"I never meant to upset anyone," said the Australian director
But Jordan said that withholding the film from release is an infringement on free speech. "That to me is anti-American," he said. "That to me is unpatriotic."
Shut up, you GD civilian foreigner. The only reason anyone has any rights in this country is because people like those your movie disparages served this country. What did you do in the Cold War, asshole?
"All you have to do is look at official Pentagon documents about U.S. military deaths between 1975 and 1990," Jordan said. "There were between 25 and 30 murders on these bases every year. ... There were 100 suicides every year. And this was during peacetime."
Bullsh*t. There were not 25-30 murders per year in the entire U.S. military, let alone in U.S. Army posts in Germany. In fact, on those rare occasions when there was a murder, it was a big deal on AFN and in Stars and Stripes. And it is important to remember that the U.S. military during the Cold War numbered approximately 1.5 million troops, and, while crimes did sometimes occur, they occurred at a far lower frequency than in the general U.S. population.
He said that time period is a bad patch in the Army's history and that the movie shows part of a crackdown on those problems.
Actually, the "bad patch" was from Vietnam until around 1981 or so. Around that time, commanders cracked down on drugs - and the main problem was off-duty use of marijuana - and it was pretty much eradicated by the mid-1980s.
Actually, we've significantly reduced the number of military deaths in the last 20 years. I don't know if his numbers are correct or not (and I think he's an A$$) but there were certainly more than 25-30 murders per year in the entire U.S. military during those years. 1