BLACK HAWK DOWN': PENTAGON WAR PROPAGANDA
By Johnnie Stevens
Hollywood produces bad movies all the time. But "Black Hawk Down" is more than bad. It is a conspiracy by the Pentagon and Hollywood to distort history and demonize the Somali people, right when the administration is considering another invasion of that battered and impoverished African country.
The Pentagon commended director Ridley Scott for rushing the film's release after 9/11. The Motion Picture Association of America arranged a private screening for senior White House advisors. Vice President Dick Cheney attended. So did Contragate criminal Col. Oliver North, as well as a group of U.S. Army Rangers.
"Black Hawk Down" pretends to tell the story of what happened on Oct. 3, 1993, when tens of thousands of Somali people, most of them civilians, fought off an attack by U.S. Rangers and Delta Force commandos in the center of the capital city, Mogadishu.
The heavily armed U.S. troops had come in Humvees and Black Hawk helicopters to try and kidnap Mohamed Farrah Aidid and two of his lieutenants. They intended to take them to a ship anchored off the coast. Aidid was the Somali leader most resistant to U.S. efforts to establish military and economic domination in the area, under the pretext of providing food aid.
source:
www.peoplesvideo.org/bhd_js.htm
www.iacenter.org/blackhawk.htm
www.spectrezine.org/reviews/denny2.htm
According to New York Times critic Elvis Mitchell, the film "converts the Somalis into a pack of snarling dark-skinned beasts."
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I walked out half way through this film. I was with four mates and one of them is black. I could tell the film made him feel uncomfortable. Me?
I can't stand this type of fictitional, (distorted history - untold facts - hype) pro-war, racist nonsense. It makes a mockery of truth and justice and is so obvious in it's bias as to be personally insulting no matter what colour your skin is - or what country you may (like my mate, a Royal Engineer) find yourself fighting with.
No attack at you, Francisco - but it has to be said.
Peace,
Endy
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