Anyone else concerned about violence at the MM Farenheit 911 film?

[GreenPartyVoter]

Seriously, do you see some wacked out right-wingers getting all up in arms against people who go to see it?

[NMDemDist2]

1. nope not worried about that at all eom

[burythehatchet]

2. Bring it on. n/t

[freetobegay]

3. Not to steal a quote, but

"Bring em on!"

[Alerter_]

4. no I expect right-wingers to be hiding at home, frankly

I would expect the various strands of extremists who have been so loud in the last few years - Imperialists, Christian Fundies, Extremist Zionists, and Cons in general - will keep their mouths shut for a while. I'm wondering what the F911 audiences are going to do when they leave the theater.

[Jeff in Cincinnati]

5. Let's pray that they do...

It will just peel off a few more middle-of-the-road voters who abhor facists.

[OKNancy]

7. Well I hope they go to the place where you are then

I pray there won't be any backlash. I don't expect it, and I live in Republican hell.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

6. Wherever I go...

I bring my many years of martial arts training with me. They don't.

Advantage: me.

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[liberalitch]

14. I also have training they do not....

it's called intelligence... i think all of us at DU have 'em beat there

[Media_Lies_Daily]

9. F___'em. I'm tired of being intimidated by a bunch of...

...rightwing, goose-stepping morons.

Let'em try.

[Nlighten1]

10. If they do...

Hopefully it is on a night that I am there.

Nothing would make me happier than to show a freeper my big stick.

[liberalitch]

17. and get arrested for indecent exposure?

that'll take 'em down a peg or two

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[Nlighten1]

21. It sounds like...

you are speaking from experience.

:)

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[Nlighten1]

20. Not THAT big stick...

My Teddy Roosevelt big stick.

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[Nlighten1]

25. Well, I used to be a Republican

So, I guess old habits are hard to break. In all seriousness though I was speaking figuratively, just as Teddy was when he said..."Speak softly but carry a big stick".

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[demnan]

11. No

I'm just worred about those FBI guys hanging out in the lobby. . .

[liberalitch]

34. Are they still the ones....

with the ironed jeans?

[Mnemosyne]

12. I'm much more concerned for Michael's safety at this time.

MICHAEL MOORE: AMERICAN HERO!!!!!!!!

[rooboy]

13. Going in, I'd worry about the right wingers...

coming out, I'd worry for the right wingers.

[BigMcLargehuge]

15. let em cause trouble at a show where I'm in the audience

[prodigal_green]

16. Before or After the film?

I think it will certainly dander up a few on the left and possibly the center and even the moderate right.

If I were a wing-nut, I'd definitely stay home.

[Stockholm]

18. Hopefully the film will be shown everywhere!

Imagine Freeps driving to their gun club past jumbo sized Moore ads...

[Divernan]

23. They'll be in disguise as Barbara/white wig, fake wrinkles & big pearls.

NT

[FreakinDJ]

27. Fuck Em' ..........................I'm going to go see it

Wouldn't miss it for all the lying Bushs in the world

[Kinkistyle]

28. Come at me dawg.

I'm a pacifist on a macro-scopic level, but the micro-scopic level is a whole different boxing match.

[tinanator]

29. not at all

theyre toothless retarded trolls scared of their own shadow.
try not to misrepresent them as anything else.

[GreenPartyVoter]

30. They manage to bomb abortion clinics, why not movie theaters?

[tinanator]

31. you mean the religious right?

I dont think this is their fight. If you consider the Freeks to be the violent opposition, they arent, just mouthy lunatics. If you consider the militia, KKK and neonazis to be the problem, anything can happen, but they have as much to lose under Bush as anyone, and dont seem to do much in public. In fact the KKK are as cowardly as anyone, scurrying like cockroaches when spotted. There is no percentage in hyping a violence problem when there will be none. It isnt a gang flick. Even if both Freeks in every town had the balls to stand outside with megaphones (and they dont), they are terrified of this movie and the people going to see it. It galls me when the Freeks are portrayed as anything but the mentally unbalanced misfits that they are. They are not a threat to anything but social graces.

[GreenPartyVoter]

32. So the people with the most to lose under Bush are

the rich anyway, and no I guess I don't see these folks staging riots. They fight the way Eisner already tried to.

But I do worry about the uninformed "My country right or wrong types" at least a little. Some of them are easily agitated and I can seriously see altercations happening in the lobbies of Hoyt's cinemas everywhere. (Some folks came close to blows over the Passion, so why not F 911?)

[drumwolf]

33. nah, i don't think they'd actually try to bomb theatres showing F911

The ones who actually bomb abortion clinics are the determined extremist ideologues, and they actually tend to have a little bit of brains. And as someone else pointed out, this isn't their fight. In fact, many of these too-far-right-even-for-GOP theocrats, neo-Confederates and militia types are actually on the same side as us and Michael Moore over the Iraq war and the neocons' agenda.

The ones who would attack theatres showing F911 would most likely be your typical Limbaugh-addled meatheads who'd attempt to assault people going in or out and/or disrupt the theatre. They would probably phone in death threats, but they wouldn't be bright enough to carry them out.

[noonwitch]

35. I think they will do their peaceful protest "freep"

They will do them at some of the theaters. I suspect that the movie will show only at "art theaters", so it won't even show at that many venues (at least his other movies were shown that way).

I don't know it freepers are brave enough to picket in Royal Oak, where I will probably see the movie at the Main Art Theater (where I saw "Bowling for Columbine). There are all those gay people there, after all, and it's a pretty liberal community overall. As long as they don't block my passage into the theater, they can protest all they want. I hope it's 95 degrees and sunny the day the movie opens!

[mkultra]

36. Get a small container of pepper spray

That ought to solve thier issues.