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  • Moores right on target by Ben Pendry! WCnewsmagazine When do we, as Americans, stand up to the injustices that have been administered upon us by the government that many so adamantly praise? Does that point come when we realize that we have been lied to? Does that point come when we realize that we have been led into a conflict on a front that would level the most American casualties since Vietnam? Evidently that point has not yet reared its ugly head but rest assured that there are Americans out there who will not stand by as our fearless leader continues to watch as Americans are murdered. He watches but tells the national media that they are nat allowed to air pictures of the coffins coming off the C 130 transport planes. He watches but instructs his Attorney General that he is to go after any group that is standing in oppasition to the policies that he has put into place. This theme of watching comes across eerily loud and clear in Director Michael Moore's film Fahrenheit 9/11. Moore's film opens with the Florida elections and the actions of the Bush Reich in regards to the Supreme Court recounts and the subsequent Senate actions, where not one Senator rose to hear the dissent of the black community who were protesting an behalf of the more that 20,000 black voters who were stricken from the rolis in what would later be termed a gross mistake on the part of the Florida Board of Elections. Moore spends relatively little of his 120 minutes blasting the actions or inaction of congress. but achieves his point in setting the tone for the film. Without so much as one picture of the World Trade Center, Moore sets the atmo- sphere of 9/11 with the use of a black screen and audio from ground zero, Juxtaposed with the audio and timeline of 9/11 are the actions of our President. Once told about the first plane he continues to sit in a Florida classroom and get his picture taken. Minutes later he is told about the second plane, and that this is not an accident, that the country he leads is under attack, What does our appointed president do? He continues to SIT. When our president does finally decide to act, Maore shows that one of his first actions is to get the family of the number one suspect out of the country. That's right, one of the only planes in the air in the days directly following 9/11 was that of the bin Laden family flying out of America and back to Saudi Arabia. This administration seems to have no problem incarcerating innocent people because of the color of their skin, or give Special treatment to those with whom they attended ivy league universities, but obviously the family of the number one suspect wasnt considered valuable enough to even ques- tion. | would want to think that the FBI, CIA or someone investigating the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden would want to talk to the family of the suspect. Isn't that usually what Police do in crime investigations? In this case the family of the suspect was put on a plane and sent home. Then again, itis not often that the family of the suspects linked directly to the man who is over the investigation. We find out through the research of Moore and others that the Bush administration is inked directly to the bin Laden family through a Series of oil and gas deals and that the two families have often hosted each other in their respective homes. | encourage everyone who sees this movie to pay particular attention during this part of the film. Through nearly an hour's worth of film footage and personal testimony, we see how intertwined the two families are and how the nation of Saudi Arabia, which was home to sixteen of the nineteen hijackers from 9/11, was never made to turn over one piece of evidence or go to one extra step in the apprehension of terrorists. | guess when you have such a great link to the leader of the United States you are allowed small perks. However, if you are the state of Afghanistan, which is home to far poorer people, you will find yourself looking down the barrel of the US military. I'm not a conspiracy theorist and neither is Mike Moore. All this man has done is make a film that shows the true side of the Bush Reich and how little they are doing to protect America from terrorists. What the administration is doing is protecting itself from individuals who are fooking for the truth. | do hope that each of you go to see the film, and Can take something from it. If you are a Bush supporter then you will walk away thinking about how everyone is out to get him and how he is just doing the best that he can with veryone against him. If you are a liberal such as myself, you will walk away hopefully with a little more ammunition. Moore shows us Dubya's military record, which was falsified in the copy that the White House turned over to the national media. Moore says this is due to the relationship that he has with his father, who continues to get CIA briefings to this day, which is a service that is provided to any former president (though Not to many former presidents who make frequent visits to Saudi Arabia to visit friends and business partners). ; Moores film is weil laid out, tirelessly researched, and well filmed. If you are at all interested in national politics and the intermingling of governments and departments, then do yourself a favor and go see it. 9/11 Moores Bark is Worse Than His Bite by Traci White} WCnewsmagazine When ! hear the name Michael Moore. words like conceited, unoriginal, and demagogue come to mind. Boy, did he ever live up to my expectations. | came into the theater anticipating a load of condescending BS, and left trying to wring it from my linens. Every moment of narration Moore provides is absolutely bloated with its own importance. The film follows a chronological sequence beginning with a wistful recollection of election night 2006, filled with false projections and smiling visuals of Al Gore. Aniftily-edited montage of Bush's ever present vacation is placed in direct contrast to this reverie. Aconcrete-dust gray pallor with the horrifying sound effects of September 11" in every speaker next engulfs the screen. Itis at this point that Moore begins Bushwhacking. The next twenty minutes of the movie are spent explaining the sinister and convoluted brothers-in-oil connections between Saudi Arabia and the Bushes, but he fails to once conclusively explain what is meant by all these terrible revelations. The audience is left to divine some master scheme from circular logic and Moore commits that which he supposedly most despises: he forces his audience into fearful submission to his lofty and ultimately empty accusations. Hypocrisy was the motif of this propaganda ! mean, documentary ~ film. President Bush is endiessly accused of being too zealous and too lazy in the same breath. Moore was screaming Osama was innocent until proven guilty circa 2001, yet somehow he has managed to become undeniably responsible now that Bush has lost sight of him. The War on Terror would have been considered too hasty an endeavor, much like the twelve years preceding actions in lraq, had Bush not allowed two months coordination of it. But for allowing Osama such an ample head start, Bush is unabashedly bashed. He says there arent enough troops for a war we shouldn't have, the Saudis are in bed with the Bushes/oil conglomerates/ national defense corporations, yet bristle at the idea of the US using their country to assist in what stands to be a lucrative conflict for them. Moore includes sweeping shots of Arlington National Cemetery and plays sound bites of the ever-rising numbers of fallen soldiers while ignoring that this engagement has suffered by far the least casualties of any war in the twentieth century (whether or not Moore in his infinite wisdom supports it). One scene that struck me as more inappropriately dramatic above others was the spliced countdowns of Bush's national address and the precarious seconds before a bombing juxtaposed to scenes of blithe Baghdad citizens at wedding ceremonies and flying kites. When the footage of the first bombing campaigns is shown, Moore conveniently fails to mention the targets engulfed in flames on the screen are Baathist governmental facilities and Saddam's gaudy mansions, not the sunny little girl coming down the slide at recess. Yet he contradicts even this idyllic portrait of the Iraqi populace when he includes footage of soldiers scorched corpses being drug through the avenues of Baghdad and dangled like gruesome marionettes in public squares. Of course, no self-respecting left wing soap box hero could go without mentioning the ramifications of the Patriot Act. He zooms in on several isolated incidents featuring peacenik groups infiltrated by local deputies, kindly elderly gentlemen accused of sympathizing with Al Qaeda, and a mother forced to dispose of her breast milk on the premise that it was too suspicious a substance to carry on board. He insists such measures are inappropriate, yet too lax in the next instant. Apparently, the consistency gene skips a generation in the Moore family. Moore sews together the most conveniently dopey footage of Bush and relies on insipid ad hominem attacks, mocking him for playing golf in the middie of an international crisis. This would have been considered befitting any charismatic politician had it been Reagan in the midst of the Cold War or Kennedy during the Cuban Missile Crisis, but certainly not Bush. Moore has perfected the art of double speak and indignantly juts out all four of his chins in smarminess throughout the film. He doesnt miss an opportunity to rally the audience behind phony suggestions, i.e. congressmen being asked to submit their children to the armed services. He portrays the war in lraq as waged by immature victims of the class system, simultaneously ignoring that his fellow inhabitants of Podunk, Middle America who are so unfairly forced into conscription have in fact chosen to pursue a career in the military. There may not be an abundance of jobs with room for promotion in Flint, Michigan and while it is undoubtedly difficult to overcome the stigma of poverty, it is not a life sentence. Moore outright insults his own neighbors with such claims and should be ashamed of himself ~ if only he had the capacity. Fahrenheit 911 is an outright Bush-slamming venture conceived for Michael Moores smug self-promotion, | hate to be the one to break it to our little self-aggrandizing Mikey, but in spite of his apparent definition of a telling expos, contradiction actually does not make for outstanding cinema. While | may not fully agree with every policy our Commander-in-Chief issues, | find it even more difficult to rally behind a man who automatically opposes every fiber of the mans being on petulant principal alone.
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