Legally Biased

An update on the lawsuit brought by Stewart Dimmock of Britain against the governments distribution of Al Gore's movie, An Inconvenient Truth. The judge hearing the case just issued an informal decision that has an inconvenient truth of its very own: schools must inform students that Gore's film is biased and that students must also consider other theories.

Schools will have to issue a warning before they show pupils Al Gore's controversial film about global warming, a judge indicated yesterday.

The move follows a High Court action by a father who accused the Government of 'brainwashing' children with propaganda by showing it in the classroom.

Stewart Dimmock said the former U.S. Vice-President's documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, is unfit for schools because it is politically biased and contains serious scientific inaccuracies and 'sentimental mush'.

He wants the video banned after it was distributed with four other short films to 3,500 schools in February.

Mr Justice Burton is due to deliver a ruling on the case next week, but yesterday he said he would be saying that Gore's Oscar-winning film does promote 'partisan political views'.

This means that teachers will have to warn pupils that there are other opinions on global warming and they should not necessarily accept the views of the film.

He said: 'The result is I will be declaring that, with the guidance as now amended, it will not be unlawful for the film to be shown.'

It's a bit of baby-splitting. While the court is ordering that schools have to inform kids about the bias, it is not stopping the showing of the movie as Dimmock wanted. But it is finally a court stepping in and saying that there are inconvenient untruths sprinkled through Gore's propaganda film. The funny thing is that Gore's true believers completely ignore Gore's huge financial stake in getting his theories accepted. He stands to get really, really rich through his "sustainable" energy investments. Planet be damned.

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