Posted on 12/18/2011 3:13:41 PM PST by sinanju
"...Bale, who plays crime-fighting superhero Batman, and a camera crew from CNN were jostled by men in plainclothes in Dongshigu village in eastern Shandong province, where activist Chen Guangcheng has been under house arrest for 15 months, according to a video released by CNN on its website.
"Why can I not visit this man?" Bale asked several security officers, while they were pushing him.
"You know, I'm not being brave doing this," Bale told CNN. "The local people who are standing up to the authorities and insisting on going to visit Chen and his family and getting beaten up for it, and my understanding, getting detained for it and everything. I want to support what they are doing."
CNN said the guards shadowed its van for more than half an hour.
The fate of Chen, a self-schooled advocate who has campaigned against forced abortions, has become a test of wills, pitting the Communist Party's crackdown on dissent against activists championing his cause and that of artist Ai Weiwei..."
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He's taking an actual chance here. The chicoms would be only too happy to punish him by hitting him in the wallet. Bethink thyself of all those other Western interests (Google, Yahoo, MS who have bowed down and done their evil bidding).
Does anyone remember his thirteen year-old self in "Empire of the Sun" back in '87? I'm given to understand there's really nothing left of all that classical architecture of the old International Settlement in Shanghai.
Let me get my head around this:
A Hollywood Leftist is trying to support an anti-abortion activist who is being held prisoner by the ChiComs?
If you’re washed up, any publicity is good publicity.
Ummm, when in Rome ........
Welcome to the REAL WORLD, Mr Bale. Communists don’t give a damm who you are... you’re lucky all they did was jostle you a bit.
Is he a leftist? For some reason I remember him going off on an anti-Obama rant a few years ago.
I wouldn’t call Christian Bale washed up. He just finished filming the third Batman movie, which should be one of the blockbusters of the year.
Bale ain’t washed up and I have never heard any leftist garbage come out of his mouth
Oops, I was thinking of Christian Slater.
did he wear his batman costume....carry those wondeful toys on his utility belt....
drive up in the batmobile.
any of these might have helped....
He may be a legend in his own mind, but I bet he wasn’t sh!t in theirs!
Let me get my head around this:
A Hollywood Leftist is trying to support an anti-abortion activist who is being held prisoner by the ChiComs?
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