Outrage at Moore

The family of U.S. Air Force Maj. Gregory Stone was shocked to learn that video footage of the major's Arlington National Cemetery burial was included by Michael Moore in his movie "Fahrenheit 9/11." Maj. Stone was killed in March 2003 by a grenade that officials said was thrown into his tent by Sgt. Hasan K. Akbar, who is on trial for murder. "It's been a big shock, and we are not very happy about it, to say the least," Kandi Gallagher, Maj. Stone's aunt and family spokeswoman, tells Washington Times reporter Audrey Hudson. "We are furious that Greg was in that casket and cannot defend himself, and my sister, Greg's mother, is just beside herself," Miss Gallagher said. "She is furious. She called him a 'maggot that eats off the dead.' " The movie, described by critics as political propaganda during an election year, shows video footage of the funeral and Maj. Stone's fiancee, Tammie Eslinger, kissing her hand and placing it on his coffin. The family does not know how Mr. Moore obtained the video, and Miss Gallagher said they did not give permission and are considering legal recourse. She described her nephew as a "totally conservative Republican" and said he would have found the film to be "putrid." "I'm sure he would have some choice words for Michael Moore," she said. "Michael Moore would have a hard time asking our family for a glass of water if he were thirsty."

That guy hasn't gone to trial yet?! Timothy Mcveigh was tryed and killed in less time.

On the one hand, we have a case where it wouldn't be good press it to have the perpetrator tried and executed in what would be presented as a spectacle by the leftist media mavens who decide what we get to see and hear in each day's news. On the other hand, we have a perpetrator who was percieved by the leftist media as being a mean and nasty right-winger. Leftists are against the death penalty in all cases except where the perpetrator is a right-winger. In the first case, a spectacle would be harmful to the current President, because it would be spun to look like vindictiveness and unfairness. If you think Scott Peterson is getting press attention, if the president's popularity could be harmed, it would be made large like OJ. In the second case, it was a necessity to get the perpetrator out of this world, because if he was allowed to hang around too long, some things might get known that would, shall we say, confuse people, and perhaps cause some harm to the president in offfice at the time..

Here is Moore on his daughter going to a public school:

"...and the first five years she went to public school, then we moved to New York and we went to see the local public school and we walked through a metal detector and we said, "We're not putting our child through a metal detector." We'll continue our fight to see to it that our society is such that you don't have to have a metal detector at the entrance to schools. But our daughter is not the one to be sacrificed to make things better. And so she went to a school two blocks away. She just went to the nearest other school.'

He makes it sound as if the other school was just a random choice, but private schools on the Upper West Side are all restrictively expensive, and mostly white, just as the state schools are disproportionately black.

'Is that a bad thing?' he asks rhetorically of his decision, 'I don't know. Every parent wants to do what's best for their child. Whatever I can afford, I'm going to get my kid the best education I can get.'"

Typical "Do as I say, not as I do" attitude.

At some point I plan to have the equipment to produce some of my own documetaries, not Moore-styled mockumentaries.

But if I had the equipment right now, plus the time and expenses, I would take the same tack Moore took by accosting members of Congress and asking them to send their kids to Iraq. My premise would replace the war angle with a public school angle. That is, I would approach members of Congress that have children in private school and pester them about their undying support for public education's monopoly while not practicing what they preach. This would be in a final scene after a whole expose on public education failures and politically-correctness run amuck.

Anyone is free to take on this premise but if not, I'll just do it myself.

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