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  • cheech1981 Sep 27, 2011 @ 12:27 pm | delete
    haven't seen it yet but even if some of moore's movies are "produced" the overall ideas and most of the arguments are worth considering. Take "Sicko" for instance...he's not even taking the side of people who have no insurance, but the millions of middle class people who have insurance but get screwed left and right all the time by it. these days it's hard not to find someone who has been impacted very negatively by our current, broken medical system
  • pramodbisht Jun 21, 2011 @ 2:51 pm | delete
    it seems to be a good movie to learn something, i will definately watch it.
  • Rafick Feb 2, 2011 @ 12:06 am | delete
    I've seen all of Michael Moore's films and I like them very much.
  • CeruttiTesi Nov 13, 2010 @ 4:49 am | delete
    It is a very sad and desperate story in fact...
  • JustOneGuy Nov 13, 2010 @ 4:11 am | delete
    I read the quote of Bastiat and up to the very end I completely agreed with him. I think Liberty is the freedom to act upon one's natural rights in a societal situation. The only function of government should be to protect my ability to exercise my natural rights from others who would hinder me from doing so. My natural rights allow me to survive and that makes the exercise of those rights virtuous acts. Alone in the wilderness I cannot survive unless I perform the acts I am capable of performing: choice, learning, creating and protecting myself. When society takes any of those natural rights away it makes me unable to survive as a man. My promise to others is that I will not prey upon them and that I will react violently if anyone tries to prey upon me.
  • lizziebeth Nov 12, 2010 @ 9:01 pm | delete
    I have really liked all the Michael Moore movies I have seen. I am listening to Michael Moore right now on Larry King. What a great interview! On the bottom rolling news ticker, it said Moore says Dems should run Oprah, Hanks. Great idea!
  • JustOneGuy Sep 13, 2010 @ 6:35 am | delete
    Another very interesting thread. I don't care for Michael Moore personally, but I have to admit he opened my eyes to some insanities in one of his other movies, which I liked. Farenheit 911? He attacks Capitalism and even though I am an avid follower of Ayn Rand, I have to agree with the stupidity of blindly believing that our country even remotely resembles the country of Rand's thought processes. It doesn't. It should, but it doesn't. Like the puppets in the Ayn Rand societies who blindly try to protect corporate america without realizing that the corruption runs from the Federal Reserve to the government to the banks and through the corporations in one giant foul smelling amoeba like organism of evil, the common thread is the disconnect between what is and what one believes. And the commonality of the people in that corrupt organism is that they believe themselves to be rulers and that we are all their serfs who exist to do their bidding.

    Oh sure, there are exceptions to the corruption even in corporate america. But the mistake the defenders of capitalism make, and Michael Moore takes advantage of - good tactics by the way - is that it is completely wrong to project these exceptions as the rule. They aren't. Corporate america has defrauded all of us and their partners in this crime are the legislators that create protections for crimes committed by boards of directors.

    I would like to think that Michael Moore is for individual freedom but the contradiction is that he wants democracy - and that tells me he wants majority rule, not the rule of law or the rule of reason or any structure that demands we stand on our own two feet and see all men at eye level. He wants power over the lives of men.
    I don't want to be a slave to any man or any group of men.
  • LubosLabik Jan 5, 2010 @ 7:01 am | delete
    But communism is not answer. I lived in this system most of my life.
  • BFuniv.com Jan 5, 2010 @ 9:01 am | delete
    Very true, it does not mean however they won't try. Free enterprise is being discredited, but it has been slowly strangled by interventionalism since the Federal Reserve was founded in 1913. The republic that was America was killed before that. After this depression is over, natural enterprise may well take over from the imploded hierarchal forms of the bureaucratic age.

    Happily we are in position to help direct that change.
  • BFuniv.com Sep 12, 2009 @ 10:11 am | in reply to Spook | delete
    Only too right. But tech runs deeper than the internet, and faster than bureaucracies. We live in interesting times. The interplay is fascinating to watch, even if we are only seeing the opening moves.
  • Spook Sep 12, 2009 @ 7:12 am | delete
    Thought provoking as usual Allan. The problem with the information age (technology) is that all a government has to do, is turn it off. It already happens in many parts of the world. Then of course you are back to square one, unless of course you also wrote it down on paper. Bye bye whatever Internet business you have.

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