While Sean Penn is likely to win all sorts of awards from the Gay Community for his role in Harvey Milk, Hollywood and the left in general continue to behave in ways that negate the values of a free society.
This isn’t hard to do. The left doesn’t actually believe in human freedom. It smiles a lot. It sets a fancy table. It has a really nice hairdo and goes to all the best parties. But a left winger doesnt really care what happens at the end of the day, as long as their friends dont call them names.
Places where Sean Penn visits:
Iran
Venezuela
Cuba
Places that torture and kill homosexuals
Iran
Gays Should be Hanged
http://www.ynet.co.il/english/articles/0,7340,L-3470772,00.html
Venezuela
Beatings, torture, intimidation
http://www.advocate.com/exclusive_detail_ektid68058.asp
Cuba
Concentration camps
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=990CE3D91F3DF931A15752C0A963958260
Nobody saw more clearly than the great political thinker de Tocqueville that democracy stands in an irreconcilable conflict with socialism: “Democracy extends the sphere of individual freedom,” he said. “Democracy attaches all possible value to each man,” he said in 1848, “while socialism makes each man a mere agent, a mere number. Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word: equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.”
Advancement within a totalitarian group or party depends largely on a willingness to do immoral things. The principle that the end justifies the means, which in individualist ethics is regarded as the denial of all morals, in collectivist ethics becomes necessarily the supreme rule. There is literally nothing which the consistent collectivist must not be prepared to do if it serves “the good of the whole,” because that is to him the only criterion of what ought to be done. Once you admit that the individual is merely a means to serve the ends of the higher entity called society or the nation, most of those features of totalitarianism which horrify us follow of necessity. From the collectivist standpoint intolerance and brutal suppression of dissent, deception and spying, the complete disregard of the life and happiness of the individual are essential and unavoidable Acts which revolt all our feelings, such as the shooting of hostages or the killing of the old or sick, are treated as mere matters of expediency.
“But a left winger doesnt really care what happens at the end of the day, as long as their friends dont call them names.”
Thanks for looking into our souls and telling us how we view the world. Generalize much? I’d call you a “typical righty” but i would only be stooping to your level. I’ll just call you, the individual, a close minded fool.
Oh my God Terry, this can only mean one thing – Sean Penn was acting!
“The left doesn’t actually believe in human freedom.”
Yeah, right. That’s why the left was behind the abolition of slavery, the right of women to vote, and the civil rights movement.
Penn might be lobying against Prop 8 in these countries.Good for him!.
I’m a Lefty- socialist, to be precise, or simply a realist in historical terms- and I know just what my 5 year program is… I will force all the bourgeois to share their toothbrushes! Only one toothbrush per household- bwahaha
It’s a great movie.
Milk, for all his bullshit was a trailblazer. I remember as a kid in the Sunset this day, and how now Senator fienstien cried on TV.
The Jesus Freaks don’t get it now, just like the Klan, Confederate, Segregation supporters did’nt get it then. But, someday gay rights will be offered.
duplojohn, isn’t it amazing that we have people that see this other than a discrimination issue?
These same Christians (who claim that this isn’t a discrimination issue but rather a religious freedom issue) tell themselves that it is they who are being discriminated against, that there is a war against Christianity and that all their believers are soldiers in the war.
If that doesn’t shut down rational discussion on the issue I don’t know what else would do as good a job. I can’t imagine how that Gordian knot could ever be untangled.
If it wasn’t for the “contract” idea of marriage that provides the aggrieved spouse support and a fair dispersion of the assets of the legal partnership we wouldn’t have any governmental interest in marriages at all. Isn’t it about time to treat these contracts like any other?
Get the government out of the marriage business all together or set some legal qualifications for this “license” and make people take a test to qualify (something more than proving their not first cousins and don’t have VD something like passing parenting and anger management classes).
Still, “License” my patootie, its just a notarized contract. The marriage ceremony part – now that’s religious, or not. Let the religious set their own requirements to participate in their ceremonies. Separation of Church and State – that’s supposed to be a good thing.
s penn is a commi