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Old 02-06-2007, 21:08   #116
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Re: The NHS is rediculous

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Originally Posted by bullseyebarb View Post
He doesn't qualify as a documentary maker since he's a stranger to the truth. Propagandist might be a better term. A couple of months ago, I heard two Canadians being interviewed on the radio. They had always been big fans of Michael Moore and decided to make a documentary about his life. They soon grew disillusioned by what they discovered about him. Tried, without success, to get a face-to-face meeting with him. They did continue to make the film, although its content ended up not being quite what they had expected. I am sitting here kicking myself for not having written down their names or the name of their film. I suspect they may have some trouble finding a distributor.
"Stranger to the truth"? I can't believe you said that. As a citizen of a country whose government invaded the sovreign nation of Iraq, and helped create one of the biggest fubars of recent (and not so recent ) history, because of non-existent weapons of mass destruction! And this was the response to 911? Imagine the reaction in the rest of the world if the British govt. had responded to IRA terrorist acts by bombing Dublin!

But the point I made about Moore's documentary, was not that all he said was to be accepted as "gospel," but that in societies which calim to tolerate a diversity in opinion, people like Moore are necessary. If a democracy is based on the informed opinions of the people, all sides (well perhaps not the Nazis and the Klan) must be allowed to state their points of view. There is no truth in politics, altho' politicians claim that they act only on the truth, in order to protect the truth.

To hold the opinion that free access to medical care, in a prosperous, democratic nation, should be a right is not a subversive opinion; and I know that it is an opinion that many of your fellow citizens hold. Having a "social safety net" is not a threat to democracy or to an economy based on free enterprise. It is merely a commitment to share the national wealth a little more equitably.
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