing
the truth. It is time for you to stand up and say
that you can make your own mind up.Go see the movie, but be prepared to
weep. This nation continues to weep, and it needs it
quite frankly.Anthony Wade is an independent writer
from New York. Email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]...
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