Signers want Dinesh D'Souza's patriotic film shown on
military bases
Published: 6 hours ago
NEW YORK – A petition on the White House website asks
for 100,000 signatures by July 17 to reach the goal of petitioning the Obama
administration to allow Dinesh D’Souza’s new documentary “America” to be
released on U.S. military bases around the world.
The petition reads: “The feature film ‘America’ from the
Oscar-winning producer Gerald R. Molen and the creator of the film ’2016: Obama’s America,’ Dinesh D’Souza, is scheduled to release through
Lionsgate Films on July 2nd, 2014, on 1,000 screens across the United States.
“At this time,” it continues, “there are no plans for
the film to be released on U.S. military bases around the world. Since this is
a patriotic film that celebrates America, we are asking the White House to
allow this film to be seen by the men and women who have sacrificed for our
country, at movie theaters around the world which happen to be located on U.S.
military installations.”
On June 17, a person identified only by the initials
“B.N.” in Burbank, California, placed the petition on the White House website.
So far, the petition has 317 signatures.
Petitions placed on the White House website are
created by people who sign up for “We the People” at WhiteHouse.gov and are not
presumed to be pre-approved by the Obama administration, or necessarily in
support of current Obama administration plans and policies.
New York Times blackout
In addition to being shut out from screenings on U.S.
military bases around the world, D’Souza’s book “America: Imagine a World Without
Her,” written as
a companion to the movie, is also being shut of from the New York Times
bestseller list.
Last week, the Washington Examiner reported D’Souza’s book “America” is not scheduled to appear on the New York Times
bestseller list for the next two weeks, even though sales as reported by
various book industry sales totaling organizations would place D’Souza’s book
among the top 25 titles nationwide.
On Sunday, June 22, Amazon.com had D’Souza’s book “America” listed at No. 29 in the ranking of the
bestselling books on Amazon.com.
D’Souza told WND last week that he expects book sales
once the movie is in theaters will reach levels the New York Times will find
impossible to ignore.
As WND reported, D’Souza began his journey across America with a
premiere screening before an overflow advance audience in New York City at the
Regal Union Square Stadium 14 theater complex in Union Square.
“I want this to be an inspiring film,” D’Souza
explained to the audience in a Q&A session after the screening. “I wanted
to bring to life key elements of American history.”
Parked outside the theater complex on Broadway,
D’Souza’s tour bus offered rock star-like advertisement for the film, with a
larger-than-life portrait of D’Souza painted against the landscape and historic
monuments of the nation.
“This film is my attempt to defend America when the
American left is attacking the idea of the nation in moral terms, portraying
America as a land where wealth has been stolen,” D’Souza said. “In this film, I
counter the leftist critique of America head on.”
The screening on both screens in the Union Square
movie theater complex in New York City ended with a sustained standing ovation.
In developing the storyline of his new documentary,
D’Souza draws on Howard Zinn’s socialist-inspired, bestselling college textbook
“A People’s History of the United States: 1482 to Present” to articulate the
leftist indictment of the United States.
Documented through a series of interviews from
prominent leftist authors and activists ranging from Norm Chomsky to former
professor Ward Churchill, D’Souza shows how America is portrayed as a
racially-oppressive nation, where power has been accumulated through
imperialist foreign wars and domestic class warfare that oppresses people of
color, starting with the indigenous Indian tribes displaced form their lands
and slaves brought in chains from Africa.
In the second act of the film, D’Souza articulates a
compelling view of American exceptionalism in which, he argues, America should
not be condemned for slavery, a crime common to many nations in the age of
conquest, but should be praised for being a nation willing to fight a great
civil war that ended slavery.
D’Souza’s previous documentary, “2016: Obama’s America,” became the second-highest box office grossing political
documentary in movie history in an election year narrative that traced the
source of Barack Obama’s rage against the United States to the anti-colonial
attitudes of his socialist Kenyan father.
On May 20, WND reported D’Souza pleaded guilty in a U.S. Federal
District Court in New York City of violating FEC laws in reimbursing two
friends in cash for making contributions on his behalf to Wendy Long’s U.S.
Senate campaign in 2012.
WND also reported Gerald Molen, the producer of both D’Souza’s
feature film documentaries characterized D’Souza’s criminal indictment as a
Soviet-style “political prosecution.”
“When Dinesh D’Souza can be prosecuted for making a
movie, every American should ask themselves one question: ‘What will I do to
preserve the First Amendment?’” Molen asked.
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