Good evening again, Robert!
Robert Goodman wrote to Frank Reichert...
As I wrote previously:
> >I'm not particularly a great fan of Michael Moore, as such.
Of which, you replied:
> I don't like his politics, but I find him very funny. I bought a DVD of
> "Fahrenheit 9/11" but haven't gotten around to playing it yet, except to
> test it.
Maybe I just have this evil fetish for somehow 'liking [or respecting]
people' who have this way of challenging the Establishment order, and
I suppose Michael Moore has a tendency to do that quite well. Maybe
this is a sordid holdover from the 1960s, don't know exactly.
Perhaps this may even explain my rather cool support last night for
the movie review I published for Alex Jones' Documentary challenging
the Establishment line for 911 and its aftermath. If you thought Tim
Bedding's remarks to me earlier today were hyper critical for my
support, you should have read some of the private email I received
after posting the review to alt.politics.libertarian and other
newsgroups! I got my seat warmed good on a few of those.
As I pointed out to Tim earlier, I didn't produce the Documentary...
it isn't mine! Nevertheless, as I've experienced for a great many
years, it is the 'messenger that catches the heat' for whatever reason
only psychologists know.
> It'd be fun to have him "send up" libertarians some time.
Yea. Actually, Michael may someday, when seasoned enough in this
industry, find a way to finally walk out of the closet as a
'Libertarian'. Hey, ya just never know, really! John Stossel, who
during the 1960s and shortly beyond, was an idealist bent towards
socialism. He was critical then, as many of us were certainly, over
the Establishment's designs. In due course, John put it together and
matured to a point that government hardly ever gets anything right.
As I wrote last time:
> >However, his greatest enemies at present appear at least to be
> >the neo-fascist (or, should I just be politically correct and
> >politely call 'em "neo-conservatives"?). Don't know if Michael
> >Moore wants to bring an end to the encroaching police state that
> >is evolving around us, but if he is, then perhaps BBC and Michael
> >Moore might possibly at least be allies of Libertarians, no?
To which, you responded:
> >From what I hear, Moore winds up selling out all his movement allies.
Perhaps.
Again, many might have said the very same thing about John Stossel
only a few decades back! Michael Moore is certainly a Maverick, no
doubt about it. He has however, been around long enough to know
something about survival in an industry that takes no prisoners.
Several personalities have changed a lot over the last several
decades. Jane Fonda, and Donald Trump come to immediate mind here.
Ted Turner probably NEVER will, or so it seems. Even John Kerry,
although a part of an equally prostitute industry, seems to have found
a way to skirt his distant past while maintaining a liberal persona.
I've got another [brief] Media Review, but it's a local one. John F.
McManus, President of the John Birch Society showed up on the lecture
circuit in Spokane, Washington in 1994. I attended that function, and
I also retrieved the old video (VHS) recording of his speech from my
archives. I carefully resurrected that again earlier this afternoon
and watched it. Simply because it was a local or regional event, I
have a hard time writing a critical review of the speech for a
national audience, as I suggest Liberty Northwest has become over the
years.
Nevertheless, while I was watching this two-hour presentation, I
recalled that this was all several years BEFORE 9/11! It was even
prior to the Oklahoma Federal Building bombing which occurred a year
later.
Even so, I could find absolutely NOTHING in John McManus's speech that
could probably be altered today, or changed, in the post 9/11 climate
we find ourselves living in today. If anything at all, it was
probably a giant warning that worse things are yet to come upon
America -- but he ended the speech with five, very positive, things
that we can all do to change things for the better. Things that are
simple, positive, and are doable! That is, if enough good people are
even willing to roll up their sleeves and get the job done, the
erosion of liberty can be reversed!
Well, of course, John McManus travels the entire country on lecture
circuits. So perhaps the possibility for liberty in America might
still be alive and well over a decade later than when he wandered into
Spokane, Washington, during a long winter's night with snow and storm
warning in effect in 1994. I remember the later part of that now
after watching the video again tonight. As I remember that now, just
getting home, 115 miles later, was a real bear to deal with.
The real 'bear' we are dealing with tonight however, a decade later,
remains exactly the same. The same entrenched Establishment that has a
persistent way of always seemingly calling the shots, and always in a
rather consistent pattern for it's own gain and design is still
running the show today, whether in Iraq, Afghanistan, or in New York
or Washington. You can add your own other places too, because
collectively speaking, we're all at their disposal so to speak.
Maybe Michael Moore isn't honestly such a terrible critic in at least
some of this. You're right of course, but I hope he finds a way to
eventually examine his political horizons and mature over time, and in
due course. Carroll Quigley, author of the tome and history of our
time, "Tragedy and Hope..." finally did.
Kindest regards,
Frank
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