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To: Karen Lawrence who wrote (5443)	11/22/2002 11:27:31 AM
From: Mephisto	Respond to of 15516

Bowling in Columbine People stand in line all across the country and in England and other places to see it. The film was produced by Michael Moore, the guy who wrote Stupid White Men . The book is tragic and hilarious. I got a copy last night. On the jacket cover:: "Alternately snarly, outraged and very funny"--Los Angeles Times. "A sensational Book...If the State of the Union Grows any more Dismal, Moore may just become the funniest man in America." ---San Francisco Chronicle. The book was on the best seller list for at least 34 weeks. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Karen, Forget about your boyfriend. Leave him at home. He manipulates you when he tells you what you can and cannot do. Maybe you should dump him. Do you want a bully for a boyfriend? If he is a bully now, think what he might do to you if you marry him! And, he doesn't have the right to tell you which films you may or may not see. We don't live in Saudi Arabia. We can make choices for a little while longer, but with Bush in the White House, we'll discover that the rights we have taken for granted can disappear quite quickly. SO go and see the film. You'll find, the book, Stupid White Men in a major bookstore, open the the first few pages you'll find a quote by George W. Bush on how surprised he was to find himself President. He was talking to the PM of SWEDEN. BUSH DIDN't KNOW THE CAMERAS WERE ROLLING! Chapter 1, p 3 tells you how Kathleen Harris and Jeb Bush paid four million dollars to Data Base Technology to purge felons from the the voter list in 2000 election in Florida. They knew most felons were BLACK and might vote for Gore! The author claims people who were not felons were purged. He goes into detail about it, and mentions names. Here on SI we heard about Data Base Technology after the election. It is or was a TEXAS FIRM. It has supported the Republican party. The last I read the company gave $150,000 to the 2000 Bush campaign. And, here on SI, we heard about the problems with the election and how people in Floria were purged from the voter rolls. MRS. JEB BUSH And, on page 3 of hardcover edition, Mr. Moore mentions how Mrs. Jeb Bush smuggled $19,000 worth of jewellry into the US. She was caught by US customs. I thought Mrs. Jeb Bush smuggled clothes into the country. Mr. Moore says it was jewellry. I'm not sure it matters what she brought into the country at this time. Mrs. Jeb Bush got away with it. If she had been charged, she would have been charged with a felony, but she wasn't charged. The Hollywood movie star W. Ryder was charged for shoplifting though and convicted of felony. Ryder was conviced Mrs.Jeb Bush was never charged! How interesting READ THE BOOK! IT IS FUNNY but it is TRAGIC and what is even more TRAGIC IS HOW many US publishers and journalists ignored the book even though it was on the best seller list. In part, the book tells you how Bush, the REPUBLICANS AND THE US PRESS COVERED UP THE 2000 election fiasco, and how the BBC initially published problems about the US election, and then the author claims, the US press had to follow up. I've read only a few pages! But I am not surprised that people are standing in line all over the country to see the film and to hear an interview about the book from the author Michael Moore. Why read the book now? You have hindsight behind you. You can look back and see more clearly how Bush got elected. I've only read the first chapter though!! (LOL) The gun issue with your boyfriend The interview is not so much about guns as objects but about the fear that guns have created After all, there are many responsible people who know how to use a gun safely. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> In The Guardian , the interviewer Andrew Collins says: " AC: Well, the film identifies the problem and you imagine going in that the problem is guns, but halfway through the film it's not the guns but the climate of fear that causes the problem. It's the fear that's sent down from above. MM: One of the points of the film is that we are a nation of very frightened people. Often that is the MO of most bullies - bullies are actually very insecure and very scared. And we are constantly rattling the sabres because we're so afraid that something is out there. The wolf is out there. That's not just globally; it's personally, it's locally. And as often times is the case in our country, the wolf at the door is a black man. And the film explores how race is used to manipulate white people's fears. Most of the guns purchased in America - 90-95% of the guns - are purchased by white people in the suburbs and the safe parts of town where there is very little crime. And guns in the inner cities are usually guns that have been stolen from the white communities and end up in the inner cities. And in the film, you see a white kid who breaks into people's homes in the white areas, steals the guns and takes them to downtown Detroit and sells them for one-tenth the price. I guess I want the American audiences who see this film to examine why we are living in this constant culture of fear and what we can do to break the grip of that. As human beings, we're supposed to have fear; you do need to know when to be afraid so you can preserve your life. But when you're told to be afraid of everything, that there's always a new bogeyman - every two months, there's a new axe to add to the axis of evil - you lose your compass and you forget what you're supposed to be afraid of. And before you know it you're afraid of everything, and everybody is an enemy, and everybody's out to get you. You're not thinking straight. It's a big part of what I try to address in the film." Excerpt from Guardian. Read interviews: The Guardian, Two Parts film.guardian.co.uk. film.guardian.co.uk. Moore interviewed Charlton Heston, who heads up the NRA. You should read that part of the interview in The Guardian. Heston campaigned for Bush and the Republicans in this last midterm election.