August 17, 2006

Celebrities Denounce Hizb'Allah and Hamas???

A group of 85 high-profile Hollywood stars, directors, studio bosses and media moguls, has taken out a powerfully-worded full page advertisement in today's Los Angeles Times:

We the undersigned are pained and devastated by the civilian casualties in Israel and Lebanon caused by terrorist actions initiated by terrorist organisations such as Hezbollah and Hamas ...

If we do not succeed in stopping terrorism around the world, chaos will rule and innocent people will continue to die.

We need to support democratic societies and stop terrorism at all costs.

I'm speechless.

Props to Wizbang and Riehl World View.

Cross-posted to The Sammenhold Blog.

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1 As expected I didn't see the following names: Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Angelina Jolie, Tom Cruise, Mel Gibson. Any others?

Posted by: Last gasp Larry at August 17, 2006 02:08 AM (gLMre)

2 Its nice to see something positive from hollywood. I reckon Hell just had a cold snap.

Posted by: JeepThang at August 17, 2006 07:48 AM (yZQoS)

3 BTW, Howie.. please disregard my email.
I saw this on Smooth Stone's blog last night and was anxious for this item to get out more.

Posted by: JeepThang at August 17, 2006 07:50 AM (yZQoS)

4 In any statistitcal survey, it's important to throw out anomalies, which is what this is. Hollywood is never going to change until we stop buying tickets to see movies that are made by America-hating scum.
I noticed James Woods' name on that list, which didn't surprise me, because he's probably the last patriot in Hollywood, which also explains why he doesn't get much work these days.

Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at August 17, 2006 08:55 AM (v3I+x)

5 I thought that was a good show of support for what America and it's few true allies are doing, especially the last line, "We need to support democratic societies and stop terrorism AT ALL COSTS". Bravo to these true believers in freedom to have the guts to stand up and proclaim this in liberal biased Hollywood. Although I would have thought that Gerald McRaney and Tom Selleck would have jumped to have been signatories to this.

Posted by: memphis761 at August 17, 2006 10:10 AM (D3+20)

6 As Adam Sandler once sang, "So many Jews are in show biz..." Makes me wonder how long Hollywood will remain lefty, given the recent rise in anti-Semitism on that end of the spectrum.

Posted by: Northern Cross at August 17, 2006 10:11 AM (7vz05)

7 Liberal Jews are fucking hypocrites.

Posted by: Jesusland Carlos at August 17, 2006 10:26 AM (8e/V4)

8 Pigs fly.

Posted by: Heroic Dreamer at August 17, 2006 10:42 AM (up9HT)

9 I'm still waiting for that asshole Baldwin to move to another country if Bush wins the election.

Posted by: greyrooster at August 17, 2006 10:57 AM (jgE7Y)

10 Good on them.
Finally some people with brains and their hearts on the right place.

The world should realise where the terror comes from: Islam.
Hamas & Hezbollah AND Iran = Islam.

Check where Muslims kill:

There's Iraq [where Muslims kill Muslims] AND
India and the Sudan and Algeria and Afghanistan and New York and Pakistan and Israel and Russia and Chechnya and the Philippines and Indonesia and Nigeria and England and Thailand and Spain and Egypt and Bangladesh and Saudi Arabia and Ingushetia and Dagestan and Turkey and Kabardino-Balkaria and Morocco and Yemen and Lebanon and France and Uzbekistan and Gaza and Tunisia and Kosovo and Bosnia and Mauritania and Kenya and Eritrea and Syria and Somalia and California and Kuwait and Virginia and Ethiopia and Iran and Jordan and United Arab Emirates and Louisiana and Texas and Tanzania and Germany and Pennsylvania and Belgium and Denmark and East Timor and Qatar and Maryland and Tajikistan and the Netherlands and Scotland and Chad and Canada and...

This ought to stop.
I praise the Hollywood stars for their courage to step out of the [has-been] trendy and stupid-think of blaming ordinary [Western] citizens and put the responsibility where it lies: At the Islam-fascists.

Here, in the Netherlands, we had a movie-director - Theo van Gogh - critizising Islam.
He was butchered in broad daylight by a muslim, while driving his bike in Amsterdam.

I hope Nicole Kidman and her brave colleagues stay safe.
You rock, Nicole.
Love from Amsterdam.

Posted by: GJ Klaver at August 18, 2006 12:05 AM (E4QqL)

11 hoe gives a fuck about all deze fony ,drug addict,suisidal,lonely,fruit and dyke ,unhappy miserable,paranoid,brain washing,zionist,fake,vermins of hollywood!hollywood that made americans live in a consumers fake world and illusion ,maan !the world is starting to realise that the united states of banana republic is the cause of all problems in the world ( goverement,the right hatmongers and the unsucessful murderes satanic neocons)2the scare tactics ,war on terror tricks(war of terror),the free world slogan ,demon-cracy big myth( since it stopt existing in the us) oooooh how ironic. its all getting FISHY deze fucking hate mongers (like you) are a bunch of thugs and thieves .its a sekt ( read also insects),deze child molesting laiers and their cheap ,immoral,hypocrit media machine(fox lies- cnn.conned ....) aaah vaumiting, ARE brainwashin americans and the rest of the world but not for long any more,and creating an enemy and blame others.News that the United States has been voted off the UN Human Rights Commission and the UN international drug monitoring board has elicited vows of revenge from conservatives in Congress. They threaten to withhold payment on the long-unpaid dues owed the UN. They blame your adversaries--China, Cuba, Sudan and others--for the insult. But the secret votes enabled allies as well as adversaries to vent their mounting exasperation with US policies. At the last session of the commission, the United States stood virtually alone as it opposed resolutions supporting lower-cost access to HIV/AIDS drugs, acknowledging a human right to adequate food and calling for a moratorium on the death penalty, while it continued to resist efforts to ban landmines.
The global outrage is by no means limited to US policies on the Human Rights Commission. In barely 100 days in office, the Bush Administration has declared the Kyoto accords on global warming dead, spurning eight years of work by 186 countries. It banned US support for any global organization that provides family planning or abortion services, even as an AIDS pandemic makes this a matter of life and death. It bade farewell to the antiballistic missile treaty, while slashing spending on nuclear safety aid for Russia. It casually bombed Iraq, helped shoot down a missionary's plane over Peru and enforced an illegal and irrational boycott of Cuba. It sabotaged promising talks between North and South Korea, publicly humiliating South Korea's Nobel prizewinning president, Kim Dae Jung. The nomination as UN ambassador of John Negroponte, former proconsul in Honduras during the illegal contra wars, is an insult. "There is a perception," said one diplomat in carefully parsed words, "that the US wants to go it alone."
your lawless exceptionalism is a deeply rooted, bipartisan policy that didn't begin with the Bush Administration. Under previous Presidents, Democratic and Republican, Washington denounced state-sponsored terrorism while reserving the right to bomb a pharmaceutical plant in Sudan or unleash a contra army on Nicaragua. It condemned Iraq for invading Kuwait while reserving the right to invade Panama or bomb Serbia on its own writ. The United States advocated war crimes tribunals against foreign miscreants abroad while opposing an international criminal court that might hold your own officials accountable. your leaders proclaim the value of law and democracy as they spurn the UN Security Council and ignore the World Court when their rulings don't suit them. The Senate refuses to ratify basic human rights treaties. The US international business community even opposes efforts to eliminate child labor. And of course, there are those UN dues, which make you the world's largest deadbeat.
What is incomprehensible to me is that the US media, despite all the warnings of recent past history, despite the bloodshed, death, suffering, and economic losses inflicted by Bush wars I and II, is STILL, right on cue, promoting Bush war III.
Worse is yet to come. US policy is a direct reflection of its militarization and the belief that we police the world, we make the rules. The Bush Administration plans a major increase in military spending to finance new weapons to expand the US ability to "project" force around the globe--stealth bombers, drones, long-range missiles and worse. The tightly strung Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld sounds increasingly like an out-of-date Dr. Strangelove as he pushes to open a new military front in space, shattering hopes of keeping the heavens a zone of peace.
As the hyperpower, with interests around the world, America has the largest stake in law and legitimacy. But the ingrained assumption that we are legislator, judge, jury and executioner mocks any notion of global order. From the laws of war to the laws of trade, it is increasingly clear that Washington believes international law applies only to the weak. The weak do what they must; the United States does what it will.
After the cold war, we labeled our potential adversaries "rogue nations"--violent, lawless, willing to trample the weak and ignore international law and morality to enforce their will. Now, in the vote at the UN, in the headlines of papers across Europe, in the planning of countries large and small, there is a growing consensus that the world's most destructive rogue nation is the most powerful country of them all.
This is not a role most Americans support. Public interest groups and concerned individuals will vigorously remind Congress of the widespread popular backing in this country for paying our UN dues, for global AIDS funding and other forms of international involvement. Unilateralism must be opposed in all its guises, from national missile "defense" to undermining efforts to curb global warming. The United States was founded on a decent respect for the opinions of mankind. Let's keep it that way.

Posted by: Barking dogs dont bite at August 18, 2006 10:26 PM (uMa6H)

12 The United States was founded on a decent respect for the opinions of mankind.

Your entire screed could have been summed up in that one incorrect statement instead of the pixel-flood that nobody is going to read in its entirety. The US was founded on respect for the ideals that are the pillars of Western civilization, such as the worth of the individual, our inalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, and self-determination, but idiots like you think that we should "respect" the opinions of those who want to see us dead. You are an idiot and a traitor, and deserve nothing more than a bullet to the head, because you cannot see the difference between us and our enemies. Or maybe you can, and you prefer our enemies to us. Fine then, go strap on a suicide vest and have at it you socialist piece of shit.

Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at August 19, 2006 10:09 AM (v3I+x)

13 Barking dog: Why don't you bite on a valium?

Posted by: GJ Klaver at August 19, 2006 02:01 PM (E4QqL)

14 I sent this article to the DRUDGEREPORT
( www.drudgereport.com )
several times, but they won't run it ???
Drudge reports on a lady with 168 cats in
Florida and what John Mark Karr had for
dinner on his flight from Thailand.
DRUDGE: "WHAT'S GOING ON ???????????"
However....a Google search on:
"we the undersigned are pained"
yields 15,400 hits.
Perhaps 168 cats know something we don't know ?

Posted by: Chuck McClellan at August 22, 2006 11:35 AM (yh4cf)

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