July 5, 2004 journal, America is for sale at
Wal-Mart prices, the red and the blue states.
Ralph Nader has a lot of wisdom in
saying America is "for
sale" to corporate interest and American workers are making Wal-Mart
wages. I believe he is trying to give the voters a choice but 40 percent of
American people do not bother to vote and now that's increased by one person
because I see no choice. The gullible red listed states in the heart of this
ill America are carried
away on false promises of a fake religion, is only smart campaigning.
Fire works to me have a different meaning in view of the war
raging and people dying.
"Moore light, Moore heat-despite
their savage barrage on the movie and its maker, B-u-sh
and his pals can’t make a dent in the credibility of Fahrenheit 9-1-1.
By Jonathan Baskin, Judd Legum and David J. Sirota, Christie Harvey July
1, 2004. valleyadvocate.com/g base/news/content?aid=aid72191
Even before Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9-1-1 opened in theaters last Friday,
the White House and its right-wing allies sought to smear both Michael Moore
and the film. Last month, White House
communications director Dan Bartlett said the movie "was so outrageously
false it's not worth comment". Even
though he had not seen the film.
Meanwhile, the Hollywood reporter discovered
that "big time conservative donors" are funding a slew of anti-Moore
activities. Following the White House’s
tactics of attacking critics’ patriotism, the right wing is also apparently bank-rolling
a movie called Michael Moore hates America. But despite conservative’s best efforts to
discredit the film, the New York Times notes, "central assertions of fact
in Fahrenheit 911 are supported by the public record". When the movie was aired at the Cannes film festival,
it won top prize for a panel made up of mostly American and British
judges. Critics have accused Moore of wrongly
claiming a group of Saudis were allowed to fly out of the United States on September
13th, when much of America airspace was
still closed. In fact, the movie accurately
reports that 142 Saudis, including 24 members of the bin La-den family, were
allowed to leave after 9-13, a fact well-documented by the 911 Commission. Additionally, new reports prove that Saudi
flights did occur on 9/13, despite 3 years of B-u-s-h and administration denials. As the St. Augustine Times reports on
September 13, "with most of the nation's air-traffic still grounded, a
small jet landed at Tampa Inter-national Airport, picked up 3
young Saudi men and left for Lexington Kentucky. The Saudis "then took another flight out
of the country". Because the information is so new, it was not in the 9/11
commissions preliminary report.
Subsequently, however, the com-mission has asked "for any
information about a charter flight with 6 people, including a Saudi Prince,
which flew from Tampa, Florida. On or about September 13, 2001. In the movie, Moore also charges that
President Bush did not pay enough attention to 9-11 warnings that al Quada was about to attack.
Instead of focusing on terrorism, charges the movie, the president spent
42% of his first eight months in office on vacation, a figure taken from a
calculation by the Washington Post. Read
America's progress report truth or consequences: The Bush administration and
911; and for a comprehensive history of how the White House under funded
counter-terrorism and downgraded terrorism as a priority prior before 9/11,
checkout the Center for American progress website at american.org Also see cap’s "Complete Saudi
Primer"-A guide to everything you always wanted to know about the Bush-Saudi
connection but were afraid to ask. At the direction of CEO Michael Eisner who
is a Bush campaign contributor, the Walt Disney Co. prohibited its Miramax
division from distributing Fahrenheit 911. The company enjoys a cozy relation-ship
with Bush's brother Jeb, gov. of Florida, a trustee for
the state employees pension”.