Hollywood’s obsession with dictators continues: Danny Glover, Sean Penn, and now Kevin Spacecadet. Apparently the civil liberties that Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez violates routinely do not bother Hollywood much at all. Hollyweird alert: Kevin Spacey hear…

On September 25th, 2007 at 1:27 pm, sausage said:
nobody really cares about his people

Really? Nobody?

Thank GOD fools do not speak for me.

It seems the liberal actors do not care about the people. A photo op with a dictator though…

I have friends that are missionaries there that care for the people nobody cares for. Some have been arrested for spying. Almost all have been forced to leave. Are you going to take care of the people they were taking care of?

But let’s be honest, there are PLENTY of comments on this site that tar the entire religion of Islam with the same extremist brush….

Do you ever read what you write? Talk about painting with a broad brush.

I suppose it is easier to condemn the world for not caring about the people from your Lazy Boy.

Somehow, I doubt this came up. Or this. Or this.MM

Of course none of “this” stuff came up. The hollyweird group is okay with it, when one of their own hero’s does it. Yesterday, Columbia applauded their madman guest. Even though his government stones women, and kills homosexuals. You see they’re all about freedom of speech, and equal treatment over here, however when it comes to their hero’s like Chavez, and Castro it’s acceptable to have collateral damage. It’s a start for their revolution for America.

“If the Russian Revolution becomes a signal for a proletarian revolution in the west, so that both complement each other, the present Russian common ownership of land may serve as the starting point for a communist development.”

(Marx and Engles, Preface to the Russian edition of the Communist Manifesto)

Spacey is a fool.

Yes, like people protesting yesterday when Iran’s president came to town to speak…

Hey sausage, you are aware that there is a difference between protesting the speech of a tyrant who stifles dissent at the end of a noose and stifling dissent at the end of a noose, right? Because you seemed to have those things confused in your mind.

As to slapping Islam? Silly comment, but allright. Noone here suggests that adherants of Islam should be made outlaws by statute, and that those who continue to practice that religion should be hung or publicly beheaded. Some here have criticised the content of the Islamic religion and the actions of those who practice it, but I don’t think anyone has called for it to be repressed by state-sanctioned violence.

Oppression of religion is bad. Challenging a religion that is used by head chopping terrorists is good.

I agree, oppression of any religion is bad. Thankfully this country has separation of church and state to prevent that.

But let’s be honest, there are PLENTY of comments on this site that tar the entire religion of Islam with the same extremist brush….

Oppressing a radical tyrant and preventing him from using your countries sacred ground for propaganda is good.

But that’s free speech on your terms

Back to Hugo – nobody really cares about his people (who voted him in) – they are more worried that he’s starting to become a too powerful force in this part of the world…

Is it better to continue to vilify him or engage him in talks?

These are people whose very profession relies on their ability to fake emotions, fake beliefs, fake behaviors – indeed, fake reality itself.

In return, they get paid enormous sums of money that defy most ordinary folks’ sense of reality, and perhaps even their own sense of that concept.

Live that way long enough, and I wonder if the entire concept of what’s real and what’s make-believe becomes rather hazy, if not abstract.

That, and it’s a lot easier and more tempting to dabble in pernicious notions like socialism, communism and cult-of-personality autocracy when one feels “safe” from their effects: when one is willfully and blissfully ignorant of the catastrophic consequences those systems have for people lacking the millions of dollars to insulate themselves from the poverty, misery, oppression, hopelessness and mass murder that always ensue wherever and whenever they’re implemented.

It’s easy to hob-nob with Hugo Chavez or Fidel Castro when you know that you can always hop on your private jet and fly away if he turns out to be a monster. That’s how unearned riches can bend reality until it breaks.

kevin spacey *hearts* hugo chavez. for those who don’t know who hugo is, clicky. 
 Actor Kevin Spacey met privately Monday with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, one of Washington’s most outspoken critics in Latin America.

Neither Spacey —…

Let me explain: Oppression of religion is bad. Challenging a religion that is used by head chopping terrorists is good.
Oppression of free speech is bad.
Oppressing a radical tyrant and preventing him from using your countries sacred ground for propaganda is good.

You all should add Jodie foster to that list as well.