Final Protective Fire

Tuesday, January 07, 2003

 

Did you think that Michael Moore was finished making a flaming ass of himself? Bad guess. The author of the piece went to see Michael Moore's one-man show in London.

What we did not expect was to feel so enraged at one point that we almost walked out. It was when Moore went into a rant about how the passengers on the planes on 11 September were scaredy-cats because they were mostly white. If the passengers had included black men, he claimed, those killers, with their puny bodies and unimpressive small knives, would have been crushed by the dudes, who as we all know take no disrespect from anybody.

The author of the piece goes on to discuss the current problems of the black community in Britain and how in that light the author finds Moore's comments offensive. In discussing the violence of the black community, the author mentions a proposal to add a mandatory 5 year sentence to gun possession, see Iain Murray's take on that.

Tim Blair has some other observations of Moore in London.

Robin 7:52 AM