Another Underage Child Stars in an R-Rated Sex Movie

Actress Dakota Fanning's irresponsible handlers, including, apparently, her mother, have put the 15-year-old star in another adult drama, this time one that includes a "steamy" lesbian kiss, a "heavily implied" lesbian sex scene, and scenes of snorting cocaine in bathrooms.

The movie is about the early career of openly lesbian rock star Joan Jett and her first band.

Even Kirk Honeycutt, a film critic for The Hollywood Reporter, wondered whether the movie glamorizes the addictive behavior depicted in the script.

Dr. Ted Baehr, founder and publisher of MOVIEGUIDE®, told WorldNetDaily, the famous news website, "I think fame and fortune have corrupted [Dakota's] mother, and they have unfortunately made some bad calls that are getting worse by the second. Those decisions have become abhorrent."

Dr. Baehr added, "95% of the time, when an actress starts to go down this road of doing cutting-edge parts, her career crumbles because most moms and dads, and even most teenagers, don't like these kinds of movies."

When younger, Dakota's movies were honored by Movieguide®, but 2007's HOUNDDOG marked a abhorrent turn in her road to stardom. In HOUNDDOG, Dakota's character is raped, but Dakota was 13-years-old at the time the movie was made.

She's now gone on to be a part of the blood-sucking TWILIGHT vampire movies and now stars in THE RUNAWAYS as a drug-addicted, teenage rock singer who gets involved in a lesbian affair with Joan Jett.

Fanning has already shot her part in the third TWILIGHT installment and will have the lead role in BETSY AND THE EMPEROR about Napoleon's supposedly platonic relationship with a teenage girl.

The sexualization of children and young teenagers is one of the most reprehensible goals of the left-wing, Neo-Freudian establishment, forged in the neo-fascist revolutionary fires of Marxism in the late 1800s and early 1900s and refined in the socialist upheavals of the Cultural Neo-Marxism and revolutionary zeal of 1960s radicals and terrorists like Bill Ayers and his wife, political allies and too many friends of the current administration.

Please help MOVIEGUIDE® protect children like Dakota Fanning, and millions of others across the globe, from this sadistic abuse of our youths, and this abhorrent destruction of innocence and purity.

After all, Jesus says in Matthew 18:6 that, if anyone causes a child to sin or do evil, "it would be better for him to have a large millstone hung around his neck and be drowned in the depths of the sea."

Jesus then exclaims, in Matthew 18:7, "Woe to the world because of the things that cause people to sin! Such things must come, but woe to the man through whom they come!"

God bless those, however, who work to defeat the kinds of sins and evil that come from movies like THE RUNAWAYS and that come from the debasement of children and youths like Dakota Fanning!

The Story of Shelley Lubben, 
Former Porn Star

by Judith Reisman, PhD

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Chris Hedges, in Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle, writes that the “cruelty” of the “new” pornography “takes a toll on the bodies, as well as the emotions, of porn actresses.” But someone is trying to help them:

The Pink Cross booth has a table of anti-porn tracts and is set up in the far corner of the Sands Expos Convention Center in Las Vegas. It is an unlikely participant at the annual Adult Video News (AVN) expo. Pink Cross is a Christian outreach program for women in the porno industry, run by ex-porn star Shelley Lubben.

I first watched Shelley Lubben on YouTube in early 2009. An “ex-porn star,” she has created the Pink Cross (www.thepinkcross.org) as a public charity to reach out to “adult industry workers, offering emotional, financial and transitional support.” In the YouTube segment, filmed before a church audience, Shelley describes her past life and her current work. A tall, stately woman, she treads the boards, moving her hands to emphasize her words, looking directly and earnestly at her listeners.

As a veteran student of pornography and prostitution, I did not expect to learn anything new from watching Shelley Lubben’s public testimony. I was wrong. Shelley’s description of the sexual violence and degradation of modern pornography was a shock, even to me. It made me think that it made perfect sense to hear that she had left her economically rewarding “star” roles to return to a safer life doing “straight” prostitution. The “glamour” of porn is only a mask:

You have to do what they want on the sets. . . . Girls . . . feel like stars. They get attention. . . . They don’t realize the degradation. . . . Raised on porn, [they] don’t even ask if it’s wrong. . . . They get into drugs to numb themselves. They get their [bodies] ripped. . . . They get HPV and herpes, and they turn themselves off emotionally and die.

Shelley says such women totally lose their identity and live on drugs and alcohol. They cannot plan, save their money, or eat properly. The survivors commonly have only sexual diseases and “fake boobs” to show for their lives in porn. She used to be one of them.

The Back Story

In the autobiography she wrote for her website (www.shelleylubben.com), Shelley, born in 1968, notes that she attended “a good church” with her family and that, “as a little girl, I knew and loved Jesus very much.” Unfortunately, her stable if unaffectionate family moved to another location and stopped going to church. Television became the basis of their family life. A creative child, Shelley put on her own plays at her elementary school, with the approval of her amazed first-grade teacher.

Then, at age nine, a classmate and the girl’s teenage brother sexually molested Shelley. With no one to turn to or redress her abuse, Shelley defused her anxiety via autoeroticism and furtive sexual forays with both girls and boys. “It felt good to be wanted by someone and to receive attention, but at the same time I felt dirty. I didn’t recognize until much later that my entire childhood had been sexually hijacked.”

She carried shame and self-blame into her teen years. “It must be something evil in me,” she thought. She “started having sex at age 16” and became a “rebellious resentful teenager who acted out to get attention.” Hoping to keep peace in the home, her parents let Shelley dress up as a Playboy bunny and date strange boys, who led her into drug and alcohol abuse. The family tried counseling to no avail. Unable to understand what to do, her parents “told me to leave home at age 18.”

She landed in the San Fernando valley with no food and no money. “A ‘nice’ man saw I was upset and told me how sorry he was.” Still shocked and angry about being kicked out the house, so “that I didn’t care any more . . . I sold myself for $35.”

Thus Shelley entered the “glamorous” life of prostitution, but the money, jewelry, and gifts soon included bizarre sex with strangers who stalked her, slashed her tires, and threatened to kill her if she demurred from performing certain sex acts. One man tried to kill her with his truck, and she often had to lie her way out of frightening situations. During her eight years as a prostitute and exotic dancer, she had two miscarriages and one birth. Little Tiffany grew up living “with a lewd wild woman.”

Now a single mom, “Jesus kept tugging at my heart,” Shelley writes, “but I ignored him. I figured, God wasn’t taking care of me, so I had to do whatever I could to survive.”

Most of her prostitution money went for drugs and alcohol to blot out the trauma of her life. To avoid the rapes and arrests for prostitution, she turned to pornography because “it seemed safer and more legal.” However, even prostitution did not involve the brutal kinds of rape and degradation that she endured while “starring” in pornography. Soon she was required to do very hardcore scenes.

[O]nly more drugs and alcohol could get me through them. . . . I sold what was left of my heart, mind and femininity to the porn industry and the woman and person in me died completely on the porn set.” After becoming infected with herpes, I quietly left the porn industry but went back to prostitution to survive.

The Rescue

In 1994 Shelley met her husband Garrett at a bar. At first she refused his requests for a date, but when she finally accepted and the two went out, they became instant friends. Garret was raised in a Christian home and had attended a Christian school. He wanted to rescue Shelley. She says, “He was a friend to a prostitute, just like Jesus. We knew God was working in our lives, so we turned back to Jesus and got married on February 14, 1995.”

It was a rough marriage, but Shelley says God sent them to a church called Champions Centre in Tacoma, Washington, where they learned “to live a champion life.”

With God, I had true forgiveness from all my sins and a chance to grow into a whole new person without being perfect first. That was a relief! I learned that God loved me unconditionally, regardless of my past, and even had a plan for my future. God had a plan for my life? It was like someone turned the light on for me.

Shelley says she “practiced God’s principles in everything I did.” She learned web design and operated her own web design business for four years. She also attended college and got a bachelor’s degree in theology and counseling. She had walked into Champions Centre “broken and shattered,” she says. Eight years later, she was a

Champion woman healed and excited to live life! God restored me from drugs, alcohol addiction, painful memories, mental illness, sexual addiction, sexual trauma, and the guilt and shame from my past. . . . He also restored my femininity and healed my sexuality, which is a major miracle for me.

Shelley reports herself cured not only of herpes but also of cervical cancer. In addition, she says, “God also healed our marriage in a remarkable way. Garrett and I have a beautiful and loving relationship and are best friends!” Their “three beautiful daughters are being raised as Champions,” and, says Shelley, her daughter Tiffany has forgiven her and “allows me to be a mother to her.”

The Ministry

As a child, Shelley had dreamed of being a preacher. Having received her bachelor’s of theology degree, she is indeed a preacher now, sharing her testimony of transformation and rescue out of drugs, porn, and prostitution “by the power of Jesus Christ.” Her website says:

Now happily married to Garrett, her husband, and the mother of three daughters, Shelley takes a message of transformation against-all-odds to prisons, TV, radio, film, conferences and rescue missions. She has been a guest on talk shows such as Dr. Phil, Michael Reagan and most recently, FOXNews. Her message is one of exposing the $57 billion porn industry for what it is—full of lies and deceit, addiction and broken lives. Shelley maintains that women who turn to the industry to make money “probably didn’t grow up in healthy childhoods.

“Almost all pornography performers were sexually assaulted as children,” she says, but hide their broken hearts. “That would kill the fantasy, now wouldn’t it?” She told Chris Hedges:

Porn is like any other addiction. . . . First, you are curious. Then you need harder and harder drugs to get off. You need gang bangs and bestiality and child porn. Porn gets grosser and grosser. . . . And meanwhile the addicts make their wives feel like they can’t live up to the illusion of the porn star. . . . He wants what isn’t real. Porn destroys intimacy.

She says, “God now sends me out to proclaim to the world the reality of his awesome love. I also want everyone to know that whatever God did for me, he will do for you. He’ll do this because he loves you and sent his Son Jesus in order to give you a whole new life.”

Shelley tells the women she rescues that God has a plan for their lives and that they “were made for greater things.” Her website offers the real stories of these women, and includes a tragic Dead Porn Stars Memorial.

Shelley’s story is indeed inspirational. “All I wanted was a normal life. Then I discovered the truth. Sure enough, I finally found the life I always wanted.”

Judith Reisman, PhD, author of Kinsey, Crimes & Consequences, "Soft Porn" Plays Hard Ball, Kinsey, Sex & Fraud, and Principal Investigator for Images of Children, Crime & Violence in Playboy, Penthouse and Hustler, 1989, US Dpt of Justice, Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, Grant No. 84-JN-AX-K007 (drjudithreisman.com)

Will America Idolize Homosexuality?

By David Outten

For eight years AMERICAN IDOL has been one of the most popular programs on television. Last year it attracted enough Christian viewers to give clean-cut Kris Allen what appeared to be an upset victory over the very talented, openly homosexual Adam Lambert.

This year AMERICAN IDOL has replaced judge Paula Abdul with the famed lesbian celebrity Ellen Degeneres.

Why?

Like President Obama declaring June 2009 Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month this choice is intended to send a message: "Homosexuality is normal and acceptable."

The path to legal gay marriage is paved by the social acceptance of homosexuality. The largest voting block holding up progress (in the minds of those who want gay marriage) is Christians.

If gay marriage is to become acceptable to more Americans voters it will be because popular programs, like AMERICAN IDOL, present homosexuals as ordinary folks. Ellen Degeneres is about as non-threatening an image as you can present. When you see Ellen you don't think about 500,000 Americans dying of AIDS. You don't think about what homosexuals do to contract the disease. You don't think about how many partners the average gay has in a year. You think, "She looks normal. Everyone knows she's gay. Maybe gays are just normal people."

Many people who read this article will think, "He must be a hate-filled homophobe." Far from it. I consider the 500,000 Americans who've died from AIDS a horrible tragedy. Ian Charlston, the actor who so wonderfully played the Christian missionary Eric Liddell in one of my favorite movies, CHARIOTS OF FIRE, died of AIDS when he was only 40. I wish he was alive today to play in a sequel that tells the story of Eric's missionary work in China. I respect homosexuals as human beings. I pray for them, not against them.

Many people sincerely believe they were born with desires to engage in behavior God has called abominable. They were.

We were all born selfish sinners with evil desires - some different than others. Were it not for our training we would all grow up pursuing self-gratification (whatever direction our desires take us). Instead, we are taught to share. We are taught to be patient. We are taught to be responsible, courteous and respectful. We are taught right from wrong.

I believe the world would be a far better place if we learned what is right and what is wrong from the one who made us - God. But more is required than just instruction. You can teach children right and wrong based on God's laws, but you will not know the full will of God for your life or escape the pull of sin without repentance and the forgiveness of sin made possible through Jesus Christ.

When you really make Jesus Christ Lord of your life you hunger and thirst for righteousness, not just for yourself, but for others as well. You feel compassion for those you see as living in bondage to sin. You see homosexuals as people trapped in self-denying and self-destructive behavior. You see them as either blind to the truth that would set them free, or boldly rebellious. Many live with a sense of guilt they have a hard time dealing with.

The solution is repentance and forgiveness - not a media campaign to convince Christians that homosexuality is morally acceptable.

The people who produce AMERICAN IDOL want you to vote for AMERICAN IDOL with your television remote and later they hope you'll vote at the ballot box for gay marriage.

Let's be honest. The reason homosexuals are adamant in their pursuit of gay marriage is more than just a desire for legally binding relationships between same-gender couples. They hate being looked at as immoral. Marriage is a stamp of moral legitimacy. There may come a day when gays can marry in any state in the United States. This will not bring complete satisfaction.

The problem gays have is that they want a clean conscience while engaging in a lifestyle God has condemned. Legalizing gay marriage may give them the kind of thrill you get when your favorite team wins a championship. The thrill would be over a political victory. But, as long as there's someone out there who looks as them and says, "God considers your behavior immoral," they will be uncomfortable.

Christians do not define righteousness with their votes. If AMERICAN IDOL's ratings go up, and America votes for gay marriage, homosexuality will not become moral. God determined what's moral long ago. We would be wise to vote accordingly with our remotes and our votes.

If Christians are offended by Adam Lambert shoving another man's face into his crotch at the American Music Awards they are free to change the channel. If they believe God designed marriage as a sacred institution joining a man and a woman then they have the right to vote their beliefs in a voting booth.

In my household my wife and my mother-in-law have watched almost every episode of AMERICAN IDOL. This year they plan to vote for something else. My wife and her mother are not filled with hate or rage. They simply want to cast their vote for what they appreciate - righteousness. I'm proud of them.

Another View: INVICTUS Idolatry

By Peter Hammond

Editor's Note: "Invictus" won MOVIEGUIDE(r) Faith & Freedom Award, so the movie has merit. However, our friend Dr. Peter Hammond points out that it has many historical flaws. Dr. Peter Hammond has been a pioneer missionary in Africa and the author of many books. This article is reprinted by permission.

This stirring new film on South Africa's 1995 Rugby World Cup victory includes serious distortions of history.  Directed by Clint Eastwood and starring Morgan Freeman as President Nelson Mandela, "Invictus" makes a major contribution towards the building up of the mythology of Nelson Mandela as a modern day idol.

Their Finest Hour

"Invictus" focuses on the New South Africa's finest hour as the Springbok rugby team, led by Francois Pienaar, won the World Cup.  It also focuses on President Nelson Mandela's finest hour as he donned the Springbok rugby team's green and gold jersey and cap and publically associated with the Springbok's triumph.

There is no doubt that this was probably Nelson Mandela's most astute move to appear in public at the World Cup Finals in the Springbok uniform jersey and cap.  One billion people were watching.  This was, as Morgan Freeman playing Nelson Mandela in the film declared: "An opportunity!"  Indeed any wise politician would seize the limelight and exploit such an opportunity to identify with their national team's greatest moment of triumph.

However, in the context of the racially polarized New South Africa, this gesture was meaningful and it was appreciated.  It particularly won Nelson Mandela much admiration and support from white South Africans to whom rugby was much more than their national sport.  However, it was a political token amidst a much broader context of Marxist violence.

Racial Stereotypes

This beautifully crafted, stirring and inspiring film, "Invictus", clearly has a political agenda.  It has dangerous distortions of reality and a selective focus which portrays the whites in South Africa as narrow minded, disgruntled, racial bigots.  In fact, all the white characters in "Invictus" are one or two dimensional, with no depth of character development seen.  Incredibly this even includes Matt Damon's portrayal of Francois Pienaar, the South African rugby team captain.  One never gets to see quite what makes him tick.  His leadership seems completely inadequate to explain this spectacular triumph of the Springboks over the previously unbeatable Australian and New Zealand rugby teams.

A Political Hijack

Incredibly, "Invictus" boldly gives all the credit for the Springbok's World Cup victory to President Nelson Mandela.  This must be the first time in history that any head of state has been given the credit for a sport team's achievements on the field.  Does Queen Elizabeth II get the credit if England's rugby team wins?  Was US President Bush credited with American Olympic athlete's achievements in Beijing?

An Astute Politician

It was undoubtedly a very wise and astute political move for Nelson Mandela to oppose his own party's plans to abolish the Springbok green and gold uniform and symbols.  Doubtless Nelson Mandela genuinely wanted the national team to win, not only for the desirable national unity it could inspire, but for the international prestige it could give to his government.

Ignoring the Context

However, the film maker should not have oversimplified the fascinating story by separating it from its real context of crime and violence after a brutal 30 year terrorist war waged by Nelson Mandela's ANC.

Imaginative Idolatry

Time and again the film focuses on Mandela's imprisonment on Robben Island, often with dream-like imaginative flashbacks of Nelson Mandela breaking rocks on Robben Island.  The film even includes a pilgrimage to Mandela's cell in the prison on Robben Island, but there is never any mention of why he was imprisoned.

The impression given is that he was imprisoned for opposing apartheid, but many people, including Bishop Desmond Tutu, vigorously opposed apartheid without ever being imprisoned.

The Unanswered Reason Why

The fact is that even Amnesty International refused to take on Nelson Mandela's case because they asserted that he was no political prisoner but had committed numerous violent crimes and had had a fair trial and a reasonable sentence.

Nelson Mandela was the head of UmKhonto we Sizwe, (MK), the terrorist wing of the ANC and South African Communist Party.  He had pleaded guilty to 156 acts of public violence including mobilizing terrorist bombing campaigns, which planted bombs in public places, including Johannesburg railway station.  Many innocent people, including women and children, were killed by Nelson Mandela's MK terrorists.

South African President P.W. Botha had, on a number of occasions, offered Nelson Mandela freedom from prison, if he would only renounce terrorist violence.  This Mandela refused to do.

New Maths

In "Invictus" Mandela's 26 years in jail, custody and prison becomes 30 years in the cell in Robben Island, even though prisoners on Robben Island were allowed to walk freely around the Island during the day and were only locked up at night.  No mention was made of the very comfortable warden's house at Victor Verster (five star) prison where Mandela spent his last years of confinement.

Inspiring Words

"Invictus" regularly portrays Nelson Mandela as a most gracious, kind and forgiving man.  Many most commendable words are put in his mouth including "the past is past.  We need your services.  We can only succeed with your help... reconciliation starts here.... forgiveness liberates the soul....forgiveness is a powerful weapon."

Only One Group Had Anything to Forgive?

Under Clint Eastwood's directorship, "Invictus" dogmatically asserts that Nelson Mandela and the black people needed to forgive the whites.  Never does the film portray how much the whites had to forgive people like Nelson Mandela and his ANC terrorists who were responsible for the murder of thousands of South Africans.  There is no mention in "Invictus" of the three decades of vicious terrorist warfare, including the burning down of thousands of schools, hacking to death of thousands of innocent people in homes and in the streets, pouring gasoline over a thousand innocent victims setting them alight, in the brutal necklace murders, the car bombs in public streets, limpet mines in shopping centres, petrol bombs and grenades through windows at night and assassinations.

Nor were economic sanctions which cost millions of jobs; and the sports boycott which had prevented the Springboks from competing internationally for decades referred to.

A Negotiated Settlement

At one point in the film, Morgan Freeman's Mandela character reminds his secretary: "The whites still control the army, the police and the economy."  That was correct, which gives the lie to the picture portrayed in "Invictus" of grudging, unwilling, narrow minded white racist bigots.

The fact is that white South Africans, who had the political, military and economic power and who had defeated Mandela's ANC terrorists consistently, willingly handed over the reigns of power after a negotiated settlement.

The Communist Connection

"Invictus" never mentions Nelson Mandela's open support for brutal communist regimes such as Fidel Castro's Cuba, Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe, Red China, Gadhaffi's Libya, Saddam Hussein, Yasar Arafat and other dictators.  During the very time covered by "Invictus" Mandela received Fidel Castro, the longest reigning dictator in the world, and gave him the highest award that South Africa could give and then had both Houses of Parliament gather to hear an address from the Cuban tyrant.

The Ugly Reality

During the very time covered by the movie many hundreds of white farmers, and their wives and children, were being brutally murdered, actually tortured to death, often by UmKhonto we Sizwe guerillas, many of whom were now part of the South African National Defence Force.

Double Standards

Although "Invictus" gives all glory for the Springbok Rugby World Cup win to Nelson Mandela, it does not attach any blame to him for the rising crime and plummeting economy.  During one short visual in the film Mandela looks at a newspaper headline which speaks of the rising crime and plummeting rand.  This reality deserved a little bit more attention. Under 46 years of National Party apartheid rule over 18,000 people had been killed by rioters, terrorists, by the police and the army, on all sides, including terrorists, civilian victims, military casualties, police. A total of 18,000 dead during 46 years of conflict.  However, in peace, under Nelson Mandela, an average of 20,000 to 25,000 people were murdered every year.

Fueling the Crime Wave

Yet to celebrate his birthdays, Mandela would regularly open the prison doors and set many criminals, including armed robbers, murderers and rapists, free. Some of whom were murdering and raping within 24 hours of being released.

Economic Deterioration

In the 1970s, even while facing terrorism, riots and engaged in a border war with the Cubans in Angola, the South African Rand was stronger than the US Dollar.  However, after years of US sanctions, the South African Rand had fallen to R2 to the Dollar.  Under Nelson Mandela even without any war, no sanctions, no riots, no conscription, and with massive international aid and investment, the Rand plummeted to R8 to the Dollar, and even R10 to the Dollar, then R12 and even to R14 to the Dollar for a time.  But according to "Invictus", no blame can be attached to Nelson Mandela for the economic deterioration and the sky-rocketing crime rate under his presidency.  However, he should be given all the credit for what the Springbok rugby team achieved on the field!

Legalising Abortion and Pornography

Viewers of "Invictus" also need to be aware that the kind and thoughtful gentleman portrayed in "Invictus" was the prime mover of the legalisation of abortion, pornography, gambling and homosexuality in South Africa and the introduction of sex education in public schools.  Since Nelson Mandela forced through the legalisation of abortion, not even allowing ANC MPs a conscience vote, and signed it into Law, 1 February 1997, over 900,000 South African babies have been killed through abortion, officially, legally and with tax-payers money.

Censoring Christianity

Another disturbing aspect of "Invictus" is the editing out of the Christian Faith of key members of the Springbok rugby team. There were many consistent reports of a core of the Springbok rugby team being Bible-believing Christians who regularly met for prayer before the matches.

Yet that is never depicted.  The film does give a very anemic presentation of the Springbok team kneeling in prayer after their victory, but it is such a lame and limp "Thanks Lord for letting us win the game" that it just doesn't ring true.

As Francois Pienaar declared in his BBC Sport interview in 1995: When the final whistle went "I fell right to my knees.  I'm a Christian and wanted to say a quick prayer for being in such a wonderful event, not because of the winning.  Then all of a sudden, the whole team was around me, which was a special moment."

Slanderous Distortion

Despite Francois Pienaar's testimony, "Invictus" incredibly portrays him as fornicating before the winning match and swearing during it.  And although the Springbok rugby team gave all glory to the Lord Jesus Christ for their triumph, Clint Eastwood's production of Invictus transfers that glory to Nelson Mandela and a humanist poem which he quotes "To whatever gods there are, I declare that I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul."  It is the name of that poem, Invictus, that the film is named after.

Selective Focus

Francois Pienaar also pointed out in his 1995 interview with BBC Sport that the game favorites for the World Cup Rugby had been Australia, whom the Springboks beat in the opening game.  This landmark victory is down played in "Invictus".

Oversimplifying a Complex Country

It is unfortunate that "Invictus", reinforces stereo types of narrow minded white racists and whitewashes Nelson Mandela and the Marxists in the ANC.  South Africa is far more complex and interesting than this film suggests.  To understand South African history we need to understand the African context and the reality of the Cold War, which was the backdrop to the conflict in which Nelson Mandela played such a key role.

A Paid Political Advertisement?

It would be interesting to know where the funding came for this film. At times it seemed like a paid political advertisement for nelson Mandela and the ANC. If all that the film depicts of Nelson Mandela encouraging the team is really true, then it is commendable. But surely any sport teams' victory is to the credit of the Manager, the Coach and the team members', dedication, training, fitness and skill?

For more background information on this see The Battle For South Africa; The Battle For the Mind in the News Media; True and False Guilt; The Cold War and The Iron Curtain; The Paganisation of South Africa; and Over a Million Reasons Why I Will Not be Voting ANC, available on www.frontline.org.za

Dr. Peter Hammond

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