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There is no credible evidence of a pending attack, cyber or otherwise, against Sony, which produced the movie, or the Landmark movie theater chain. Nonetheless, online threat by the so-called "Guardians of Peace" which is probably a front for government-sponsored hackers in North Korea, has caused the Landmark Theater chain to cancel tomorrow night's premiere of the comedy. So now the wimpy liberals in the entertainment and media industries are going to give in to cowards who won't even stand out in the open and make their threats publicly. It's pathetic.
America wasn't always like this. Real thugs have threatened U.S. entertainment interests in the past. Nazi Germany threatened to kill Charlie Chaplin if he made the movie "The Great Dictator," which parodied Hitler. Chaplin made it anyway, even though there were active German agents in the U.S. who could and would have killed him. But he took a stand against tyranny and what amounted to that day's edition of terrorism.
[video=youtube;6FMNFvKEy4c]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FMNFvKEy4c[/video]
Chaplin was at best an early Obama liberal and at worst a socialist, and it comes through in the video. However, his words ring true, particularly in light of what system he was condemning -- Nazism. While many will see, erroneously in my opinion, applications for his speech to the U.S. government today, they more appropriately could be used to condemn Islamic extremists. It is a shame those who run Landmark Theaters couldn't find the backbone to stand up to invisible cowards.
America wasn't always like this. Real thugs have threatened U.S. entertainment interests in the past. Nazi Germany threatened to kill Charlie Chaplin if he made the movie "The Great Dictator," which parodied Hitler. Chaplin made it anyway, even though there were active German agents in the U.S. who could and would have killed him. But he took a stand against tyranny and what amounted to that day's edition of terrorism.
[video=youtube;6FMNFvKEy4c]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FMNFvKEy4c[/video]
Chaplin was at best an early Obama liberal and at worst a socialist, and it comes through in the video. However, his words ring true, particularly in light of what system he was condemning -- Nazism. While many will see, erroneously in my opinion, applications for his speech to the U.S. government today, they more appropriately could be used to condemn Islamic extremists. It is a shame those who run Landmark Theaters couldn't find the backbone to stand up to invisible cowards.
