In Reply to: Michael Moore says terrorists are "Minutemen" posted by Alan on June 28, 2004 at 08:53:26:
Anti-Moore groups, funded by Republicans, tried everything to stop Farenheit 9/11. They tried to convince the Disney Corporation not to fund it being made. Then the Disney Corporation, based in Florida where the governor is none other than Bush brother Jeb, decided the film was too controversial to release. Then Moore wins the biggest prize at the world's most intelligent film festival, Cannes, and a Canadian company agrees to distribute it. Then, more attacks on Moore, death threats against theater managers who are going to show the film, Moore's website hacked by Bushies, and the corporate media attacking the film they hadn't seen yet, trying to find some way to discredit it, finally resorting to making jokes about Moore being overweight.
And it gets even better- the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) says the film is "disturbing," and gives it an "R" rating which means that teenagers under 17 can't see it without an adult present. The very same teenagers who could be duped into enlisting and who need to see this film first before making that decision. The MPAA lets kids see lots of films, including ones where people are blown up, blown away, raped, incinerated, and otherwise maimed, but they don't want kids to see Moore's film, which contains nothing more than what major news outlets outside the USA have been showing people of all ages: the realities of war, political corruption, Abu Ghraib torture and rapes, generalized brutality. Those things are "too disturbing" for kids to see. Sure they are. It might wake the kids up out of their cell phone 7-11 slumbers, might radicalize them, might have them out in the streets fighting the cops, taking on the oppressors, the way kids did in the 60s and early 70s to stop the Vietnam War. Wouldn't want that to happen, would we?
Lots of people criticize Moore, but instead of focusing on him or his movie, if people want to know facts, they need only check out the public record, as partially revealed by the 9/11 Commission, by journalists, by military records. Moore's central thesis is that the Bush family has been long in bed financially with the bin Laden family and the Saudi royal family, with military industries, with shady powerbrokers, with spies and sickos, and that the relationship between one of America's most powerful dynasties and Arab millionaires who were at the time of 9/11 in big money business with the Bush family, that this and tons of other evidence point to reasonable questions and troubling conclusions about what Bush knew about 9/11 and when he knew it.
Questions that make you wonder- if Clinton was impeached and nearly thrown out of office because some people thought he lied about a blow job, why is Bush not being impeached? It's like the bumper sticker I saw: "At least when Clinton lied, nobody died."
Most Americans are brainwashed and sedated by mainstream media, so they can be forgiven for not knowing that bin Laden the terrorist was created, funded, armed and trained by the CIA so he could cut the throats of the occupying Russians in Afghanistan from 1979 to 1989. They can be forgiven for not knowing that Ronny Reagan sold chemical weapons to Saddam Hussein, that the Bush family has a long history of doing deals with bad people, including when venerable ancestor Prescott Bush helped Hitler in the crucial pre-war period of the late 1930's. They can be forgiven for not asking obvious questions, such as why Bush's reaction to being told that two planes had demolished the World Trade Center was so unnatural, so weird, so FAKE, that anybody watching Bush would have thought that he either knew that the attacks were going to happen, or that he didn't have a clue what to do once they had, or both. They can be forgiven for not going out into the streets, as citizens did in Peru when a US corporation tried to prevent them from gathering rainwater (portrayed in the great movie called The Corporation), and risking their asses to stand up to evil. Most Americans are mind-warped, willingly, and behind that, they are in denial, scared and spoiled. Most are scared to stand up and fight their government. They are scared to go out in the streets and get their heads busted open by police. They are scared to be honest about the gluttonous SUV/television/McDonalds lifestyles. Most Americans are too afraid, too lazy, too hypnotized. They're like the many Germans who stood by and allowed Hitler to rise to power virtually unopposed, while their Jewish neighbors were kidnapped by the millions and gassed in chambers. Too many Americans lack conscience, moral outrage, and compassion. They are, in the words of the classic movie They Live, asleep.
Michael Moore isn't the point, and his film, which is as damning and powerful as Bowling for Columbine, isn't really the point either. The point is, why and how did 9/11 happen, and what are the provable details and contexts that explain how and why Bush and his administration have handled events as they did?
Outside the U.S., in countries that did not participate in the Iraq war, people do not have a vested interest in deluding themselves about their country because they are not killing and being killed on a daily basis. Informed people outside the U.S. already knew what the film would reveal before it was released; they will have no trouble accepting that Bush and his allies are mean, ruthless, violent people who would stop at nothing to achieve their oily goals.
In the USA, on the other hand, Moore's film will likely be spiked back and forth like a cinematic volleyball, with people who already believe Bush is bad seeing the film as an artistic revelation, and those who love Bush seeing it as an unpatriotic attack on a good Texan who knows how to "kick ay-rab ass."
Moore is helping Americans to ask intelligent questions, he is giving them new information, he is helping them wake up. What thanks does he get for that? He told a reporter recently that he and his family have to be guarded by 24 hour security, because he has received numerous death threats from Jesus-loving people who love Bush.
If you want to find out about what really happened on 9/11, and why it happened, watch Moore's film, but also invest in three books: Forbidden Truth, The War on Freedom, and House of Bush, House of Saud. All by different authors, all documented, all detailed. It will be hard for even the most right-winged of the right-wingers to see the film and read these books and then to still claim that 9/11 was just a surprise attack by a bunch of desert rats who hung out in the US for five years planning the perfect crime of the century against the world's biggest military superpower.
Jean-Charles Brisard, Co-Author of "The Forbidden Truth," Interviewed by Donahue on MSNBC
http://www.truthout.org/docs_02/08.16B.donahue.brisard.htm
Behind the War on Terror: Western Secret Strategy and the Struggle for Iraq by Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed
The New Pearl Harbor: Disturbing Questions About the Bush Administration and 9/11
by David Ray Griffin. Dr. Griffin is a Professor of Philosophy of Religion and Theology at the Claremont School of Theology in California.
Dreaming War: Blood for Oil and the Cheney-Bush Junta by Gore Vidal
The Immaculate Deception: The Bush Crime Family Exposed by Russell S. Bowen
Former President George H. W. Bush called Moore a "slimeball" and called Fahrenheit 9/11 a "vicious attack on our son."
Moore responded to Daddy Bush by saying, "I appreciate all reviews of my films from the Bush family. And if they love the film this much, without having seen it, I can't wait for the reviews when they actually see it. I'd be more than happy to set up a White House screening."
- Michael Moore's website: michaelmoore.com