Oliver Stone has long been one of my favorite directors of all time... Midnight Express, Scarface, Natural Born Killers, Platoon... All freakin' amazing films. Platoon in particular meant a lot to me growing up in the Vietnam era. I used the speech Al Pacino gives in Any Given Sunday with some small changes to help a team that I coached win a league championship.
So.... Imagine my disappointment today when going to my computer pulling up Haaretz today (to check news from the M.E.) and I saw this story concerning Oliver Stone:
Haaretz' headline was: Oliver Stone: Jewish control of the media is preventing free Holocaust debate
I had to look twice... Stone is a well-known activist. He supports Alan Greyson in his add about being a candidate for Peace (though you can bet not so much after this comes out). So what does Stone say:
Jewish control of the media is preventing an open discussion of the Holocaust, prominent Hollywood director Oliver Stone told the Sunday Times, adding that the U.S. Jewish lobby was controlling Washington's foreign policy for years.
In the Sunday interview, Stone reportedly said U.S. public opinion was focused on the Holocaust as a result of the "Jewish domination of the media," adding that an upcoming film of him aims to put Adolf Hitler and Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin "in context."
Excellent a "two-fer". We have TEH JOOZ controlling the media and the U.S. Congress. At least Stone doesn't try to bullshit us with talk of Zionists in control... He calls it the way he sees it.
Now Stone rightly points out that Hitler and Stalin were the result of a series of events and Hitler had friends..rich friends that put him in power. BUT.. to contextualize the Holocaust starts to go beyond the Pale.
He mentions that the many more Russians were killed in World War II than Jews. This is true... but the Jews were exterminated in a systematic way in Death Camps designed to exterminate them from the face of the Earth, unlike the Russians who perished in War, and by the political hand of their own horrible leader Josef Stalin. It was a very different situation - it was not a targeted extermination. At least not at that point.
But Stone insists that it is the Corporatists leading the way. Along that though he has to give a nudge to the very sentiments that led to the Holocaust and the War. Here he has some illustrious company.. Mel Gibson, Mahomoud Ahmadinejhad, David Duke.... Great.
So for you Mr. Stone I send this poem.
Tribute to the Holocaust Victims
By Irving Silver
They all walked the path of life,
Which was filled with love and strife,
They were loved by one and all,
These people who stood so tall,
They lived,they died,
Their friends they cried,
Their loss to their families was hard to bear,
But we know that they are now in God's care,
For he has embraced their soul,
They have reached their final goal,
All of them are in the Kingdom of God now, and in His embrace,
He is holding them tight and kissing their face,
Their suffering is over, their souls are at rest,
They will be God's children, as his eternal guest.
I will never watch another of your films again and my children will grow up knowing you for the hatred you spew. You had power through your films to make the World a better place. To inform us so we would learn from the lessons you learned as a soldier and person. Instead you choose to throw it way on vile hatred and anti-Semitic meme's. I am so incredibly disappointed in you and your beliefs.
I won't use the terms I really want to here out of respect for our site. I hope G-d can forgive you Mr. Stone... I can't.