NP not even the oil

[cathy ramirez]

--- Heikki Raudaskoski <hraudask at mail.student.oulu.fi>
wrote:
> 
> 
> One Visa Problem Costs a Festival Two Filmmakers
> 
> By CELESTINE BOHLEN
> 
> 
> The internationally acclaimed Iranian film director
> Abbas Kiarostami, who
> won the Palme d'Or at Cannes in 1997 for "A Taste of
> Cherry," was unable
> to get a United States visa in time to attend the
> premiere of his new
> film, "Ten," at the New York Film Festival last
> Saturday, prompting his
> friend and fellow director Aki Kaurismaki of Finland
> to boycott the
> festival in protest.

The cultural exchange? The film is going to win more
awards here. Give me a break. This is political. The
cuban musicans played the same political game. It will
sell more CDs and more tickets. He knew about the Visa
requirements. They have been in place for a year now.
If they want to protest they should pull the film.
Come on, don't be fooled. The political argumet about
the exchange of bombs might make more sense if the
film and film maker were from Iraq. The US is bombing
Iraq not Iran and Iraq is ten times more open to
cultural excchange than Iran. 
Hypocracy and politics!@ 




> 
> If the United States authorities do not want "an
> Iranian, they will hardly
> have any use for a Finn, either," he wrote. "We do
> not even have the oil."

Lots or Iranian live and visit the US. But the US does
not want Iranians here w/o valid Visas. That makes a
lot of sense from where I'm sitting. Perhaps if
members of your family were murdered on 9/11 you would
see it differnetly. 

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