"Over 800 of our most patriotic men and women have died for an illegal war in Iraq," said Karen Trietsch, one of the three women wearing pink wigs and clothing outside a Boulder movie theater. "People will come out of the theater wanting to do something."
......"Today the theater is a gathering point for people upset with the Bush administration," Clark said. "He's the worst president in U.S. history."
Dani Rickel, a manager at the theater, asked protesters standing in front of the theater doors to move off the property. She said the theater had received death threats and didn't want to cause any more controversy.
"Everybody on staff is here and we're just keeping our eyes open," Rickel said.
She said the theater decided to show "Fahrenheit 9/11" because it's an independent art house and shows films that challenge people intellectually.
The theater had called the police earlier in the day because voter registration volunteers had been stopping traffic in the parking lot, Rickel said. She said the police told her that she could kick them off the property.
The members of CodePink and others were asked to stand on nearby sidewalks.
Jonathan Singer, a volunteer coordinator with the Boulder County Democrats, said people come out of the theater charged up, and Democrats want them to take charge of the nation and the election.
"It's difficult, because being pushed off the property has muted us," he said.
The AMC 24 theater in Westminster did not have any protesters, but it did receive an upset phone call. Theater Manager McKensey Orten said a man called her and said he was a patriot, Christian and Republican who was upset that they were showing Michael Moore's film. .....***
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[Somehow I doubt this - it sounds more like a Chris Lehane ploy]
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9/11 film stirs up Sarasota***"It made me think and broadened my horizon," Fogo said.
Jan Schneider, a congressional candidate who lost to U.S. Rep. Katherine Harris, R-Sarasota, came to see the film in which Harris makes a cameo. Schneider's supporters surrounded the theater and passed out fliers and buttons. Schneider said she didn't know if the film would directly affect the 2004 presidential election but said that a combination of factors, including the fallout in Iraq, should disillusion the American citizenry on the Bush administration.
"We can't get used to a government that lies to us," Schneider said. "We want truth and integrity."
Conservative groups such as Move America Forward tried to stop theaters from showing the film, and Citizens United filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission, asserting that the film was in violation of campaign finance rules created by the McCain-Feingold legislation. And radio pundits such as Bill O'Reilly have blasted the film and its "unpatriotic" director Moore.***
That's not what Democrats said during impeachment...