[Junior]

Geez! So you differ with him on one issue, and you're not going to his movie over that? Damn. Conservative do eat our own, don't we?

[marron]

Conservative do eat our own, don't we?

According to Gibson, we do, and thats the inspiration for his new movie.

I'm getting short tempered in my old age. It gets harder and harder for me to listen to these jaybirds insulting me, and then go down to the multiplex to give them my money.

Feel free, Gibson's a tremendous film maker, I have no doubt this will be a good film.

[Wallace T.]

Mel Gibson is to a great extent the son of his father, Hutton Gibson, an American with an Australian mother, who was a radical traditionalist Catholic even before Vatican II. He left the United States with his sons during the Vietnam War era so that they could avoid being drafted in what the elder Gibson thought was an anti-Catholic war. (Remember that the Catholic President of South Vietnam was assassinated in 1963 with U.S. complicity.)

A good source of the political ideology of many (though not all) traditionalist Catholics is the Web site, www.lewrockwell.com. Many of the contributors, such as Web master and editor Lew Rockwell, and scholars Joseph Sobran, Thomas DiLorenzo, and Thomas Woods, are traditionalist Catholics who are libertarians in the area of politics and, with regard to foreign affairs, more isolationist than Robert Taft or Patrick Buchanan ever were. Other traditionalist Catholics, such as Christopher Ferrara, a New Jersey attorney specializing in pro-life matters, believe the extreme governmental minimalism and the entirely secular character of Austrian economics of this group contradict historic Catholic social teachings. However, Ferrara is also isolationist. Some traditionalists, such as Hutton Gibson, inclined to be anti-Israel, if not outright anti-Semitic. (For example, Hutton Gibson denies that there were gas chambers at the Nazi concentration camps.)

Mel Gibson is quite different in his beliefs from others in the non-liberal minority in Hollywood. Until he directed The Passion of the Christ, he never generated the scorn of the Hollywood Left like Charlton Heston or Tom Selleck did.

[Wallace T.]

Mel Gibson is to a great extent the son of his father, Hutton Gibson, an American with an Australian mother, who was a radical traditionalist Catholic even before Vatican II. He left the United States with his sons during the Vietnam War era so that they could avoid being drafted in what the elder Gibson thought was an anti-Catholic war. (Remember that the Catholic President of South Vietnam was assassinated in 1963 with U.S. complicity.)

A good source of the political ideology of many (though not all) traditionalist Catholics is the Web site, www.lewrockwell.com. Many of the contributors, such as Web master and editor Lew Rockwell, and scholars Joseph Sobran, Thomas DiLorenzo, and Thomas Woods, are traditionalist Catholics who are libertarians in the area of politics and, with regard to foreign affairs, more isolationist than Robert Taft or Patrick Buchanan ever were. Other traditionalist Catholics, such as Christopher Ferrara, a New Jersey attorney specializing in pro-life matters, believe the extreme governmental minimalism and the entirely secular character of Austrian economics of this group contradict historic Catholic social teachings. However, Ferrara is also isolationist. Some traditionalists, such as Hutton Gibson, inclined to be anti-Israel, if not outright anti-Semitic. (For example, Hutton Gibson denies that there were gas chambers at the Nazi concentration camps.)

Mel Gibson is quite different in his beliefs from others in the non-liberal minority in Hollywood. Until he directed The Passion of the Christ, he never generated the scorn of the Hollywood Left like Charlton Heston or Tom Selleck did.