Well... I used to Like his moives..

[Okiewan]

While not a great actor by ant stretch... Danny Glover has been in some entertaining flicks. Not gonna be able to watch the guy act and not think about his beliefs these days.

I swear, there are publicists out there that are completely in the dark. "Hey Danny.. take this stance, it'll be great for your career"... :silly:

 

[JMD]

Yeah, I guess he just joined Barbara Streisand's Idiot Brigade. Actually, even she has had enough sense to keep her mouth shut about this. Hey, Danny! Ninety percent of the public supports this campaign against those terrorist rat b@#$@rds. You just declared yourself a member of the lunatic fringe. What the heck. Most actors are nuts anyway. Still, the guy was funny in "Pure Luck" with Martin Short.

 

[MikeT]

Did he say something stupid???? :mad: :silly: I didn't hear it. What did he say? Does he want to invite Osama over for dinner or did he say we should have pity for the disinfranchised Talaban and give them a bunch of government grants. :silly:

 

[Jaybird]

Why some of our American public see these actors as "All seeing/All knowing" is beyond me. Just because they have familiar faces does by no means make them authorities on anything other than thier own trade. Why they don't have enough sense to realise they are mere mortals is too much for me to understand.
They have great talent at reading what another person has written for them. And some of them need the direction of a good director for them to even pull that off. Reminds me of a political party, that I won't mention the name of. Ever wonder why most actors belong to a certain party?:D

 

[Vic]

I'm sure Broc is very disappointed in him.

 

[Senior KX Rider]

Did he say something stupid???? I didn't hear it. What did he say

He seems to think that the terrorist attacks are the fault of the United States. These people live in their own SPECIAL world. :mad:

 

[OnAnySunday]

Originally posted by MikeT :
"Does he want to invite Osama over for dinner "


I'd invite the little turd over for dinner.......
It'd be his LAST..........:p :p

 

[XRpredator]

Originally posted by Vic
I'm sure Broc is very disappointed in him.

Broc and Danny, seperated at birth? :think

Actually, Okie, I read that this morning as well. What a doofus! Sure, the cab thing may have been a reasonable gripe, but "We must oppose Bush" (or words to that effect) -- very uncool. :debil:

I wonder how he and Mel Gibson (super-Republican) get along in real life?

 

[longtime]

I saw him demonstrating a few weeks ago (thought it was outrageous so close after Sep. 11). But did he say/do something recently? Any links, or details you can add?

 

[VintageDirt]

I think that most of those Hollywood movie stars end up getting weird because they make a ton of money with out having to work very hard. They just feel guilty all the time so they make bad choices. Then, since they are famous, the get lots of press. Sort of makes their stupidity count double.

 

[JMD]

Speaking at Princeton Thursday, Glover, a rabid opponent of the death penalty, said that we should even spare the life of Bin Laden. He went on to say that the U.S. was the world's foremost "purveyor of violence," suggesting that we got what we deserved September 11. Then, when asked how he reconciles his pacifist views with the gun-toting, shoot-first lawmen he often portrays, he said that he made his director promise to make one anti-violence film for every "Lethal Weapon" he makes. That's some wonderful kind of hyposcrisy he has going. For the full story, see this site:

http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=2650841&BRD=1697&PAG=461&dept_id=44551&rfi=6

 

[380EXCman]

Treason..... Plain and simple.... Ready. Aim. Ahh if it were just the 1940's.

 

[bud]

Imo Danny Glover's acting reeks, and as for the rest, I agree with Jaybird.

I'm more curious about the death penalty since we don't have it here. Is the general opinion that, to love America, one must want to kill Bin Laden?

 

[ktmboy]

Kill Ben Ladin--we just want to give him what he wants-make him a friken martyr-he's happy, we're happy!:p

 

[Vic]

Originally posted by bud
Is the general opinion that, to love America, one must want to kill Bin Laden?

I think the general opinion is that to protect America, we must kill Bin Laden. Whether we want to or not is irrelevant

 

[txvintage]

Originally posted by bud
I'm more curious about the death penalty since we don't have it here. Is the general opinion that, to love America, one must want to kill Bin Laden?

Well, here in Texas we have strong opinions about this. If you kill someone under the right circumstances, you too will die. Don't do it here.

Personally, I think it would be a lot of fun to bring him back to the states and put him in General Population. Even most criminals have some sense of honor when it comes to people who kill women and children. Not that he would last a minute there anyway.

Vic has it right. It's not so much that we want to kill him, we must kill him in the same manner a rabid dog must be put down.

Bud, remember that someone in your country lost a Father/Mother/Son/Daughter/Brother/Sister/Friend on September 11 as well.

 

[biglou]

I agree with the above.

You can only put up with this kind af cowardly BS for so long. Thenit's time to take action. Swiftly and severely.

380EXCMan: I'm sure it hasn't changed since the mid-80's, but if I remember correctly, the UCMJ (Uniform Code of Military Justice) makes provision for the trying, and, if convicted, the execution of those found guilty of treason during times of war. Of course, the UCMJ does not apply to civilians, but I thought there were similar federal laws that do. (?) L.T.? :think

 

[Senior KX Rider]

I think it does apply to civilians.

After he signed an order allowing the
use of military tribunals in terrorist cases, President George W. Bush
insisted he alone should decide who goes before such a military court, his
aides tell Newsweek. The tribunal document gives the government the power to
try, sentence -- and even execute -- suspected foreign terrorists in secrecy,
under special rules that would deny them constitutional rights and allow no
chance to appeal.
(Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20011118/HSSA005 )
Bush's powers to form a military court came from a secret legal
memorandum, which the U.S. Justice Department began drafting in the days after
Sept. 11, Newsweek has learned. The memo allows Bush to invoke his broad
wartime powers, since the U.S., they concluded, was in a state of "armed
conflict." Bush used the memo as the legal basis for his order to bomb
Afghanistan. Weeks later, the lawyers concluded that Bush would use his
expanded powers to form a military court for captured terrorists. Officials
envision holding the trials on aircraft carriers or desert islands, report
Investigative Correspondent Michael Isikoff and Contributing Editor Stuart
Taylor Jr.

I got this from Matt Drudges website. Been hearing a lot about it on the news also.

Bush has the power to handle this. I do not think it has been used since WW2 but he has the authority. It could be used to keep BinLaden from exploiting all the loopholes in our legal system.

 

[Battered Sav]

"The tribunal document gives the government the power to
try, sentence -- and even execute -- suspected foreign terrorists in secrecy,
under special rules that would deny them constitutional rights and allow no
chance to appeal. "
And this is supposed to be good??????

 

[longtime]

Just as Washington, Lincoln, and FDR did -- with Supreme Court approval.

Nahhhh. . . I'd rather see OJ Part II, with Dershowitz and Jonnie Cochran making a mockery of a Bin Laden trial to the delight of terrorists everywhere.

 

[peabody]

This, again, proves how out of touch "hollywood" is with the real world. IMO just another actor who believes that their fame in some way makes them an expert on everything (see Ted Danson re: we've polluted the oceans and we'll all die by the year 2000). Also, there were more than just Americans in New York, so even if his asinine statement were true how does he justify what happened to the non-Americans working in the buildings?

I find it ironic that according to many "Hollywood" types tolerance is the only real value, unless of course you disagree with them in which case you are obviously an uneducated, closed-minded bigot.

Why doesn't Danny Glover go to "ground zero" and explain his views to the workers there. I don't think he would survive the trip.

 

[Vic]

Maybe he's just spouting off to get some publicity. Does he have a new movie coming out??