FW: [PEN-L:20044] RE: Screening: _People and the Land_ (Thursday, Nov. 29)

Max Sawicky sawicky at bellatlantic.net
Tue Nov 27 14:59:09 PST 2001


***** The point of Tom Hayes' 1997 documentary, "People and the Land," is clear: what Israelis are doing to Palestinians is an American issue. It should be of concern not only to Muslim Americans, or Arab Americans, or Jewish Americans, but to all tax-paying Americans.

The film begins with a shot panning across the legend written in stone on the Internal Revenue Service building: "Taxes are what we pay for a civilized society." Then it explains that $77,726,000,000,000 of those tax dollars (the total figure at the moment Hayes edited the film and a sum that increases by $15 million per day) have been granted to a country that is carrying out a most uncivilized occupation. . . .

Hmmm. $78 trillion.

Total Federal tax revenue, 1947-1997: $22 trillion. Hmmm.

I am concerned.

mbs



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