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| Fahrenheit 9/11 |
| 06.27.04 (1:19 pm) [edit] |
Last night I went to see Farenheit 9/11 - Michael Moore's new documentary about the war on terrorism and how the Bush administration used 9/11 to justify attacking Iraq.
Disgusting.
Not the film itself. The actions of this administration. Bush must be fired. Ashcroft must be fired. Rumsfeld must be fired. And I feel so sorry for Colin Powell, believe it or not, because right now he has to be Bush's yes-man and find ways to justify Bush's wishes for the military.
One scene in the movie disturbed me a great deal - it was when Geo. W. Bush was at one of those black-tie affairs giving a speech. You know, $500/plate and all that. Solid gold candlesticks and all. He stood there and said, "This is like an assembly of the haves - and the have mores." His audience laughed, but the people in the theatre didn't think it was so funny. Then Bush said, "People call you the elite. I call you my support base."
Rat. Fucking. Bastard.
And for this man, the poorest kids in the nation who can't find work feel like they are forced to enlist in the military just to get a paycheck and hopefully earn money for college, and they are being shipped off to Iraq only to come back with limbs missing, nerve damage, or in a body bag.
Let me tell anyone who's reading this - right after 9/11 happened, I was writing on OpenDiary. When we struck Afghanistan, a former Marine and I both agreed that when the bodies started coming back, people would change their minds about going to war.
It's starting to happen. As I drove home from the movie last night, I had to stop at a convenience store to use the restroom. A storm had blown a lot of limbs down onto many of the roads I would normally drive on to get home, and many stoplights were not functional either thanks to the storm, and my bladder made its needs known to me. So I pulled in and used their restroom.
As I walked out the door, I saw a newspaper on the stand, talking about how NOW, a majority of Americans are starting to think that going to war with Iraq wasn't such a good idea after all. My question is, why has it taken people so long to come to their senses?
And this, even before many Americans have even seen Farenheit 9/11. That story went to press before the movie opened; last night was opening night for F - 9/11.
Farenheit 9/11 shows that for at least a decade now, if not more, the Bush family has been doing a lot of handshaking with the Saudi royal family and the Bin Laden family, and how they have been dumping obscene amounts of money into various companies that the Bushs have sat on the board of directors of, such as The Carlyle Group. Not only that but how people such as Ken Lay of ENRON supported President Bush. Not to mention the friendly ties they had with the Taliban too.
It's all about the money.
They say money talks. It does. So does connections and information. Money and information = power.
The elder Bush, George Herbert Walker Bush, is former chief of the CIA. He was the "head spook." Few former Presidents make use of CIA briefings, as they are entitled to, but elder Bush reads them every day.
Never trust a spook (for those who have never heard that term, a spook is a CIA agent). Yet, we elected one to be President.
The movie shows how the administration has basically created from thin air a connection between Saddam Hussein and 9/11, and started throwing buzzwords around to confuse the American people and get us all to the point where we are so mixed up, we almost HAVE to look to President Bush for help/protection/whatever. The Department of Homeland Security has created an atmosphere of fear and mistrust with their "terror alert levels" of red and yellow and orange and all - and come on, folks, do you really think that the alert level will EVER drop to the begnin levels of blue and green?
Hell. Fuck. No. Not at long as that trigger-happy TexASS moron is in office. Not as long as Rummy and Ashcroft and all those people are in office.
This movie shows how urgently important it is, above all else, for Americans to take back our country. The men in power now are not out to protect our freedom, our rights. They want to protect THEIR MONEY, their investments, and they want to keep the American public uninformed about it and wandering around in the dark like lost cows so we the people don't ask too many questions and uncover too many really ugly, ugly truths.
9/11 gave them a perfect excuse to put into play things that they had wished so desperately to do - such as the evil Patriot Act.
Go here to read the Act: http://www.epic.org/privacy/t...
One man in the movie, I wish I could recall his name, said that the Act was passed and no one even read it. They don't bother to read MOST of the bills that they receive in the House before passing them. It slows things down too much.
I must take a moment here and say that I believe this movie should be required viewing by every single American. People need to know that the Saudis have invested enough money in the US that they pretty much own 1/7th of this country. Go see the movie, it discusses that.
There was another part in the movie that was darkly funny. At the end, Moore said he was sick of seeing distraught mothers weeping over sons lost in Iraq, and for a President whose interest is in money and not security. So he went downtown, to the Capitol building in DC, and was trying to get various members of Congress to have their children enlist in the military if they felt so strongly about the war effort.
None of them did it. MOST of them RAN AWAY from Moore. They didn't even want to TALK to him, or acknowledge his presence.
That says a lot. That says a lot about what a threat his very presence is. But the man has balls of absolute solid steel.
I didn't believe in the invasion of Iraq from day 1.
And what disgusted me was this: at my office, there is a conference room behind my desk. There is a TV in said conference room. When "Shock and Awe" was on TV, there were coworkers of mine watching it, and they came out of the conference room saying, "Oh that was sooooo COOL!"
Like it was some kind of video game.
I remember Cortney said that when she saw it. Cortney has a preteen daughter named Taylor.
I wonder if she'd have her daughter enlist and serve in Iraq. Probably not. Remember, most of the people in the ranks are poor folks. Can't find jobs in their hometowns. Feel like they have no choice. It's either public aid - crime - or the military for them, and public aid eventually runs out.
Cortney sends Taylor to a very exclusive, very expensive private school. Cortney's husband Al works for Lockheed Martin.
Taylor is one of the rich kids who won't have to put her life on the line, because some poor kid from the wrong side of the tracks put HIS or HER life on the line instead.
And if anyone goes to see this movie, be prepared - there are a few grisly images in it. Dead bodies, even of children. On both sides. US soldiers AND Iraqis. I think this drives the point home that death is just death, and death in warfare is really, really ugly. Horrible. If you have a sensitive stomach, don't take any popcorn or food into the movie. Just don't do it.
And this isn't special effects makeup such as my ex Dann can do. This is REAL death.
And to this day, the death continues. Unnecessary death. Avoidable death. Avoidable killing, every day.
What's more, F-9/11 points out that the newspapers weren't allowed to run photographs of the coffins of our men and women who were killed in action, yet it was allowed during the Vietnam conflict.
I won't say "war" because "war" was not legally declared by our Congress, as the US Constitution dictates. ONLY Congress has the power to declare war, not the President. I have read the full text of the US Constitution several times, and there are specific powers the President has, these being outlined in clear English right in the Constitution. It does NOT include the power to declare war. The only place that privilege appears is in the section outlining the powers of Congress.
I strongly urge every American whose eyes fall on this entry to do a search, pull up the full text of the US Constitution, and make an effort to sit down and read it. Yes it's dry and boring and a bunch of legalese, but it's our nation's most sacred document.
Hell, I urge every person who reads English to read it, so as to have a hand in keeping Americans accountable for following their own laws.
So anyway, from the very first moment, when you see how Bush stole the election and how there was very nearly a riot in DC on his inauguration day because the people KNEW he didn't belong there, to the stupid things homeland security has done (such as making one mother drink half of a bottle of her own breast milk because the airlines thought she was a terrorist and bringing a dangerous chemical onto a flight), to the way Geo. W. Bush just SAT THERE and did nothing after being told "we are under attack" on 9/11, the viewer is in shock.
It's unbelievable.
And the thing is, Moore just let events and people speak for themselves, for the most part in this movie.
More than "The Passion of the Christ" which I also saw, F-9/11 is a movie that people will come out of changed. We won't see our government the same way again. We won't allow ourselves to be duped again.
I was thinking about that as I drove home from the movie. I was thinking about how my mother would probably not approve of me seeing this movie and how I should not believe what a Hollywood man says about the government. First of all, sometimes I did find myself asking, "How DID Moore get this footage or documentation?" It's that incredible, the evidence he presents. Second, this is coming from a woman who thinks I should learn about life from watching movies like "Steel Magnolias" and whatnot. Mom believes what Fox News tells her.
But I won't, not ever again (not that I did before). All the more reason for me now to ignore the "terrorism alert" thing, knowing that it's being used to manipulate me into a position of fear to where I fall on my knees to my President and grovel for his protection from the big, bad terrorists.
FUCK THAT NOISE.
If that means I die, even in an explosion from some terrorist suicide bomber, then I will die FREE. I will die doing activities that make me happy, such as going to Disneyworld or Universal (I live in Orlando). I will die because to cower in my apartment all the time is no kind of life. To live in constant fear, constantly looking over my shoulder and wondering "are they coming to get me yet" is no life at all.
NO ONE will have control of MY mind like that. I won't give it to them.
And readers, don't even consider giving your power over to these slimeballs either. Just don't do it.
And not only that - if you are NOT registered to vote, do it. When election day comes, let your voice be heard LOUD and CLEAR.
No mistakes this time. The American people should be all the more alert now; after the 2000 election, we should be refusing to have the wool pulled over our eyes again.
As Bush himself couldn't manage to say, "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me."
www.toostupidtobepresident.com
www.michaelmoore.com
www.moveon.org
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