The purpose of this blog will be to give me an outlet to express my disgust at a certain American citizen and film maker (who I unfortunately share a resemblance to) who was born in Flint, Michigan and currently resides on the island of Manhattan. This man's particular genre of film making is the documentary. Unlike other documentarians like Ken Burns and countless others whose names are known only to a few, this documentarian dabbles in stretching of the truth, ignoring facts, manipulating statistics and flat out lies. Had this man been born in Munich in 1890 or so, he would have rivalled Joseph Goebbels for the position of Nazi Propaganda Minster. His movies are that convincing and that manipulative. The man I speak of is one Michael Moore.
I was just looking through some websites on Michael Moore and was prompted to start this blog by one quote. Former mayor of New York, Ed Koch (a Democrat) was about to appear on a panel show on the BBC with none other than Michael Moore about a year after the attacks on the World Trade Center, Pentagon and perhaps a third target. Moore told the former mayor of the city which lost so much in one terrible day:
“I don’t know why we are making so much of an act of terror. It is three times more likely that you will be struck by lightning than die from an act of terror." (quote taken from http://www.davekopel.com/Terror/Fiftysix-Deceits-in-Fahrenheit-911.htm)
All I can say is WOW! First of all, fighting lightning is a difficult thing to do and the next time there's a T-storm, I'll give it a shot and report on my success. Secondly, lightning does not attack as terrorists do, it is a natural phenomenon that is the result of many forces. Thirdly, lightning does not kill thousands in a single day.
To continue on Moore's comparison between lightning strikes and terrorist attacks, do people not take precautions against lighning? It is indeed a rare occurance that someone is struck by lighning but I know that tall structures have lighning rods, people don't go swimming during thunder storms, EVERYONE knows that a car is the safest place to be in a storm and NO-ONE (except the Bishop from Caddy Shack) goes golfing in a storm. Yet people like Moore criticise the government warning people about possible terror strikes. It makes me wonder if maybe Moore doesn't criticise because he beleives that people are wrong, he criticises because he wants to criticise. That's all for now.
I was just looking through some websites on Michael Moore and was prompted to start this blog by one quote. Former mayor of New York, Ed Koch (a Democrat) was about to appear on a panel show on the BBC with none other than Michael Moore about a year after the attacks on the World Trade Center, Pentagon and perhaps a third target. Moore told the former mayor of the city which lost so much in one terrible day:
“I don’t know why we are making so much of an act of terror. It is three times more likely that you will be struck by lightning than die from an act of terror." (quote taken from http://www.davekopel.com/Terror/Fiftysix-Deceits-in-Fahrenheit-911.htm)
All I can say is WOW! First of all, fighting lightning is a difficult thing to do and the next time there's a T-storm, I'll give it a shot and report on my success. Secondly, lightning does not attack as terrorists do, it is a natural phenomenon that is the result of many forces. Thirdly, lightning does not kill thousands in a single day.
To continue on Moore's comparison between lightning strikes and terrorist attacks, do people not take precautions against lighning? It is indeed a rare occurance that someone is struck by lighning but I know that tall structures have lighning rods, people don't go swimming during thunder storms, EVERYONE knows that a car is the safest place to be in a storm and NO-ONE (except the Bishop from Caddy Shack) goes golfing in a storm. Yet people like Moore criticise the government warning people about possible terror strikes. It makes me wonder if maybe Moore doesn't criticise because he beleives that people are wrong, he criticises because he wants to criticise. That's all for now.
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