Flag Held Hostage… Circa 2003 | Philip A. Farruggio

Philip A. Farrugio -- World News Trust

June 20, 2014

(Written in 2003)

After viewing President Bush's recent speech to the ultra conservative American Enterprise Institute, one realizes that life can imitate film.

In Barry Levinson’s 1997 satire Wag the Dog, we laugh at how the "powers that be" can manufacture a crisis to mask domestic problems… carrying a nation right into a war.

In Norman Jewson’s chilling 1975 film Rollerball, we view a corporate-controlled state destroying the individual, and what once was history, to suit their agenda.

Finally, in Harold Becker’s 1996 film City Hall, the mayor of NYC, played by Al Pacino, gives the most rousing speech this writer has ever heard. Pacino’s Mayor Pappas, attending the church service for a young black boy killed innocently during a "cop and robbers" shootout, bellows to the congregation, “This city should be a Palace where a society melds together in safety and harmony.”

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