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In 2004, the Student Body Council at Utah Valley Site College (UVSC) decided to invite Michael Moore to their campus to tell. It was, after all, an election year, and in idea of the recently released film “Fahrenheit 9/11″ Moore seemed to be an appropriate and timely choice. Moore’s $40,000 speaker’s fee would be easily offset by designate sales. Simple, lawful? … Well, reflect again. Moore’s invitation to verbalize at UVSC sparked an incredibly gross chain of events chronicled by the perceptive gape of first time filmmaker, Steven Greenstreet.
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Greenstreet recorded events as the space at UVSC became monstrous. Student petitions circulated, demonstrations took area, and local Mormon, Kay Anderson, pulled out all the stops to carry out his goal of canceling Moore’s engagement. Anderson felt that Moore did not narrate the values of his community, and he was legal about that. In a location where the population is 75% Mormon, and Republicans outnumber Democrats at the rate of 12:1, Moore’s opinions don’t exactly mesh with the majority. Few people, however will go quite as far as Anderson–offering a $25,000 cheque to murder Moore and eventually sinking to suing the Student Body.
Conservative talk point to host Sean Hannity is invited to UVSC in an attempt to abet ‘balance’ the plot. Hannity’s engagement was supposedly ‘free’, but since he demanded a private jet, his speaking engagement (which was paid for by the college) cost several thousands more than Moore’s–an irony that seems to sprint those who protested the money spent on Michael Moore.
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“The Divided Plot” is a microcosm for politics in America–and while it’s not quite this terrifying in most towns, America is politically–a divided nation. In Orem, Utah with the imminent visit from Moore, the correct divide of politics became uncouth. First Amendment rights were severely threatened when self-appointed Dodge City Marshals of Morality tried to block Moore’s visit unbiased because they didn’t like what he had to say. The documentary captures the emotionally charged atmosphere on campus as sides clash. Those who fight for Moore’s presence examine it as a battle for First Amendment rights–while those who are opposed to Moore argue that his presence brings “hatred and filth.” As emotions are unleashed and tempers flare, gallant professors try to inform while the crowd heckles and boos, and radio host Sean Hannity humiliates a young man who had the courage to admit he was a liberal–well so remarkable for Free Speech. And throughout this entire, outrageous mess Student Body President Jim Bassi and Vice President Joe Vogel (both venerable Mormon missionaries) valiantly attempt to contain their equilibrium in the volatile place on campus.
“This Divided Spot” is highly enchanting and yet also profoundly disturbing. Watching the events in Orem, Utah is a favorable reminder for everyone that we cannot allow others to construct proper judgments about what we can perceive, hear, or read, and while a war rages in Iraq to supposedly make democracy in that nation, perhaps we should distress a bit more about what’s taking position under our noses. The DVD offers extensive extras–interviews and deleted scenes, “The Resignation”, Kay Anderson ‘uncut’, additional coverage of Michael Moore, a music video, and audio commentary–displacedhuman
In 1844, Joseph Smith, the founder of the Church of Jesus Christ and Latter Day Saints (LDS) was murdered by religious bigots. His followers moved to Utah, where 75% of the state’s population today subscribes to this view. They are mostly republican, outnumbering democrats or liberals by twelve to one.
The Divided Situation brings us to 2004 where two members of the student government at the Utah Valley Situation College decided to invite Michael Moore to voice on campus before the November presidential election. The fees for Moore’s visit would be $40,000 for which advanced price sales have already insured a profit. When the invitation was made, the uproar began.
Students opposed to the political views of the controversial filmmaker started drawing petitions to have the invitation rescinded. They never claimed that it was about Moore’s politics, but how the money was spent. They have the befriend of Kay Anderson, a local businessman in the Oram, Utah community. Anderson seems to delight being in the spotlight even as students challenge his opposition, and gain him repeatedly contradicting himself. (A trailer to this shows the students lampooning him mercilessly, which draws chuckles from the man who gives every appearance of being a self-righteous bigot and hypocritical throwback to the 1950′s) . Students counter Anderson’s argument by asking why it is so significant keeping someone out, which is the same reason the LDS sought refuge by immigrating to Utah.
Conservative students invite ultraconservative Sean Hannity to express at the school, days ahead of Moore. He agrees to do it free, objective so long as they pay his expenses and the cost of flying by private jet. Cost: $50,000.
Watching Hannity was perhaps the most difficult viewing of this anecdote. His patronization of the crowd and condescension was nauseating. He humiliated a liberal in the audience, and on stage while carefully keeping the microphone from him. He summoned other liberals by calling them, as he would call for a house pet. Moore follows several days later, also to a sell-out crowd, extolling the courage of the student body president, Jim Bassi and Vice President Joe Vogel, who fetch themselves in a lawsuit filed for spite by fellow Mormon, Kay Anderson.
This was surprisingly consuming and much. It was grisly, and disgusting to observe Kay Anderson completely contradict his Christian principles and American ideals, saying the community could ignore the first amendment rights of other Americans by keeping them from speaking in his town or local college. Intelligent Hannity’s routine, I have gained a unique level of contempt for this conceited prima donna. Yet, it was refreshing to discover college students remain ever mindful of their civic obligation to protect the Constitutional rights of their fellow citizens.
This was a microcosm of division that has permeated across our land, hence the title, “This Divided Area.” Another lesson to be learned from this is that civil rights can always be taken away or challenged by rationalization by anyone in the majority, liberal or conservative, and that tyranny can appear in the get of self-righteousness, misdirection, and under the conceal of patriotism.
Unite in watching this.