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http://www.peaceteam.net/viacom_protest.php
It's a drama about indicting Dick Cheney for war crimes committed to get the false evidence for a war against Iraq.
The Last War Crime is an Epic political fantasy drama, envisioning what would have happened if Dick Cheney had been indicted for ordering torture, which was used to get the false confessions to make a fraudulent case for war. Starting with a dramatic recreation of events of the morning of the 9/11 attacks, we tell the story of a heroic assistant U.S. attorney, who uncovers evidence of war crimes, and a suspenseful race against time to serve the Vice President in public with an arrest warrant before they can intercept her and quash it forever.
The filmmakers wanted to run a 10 second video ad on MTV's high definition video screen in Times Square, but first their ad manager demanded to know the content of the film itself. Here is the actual email exchange in writing, and here are the incriminating admissions of blatant censorship:
The Pen: "Must MTV approve the underlying content of a movie to accept an ad for that movie (you asked me to tender a synopsis)?"
MTV: "Yes"
The Pen: "Does that not implicate some kind of possibly arbitrary political censorship?"
MTV: "Yes"
Viacom Inc. is comprised of approximately 170 media networks reaching more than 600 million global subscribers. We must presume the rejection of this ad represents banning any reference to the movie going forward across all those wide ranging properties, an intolerable result under any construction of free speech in our society.
We are demanding that Viacom Inc. immediately reverse its position with regard to this first ad, and attempt no further act of political censorship against the producers of this movie or anyone else.
The Pen (writer, director)
Protest messages are pouring into MTV (Viacom Inc.) about their content censorship of The Last War Crime movie. Over 2,000 submissions already. Please get everyone you know to the action page at http://www.lastwarcrime.com/. We are exposing the utter hypocrisy of free speech for corporations, who will not even let the people BUY "free" speech for any message they don't like.
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