I received an email from a good friend today. It was related to something I had already read about in the news and had received other spam mail about from various anonymous sources. Because this email came from a friend, I felt compelled to reply. The subject of all this activity is an ABC miniseries "docudrama" titled "The Path To 9/11" and is scheduled for release on the anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. My good friend and I don't necessarily see things eye-to-eye politically, but I'm fairly certain we want pretty much the same general things for our lives and for our country. Things like respect, honesty, true freedom, acceptance, equality, to name a few. We simply have different ideas about how to get those things. I'm going to include his email and my response below, and then get on with my busy day.
ORIGINAL MESSAGE
Subject: A Despicable, Irresponsible Fraud
Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2006 12:34:08 -0700 (PDT)
Isn't it interesting in the immediate days right before a major national election, the party that has always been about lies, misdeeds, and unscrupulous behavior is out ot do it again!
What's most shameful is that this so called 'docudrama' is about 9/11, on the very ANNIVERSARY of 9/11! Has the Republican Party no shame? Not that everyone in the party is this way, just the one in control.
RESPONSE
Have you seen this docudrama? I'm guessing not since it isn't released yet. What do YOU know about it that you weren't told by someone else? Probably someone you haven't even met! Why would I lend my support to keeping something off of television that I haven't even seen? And why would you? The subject line of this email states "A Despicable, Irresponsible Fraud". How can you possibly know that without having seen it? Whatever happened to letting people make up their own minds about the information they receive (and letting them receive it FIRST)?
What are the Democrats so afraid of with this film? This all kind of reminds me of the church's reaction to Mel Gibson's film "The Passion of the Christ" or "The Da Vinci Code".
I think, as a whole, the Democrats and Republicans, just like organized religion, engage in the exact same kinds of puerile and underhanded tactics - such as censorship of any information that disagrees with their views (whether factual or not). Other than this little commentary in response to the email, I'm not getting caught up in this latest brouhaha over yet another version of someone's drama. Hell - they even call it a docuDRAMA - indicating that events have been dramatized/fictionalized - so why is everyone so surprised? The Da Vinci Code was written as FICTION and still the Pope and his lemmings all got their panties wadded and wedgied!
The real shame is that the general public will never know who's telling the truth anyway - the one who says it happened this way - or the one who says it didn't. Unless there is documented proof (video, transcripts, etc.) that can be verified - it is ALL hearsay.
In the end we are left to judge a man's (or woman's) word by what we see in their character, and there's a huge shortage of good character out there in both camps, Republican and Democrat. Don't even get me started on the churches!
God bless America, and each of the legal, decent citizens who call it their home.
WOOF ya later!
- bbw
Thursday, September 07, 2006
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