Michael Moore? A man who has made substantial income in America for
criticizing the American way of life?
In the first place, yes, we trained troops in Nicaragua, Contras, to fight
against communist, Soviet-funded expansionism. Does Moore miss communism or
something? Unfortunately, in war, civilians get killed. But, doesn't the
Soviet Union bear at least some of the responsibility for trying to expand
its communist, totalitarian vision across the world? Why is it only
AMERICA'S fault that civilians die in a war against communist dictators?
Because American companies make money, unlike Soviet companies? Does Moore
want everyone poor (except him, of course.)
Yes we trained Afghan rebels to fight the Soviet expansionism. Does Moore
wish the Soviets won the cold war? I wonder how much money he'd make poking
fun at government officials if we lived in a Soviet dominated world.
As for airport security, I agree it has become laughable. But Moore will get
his wish. Security will be heigthened; unfortunately, costs will skyrocket,
but that's fine for Moore, who makes substantial money poking fun at
America's leaders... there will be less instances of the "comman man"
fighting for space with him on the armrests. More room for him to stretch
out his gilded legs. He'll still be able to afford to fly, no matter what
the cost. But, he won't have to share pressurized air with the average,
Nike-wearing American citizen he despises.
As for Moore's unability to believe that Osama bin Laden trained pilots
could be solely responsible (again, in Moore's world, anything bad that
happens *has* to have been caused by the US and its *booga booga*
corporations); flight experts have said that anyone with 100 hours training
could steer a 767, once it was airborne, into a large upright target like
the WTC.
So, it's "Baby Bush's" fault? The world hates us because of him? Oh, if only
we could have Clinton back; then Osama Bin Laden would be nice again... but
wait, didn't he bomb US embassies when Clinton was President, when the
Isreali-Palestinian peace process was in full swing?
It is really unbelievable that a rich "filmmaker" like Michael Moore, even
at a time like this, blames America and Americanism for the actions of a
small cadre of international outlaws. (The last part is particularly
chilling... would Moore have been happier if bin Laden struck a state that
voted for Bush in the last election? Better that Republicans die than
Democrats? What sort of a sick, twisted mind would even insinuate such a
thing, even bring it up at a time like this?)
May the public find this man and his views thoroughly discredited.
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Too harsh, you say? Well, chew on this: a first-year pilot on
American Eagle (the commuter arm of
American Airlines) receives around $15,000 a year in annual pay.
That's right -- $15,000 for the person who has your life in his
hands. Until recently, Continental
Express paid a little over $13,000 a year. There was one guy, an
American Eagle pilot, who had four
kids so he went down to the welfare office and applied for food
stamps -- and he was eligible!
Someone on welfare is flying my plane? Is this for real? Yes, it is.
So spare me the talk about all the precautions the airlines and the
FAA is taking. They, like all
businesses, are concerned about one thing -- the bottom line and the
profit margin.
Four teams of 3-5 people were all able to penetrate airport security
on the same morning at 3 different
airports and pull off this heinous act? My only response is -- that's all?
Well, the pundits are in full diarrhea mode, gushing on about the
"terrorist threat" and today's
scariest dude on planet earth -- Osama bin Laden. Hey, who knows,
maybe he did it. But, something just
doesn't add up.
Am I being asked to believe that this guy who sleeps in a tent in a
desert has been training pilots to
fly our most modern, sophisticated jumbo jets with such pinpoint
accuracy that they are able to hit
these three targets without anyone wondering why these planes were so
far off path?
Or am I being asked to believe that there were four
religious/political fanatics who JUST HAPPENED to
be skilled airline pilots who JUST HAPPENED to want to kill themselves
today?
Maybe you can find one jumbo jet pilot willing to die for the cause
-- but FOUR? Ok, maybe you can -- I
don't know.
What I do know is that all day long I have heard everything about
this bin Laden guy except this one
fact -- WE created the monster known as Osama bin Laden!
Where did he go to terrorist school? At the CIA!
Don't take my word for it -- I saw a piece on MSNBC last year that
laid it all out. When the Soviet
Union occupied Afghanistan, the CIA trained him and his buddies in
how to commits acts of terrorism
against the Soviet forces. It worked! The Soviets turned and ran. Bin
Laden was grateful for what we
taught him and thought it might be fun to use those same techniques against
us.
We abhor terrorism -- unless we're the ones doing the terrorizing.
We paid and trained and armed a group of terrorists in Nicaragua in
the 1980s who killed over 30,000
civilians. That was OUR work. You and me. Thirty thousand murdered
civilians and who the hell even
remembers!
We fund a lot of oppressive regimes that have killed a lot of
innocent people, and we never let the
human suffering THAT causes to interrupt our day one single bit.
We have orphaned so many children, tens of thousands around the
world, with our taxpayer-funded
terrorism (in Chile, in Vietnam, in Gaza, in Salvador) that I suppose
we shouldn't be too surprised
when those orphans grow up and are a little whacked in the head from
the horror we have helped cause.
Yet, our recent domestic terrorism bombings have not been conducted
by a guy from the desert but rather
by our own citizens: a couple of ex-military guys who hated the
federal government.
From the first minutes of today's events, I never heard that
possibility suggested. Why is that?
Maybe it's because the A-rabs are much better foils. A key ingredient
in getting Americans whipped into
a frenzy against a new enemy is the all-important race card. It's
much easier to get us to hate when
the object of our hatred doesn't look like us.
Congressmen and Senators spent the day calling for more money for the
military; one Senator on CNN even
said he didn't want to hear any more talk about more money for
education or health care -- we should
have only one priority: our self-defense.
Will we ever get to the point that we realize we will be more secure
when the rest of the world isn't
living in poverty so we can have nice running shoes?
In just 8 months, Bush gets the whole world back to hating us again.
He withdraws from the Kyoto
agreement, walks us out of the Durban conference on racism, insists
on restarting the arms race -- you
name it, and Baby Bush has blown it all.
The Senators and Congressmen tonight broke out in a spontaneous
version of "God Bless America." They're
not a bad group of singers!
Yes, God, please do bless us.
Many families have been devastated tonight. This just is not right.
They did not deserve to die. If
someone did this to get back at Bush, then they did so by killing
thousands of people who DID NOT VOTE
for him! Boston, New York, DC, and the planes' destination of
California -- these were places that
voted AGAINST Bush!
Why kill them? Why kill anyone? Such insanity.
Let's mourn, let's grieve, and when it's appropriate let's examine
our contribution to the unsafe world
we live in.
It doesn't have to be like this.
Yours,
Michael Moore
mmflint@aol.com
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