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Posted on 06/13/2002 3:42:31 AM PDT by Elkiejg
As an avid moviegoer, I love nothing better than a good political thriller. Still, I am boycotting the newest Tom Clancy movie "The Sum of All Fears." While the Ben Affleck-Morgan Freeman vehicle might be a great summertime blockbuster, I refuse to see it because of a large, ugly plot change: The book's villains were Palestinian terrorists who gain access to a nuclear device, and the movie moguls magically transformed the villains into "neo-Fascists."
As a good American, I have a burning hatred of "neo-Fascists" just as much as the next guy, but the whitewashing of the book greatly angers me. Last time I checked, neo-Nazis weren't blowing up towers, killing American journalists or killing Israeli civilians. The real threat today is Islamic murderers and terrorists. And tomorrow's threat is Palestinian terrorists, who will soon reach America's shores.
Consider this threat from Nobel Peace Prize-winning Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat: If Israel does not immediately relinquish the disputed territories of Judea and Samaria, "enabling our people to practice their legitimate rights of establishing the independent Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital, the whole region will witness a disastrous explosion that will impact not only the region but the stability of the entire world."
As reported by the Jerusalem Post and headlined on the Drudge Report on June 8, the world's most celebrated terrorist-turned-"statesman" made this statement in Spain at a dinner honoring European Union Middle East envoy Miguel Moratinos.
This comment is not out of character for Arafat; he has made numerous bombastic and inflammatory statements over the years. Still, the idea of a "disastrous explosion" symbolizes something bigger than another conventional suicide bombing in Israel. Perhaps it signals Arafat's willingness to attempt a Sept. 11-magnitude attack on Israel. Israeli intelligence has already uncovered Palestinian plans to topple the Azrieli Towers in Tel Aviv.
Perhaps Arafat's statement signifies his ability to acquire weapons of mass destruction. Palestinian suicide murderers have already shown their willingness to experiment with weapons of mass destruction -- in past months, they have used rat poison in their bombs in an attempt to make these massacres even more death-laden.
Of all the possibilities, it is most likely that Arafat's statement means he is very much aware of Al Qaeda's plans to use a dirty (radioactive) bomb in the United States. Two days after Arafat's statement in Spain, Attorney General John Ashcroft announced that the U.S. government had caught an Al Qaeda terrorist in the process of planning a dirty-bomb attack in Washington, D.C.
Arafat's own words paint a far different picture of him than do today's media, which portray him as a sick old man who only wants peace before he dies but is victimized by the Israeli military and unable to rein in murderers because of Israeli incursions. Arafat has been in control of the Palestinians for nearly 10 years, and in all that time, he has not reined in terrorists. Arafat has thousands of armed gunmen at his disposal. His pretended impotence is ridiculous.
The problem isn't just Arafat. His constituency is part of the broader group of Islamists who wish to see a world dominated by fundamentalist Islam. The first step toward that domination is the destruction of Israel. A poll released June 11 by the Palestinian Jerusalem Media and Communication Center showed 51 percent of the Palestinian public wanting the end-goal of the intifada to be "liberating all of historic Palestine," i.e., from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea. The Palestinians want Tel Aviv, Haifa and West Jerusalem, not only Judea, Samaria and East Jerusalem.
It is tragic that the U.S. government continues to stick its collective head in the sand and play along with the Palestinian Trojan Horse of a return to 1967 borders.
It was Palestinians who were dancing in the streets after Sept. 11, not neo-Fascists. It was Islamic murderers who massacred nearly 3,000 Americans on Sept. 11, not white racist men. Americans have short memories and forgiving hearts; the last thing Americans need is whitewashing of Palestinian intentions. Tom Clancy's book had the courage to name the enemies of America. For a movie adaptation to change those villains from Islamists to anything else is gutless.
Only two movies I can think of in recent years with Arab terrorists are True Lies and The Siege.
My roommates don't understand why I won't go see it, but I'll just watch "Black Hawk Down" again while they shell out $7 to see a sanitized version of how life really is.
Neither of these two peoples have ever committed any act that could [even remotely] be described as terrorism, yet they're being portrayed as some nutcases who want to blow up Manhattan! In reality, it is exactly these two countries that have been combating terrorism [the Albanian and Chechen, respectively, each tied to Al-Qaeda!] within their respective borders for the past decade. One even got bombed over it.
DISGUSTING!
They had some dimwitted non-actor or other playing the part of a "maverick fighter pilot" (sound familiar?) who strays off course of his assigned recon flight and gets photos of the Serbs doing their famous mass burial routine, after which they shoot him down and chase him trying to kill him.
They even had the escaping pilot befriended by Kosovar jihadis who try to help him escape but are massacred by the evil Serbs themselves. Hollywood is full of lying traitors. Boycott'em all and let the market sort'em out.
After seeing "Siege" one more time, I realize there is another movie attempting to generate sympathy for the death-cult religion.
Not likely to see that one again either, even if it's free.
And even in those, HW did their best to exonerate Islam. In The Siege, heroine Annette Benning's dying words are "Allah Akbar". In True Lies, one of the terrorists gets his chance to say "This is not what Islam stands for!" (before the other terrorist shoots him.) Really, Islam has been treated better than it deserves.
Late last year--and AFTER Sept.11th--Hollywood came out with the shoot-'em-up war movie, "Behind Ememy Lines". Just what we needed after Sept. 11th--except that the bad guys were Serbs!!!!
The this year, there was the Fox TV thriller "24". A great show--a spy thriller in real time, with a complex, unravelling plot. Except that, once again, the bad guys were Serbs!!!!
We Americans, just like Americans after Pearl Harbor--need shoot-'em-up war and spy movies in which--as in real life--the bad guys are muslims. We need video games in which we ourselves can shoot hordes of muslim terrorists, including Al Qaeda, KLA, Chechens, "Palestinians", and all the rest. And, above all, we need to STOP demonizing the Serbs!!!!
But what does "the industry" in Hollywood and New York give us? War movies and spy thrillers that go out of their way to whitewash the international islamic jihad, and to avoid "offending" or "commiting 'hate crimes' against muslims. Instead, they just keep picking on the "villains" that it is OK for the "politically correct" crowd to hate---the Serbs.
The whole thing is weakening our war effort against the islamic terrorists, and has GOT TO STOP!!!!
In the book:
1) the major plot in the book where the President and his National Security Advisor's affair affect his judgment;
2) the National Security Advisor's and the President's collusion to deny Ryan credit for the breakthrough for Middle East Peace.
These are just some of the inconsistencies. Clancy, who is credited as Executive Producer for the movie, has sold out and/or is just too tired any more.
There are lots of authors out there who used to write excellent books, but are now turning out what are in effect only "draft screenplays" and the publishers are marketing these based on the authors' names. Stuart Woods is one currently active. Past ones include Alistair McClain. Now I fear Clancy is in that category as well.
Watch "Rules of Engagement."
Whoops
I think I saw an interview with him, back after Clear and Present Danger came out, that backed this up. The impression I got was that he couldn't afford to buy back the rights, but he wasn't exactly happy with the way his stuff was being rewritten on the fly by the screenwriters. And that's why he wasn't doing promotions or endorsements for the flicks, and so forth.
"signed away everything but the names of the main characters"
exaggeration? nope, you are right. I was soooo ticked at the changes that I couldn't enjoy what might have been a good movie (if not supposedly based on the books)
If Hollyweird doesn't like a story, why buy it? Their pathetic screen writers have to tinker with everything. blah
(a) Olga Corbutt
(b) Sitting Bull
(c) Arnold Schwartzeneger
(d) Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 & 40
2.) In 1979, the U.S. embassy in Iran was taken over by:
(a) Lost Norwegians
(b) Elvis
(c) A tour bus full of 80-year-old women
(d) Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 & 40
3.) During the 1980's a number of Americans were kidnapped in Lebanon by:
(a) John Dillinger
(b) The King of Sweden
(c) The Boy Scouts
(d) Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 & 40
4.) In 1983, the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut was blown up by:
(a) A pizza delivery boy
(b) Pee Wee Herman
(c) Geraldo Rivera making up for a slow news day
(d) Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 & 40.
5.) In 1985 the cruise ship Achille Lauro was hijacked, and a 70-year-old American passenger was murdered and thrown overboard by:
(a) The Smurfs
(b) Davy Jones
(c) The Little Mermaid
(d) Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 & 40.
6.) In 1985 TWA flight 847 was hijacked at Athens, & a U.S. Navy diver was murdered by:
(a) Captain Kid
(b) Charles Lindberg
(c) Mother Teresa
(d) Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 & 40.
7.) In 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 was bombed by:
(a) Scooby Doo
(b) The Tooth Fairy
(c) Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid who had a few sticks of dynamite
(d) Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 & 40.
8.) In 1993 the World Trade Center was bombed the first time by:
(a) Richard Simmons
(b) Grandma Moses
(c) Michael Jordan
(d) Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 & 40.
9.) In 1998, the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania were bombed by:
(a) Mr. Rogers
(b) Hillary, to distract attention from Wild Bill's women problems
(c) The World Wrestling Federation to promote its next villain: "Mustapha the Merciless"
(d) Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 & 40
10.) On 9/11/01, four airliners were hijacked & destroyed & thousands of people were killed by:
(a) Bugs Bunny, Wiley E. Coyote, Daffy Duck, and Elmer Fudd
(b) The Supreme Court of Florida
(c) Mr. Bean
(d) Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 & 40.
11.) In 2002 the United States fought a war in Afghanistan against:
(a) Enron
(b) The Lutheran Church
(c) The NFL
(d) Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 & 40.
12.) In 2002 reporter Daniel Pearl was kidnapped and murdered by:
(a) Bonny and Clyde
(b) Captain Kangaroo
(c) Billy Graham
(d) Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 & 40.
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