Fahrenheit 9/11 Turns Up the Heat (excellent review/provocation!)

[MundoQueGanar]

This is from the Revolutionary Worker newspaper, the voice of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA. It's a great paper--I read it every week.

Fahrenheit 9/11 Turns Up the Heat
Revolutionary Worker #1245, July 4, 2004, posted at http://rwor.org

this is an excerpt--the rest is at http://rwor.org/a/1245/fahrenheit_911_moore_movie_review.htm

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There is political conflict breaking out at close quarters in the USA--and powerful, high-placed forces truly think they should be able to shout down or legally suppress voices that speak out against them.

Michael Moore has found his own creative way to say "NO!" to this Bush agenda, to its juggernaut of war and repression. He has said it with his satirical, impish and provocateurish riffs--from his own, social democratic point of view.

And it comes at this moment, when millions of people need to find powerful ways to say NO!--to fight to de-legitimize this government crew and their project, to deny their vicious crusade a manufactured appearance of popular mandate, to reach those millions that they are seeking to befuddle and corrupt, to rip away the ridiculous lies that these imperialist warmakers are the "good guys" and their cause is just.

Let's take it higher. Let's dig in deeper. Let's press forward to create a river of human resistance of more than a million in those streets of NYC as the Republicans try to proclaim Bush as a "liberator of Iraq," a "wartime defender of the American people," and a champion of worldwide "freedom and democracy." And let's pursue the debate over what we must do--now, and in the larger sense with the future of our world and society itself.

[kentuck]

1. You'r pushing the envelope fellow...

:) Didn't you know we were a moderate to liberal website??

[MundoQueGanar]

2. and pushing the envelope is bad because...?

Isn't pushing the envelope a good thing? Besides, I've seen plenty of progressive stuff on here, met du'ers at demonstrations--I think they're grown up enough to handle it...:)

[kentuck]

4. Just kidding Mundo....

But there may be a few that might suggest you are making us look "bad" by posting Communist literature?? The freepers might not like us....

[MundoQueGanar]

7. oh. duh.

Sorry, I didn't catch that. I'm a little slow.

[Kanary]

5. bad because? Bad Because??? ^_^

Because..... but, but...... ~~sputter~~

We'll be no better than ttthhhheeeeemmmmmm.......... ~whine~ :eyes:

Welcome to DU, Mundo!!

:hi: :hi: :hi:

:toast:

Keep pushing those envelopes this way, ya hear? :)

Kanary

[MundoQueGanar]

8. Yay!

My first *clinking beermugs* smiley! Aww, y'all know how to make a guy feel welcome!

[Old and In the Way]

3. This movie will become a political fault line in this society

If you agree with the conclusions/observations that Moore makes in F9/11, I cannot see how you can continue to support the Republican Party. If you support Bush, you must refute the truth your own eyes see and ears hear. You have to be a mindless apologist who believes in a discredited and incompetent dictator-wannabe.

This film will clarify and contrast the political landscape of this country, IMHO.

[MundoQueGanar]

6. Trust me--I'm ANTI-BUSH to the core.

I hate Bush as much anyone! No doubt! I agree that this movie exposes truth that has been hidden for far too long, and that the Bush regime is one of the most vicious to rule this country since slavery was abolished and they got done killing all the native people. I thnk it's a great movie--I saw it last night myself and loved it.

I think we need a MILLION people to "greet" Bush and his team of thugs when they show up in NYC and try to keep pimping 9/11 for votes. We need a movement that throroughly repudiates their whole agenda.

Here's another article that gets more at how I'm looking at this thing:
http://www.rwor.org/a/1233/bushno.htm


A Million in the Streets when the Bush Team Meets!
www.notinourname.net/rnc