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Movie/Message Of the Week:  The Kingdom

I know the movie has been out for a while now, but i don't think it got the attention and respect it deserved.  I was really speechless at the end.  Not because of the deaths but because walking out of the theater I just knew the movie wasn't going to leave the impression writer Matthew Michael Carnahan wanted.  People need to really get involved in this movie and not be jacked up on patriotic steroids while they watch.  I would also recommend you see Carnahan's other movie Lions for Lambs.  We're not going to win the so-called "war on terror"  by killing more.  We, they, everyone needs to learn more. 

If inciting people to do that [9/11] is terrorism, and if killing those who kill our sons is terrorism, then let history be witness that we are terrorists.
-OSAMA BIN LADEN

I was called a terrorist yesterday, but when I came out of jail, many people embraced me, including my enemies, and that is what I normally tell other people who say those who are struggling for liberation in their country are terrorists. I tell them that I was also a terrorist yesterday, but, today, I am admired by the very people who said I was one.
-NELSON MANDELA

Terrorism is the price of empire. If you do not wish to pay the price, you must give up the empire.
-PAT BUCHANAN

A "war against terrorism" is an impracticable conception if it means fighting terrorism with terrorism.
-JOHN MORTIMER

Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.
-NOAM CHOMSKY

It's not right to respond to terrorism by terrorizing other people. And furthermore, it's not going to help. Then you might say, "Yes, it's terrorizing people, but it's worth doing because it will end terrorism." But how much common sense does it take to know that you cannot end terrorism by indiscriminately dropping bombs? Terrorism has replaced Communism as the rationale for the militarization of the country [America], for military adventures abroad, and for the suppression of civil liberties at home. It serves the same purpose, serving to create hysteria.
-HOWARD ZINN

The big threat to America is the way we react to terrorism by throwing away what everybody values about our country--a commitment to human rights. America is a great nation because we are a good nation. When we stop being a good nation, we stop being great.
-BOBBY KENNEDY

We first fought the heathens in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change.
- SERJ TANKIAN