Posted on 05/12/2006 8:55:00 AM PDT by doesnt suffer fools gladly
Film star and director Mel Gibson has launched a scathing attack on US President George W Bush, comparing his leadership to the barbaric rulers of the Mayan civilisation in his new film Apocalypto.
The epic, due for release later this year, captures the decline of the Maya kingdom and the slaughter of thousands of inhabitants as human sacrifices in a bid to save the nation from collapsing.
Gibson reveals he used present day American politics as an inspiration, claiming the government callously plays on the nation's insecurities to maintain power.
He tells British film magazine Hotdog, "The fear-mongering we depict in the film reminds me of President Bush and his guys".
What is Bush's response to the terrorist threat? Seizing phone records on millions of American citizens (but that's okay because Clinton signed the law, just ask Rush); leaving our borders unprotected from true terrorists?
Of course, that would mean he would have to go after true threats, not phantom ones that require Americans to give up more constitutional safeguards against tyranny.
NSA taking phone records of American citizens that had nothing to do with terrorism...
So what does your 9-11 photo have to do with that? Those people didn't die so I would have to surrender my liberty (or did they?).
I think the propaganda effect of posting pictures of 9-11 to stifle dissent is wearing off. At least for 71% of the American people.
Gibson called Clinton a marxist who wanted a world government.
Oh yeah. The Warriors just oozed with grace.../sarcasm
"Can you dig it?"
Oh my. You have GOT to be kidding.
Oh, yeah, absolutely... smirk...
Incorrect.
He was subdued by passengers and a flight attendant when trying to light the bomb.
Unless there was another one I'm not remembering that you're referring to.
Question: Is this source reputable?
It's a British pop-culture magazine called "Hotdog" :P
Interesting observations, and very correct (about the various publications and their editorial stance). Extremism is a closed circle where the extreme left and right meet, do the Vulcan mind-meld, and are virtually indistinguishable.
That said, folks should remember that Mel Gibson is an artist. Artists are neither statesmen nor philosophers. In The Passion, he responded on an artistic level to his reading of the Gospels and created a truly stunning work of art.
This latest Mel Gibson production is a polemical work, and as with the most polemical works of artists, it will eventually meet a fate based on its artistic worth. Goya was a court painter and his most famous works were commissioned works; but his "Disastres de la Guerra" series of engravings, done simply for himself to express his own opinions, have lived on for their artistic quality.
Mel Gibson was taken to Australia from New York by his pacifist father to avoid the draft during Vietnam, so I think there's a long story behind this latest work...
So to be a 'conservative' one must endorse Bush? I believe some are confusing partisanship with principle
You don't seem to understand that we're fighting for the very survival of the civilized world, including and especially the USA.
We are not morally equivalent to the Iranian leadership or Saddam or Al Qaeda.
I've been trying to sell Passion on DVHS and can't even give it away. What comes around goes around.
I didn't say we were. The fact is Saddam didn't attack us and Iran hasn't attacked anyone. Al-Quaeda has nothing to do with that subject.
If endorsing Mr. Bush makes one a conservative, maybe if more of us endorsed him, he'd start governing like one?
I think it's clear I've left the reservation...
I was only a sporadic guest at best anyway. LOL
See post #213. FReepers do it here as well.
Failure to protect the southern border (deplorabe as that is)does not prove there has been no effectiveness in the WOT. The absence of another 9/11 is ample proof of that. Don't think they (the terrorists) have not been trying.
Dem talking points in case you didn't know.
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