US actor (Sheen) 'pardons' Irish war protesters

IRNA ^ | May 24 2003

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American actor Martin Sheen has expressed solidarity with a group of Irish war protesters, charged with causing criminal damages to a US warplane, saying they had "moral courage."

Sheen, who stars as a US president in the television drama series 'The West Wing,' said he was prepared to give the five Irish demonstrators his own special dispensation and "grant them full pardon," the Irish Independent newspaper reported Saturday.

"As a fellow Catholic peace activist I am compelled to support them and their struggle for peace and social justice and their efforts to gain a fair trial," he said after meeting the accused in the southern Irish town of Borrisokane on Friday.

The five protesters are awaiting trial for causing criminal damage to a US warplane during anti-war demonstrations at Shannon airport on the west coast of Ireland, which was used as a stopover to ferry the build up of American troops for the war against Iraq.

"Although their actions jeopardises their future, their moral courage in speaking out in this dark time is a powerful inspiration to peace loving non-violent people everywhere," said Sheen, who holds an Irish passport. The American actor, who also starred in the anti-war classic 'Apocalypse Now,' also expressed anger at US foreign policy in the Middle East. "The military has become our foreign policy and it is devastating. There is great concern about it in the States. Unfortunately, this man (President George W Bush) is more popular now than any other president," he was quoted saying.

[veronica]

FYI.

[Ole Okie]

Well ain't that special!

[veronica]

Bump.

[veronica]

He's a legend in his own mind, isn't he? :)

[darkwing104]

"Although their actions jeopardises their future, their moral courage in speaking out in this dark time is a powerful inspiration to peace loving non-violent people everywhere," said Sheen, who holds an Irish passport.

I guess people like Sadam and co. can go on killing his own people as long as Sheen thinks he is "in charge"

[freedumb2003]

>>dark time is a powerful inspiration to peace loving non-violent people <<

Yeah, criminally damaging property belonging to someone else is "non-violent." Funny, in most places they call that "rioting."

D@mn liberals -- they think they can keep winning the debate by defining the terms.

[bart99]

"American actor Martin Sheen has expressed solidarity with a group of Irish war protesters, charged with causing criminal damages to a US warplane, saying they had "moral courage." "

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So now 'free speech' isn't enough..... now he's a proponent of "criminal activity" - on an airplane. That's a far cry from non-violence 'criminal' activity (sit-ins, et all) expoused by Martin Luther King and others. Wow..... he's gone overboard now.

[putupon]

These Hollywood lefties are all talk. If Martin wants to prove his mettle, he should attempt to sneak into a base in the US and cause some damage.

[veronica]

Bttt.

[cubreporter]

Big idiot, better idiot, best idiot = martin shiny

[xJones]

Sheen, who stars as a US president in the television drama series 'The West Wing,' said he was prepared to give the five Irish demonstrators his own special dispensation and "grant them full pardon," the Irish Independent newspaper reported Saturday.

Amazing, Sheen not only plays a fictitious president, the Catholic Sheen is now equal to the Pope. Only the role of God remains...

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

The stage is not unlike the altar. Drama is most often scripted and performed much the same way as any religious ritual. Although absent from drama are the devices of esoteric rites, many of the same imageries, psychology, and intent of the writers are indeed present. The use of visual images, lighting, characters, music and dialogue all play their parts in creating the myth. After all, esoteric rites are psychodrama.

A Heretic's Ranting Conclusion

Plato's Euthyphro and Apology are great illustrations. Socrates advances the argument to Euthyphro that, piety to the gods, who all want conflicting devotions and/or actions from humans, is impossible.

Likewise, morals are such a construction of idols used by the Left as a rationale for them to demand compliance to their wishes in politics, which most often are a skewed mess of fallacies in logic. Morals are a deceptive replacement for the avoidance of sin. If a person believes in a God, it is the conviction of the Holy Ghost by which they are guided and not by the idolatrous vanities of morals constructed by others.

Plato's Apology is a drama that portrays the current Left wing frustration with talk radio in America. The people of Athens (the Left) are demanding that Socrates (Rush) be silent. Socrates refuses and the elite of Athens demand the execution of Socrates. The modern Left wants a figurative execution of Rush Limbaugh and others like him (although 'figurative' would be quickly made actual if the Left ever had the unchecked power they desire).

Radio is the focus of only one of the five senses. A listener has to really tune in to the subject matter and focus on the content of the ideas. Television is a combination of sensory focus and it is far easier to distract and misdirect viewer attention from essential topics presented.

Considering that 90% of people tend to be more influenced by the visual, television has become a new religion. It is analogous to Plato's cave allegory and the Oracle of Delphi. Television as a propaganda tool helps create visual phantasms (or as Thomas Hobbes called them, 'phantastical images') of the brain.

There are three ways people are influenced according to the school of behavioral psychology - - visual (sight), auditory (sound), kinesthetic (emotion). The kinesthetic or 'feeling' is also based on olfactory and tactile sense, much like Pavlov's salivating dogs. Visual images and sound portrayed can be used to anchor emotional and/or conditioned responses desired by those that present them, which in the case of television, is the Leftist television media, actors who create phantastical images in film, and Leftist politicians who pander to symbolism over substance (like Rush always says about them).

The visual aspect of that phenomenon is also used by the print media to a degree. Interactive talk radio requires thought; television does not and relies on this as a means to influence viewers...

They worship for gods 'those appearances that remain in the brain from the impression of external bodies upon the organs of their senses, which are commonly called ideas, idols, phantasms, conceits, as being representations of those external bodies which cause them, and have nothing in them of reality, no more than there is in the things that seem to stand before us in a dream...'

Like the necromancy of the Wellstone funerally, the use of Martin Luther King Day, or constantly invoking the "spirit of the '60's," the Left attempts to raise spirits of the dead as a totem for worship. (This was also done with respect to Diana, Princess of Wales following her death.)

Marxism and their forms of Cultural Marxism are a religion, a collection of cults. In many cases they worship a dead Karl Marx like some (and I stress some) Christians worship a dead Jesus, and not a living God. This is no more apparent than in the practice of enshrinement and regular grooming of Lenin's corpse in the former Soviet Union.

It is the religious fervor associated with the pro-abortion advocacy.IV The societal practice of abortion is ritual mass murder upon the altars dedicated to idolatrous vanities, a collective human sacrifice to pagan idols. It has a similitude to the Teutonic paganism of Adolph Hitler, whose idolatry was the idea of a "master race." In effect, this genocide was a mass human sacrifice to those pagan idols.

The idolatry of perversion is another totem of the Left. Homosexuality is an idolatry of perversion. Gay marriage advocacy is a cult of perversion.IV Pornography is an idolatry of perversion. Much of television, movies, and the literary culture of the Leftist elite in print, are nothing more than a cleverly masked promotion of their Marxist cult (that is to say, masked much like actors of ancient Greek drama).

The Left is properly identified with a 'confederacy of deceivers (and perverts) that, to obtain dominion over men in this present world, endeavor, by obscure and erroneous doctrines.'

Part of this is the promotion of "public radio." The government funded NPR and other "public radio" non-profit Leftist crap is not making it. While I am not enamoured with some of the canned music formats of much commercial radio, I am no fan of the Leftist non-profit NPR like stations that play third world, grass skirt, bone-in-the-nose voodoo music either, with the touchy feely multi-cultural, anti-USA Leftist commentary of the hosts.

Also part of this is the loss of broadcasting licenses by "public radio" stations to a company that is buying licenses to broadcast Christian programming. This is pushing many Leftist public radio stations off the air.

There is more to this issue than most people realize and it is not exclusive to the attack on talk radio (although that is a big part of it). Why else does the Left complain about what others watch and listen to?

The Left is obsessed with erecting idols, images and symbols to hide their agenda(s), as well as to expand their congregation in these cults of perversion...

Sheen is just another minister for the cult of perversion...
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[RGSpincich]

Unfortunately, this man (President George W Bush) is more popular now than any other president," he was quoted saying.

So goes the ratings. Beat you at your own game, did he?

Bizarro World president Martin Sheen succumbs to reality.

[cubreporter]

Unfortunately, this man (President George W Bush) is more popular now than any other president," he was quoted saying.



You got it Marty...he's the REAL PRESIDENT~~~

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

Amazing, Sheen not only plays a fictitious president, the Catholic Sheen is now equal to the Pope. Only the role of God remains...

See #13...

[Welsh Rabbit]

So he thinks he can give out presidential pardons because he played a president on tv... Well, when I was nine, I played George Washington in a school pageant, so I hereby revoke any such pardon.

[veronica]

Amazing, Sheen not only plays a fictitious president, the Catholic Sheen is now equal to the Pope. Only the role of God remains...

Already been done...

[darkwing104]

The Left is obsessed with erecting idols, images and symbols to hide their agenda(s), as well as to expand their congregation in these cults of perversion... Sheen is just another minister for the cult of perversion...

Wow, that was enlightening reading. You nailed it.

[Teacher317]

"As a fellow Catholic peace activist I am compelled to support them and their struggle for peace and social justice and their efforts to gain a fair trial," he said after meeting the accused in the southern Irish town of Borrisokane on Friday.

There's that phrase again. It will be the focal point of the next American civil war.