One Man Can Make a Difference…
… or a least raise a helluva ruckus ….
People in England are smart. You can tell by the accent.
So, it’s no surprise that a British judge is set to rule that schools will have to issue a warning before showing Al Gore’s movie, An Inconvenient Truth, in classrooms.
The ruling was in response to a lawsuit brought by London cabbie, Stewart Dimmock, who sued the government after it announced plans to distribute the ex-next-President’s film to be shown in grade schools throughout the country.
The lead judge in the case will announce his ruling next week but has already noted the film does promote “partisan political views.”
Unless this judge presided over a case where the police had a high-definition video of a convenience store robbery and the police caught the guy with the stolen items in a bag as he came out of the store, this had to be the easiest case this judge ever had to decide.
Saying the film contains inaccuracies, exaggerations and promotes partisan political views is like saying Britney Spears has a drinking problem. The only way this case takes three days to decide is if the judge took two and a half days off to party at the beach.
As it turns out, the final ruling will likely uphold the government’s decision to distribute the film but will require that teachers precede the film with a warning, kind of like the warning on a pack of cigarettes.
The difference is, almost no one is willing to let cigarette companies market toward children. Apparently, the same doesn’t hold for hysterical predictions and second-hand science.
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October 9th, 2007 at 5:34 pm
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