NP Michael Moore

[barbara100]

What would happen to Moore or the voter reg woman under Saddam, you want us
to ask? Then we should also ask what would happen to them under Saud. Watch
the movie. There's a scene in it where a Saudi criminal gets his head
chopped off. It's hard to watch, but it makes the point that we're so spun
up on the reports of brutality in Iraq, we turn a blind eye to it in the
rest of the world.




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "jbor" <jbor at bigpond.com>
>
> It's apparent that Moore is something of a sacred cow around here, one
whose
> myth-making and hypocrisies are not open to discussion and evaluation and
to
> which we should remain cowed and compliant. The double standards are
> palpable. The pro-Moore argument seems to be based on the assumption that
> propaganda and deceit are OK so long as it's "our" propaganda and deceit
> (which smells way too much like the pro-Bush argument for my liking), and
> that getting rid of a tyrant like Bush is a brave and noble aim but that
> getting rid of tyrants like Saddam or the Taliban leaders has been the
crime
> of the century. That lives lost in the overthrow of Saddam and the
> subsequent restoration of Iraq are worth four and five times more than
Shia,
> Kurdish, Christian and Mandaean lives lost under Saddam's dictatorship;
that
> while democracy and freedom are the inalienable birthrights of all
> Westerners, Iraqis and Afghanis are not entitled to the same systems of
> natural and social justice just because of the accident of their birth and
> their skin colour. And, just imagine what would have happened to someone
> like Moore or the woman in the movie theatre under Saddam ...
>
> best
>
>