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Fahrenheit 911 ***** Can you say: Triple Espresso America? Okay, with a little sugar. … Michael Moore has crafted a devastating film millions of Americans have longed to see, and longed to hear. Moore casts a light over thE Bush administration's dubious rise to power, and the awful choices they've made in our names for their wallets, but most importantly Fahrenheit 911 challenges the assumption of the "Morality of Power" profligate by Fox News, the other major news outlets, and many talk radio hosts as well. Moreover, the film outlines the Bushs' money trail and Saudi connections, and neatly puts into perspective the motivating factors behind their guise of patriotism and democratic values--in other words: their own less than Christian greed. …The emperor has no clothes, the emperor is a perversion, the emperor is a fool. But didn't we already know this? … Not largely covered thus far in the media, I feel, is the film's biting indictment of the democratic party as well. How a single senator could have started a debate into the election results of 2000, and failed to do so. How the democrats, with few (Barbara Lee) exceptions, abandoned the trusts of the people who elected them, and gave Bush his war powers, and the Patriot Act. How they sat on their hands and allowed evil a free hand. And most disturbing is the revelation that congress doesn't read most of the bills they're voting on! What? That's an outrage! This should be illegal. How dare they not read the laws they're about to vote on, or leave it to interns and their Cliff Notes to judge such important decisions on. That's got to change. Yes, it will slow up the works, but hey, maybe this will rid us of the government's midnight voting sessions. … Maybe a law that says-- all newly printed legislation going up for its final vote must be held for a period of one week -- would work, with the exception of maybe the budgets. …Anyway the democrats don't come away from this movie smelling like roses is the point. They were supposed to fight for us and they failed … miserably. Makes you wonder if they're in the same bed with the Republicans-- sure, not the Christian Right, they're just a money cow to the latter and a chance to pay lip service to values they've only read about in books-- Okay, maybe such wonderment is short-lived, they are in the same bed as the Republicans, beholden to the same military industrial tycoons, and Saudi interests-- Damn, they own 6-7% of our country! Pissing them off, or letting them meet some il-fated beheading at the hands of the fundamentalist Muslims they allowed to prosper in their country (and who flew the planes on 911) ain't going to happen under Kerry either. Clearly, our voting has been reduced to sugarcoated verses unsugarcoated. Kerry, [whether pandering to the powers-that-be because he doesn't want to have a little plane accident-- probably over the Midwest which seems to be a favorite death hole for democrats during election years-- or whether it's lip service, and once he gets in, he'll actually change things] is still the lesser of three evils. At least we'll be able to start repairing the damage domestically, even though the Bush legacy will haunt whomever assumes the presidency for decades to come. … The first ray of hope is the ouster of Bush, although maybe leaving him in power, letting the country bottom out, or maybe get destroyed, is the best thing? Sometimes I think these folks know some great asteroid is about to strike the planet and they've vowed to live it up because we're all fucked. Or is that the second coming? Hmmm? Nah! Must be the asteroid. The tricky part will be after Bush is defeated again. We'll have to hold the line until all the current family members die off. Did they reproduce? God, let's pray not. These folks must never be entrusted with power again. … As for the movie: Wake up America! Your quaint notions of the morality of those in power has received a gauntlet across the face. Challenge it at risk of your complacency. Moore's film is an excellent vehicle for fueling debate. Truly the only must-see film of our time. |