Alright, even though I’m not American, I’m going to talk about this anyways.
We all know Michael Moore, the popular liberal documentary filmmaker, that continually bashes the Bush administration on it’s policies concerning social problems, and foreign policy, which are highlighted in his highly popular “Bowling for Columbine” and “Fahrenheit 9/11″.
Now these two documentaries were highly informative, as it critiques the major problems concerning America today, and what needs to be done before *Expletive Deleted* hits the fan. Yes a lot of it is very eye-opening, but I do my best not to eat everything up that he throws at us, because it is obviously biased and should be taken with a grain of salt. Conservatives in America really don’t like this guy, and they sit there picking apart every little detail about his documentary’s and his image, in order to discredit the information that he is trying to get out to the people. Now I don’t know how making fun of Moore’s wider waistline has to do anything about his argument, but there are people out there that actually want to charge him for Treason. (This is where you say, WTF?)
Ok, this isn’t in support of Michael Moore, actually, I could care less about his documentaries, even though they raise interesting issues that maybe people who are a little more open to ideas “outside of the box” can look at see that something might actually be wrong.
The very idea of trying to charge Michael Moore, many other liberals within America who are American citizens, and speak out against government policy, is absolutely absurd. These people go around trying to convince the average person that his documentaries are destroying America’s stance during war time, and that he is aiding “the enemy” by showing the world bad things about the country. Now these people also go around and say that countries like Iran, North Korea, and China (lots of others) are very bad, because they imprison people for speaking out against the government. OK. Yes I have seen people write on it, and if you take one minute to think about it…Yes, there you go, it makes absolutely no *Expletive Deleted* sense why they say things like that? Seriously now, if you want to spread freedom and let people say whatever they want, then why the hell do you want to put Moore in jail? Don’t try and come up with excuses like “It’s different because we are American’s, and can do whatever we want, because we have the moral authority to save the world.” or something along those lines, because there is no difference between some guy in Iraq speaking out against Saddam Hussein, and a guy in the United States speaking out against Bush, NONE WHAT SO EVER.
So seriously, sometimes it’s really stupid to go to these crazy radical internet sites that want to abolish the UN, and let the United States enforce it’s influence upon the world through the use of force. You know it’s OK to have people speak out against the policies of your government, even if you support those policies, but don’t go around trying to put them in jail for doing it, because if you want, you could go to Iran, or North Korea, and be all patriotic for them, cause their attitude towards those kinds of people fits yours perfectly.
The First Amendment of the United States constitution states:
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
Now there are many people trying to figure out if the freedom of speech part has limits, like in the case of people trying to get Moore in jail for speaking out against the government. They try and say that Moore saying bad things about The USA will only give more reasons for “the enemy” to attack the country. Well let me get this through, if the USA didn’t do bad things in the first place, like going around invading other countries like it “ain’t no thang”. Then there would be no reason for people to hate them. If you are trying to bring up the Constitution again, oh lets say…Article 3 – section 3 – clause 1, and say that he somehow gives them “aid and comfort”, and that’s why he should get charged. Then how desperate are you? Do you really not like him that much? If you can show me hard proof that he hangs out with “the enemy” and helps them directly, then I’ll support you and say that he should damn well be put away But if all you got is what your little group of friends, or small backwoods community thinks about the world, and the only information you get is from one TV station, or even one internet site, and you never been any further then the next town over. Then you should STFU up, and go back to the box in which you think from.
Whatever, this is enough for now.
