Harold and Kumar go to the CENSOR

Mind of a revolutionary
So clear the lane
The finger to the land of the chains
What? the land of the free?
Whoever told you that is your enemy?

This clearly is not a free country. The amount of positive discrimination about the place in all aspects of daily life.  Nothing more gobsmackingly startling than when you go to see a movie. You pay the full movie price. NZD15 equivalent. You expect to see a whole movie. Not so….

I went to see Harold and Kumar escape from Guantanamo Bay on the weekend. It was a fairly funny movie. Until random chunks of the movie were deleted. You can’t see Harold and Kumar discussing terrorism in jail with some suspected Al Qaeda terrorists. You don’t get to witness their escape. You don’t even get to see the punchlines of some of the major jokes in the film.

This sort of censorship is deeply offensive. You put on the news and see a child explode like a watermelon in Gaza (but you don’t see the murdered children in Israel) yet you can’t see a fictional, clearly RIDICULOUS movie in its entirety.

On the GAZA issue. I think it speaks volumes that when Israel plan to stop bombing Gaza, Hamas declare that they will not observe a ceasefire and will not stop. Why would they? They have the world’s attention. Who would give up that?