05-26-2004, 10:38 AM
Quote:Come on... you know the laws in the US. If Moore was telling lies in his movies, or shows things that hurt people in an unjust way, he would allready be serving a life sentence.
Perhaps you know very little about U.S. laws. You do seem to have some deep resentment towards our country though, and I'm not quite sure where it's all coming from.
If you are following my posts you also must have seen several of them where I state that I DO NOT (sorry for using capitals here but I want to make this clear once and for all) resent the US, quite the opposite actually.
I see you use the GW Bush way of reasoning. "if you don't like me, you must hate the US, and you are not a patriot" . "Probably you are even a communist and I will make sure nobody is allowed anymore to play your songs on the radio".
I cannot say I know a lot about US laws ( I do not know anything about laws in general) but I don't think you should rub that in too much. Apparantly even GWBush must now it is not allowed to torture prisoners. Difference between me and GW is that he is president of the US, and I'm just a lurker. So if you want to talk about laws maybe you should consider sending him an email. :D
If I (or another Lurker) wants to criticize a particular thing, please do not see this as an attack on your beloved country.
By the way I did not see any of Moore movies yet (also because as you noticed correctly I probably share a lot of his opinions).
Quote:I seem to recall someone here at LL starting a thread a few months back about propaganda in the U.S. media and how disconcerting it was. I don't recall if that was you or someone else. Well anyways, this is what Moore is. He is a U.S. media propaganda machine. For the most part he is not a big deal, because most Americans recognize him as being on the fringe left wing of American politics and take everything he writes with a grain of salt. But it is clear that he has passed misleading materials as facts to prove his points, and plenty of people have bought into it. One cannot just pass this off as pure entertainment. It's no coincidence that his new movie is popping up during the summer of a presidential election year. He is trying to make a serious political impact here. And that's fine with me, as long as he isn't providing false or misleading information...
I don't remember that (I don't think I started it though). Anyway he is just a guy making movies, and he has his views and likes to show them to the people. This is not comparable with state propaganda (like e.g. in Italy (extreme), the US and other countries) which you must agree with me is a very bad thing.
Quote:Are you using threaded view?
are there other views?? :D
eppie.