Posted on 05/21/2019 6:19:39 AM PDT by ManHunter
OTTAWA, May 20, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) — Distribution companies are effectively banning the film Unplanned from screening in Canadian cinemas, according to the producers of the pro-life biopic.
Speaking at an Ottawa news conference on May 8, producer Lisa Wheeler said, “We have been effectively blocked from distributing the film in Canada.”
Chuck Konzelman, the film’s writer, director, and producer, told LifeSiteNews via email that at least one of the two largest Canadian film distributors said “content” rather than a lack of consumer demand is the reason for banning the film.
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It makes sense that they would ban a movie that challenges their dogma and catechism of abortion. The medieval Catholic Church did the same to any artist that maligned its dogma.
The Left has concluded that they are losing the global debate of ideas.
Yet they are convinced that they are so totally correct and righteous that losing is seen as unacceptable.
So they have moved on to Stalinism.
Would Big Media tell us if post-ban underground viewing skyrocketed?
Isnt this amazing! That Canadians now live under such repressive censorship and England is not too far behind
Canadians are our closest cousins. The only real difference between us and them is their weather and our Constitution. Without a written Constitution, a perfectly sane country can become a tyranny in an instance. That is what has happened in Canada and it is the dream of the Democrats for this country. Only one thing stands in their way.
when they are cornered they do bad things.
Make a zillion DVDs of it and distribute it “underground”
No 1st Amendment in Canada...
What’s needed is a way for casual movie goers to decide to see it, not just “preaching to the choir”.
Where books are burned, people will burn.
Every Democrat is a violent totalitarian thug.
Distributors of DVDs in Canada would refuse to carry it...just as theater owners refused to show it.
And then anyone...Canadian,American or otherwise...caught transporting such a DVD across the border would be arrested by Canadian border officials.
Why is this not surprising?
Canada is a slave state.
A country bans a film that might keep some babies from being killed is banned. What does this say about who or what controls said country? Yet we always hear about “nice” Canadians are. It would seem many if not most are just eloi’s.
They say there’s no such thing as bad publicity.
Hopefully this will increase interest in this film, north of the border.
Provided one is operating in a religious context and dealing with co-religionists, it makes perfectly sense.
If people want to apostatize, they should be freed from the strictures; if the culture is to tolerant and pandemic within a region to tolerate apostates, I’d at least hope they would allow what Spain and other militant Catholic societies allowed, which is immigration.
I’m not a secular humanist, but if others are, I can’t entirely fault them for being logical about their religion.
Maybe its time for something like Radio Free Europe where we have Video Free Canada and broadcast banned movies across the border so that the subjugated masses can learn the truth.
Tolerance for antifa violence is encouragement of violence. The Left is encouraging violence to support their cause.
“....Distributors of DVDs in Canada would refuse to carry it...just as theater owners refused to show it.
And then anyone...Canadian,American or otherwise...caught transporting such a DVD across the border would be arrested by Canadian border officials. ....”
“Underground distribution” meant illegally to begin with....and exactly that. There are ways...hand to hand, copies laying on street corners, inside bathroom stalls, etc. It would drive the “censors” absolutely nuts. And yeah, one would go to jail, IF caught, smuggling them in.
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