Why I like Michael Moore

Like the Mahatma Gandhi, I believe that Truth is God. We should never play with it or deform it. Most politicians are expert liars and they will lie to achieve their goals. In Farenheit 9/11 Michael Moore esposes George W. Bush's lies behind the 9/11 attacks and the war in Iraq. He unveils how George W. Bush's relations with the Ben Laden family and how he and his father amassed a fortune not only from the Saudis through business relationships over several decades but also from the 9/11 attacks through their shares in certain companies.

One of the scenes I really liked in the film: When George W. Bush was informed of the first plane hitting the World Trade Center on his way to an elementary school. Bush is then shown sitting in a Florida classroom with kids. When told that a second plane has hit the World Trade Center and that the nation is "under attack" Bush continues reading The Pet Goat to the kids, and Moore notes that he continued reading for nearly seven minutes. Quoted from Wikipedia.

Farenheit 9/11 was awarded the Palme d'Or at the 57th Cannes Film Festival.

I am for a world of peace. I am a fervent proponent of nonviolence. I do not think that violence of any sort can help resolve conflicts. I am against the free use of guns.

In Bowling for Columbine Michael Moore looks into the nature of violence in the USA and shows that guns as they are used there are as destructive as missiles. They are weapons of mass destruction.

In the segment It's a Wonderful World he also unveils the true nature of the USA's foreign policy and how it has many times been an aggressor nation.

Bowling for columbine received an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, the Independent Spirit Award for Best Documentary Feature, a special 55th Anniversary Prize at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival and the César Award for Best Foreign Film.

1. 1953: U.S. overthrows Prime Minister Mohammed Mosaddeq of Iran. U.S. installs Shah as dictator.
2. 1954: U.S. overthrows democratically-elected President Arbenz of Guatemala. 200,000 civilians killed.
3. 1963: U.S. backs assassination of South Vietnamese President Diem.
4. 1963-1975: American military kills 4 million people in Southeast Asia.
5. September 11, 1973: U.S. stages coup in Chile. Democratically-elected President Salvador Allende assassinated. Dictator Augusto Pinochet installed. 5,000 Chileans murdered.
6. 1977: U.S. backs military rulers of El Salvador. 70,000 Salvadorans and four American nuns killed.
7. 1980s: U.S. trains Osama bin Laden and fellow terrorists to kill Soviets. CIA gives them $3 billion.
8. 1981: Reagan administration trains and funds the Contras. 30,000 Nicaraguans die.
9. 1982: U.S. provides billions of dollars in aid to Saddam Hussein for weapons to kill Iranians.
10. 1983: The White House secretly gives Iran weapons to kill Iraqis.
11. 1989: CIA agent Manuel Noriega (also serving as President of Panama) disobeys orders from Washington. U.S. invades Panama and removes Noriega. 3,000 Panamanian civilian casualties.
12. 1990: Iraq invades Kuwait with weapons from U.S.
13. 1991: U.S. enters Iraq. Bush reinstates dictator of Kuwait.
14. 1998: Clinton bombs possible weapons factory in Sudan. Factory turns out to be making aspirin.
15. 1991 to present: American planes bomb Iraq on a weekly basis. U.N. estimates 500,000 Iraqi children die from bombing and sanctions.
16. 2000-2001: U.S. gives Taliban-ruled Afghanistan $245 million in aid.
17. Sept. 11, 2001: Osama bin Laden uses his expert CIA training to murder 3,000 people.

I dream of a new world without greed where every soul will have his place.

While centering on the financial crisis of 2007-2010 in Capitalism: A Love Story, Michael Moore shows how even during economic crisis the maximization of profits is a haven for a few, how it makes millions suffer, how the rich benefit from the crisis and how the poor get poorer.

Of course, for the time being we have no real alternative to capitalism. Muhammad Yunus has proposed social capitalism. Is it the system we need, or do we have to propose a new system which is not based on economics only but which also integrates love, respect and justicel?

In Roger and Me Michael Moore shows how maximization of profits can destroy a whole region and its people,

Michael Moore near the end of the movie: "As we neared the end of the 20th century", as the rich got richer and the poor got poorer, it was truly the dawn of a new era."

I have nothing to add to Michael Moore's healthcare proposals, except that they should be extended to all countries.

His movie Sicko which was nominated for an Academy Award for Documentary Feature is a powerful investigation into the for-profit healthcare system of the USA. He also compares them with non-profit systems such as the French, British and Cuban.

Sicko was nominated for an Academy Award for Documentary Feature.

This lens was blessed by Squid Angel Pukeko on 05/07/2011. Thank you very much, Pukeko.