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Anti-Bush movie "Fahrenheit 9/11" Wins Top Prize at Cannes

by Open-Publishing - Sunday 23 May 2004
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Michael Moore on Saturday won the Cannes Film Festival’s top prize for his
controversial documentary "Fahrenheit 9/11".

It was the first documentary to win the Palme d’Or since Jacques Cousteau’s
1956 film "The Silent World".

"Fahrenheit 9/11" is a scathing commentary on White House actions before and
after the September 11 attacks.

Michael Moore’s film satirically skewers George W. Bush for stealing the 2000
presidential election and then being on perpetual sporting holidays while ignoring
warnings about extremist threats before the September 11 attacks.

It shows him reading on out of a storybook to school children for a good ten
minutes after being informed of the attacks.

The documentary also alleges long-standing commercial connections between the
Bush and bin Laden families. Osama bin Laden, a scion of the billionaire Saudi
bin Laden family allegedly was behind the September 11 attacks.

Moore’s documentary relates how following the attacks, members of the bin Laden
family were quietly provided with a jet and allowed to leave the U.S, without
even being questioned.

And it alleges that Bush stoked fears of further extremist attacks as a pretext
for invading Iraq.

"I have a sneaking suspicion, thanks to what you have done here and the response
of everyone at this festival, you will ensure that the American people will see
this movie," Moore said. Later he joked, "I’m happy to announce now we have a
distributor in Albania. Which means every country but one can see it."

"I want to make sure if I do nothing else for this year that those who have died
in Iraq have not died in vain."

"I have this great hope that things are going to change," said Moore on Saturday
after tearing into Bush with his emotion-charged documentary in the run-up to
November’s presidential election.

22.05.2004
Collective Bellaciao

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  • Open letter to Michael Moore : Mumia invites you to visit him on death raw

    Michael Moore,

    We’ve met yesterday after your speech to Canne’s demonstrators.

    We first asked you to join the anti-war demonstrations on June the 05th in Paris for the G.W.Bush coming. You refused, telling us that you couldn’t allow yourself to stay in France, that you had to come back to the USA in order to defend your fellow-citizens.

    As a consequence, we asked you to take a radical and compassionate position regarding one of your fellow citizens : Mumia Abu-Jamal, who has been on the SCI Greene death raw for 22 years, for a murder he didnt commit. After all, specialist torturer Granier performed on death raw at SCI Greene where Mumia Abu-Jamal awaits death- before being sent to Iraq. Mumia’s FBI files show that Mumia is the target of a political, racist plot of the US Government, since he was a teenager. Mumia, as a talented radio journalist, always refused censorship and wrote papers and defended minorities. Now, he’s expecting another Execution Order and has never stopped writing courageously from his jail. He has become a symbol of Resistance and Humanity towards his fellow prisoners and he is known as such throughout the international protest scene. During 22 years, his innocence has been proved by 286 elements and even by the declaration of the real murderer.

    In spite of that, you have written twice in your last book "Dude, where’s my country" that Mumia probably killed this guy". When we asked you how you could write such a thing, you replied to us that you were speaking "humorously. Since when is the death penalty to be treated with humour ? Even graveyard humour ?

    Because we don’t joke with a man’s life, we are asking you to take a public statement that you changed your mind :

    Will you have the courage and the honesty to apologize to Mumia inside death raw, face to face with Mumia ?

    You are invited.

    If you accept this invitation, please contact 2 or 3 month before Julia WRIGHT (011331)01.45.79.88.44, in France on the morning or on the evening, our time ;

    If you refuse this invitation, we will recontact you.

    • Julia. Give up. Michael has no courage.
      He does not care about you or anyone else.
      We in America think he is a fat, overweight slob.
      He will do your cause no good.
      If I looked like him I would be ashamed to go out side showing the whole world
      that I had no self discipline.
      Eat, eat, eat, and bad mouth your country.
      We real Americans do not want him......You keep him.
      France? Hmm, perfect place for a coward.

  • Michael Moore should stay in France with his palme award.
    We do not want him here anymore.
    I wonder why he hates America.
    Perhaps it is somethng nasty his mother did to him when he was a child.

    Please, please Michael do us all a favor and stay there with your cowardly French friends.
    Also, go on a diet.
    You are grossly fat and physically weak.

    You Sir, are a disgrace to America. Stay Away.

    • if being fat is a disgrace to America, why are there so many fat people in your country? you should better be ashamed of being an american, with around 50 percents big pig fat people.
      If being fat is a disgrace of america, you’d better question your dirty way of living, your dirty mac donalds which settle in our european countries, and say ’’stay away’’ to a whole part of your population.

      Keep your michael moore and your hamburger for you. You can say everything you want , you cannot denie that they are typically, deeply american.

      We, we keep mumia abu-jamal. Such a better feed for powerful international political identity.

  • Michael Moore got his prize from the anti American clan as the Kieu Samphan who got his first prize in economics for writing an anti-thesis against USA in Cambodia.

    But what for, those who give the prize to Kieu Samphan are French, it’s normal they support Kieu Samphan thesis. Beside, Kieu Samphan like Pol Pot, both are the miserable tools of Viet and French and the communism. Their masters are Viet and French. Those two Khmer rouge leaders were badly manipulated and brainwashed by those Viets and French.

    The thesis of Kieu Samphan had nothing objective nor valid in perspective of development and notion of free market in Cambodia but it let to the destruction and chaos. It’s a pure imagination, illusion. Kieu Samphan, Pol Pot like Mr Michael Moore are being only the tool of ideological war which let to the destruction of human society.

    In Cambodia, Viet use communist as tool to reduce Khmer mass in order to replace by theirs as the Hollywood that become the communist tool. It’s nothing but simple “War, Crime and Manipulation” Don’t you conscious that your unconscious stupid act bleed so much blood, destroy too much life?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    http://www.lesjeuneskhmers.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3209
    http://www.lesjeuneskhmers.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3030
    http://www.amekhmer.org/index_files/1carton1/in_carton01.htm
    http://www.amekhmer.org/khcrucial-event/1cambodia-border.htm
    http://www.amekhmer.org/khcrucial-event/1viet-expansionism.htm
    http://www.amekhmer.org/khcrucial-event/viet-invade-cambo01%20.doc

    Enough crime, stop it