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Originally Posted by capt_noonie  North. It's NORTH Korea.
First off. It's a comedy. Not to be taken seriously. Second, it's freedom of speech and art. Our govt cannot tell us what we can and cannot make art about. That is what is so great about this country. It is not the govt's fault this happened. It's not Sony's fault either. The difference is if there was a comedy made about Obama's head getting blown off, most Americans, Obama supporters or not, would know it's a comedy and not threaten people with death if it were shown. |
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Originally Posted by Yorkiemom1  "THEY" have us by the short hairs in this situation. They choose to show the movie, some nut goes in there and bombs the theater, OMG!! the lawsuits would abound, with every person or cooperation or business withing a country mile being sued. If they dont show the movie, they are all running scared and empowering the terrorists. If they dont show the movie, the USA is being commandeered by some rogue maniac dictator on what we are allowed to see and hear in our country! We already have tolerated the Mexican president access to the White House and the floor to attempt to influence decisions made in our country about issues we must deal with....WTF?????????? We dont need foreign dictators telling the USA how we are going to be allowed by the rest of the world, to conduct business in our democracy!!! |
Love your way of putting this.....
My thought exactly !!
I understand that the consequences would be Great if SONY decided to show the film but I so do not agree with letting Korea dictating whether or not to show a comedy about a world leader theirs or anyone else's. Movies like these have been made hundreds of time throughout time in drama, theater, action movies and comedies. No one has ever taken them literally. I don't think that anyone near of far has the right to dictate what we as Americans do in the US and while yes they threaten to do harm they have to realize that its Not a murder plot by any means it just poking fun at a young dictator who not only has his own country under his thumb but Now he has the US under his control as well. Its a very sad day when we as Americans loose our rights that our military have fought so hard to provide for us.