Sgt. Peter Damon fra Nationalgarden, som mistede begge arme i Irak, sagsøger Moore, som tilsyneladende har udnyttet klip fra et TV-interview med Damon uden tilladelse. Moore portrætterer på løgnagtigt grundlag Damon som krigsmodstander i Fahrenheit 9/11.
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citat: “In his interview with NBC, Damon was asked about a new painkiller the military was using on wounded veterans. He claims in his lawsuit that the way Moore used the film clip in “Fahrenheit 9/11” — Moore’s scathing 2004 documentary criticizing the Bush administration and the war in Iraq — makes him appear to “voice a complaint about the war effort” when he was actually complaining about “the excruciating type of pain” that comes with the injury he suffered.
In the movie, Damon is shown lying on a gurney, with his wounds bandaged. He says he feels likes he’s “being crushed in a vise.”
“But they (the painkillers) do a lot to help it,” he says. “And they take a lot of the edge off of it.”
Damon is shown shortly after U.S. Rep. Jim McDermott (news, bio, voting record), D-Wash., is speaking about the Bush administration and says, “You know, they say they’re not leaving any veterans behind, but they’re leaving all kinds of veterans behind.”
Damon contends that Moore’s positioning of the clip just after the congressman’s comments makes him appear as if he feels like he was “left behind” by the Bush administration and the military.
In his lawsuit, Damon says he “agrees with and supports the President and the United States’ war effort, and he was not left behind.” (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060531/ap_en_mo/lawsuit_fahrenheit911)
Det lyder ærligt talt som noget værre pjat. Hvis dette er en præcis beskrivelse, så bliver han da ikke fremstillet som krigsmodstander. Han bliver fremstillet som et eksempel på nogle som Moore mener er “left behind”. Om han så selv mener det er vel for så vidt ligegyldigt.
Det svarer lidt til de bøsser og lesbiske der ikke vil “holdes som gidsler af højrefløjen”. Forstået på den måde, at de ikke vil bruges som eksempler på, hvordan Danmark er mere tolerant end de arabiske lande.
Men selvfølgelig skal manden spørges før optagelser af ham bliver brugt i en film – hvis loven altså er sådan.