Yesterday I watched "Fahrenheit 9/11" again

MissHoneychurch

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Wed Sep-10-08 02:03 AM
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Yesterday I watched "Fahrenheit 9/11" again

and it made me as upset and angry as every time :argh:

Why did nobody stop that moron? Why????? How was he able to steal that election????

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npk

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Wed Sep-10-08 02:08 AM
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1. Well his brother Jeb and Kathleen Harris had a lot to do with it

Had we counted all the votes in the Florida we would have stopped Bush.

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MissHoneychurch

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Wed Sep-10-08 02:11 AM
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2. I know

And what I totally forgot was that Faux News reported it first and that the guy responsible for that was his cousin. And for some reason all other media channels repeated it.

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WCGreen

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Wed Sep-10-08 02:48 AM
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8. Lieberman was really the culprit...

Showing the Thugs that they could get away with it...

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MissHoneychurch

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Wed Sep-10-08 03:30 AM
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10. How that???

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magellan

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Wed Sep-10-08 02:13 AM
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3. SCOTUS put a stop to the FL recount

...when they should have sent the question back to the FL Supreme Court, which had already said the recount should continue. But the Repubs weren't going to stop until they got the answer they wanted and the SCOTUS gave it to them.

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kimmylavin

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Wed Sep-10-08 02:14 AM
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4. Yesterday I watched "Recount" for the first time.

Should check it out.
Even though its fictionalized, it gives a really good fact-based picture of just what happened in 2000.

(Plus the acting is phenomenal...)

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npk

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Wed Sep-10-08 02:16 AM
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5. Yes I also recommend "Recount"

Very good depiction of how things got so screwed up in Florida.

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Selatius

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Wed Sep-10-08 02:20 AM
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6. If we had a big-ass fight over the 2000 election, it would shatter the illusion of democracy.

In the United States, it is taken as sacrosanct that only dictatorships and rigged elections occur in other countries. If it occurred inside the United States, it would automatically discredit the enduring myth of American exceptionalism, and a lot of people are going to wake up very unhappy.

The worst nightmare people in power want is to have their subjects angry enough that they could lose control over the "peasants."

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MissHoneychurch

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Wed Sep-10-08 03:32 AM
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12. But don't you think democracy would have won?

By showing that really the people decided and not a handful for crocks?

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Selatius

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Wed Sep-10-08 10:55 AM
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17. I don't know. If people are apathetic enough and socially atomized enough, it can fail.

By "atomized," I mean people no longer possess shared values or a collective identity but rather see themselves as separate from other people and the problems they may have. In short, they see it as someone else's problem until it happens to them. Then they want help, but it's too late by then.

In such an environment, a dictatorship can arise, and people will say, "Well, I'm not politically involved anyway, so I have nothing to fear from the government." At the same time, someone is being sent to jail for challenging authority, but the rest don't care because it's not happening to them.

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samuraiguppy

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Wed Sep-10-08 02:42 AM
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7. Michael Moore is

the bravest man in America.

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MissHoneychurch

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Wed Sep-10-08 03:33 AM
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13. He really is

his movies may have flaws but he surely wakes up people.

I haven't seen his healthcare movie yet but I want to see it. I need to check out if it is avaiable on DVD in Germany already.

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WCGreen

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Wed Sep-10-08 02:51 AM
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9. If you really want a jolt to your psyche,

watch Handmaid's Tale...

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MissHoneychurch

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Wed Sep-10-08 03:31 AM
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11. What is it about?

I never heard of it.

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athiest4ev

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Wed Sep-10-08 03:43 AM
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14. Whenever I watch that movie I get pissed off...

Pissed off because of all the Repugnantcans who don't give a shit about America's future...

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WCGreen

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Wed Sep-10-08 10:03 AM
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15. A country where the Chirstians completely take over...

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orleans

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Wed Sep-10-08 10:07 AM
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16. i know. that movie gets me every time i watch it too.

and every time i see certain scenes in it i cry (like maxine waters--that always kills me)

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