- Letter to the Editor
- Wichita Eagle
- 7-4-4
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- Regarding R.L. Fridley's Article:
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- R.L. Fridley says "the controversial documentary
(Fahrenheit 9/11) incites terrorism." That statement is too sweeping
an indictment by half. Facts can only help the public clarify something
that the White House has been stonewalling for the last three years. I
would suggest that it is Fridley's condemnation itself that will incite
people, and not the film or it's visual presentations.
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- This nation depends on the right of free people to openly
question our government whenever that government does things that it will
not even attempt to explain or analyze. That is not only the people's right,
but it is our duty to do so.
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- The events of September 11th are at the fulcrum point
for everything that has radically altered this nation since that day.
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- For the Bush administration to continue to fail to investigate,
or to discipline any person on duty on that day, or to even give serious
attention to what actually did happen on 911 is to attempt to cover up
the blood-stained crimes committed on that morning.
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- This can only serve to further the severity of the losses,
by attempting to prevent the truth from ever getting out to the public
or to the victim's families - who are still waiting for their government
to explain their actions to the world.
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- Mr. Freidley goes on to say: "Our country is in
a war against an enemy who would destroy our way of life, our culture and
kill our people," Fridley wrote. "These barbarians have shown
through (the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001) and the recent beheadings that
they will stop at nothing. I believe this film emboldens them and divides
our country even more."
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- This point of view is completely without any factual
proof. Someone attacked structures in the USA. Who that was, has not been
investigated or proven to this day. That is part of the point of the documentary.
It was the job of the president and his entire administration to have prevented
this attack - and they did nothing at all to stop or even to interrupt
the one hour and 45 minute attacks on 911.
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- The nation has the right to know where the president
was, minute by minute on that morning, and unfortunately it took a commercial
documentary to tell the world about his itinerary on that morning - Bush
does not sound or look like someone in charge of anything at all, much
less the leader of the most powerful nation in the world.
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- Also Friedley needs to know that those "beheadings"
have also not been proven to be the work of anyone in particular - and
in the case of the first tape, that amateur production has been thoroughly
discredited, as there was no blood at all, and the tape itself was proven
to have been shot on the same clip of film used to show the torture sequences
in the Baghdad prison.There was other evidence as well - but the point
is still the same.
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- People have always needed evidence to clarify the changes
that have been made to this country in the wake of 911 - because without
that evidence - all that this government has undertaken since that day:
All the secrecy and all the erosions of our rights as people of this country,
have been stolen for nothing but a bunch of lies.
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- That potential fact might indeed divide this country
further - and so it should!
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- kirwan
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- Midwest Theaters Ban 'Fahrenheit 9/11'
- Associated Press
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- DECORAH, Iowa - The president
of a company that owns movie theaters in Iowa and Nebraska is refusing
to show director Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11."
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- R.L. Fridley, owner of Des Moines-based Fridley Theatres,
says the controversial documentary incites terrorism.
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- Fridley said in an e-mail message to company managers
that the company does not "play political propaganda films from either
the right or the left."
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- "Our country is in a war against an enemy who would
destroy our way of life, our culture and kill our people," Fridley
wrote. "These barbarians have shown through (the attacks on Sept.
11, 2001) and the recent beheadings that they will stop at nothing. I believe
this film emboldens them and divides our country even more."
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- "Fahrenheit 9/11" won best picture at the 2004
Cannes Film Festival and has grossed millions of dollars at the box office.
Moore won an Academy Award for an earlier work, "Bowling for Columbine."
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- Critics accuse the film of being an unfair and inaccurate
portrayal about President Bush's policies before and after Sept. 11, 2001.
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