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 Thursday October 28 2004

Farenheit 911

Haven’t seen Farenheit 911 yet? Well now you can download it here. I enjoyed this movie and it confirmed a lot of my beliefs, but when you watch it, it is important to take it with a grain of salt. Moore has an agenda and that is very clear. While he doesn’t outright lie in the film he does manipulate things by having events and quotes out of chronological order. All-in-all this is a must see.

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Sean. inscribed these words of wisdom on Thursday Oct 28, 2004 at 03:02 PM
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Thee wrote 208 words  on  Friday Oct 29, 2004  at  03:29 PM United States

As a grown man, I have tears of gratitude in my eyes, as I seriously thank Mark Perkel for making this movie available. Or more precisely, for making a “blip on the public radar screen” to let a much wider audience know that this movie is available to view for free.

There ARE many, many people like myself (for example, all my friends, family and co-workers) that would not have known that Fahrenheit 9/11 was freely available, except for the clamor caused by Mark Perkel’s action.

In my humble opinion, Mark Perkel could NOT have spent his money any better. Even, if he had purchased flu vaccine and made it freely available to those “at risk” groups that will not receive the vaccine this year because of “our” goverment.

I suspect that in this year, Bush’s policies and his war have killed, maimed and caused more grief and agony for American families than the flu will. Multiply that by the duration of his administration and there is no doubt that Bush is a much worse disease on this planet than the flu and has to be stopped!

Perhaps, just perhaps, Fahrenheit 9/11 is the vaccine for Bush. There is no such thing as making a vaccine too available.

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