Quoted from your site:
“We believe that Peter Jackson and New Line Cinema’s actions are in fact hate speech. The movie is intentionally being named The Two Towers in order to capitalize on the tragedy of September 11. Clearly, you cannot deny the fact that this falls under hate speech. We believe that if they will not willingly change the name, the government should step in to stop the movie’s production or to force a name change.”
http://www.twotowersprotest.org/faq.htm
Which would be fine and good, except for the fact that maybe, just MAYBE, Peter Jackson named the second movie “The Two Towers” because that’s the name of the second book of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, published in 1955 by Ballantine Books.
The WTC towers were built by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey in 1973…
Should there be compassion for the people that died 9-11-2001? Absolutely. Should that compassion mean that anybody that does anything that reminds anyone else of 9-11 is somehow evil and doing it intentionally? I don’t think so.
If you can’t seem to put your pain down long enough to see that what you’re doing doesn’t make any sense, at least try to do something positive that will actually *HELP* the people who were affected by 9-11. Go volunteer somewhere. Find out if there’s any kids in New York that lost a parent on 9-11 and maybe that kid needs an extra Christmas present (or clothes, or a trust fund).
Your outrage at something as simple as an escapist story written almost fifty years ago as somehow being responsible for the tragedy in New York only goes to show how detatched you actually are from the people who are hurting. How about you ask the survivors (or the victims’ families) what THEY want you to do to help, instead of attacking a box-office smash in order to try to collect money.
I hope you are kidding (but if you are, I don’t see the joke), and if you’re not, I hope you’re ashamed of yourselves. Think about what you’re doing (or trying to do). Wanting to help, and wanting to blame someone are totally natural feelings. Make sure you’re helping the victims, and not just yelling at anyone that makes you have an emotional response.
It’s okay to hurt, and it’s okay to be angry about what happened, but there’s really no point in attacking a movie that had nothing to do with terrorists, or Americans. It’s a story about good and evil. So’s the bible. So’s life sometimes.
Rage and hatred is not what is needed to help people heal from 9-11.
Rage and hatred is what caused 9-11.
