Posted by
Cydoc on Tuesday, September 12, 2006 9:19:44 AM
Posted by: Ben Uhl
The following is an email my best-friend and the "buck" half of CyBuck Blog, CPT Scott Smitson. It is a good read.
Dear editorial staff of “The Daily Cougar-Online”,
I can not state how misguided and inappropriate showing Michael Moore’s propaganda manifesto “Fahrenheit 911” is as a way to “pay tribute” to those that died on that awful day 5 years ago. Miss Pham states that she is not attempting to be “political or anti-Bush” by showing the film, but anyone that has seen the film knows it to be both. If she wanted to show a film that was apolitical about that day, Paul Greengrass’ “United 93” or Oliver Stone’s “World Trade Center” would have been much more appropriate. What about a town hall discussion of the bipartisan 9/11 Commission findings? A multi-faith memorial service for all those, of all faiths, that perished that day? Or to be completely fair and balanced if you take Moore as “fact”, how about showing the video of Wall Street reporter Daniel Pearl or US contractor Daniel Berg being beheaded by Al Qaeda, you know, Moore’s propaganda compared against theirs? If the organizers of this event wanted to simply “remember 9/11” in an apolitical manner, there were several different courses of action that could have been explored, but tragically were not. Using an opinionated, non-scholarly, “think piece” from one of the most one-sided “entertainers” around today does not “pay tribute” to those that died; it tarnishes their memories by defining 9/11 as a catastrophe orchestrated in part by the commanding heights of political power, rather than the actions of a cold and calculating organization committed to the type of death and mayhem unleashed on the thousands of innocent men, women, and children in the skies and on the ground of New York, Pennsylvania, and Washington DC on that clear Tuesday morning 5 years ago.
Sincerely,
CPT Smitson