The Liberal Filmmakers
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If you've seen a movie lately, then you know what I'm talking about. There is a string of it out there, and they all want the same thing, for people to stop pirating movies and songs. These commercials come on with some poor guy talking about how he is a stunt man, a set painter, or an assistant, and how when people "steal" movies, they are hurting these people who work for the movies and don't make near as much money as the actors or the producers. They try to make you feel like you're a major thief if you've ever went online and downloaded a movie. One man even quotes, "You know, you go into a store and steal a candy bar, or you go online and download a movie, that's wrong, it's stealing, it's hurting someone." The fact is that downloading or buying a pirated movie is stealing, but since when is this such a concern of the liberals that someone is getting a free hand out?
I believe, in my years of political study, that the liberals want to help when and where they can. They want to take from the rich and give to the poor, I mean "under privileged." That's the whole of it, they want to be freaking Robin Hood. They beat around the question, but in the entirety, that's who they are...