Some in Meadville upset about theater canceling Moore film(Threats)

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/04234/365294.stm

Partisan temperatures are rising in Meadville in the wake of a decision by a nonprofit community theater to cancel a screening of the controversial documentary "Fahrenheit 9/11."

The movie, which director Michael Moore acknowledges is intended to sway voters against President Bush, was scheduled to open the annual film series of the Academy Theatre, a restored 1886 showcase for performing arts and for independent and foreign films.

But executives of the foundation that runs the theater started getting calls from donors threatening to pull their funding if the movie went ahead as scheduled.

The board decided to postpone the scheduled screenings on Sept. 4 and 5 until after the Nov. 2 election. But the committee that runs the film series felt the movie would lose so much of its impact because of the delay (and the fact it will be released Oct. 5 on DVD) that it canceled the booking altogether.

Now, people protesting the cancellation of the movie are saying they will withdraw their financial support of the theater.

Meadeville is in NW PA about 40 miles south of Erie.

[Cha]

1. The first people threatening to cancel their support are

afraid of free speech and don't wanna see their boy king bite the dust in crawford.

Hope the purveyors of free speech win.

[RamboLiberal]

3. Funny cause Meadeville is in Crawford County

Hope their boy king gets sent back to Crawford, TX. Maybe the Meadeville people who wanted to see this film should organize house parties and show the DVD in Oct.

[Prodemsouth]

2. Just more Monkey supporters afraid of the Truth. People drive around

my truck rather than have stay behind me and look at my bumper sticker with a picture of Bush holding the hand of the Saudi King- says "George Bush Holds Hands with Strange Men!"

[krkaufman]

4. I just gotta wonder...

... if these threats to pull funding couldn't be prosecuted as extortion or civil rights (free speech) violations.

[Dem2theMax]

5. "Always" send these types of articles to MM's website.

Every time I read something like this, the first thing I do is send it off to MM. He doesn't let people get away with this stuff.
So consider it sent, because I did. :)

[0007]

6. Hey, Thanks man. Isn't Democracy wonderful?

I love it when the adults do the thinking for us, and then hold us hostage to the demands of a few scare crows.