Posted on 12/18/2014 2:18:18 PM PST by Thistooshallpass9
Now they're canceling 'The Interview' because North Korea threw a hissy fit? Man, this is such an embarrassment. I have no idea if this movie is any good or not. It sounds pretty stupid and it has Seth Rogen in it, so I doubt we're dealing with Citizen Kane here. Still, that fat little psycho in North Korea deserves to be ruthlessly insulted. Mocking genocidal maniacs is as American as apple pie. I'm all for it. As long as we remember that, as enjoyable as it is to make fun of this puffy dimwit, there really isn't anything funny about what's going on in that country.
Many of the citizens are starving to death. They don't even have electricity in most areas of the country. Their GDP per capita is about 1/50th of ours. Innocent people are regularly locked away in political prison camps, where even the family members of dissidents can be imprisoned and murdered. Anyone who tries to leave the country can be killed. Anyone who practices unsanctioned religions can be killed. North Korea is probably the most backwards, despotic, evil regime on the planet.
And that just makes it all the more tragic that Sony caved to them. So they threatened to attack movie theaters for showing the movie? Who cares? Let them try. The US could end the North Korean regime in half an hour. Kim Jong un might be a bloodthirsty despot, but he's also a childish, ridiculous bully who poses no physical threat to anyone outside of his borders. He lacks the ability to blow up an American movie theater even if he wanted to. And he doesn't really want to because, foolish as he might be, he knows that attacking the United States would be the quickest form of suicide. You could probably send one team of SEALS in there and overthrow the whole government before lunch.
Yet these people actually succeeded in waging cyber war against an American corporation, and then succeeded in convincing that same corporation and hundreds of movie theaters to cower in fear? Is this what America has become? This is like the chubby bully on the playground kicking a UFC fighter in the shins, and the UFC fighter runs away crying. It's almost impossible to believe that this is happening.
Look, I'm not an interventionist guy. I don't think the US should go around picking fights. But we're still the US. This is our country. When absurd little nations like North Korea try to smack us around, we have to respond in a way that makes it clear we're the big boys on campus. You can't let them win. Ever.
They’re quite rabid out there and Amy Pascal is a pure political animal. Left wing politics is in everything she does.
http://twitchy.com/2014/12/18/gives-new-meaning-to-sonyhack-amy-pascal-asked-richard-grenell-what/
Good point.
Of course Paramount is not giving permission.
I imagine that they would have zero problem showing that latest crap Star Trek movie though...
No, it's more like the chubby bully kicking a corporate lawyer or CEO, which I guess the bully could get away with. Corporations aren't governments. they don't have armies and can't compel or wreak epic vengeance. They operate within a commercial-legal framework. So it's not surprising that foreign governments that work outside that framework can take advantage of them.
Look, I'm not an interventionist guy. I don't think the US should go around picking fights. But we're still the US. This is our country. When absurd little nations like North Korea try to smack us around, we have to respond in a way that makes it clear we're the big boys on campus. You can't let them win. Ever.
What "us"? Take it up with the Japanese. It's their company. Even if it weren't, I'd have a hard time with the identification of our country with Hollywood's trash merchants.
You don’t cower.
If you are convinced the terrorist threats are legitimate, you still move forward.
Make it a travelling road show.
Use large capacity arenas where we already know how to set up special event security to ensure the safety of the public.
You put your best cyber team on alert and work with fandango, and visa, and mc so you can track any attempts to infiltrate the purchase records.
You work with the media to ensure live shots of huge lines, packed 18,000 seat arenas, and people laughing on their way out.
You mirror the network for all the various production companies associated with Carrell’s now benched film. You declare publicly that we won’t be cowed, that the film will go forward, and you set the trap.
And then as soon as you confirm conclusively where the attacks are coming from, you go public, give details, and turn loose the NSA, the DIA, and if necessary even Anon.
You fry their networks, and the networks of any complicit country, corporation, organization, or individual.
You put a Burke (or a few) off their coast at 12.1 miles and inform them that if even an unauthorized gull takes flight it will come down, and that if so much as a stray dog crosses the fence into the DMZ that it will meet Mr. Tomahawk.
The rights of the American people are inviolable, and we will defend them with every tool, every man, and every penny at our disposal. If the Japanese corporations who make their millions and billions through the exercise of those rights protest, inform them they are welcome to leave...
By caving to the terrorists and cancelling the movie, Sony is saying that they have absolutely no confidence in the Obama administration’s ability (or desire?) to protect the citizens of this country.
hissy fit?
No, this was a serious cyber attack, accompanied by threats of terrorism. Our country was attacked, obviously by Kim Kong-un.
If we had a President rather than an America hater, every internet connected computer in NK would do nothing more than play the Star Spangled Banner over & over.
ITS a FRIGGIN HOLLOW WOOD MOVIE !!!!
Lets get serious about the “hack” .......unless Sony was just not serious about their internet protection, which I doubt, the “Hacking” of SONY should be the BIG news with a minor mention of the movie(s)involved.
Hollywood and Sony have no balls, but we knew that didn’t we, they’re mostly Liberals.
The Catholic Church wouldn’t threaten to bomb movie theaters showing the movie.
I know I wouldn’t go to any movie theater showing the movie that has been threatened with a terrorist attack. The theaters are the ones who have said they are not showing the movie for that very reason.
theaters aren’t allowed to show the film by Sony
I was wondering if not only did Sony cave, but was Obama’s Cuba move due to pressure from NK. Maye North Korea has proof of what we already know.
The theaters have been told by their lawyers not to show the movie so Sony cannot distribute it. It all comes down to money, nothing more.
“I know I wouldn’t go to any movie theater showing the movie that has been threatened with a terrorist attack. “
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I would——I would never hide.
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I would. But I play odds. If they’re gonna bust up some theater it probably won’t be one in Tucson, I’ll be fine.
I thought it was the other way around and that’s why Sony pulled the picture.
Just like Paramount didn’t let theaters show TEAM AMERICA in its place
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