July 4, 2011

There is no nation on this planet guilty of practices of more shocking and bloody that of the United States . . . For revolting vulgarity and shameless hypocrisy America reins without rival. - Frederick Douglas

Every year I write a piece on the hypocrisy of celebrating the 4th of July . . . Not this year. We are having a Michael Moore moviethon, watching (and reviewing here) everything that he has released. ENJOY

Roger & Me: How one company, General Motors, devastated a whole community, Flint,MI, by laying off thousands of auto workers so that the company could make a LARGER profit. The jobs going to cheaper labor in Mexico, leaving the city to literally crumble. GM does this while experiencing record profits. Companies (and their owners/boards) Get Richer While The Average Person Suffers: another definition for capitalism.





Canadian Bacon: Well, it was ok, but not as interesting as what I have come to expect from Michael Moore. If your short on time skip this one.







The Big One: An effective look at how big (greedy) business is crushing the little man (people) while on their quest to increase the gap between the rich and poor by squeezing out the working class.


Bowling For Columbine: Even the ease of getting guns, the violent national history, violent entertainment and poverty are don't explain our country's violence when other cultures share these same factors (some to worse degrees) without the equivalent carnage. The culture of fear, bigotry and violence in our country along with corporate interest, i.e. unscrupulous gain, however, goes along way to explaining this phenomena.


Fahrenheit 9/11: I won't even attempt a synopsis, if you haven't seen this one you must be living under a rock or just have chosen to stay uninformed.







Sicko: What Can I say . . . YOU NEED TO SEE THIS MOVIE; it compares the for-profit, non-universal U.S. system (greed, pure greed) with the non-profit universal health care systems (interested in keeping people healthy) of Canada, the United Kingdom, France and Cuba.


Slacker Uprising: Michael Moore tours college campuses in swing states during the 2004 election to encourage them to get out & vote. My 17 yr old son actually watched this one w/us. He just can't understand why/how Bush got a 2nd term, he is not alone.

It reeks of hypocrisy that we as a nation would celebrate stealing land from the Native Americans and Mexicans. It reeks of hypocrisy that we celebrate a period when Africans were treated as property and no apology and/or reparation has been made to these groups as a whole. How hypocritical it is to celebrate land, property & wealth that rightfully belongs to others.