Pallywood ftw!!

power of propaganda..

A Balkan Muslim who killed two U.S. Air Force servicemen in March has told a German judge Wednesday that he was motivated after seeing the movie “Redacted,” which was made as a political statement in 2007 by Hollywood director Brian De Palma, Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban and several high-profile movie industry producers.

Arid Uka told the judge that that he murdered the two Americans in March after he watched the movie’s graphic depiction of U.S. soldiers raping a girl in Iraq, according to a BBC report. “I thought what I saw in that video, these people would do in Afghanistan,” he said, the BBC reports.

“What I did was wrong, but I cannot undo what I did,” Arid Uka told the court in Frankfurt.

The dead solders were Senior Airman Nicholas Alden, age 25, and Airman 1st Class Zachary Cuddeback, age 21.

“I honestly had not heard about it,” said one “Redacted” producer, Jason Kliot. “I’m terribly sorry to hear that, but I don’t understand how my movie would impel anyone to commit murder,” he said.

“The real culprit here is the tragedy of war, it is not Brian De Palma’s brilliant film,” he said.

“I don’t see how people would be made to commit acts of violence [after watching “Redacted”], any more than they would for watching Fox News,” Kriot said.

The movie — which also depicted U.S. soldiers as racist murderers — was released as U.S. forced stepped up their successful offensive against Al-Qaeda in Iraq, Saddam Hussein supporters and Iran-sponsored Shia groups in 2006 and 2007.

The movie was widely praised in the movie industry and by left-of-center cultural groups. The movie and De Palma won awards at the 2007 Venice Film Festival, and it received a “Youth Jury Award” from the 2008 Amnesty International Film festival.

But the movie made little money when it was released in Spain and in fifteen U.S. theaters
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Propaganda surprises you?

It's like the Break the Silence video and it's rebuttal.
 
Alan said:
power of propaganda..
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As well as another example of the media being the reason for one's actions (Marilyn Manson and the Columbine kids, Jamie Bulger's killers and Childs Play... the list goes on). With this in light, should those who make these portrayals tone things down or continue to use creative license. It's quite a catch 22.
 
nivek said:
No idea, showed up on my twitter timeline :)
The points made are still relavent
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Yeah like this one (found in the comment section of JihadWatch's video page)

[video=youtube;vxqiTjmUJ0Q]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxqiTjmUJ0Q[/video]
 
Fudzy said:
As well as another example of the media being the reason for one's actions (Marilyn Manson and the Columbine kids, Jamie Bulger's killers and Childs Play... the list goes on). With this in light, should those who make these portrayals tone things down or continue to use creative license. It's quite a catch 22.
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[video=youtube;Qp_4SqeV5FI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qp_4SqeV5FI&feature=related[/video]
 
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Ivo Vegter has a good article on wikileaks on the Daily Maverick.

Luckily since I'm an anarchio-capitalist I get to promote wikileaks without being contradictory. But for anyone who believes in the state, he makes a good point.
 
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