Friday, February 29, 2008

FREEDOM IS A WORSHIP WORD

This is scary:

Evangelist takes credit for film crackdown
Christian crusader says he pressured cabinet ministers and PMO officials to deny tax credits to productions deemed too offensive

BILL CURRY AND GAYLE MACDONALD
From Friday's Globe and Mail
February 29, 2008


OTTAWA, TORONTO — A well-known evangelical crusader is claiming credit for the federal government's move to deny tax credits to TV and film productions that contain graphic sex and violence or other offensive content...
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080229.wculture29/BNStory/National/home

What is pathetic, is we get told the same line over and over that our troops are in Afghanistan, and Iraq, to help protect our freedoms and democracy...

... sorry, I was on the ground laughing uncontrollably after keying in that last sentence.

Of course, our troops are really there to protect our 'interests' in the region; namely oil. The official line we get over and over again is all a big lie. I am not the first to say it and I will not be the last.

Western, or "free world" (... I'm laughing again!), military forces are there, and here, to make money for a lot of rich white men.

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