AMERICANS CHAFE UNDER PENTAGON PROPAGANDA MASKERADING AS PROMOTION

By Rev. Dr. Chuck Currie
Dear Regal Theaters: 
As a minister in the United Church of Christ, I am writing to Regal Theatres to demand that you immediately stop showing the war.gov promotional spot that appears before movies.

The video is a propaganda video. Nothing more, nothing less.

 While at Portland’s Regal Lloyd Center last night to watch Disclosure Day, our family was surprised that before the movie, we were forced to watch an advertisement touting the leadership of Donald Trump, Pete Hegseth, and the so-called Department of War.

It was like we were at a movie theater in Russia or North Korea. Democracies do not do this. The audience loudly booed.

We routinely see videos at Regal promoting careers in the military. This was not that.

This was an advertisement promoting the political views of Donald Trump. It was not promoting our military. It was not promoting America’s greatest strength: our diversity. This was a MAGA campaign commercial highlighting a fake cabinet agency, the Department of War, which is actually called the Defense Department, and the MAGA America First platform.

Regal’s decision to show this video can only be construed as an endorsement of Donald Trump, his failed war in Iran, and the white Christian nationalism advocated by Secretary Hegseth.

Again, I must demand that Regal stop showing this video immediately. Blessed are the peacemakers.

In Peace