Fahrenheit 911 - Moore heat By Martin J Deane

I announced this film to cheers at The Welly when Sam Ahmed and his band invited us to speak, on 4th July, Independence FROM America Day. Michael Bush-whacker Moore takes us on a roller-coaster ride through the Republicans stealing the 2000 election - with shameful scenes of one black Representative after another decrying the election, only to be put down when asked if a Senator supported their cause. Not ONE Senator supported. Democracy.

On 9-11, with the country under attack, the President continues to read "My Pet Goat", his inaction beggars belief. Contrast this with the easy animation he displays describing his dog snuffling out an "armadiller". The culpable neglect of the Bush people ignoring the warnings of an imminent Al Qa'ida attack on US soil is shown. The Twin Towers are presented in darkness but the sound is real - unlike Bush using actors for firemen in his current election campaign.

Moore explains how the Bush family is in cahoots with the Saudi oil elite, bin Ladens included, the Carlyle Corporation, and arms maker United Defense. This is why the money was not followed, why investigations were blocked, why war is good for business. Moore shows the documents of a younger Bush, how Bush went AWOL from the national guard, and who with. He shows the logged flights taking 24 of the bin Laden family home from America on Sept 13th 2001 - the only planes flying.

Footage of troops getting injured in Iraq accompanies more of an ordinary Iraqi grandma grieving for her dead. A Michigan mother is doubled over in grief outside the Whitehouse, having just had to argue her son's death with a passer-by who called her grief "staged". Tony Blair has a bit part, don't blink. Moore chooses not to underline Blair's involvement. Moore chooses not to slam him for joining in Bush's long-existing war plan. That's our job.

See F-9/11 at UGC Kingswood! And phone the Odeon to ask why they won't show it, 586421. "Now watch that golf swing!" Martin J Deane Ps Michael Moore has started a diary at - www.michaelmoore.com/words/diary Farenheit 9/11 is going to be shown on Hull Screen as well from Thursday 30 September to Saturday 2 October. i would like to encourage everybody who has not seen it yet to do so at Hull Screen as, being the only truly independent cinema in Hull, it needs support as its future is under review. And also from MM's website - www.michaelmoore.com "A couple of weeks ago, out here on Broadway, a guy comes up to me and says, 'I'm a Navy surgeon. And I was on a ship off Iraq the night you made your speech at the Oscars and I was very angry at you. I remember yelling with the others at the screen. Now I just want to apologize. You were right. You were telling the truth.' And I said, 'Listen, you don't owe me any apology. Apologize for what? That you believed your Commander-in-Chief? That you believed the President of the United States? Why should you feel bad? You should believe the President, because if we can't believe our President we're in deep trouble. You don't have to apologize for anything.'" --Michael Moore

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