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To: theDentist
The problem is that it's slanderous fiction. Making up things about a real organization and real people that make them look evil is immoral, not to mention very bad taste.

As far as I know, Tom Clancy doesn't do that, at least not on the same scale.

How would people react if someone made a movie about MLK in which he was portraied as a murderer? I don't think people would take very kindly to that. I certainly wouldn't.

25 posted on 05/09/2006 6:24:08 PM PDT by curiosity
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To: curiosity
Clancy, Ludlum, Flynn, etc do it all the time. Bad people in real organizations (CIA, FBI, PETA, AFL-CIO) taking advantage of power and position and policies for their own means to commit atrocities. they weave a tapestry of entertainment.

Or those authors who have written of actual people and events as a fictional 'friend' (Reagan bioigraphy, God and Generals, etc). Again, real people and events, false story.

i guess we'll agree to disagree.

32 posted on 05/09/2006 6:51:09 PM PDT by theDentist (Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll.)
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