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The Australian Defense Force has banned the screening of Fahrenheit 9/11 on all of the country's military bases, the Sydney Morning Herald reported today (Tuesday). A spokesman for the defense department told the newspaper: "It is not appropriate for Defense to be seen to be supporting any film of an overtly political nature." The newspaper said that the film's Australian distributor, Hopscotch, had received a request from a soldier to show the film. Troy Lum, managing director of Hopscotch, told the paper: "This guy said everybody on the base was talking about the film and they want to see it. ... He also said it was the first time that anything had been censored. He is disgusted. We are appalled and surprised."

[Ocker]

Disgusting. Basically, the Government is saying "this might make you question the war your fellow-soldiers are risking their lives for, so it's better you don't see it."

Hell, supporting Moore, and whether you agree with him or not is irrelevant here.

[Maxim Litvinov]

The ADF have said that they haven't refused to show Fahrenheit 9/11 on any defence base or ship. They say that they only refused to let people see it for free - the promoters were offering it free to ADF personnel.

Instead, the ADF said that Fahrenheit 9/11 could only be shown - like all other movies - provided that patrons paid to see it, because it wasn't going to do any 'deal' with Hopscotch.

[Yeddi]

It makes perfect sense, the army is for indoctrination, it may as well be soemthing that Johnny supports.

[Bricktop]

Thankyou for clearing that up Maxim

Drummond