Red Eye On Sean Penn's Craziness (Plus: Hugo Loves Seany) -- This Reporter Is Sooo Cute and Squeeky

(The Rabbi, Publicist, and Police Officer... sounds like a joke)

Spicoli's View of the First Amendment (e.g., nutter left)

Sean should consider sticking with acting

Sean Penn Wants Reporters Jailed for Calling Chavez 'Dictator'

First Amendment be damned . . . If Oscar-winning actor Sean Penn had his way, any journalist who called Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez a dictator would quickly find himself behind bars.

Penn, appearing on HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher" on Friday, defended Chavez during a segment in which he detailed his work with the JP Haitian Relief Organization, which he co-founded.

"Every day, this elected leader is called a dictator here, and we just accept it, and accept it" said Penn, winner of two Best Actor Academy Awards. "And this is mainstream media, who should -- truly, there should be a bar by which one goes to prison for these kinds of lies."

It was just the beginning of a busy weekend for Penn. When asked on CBS' "Sunday Morning" about those who question his motives for his humanitarian work in Haiti, he said:

"Do I hope that those people die screaming of rectal cancer? Yeah. You know, but I'm not going to spend a lot of energy on it."

Judge Andrew Napolitano, Fox News' senior judicial analyst, said the same constitutional protection that applies to journalists also applies to Penn, who can say pretty much anything he wants in the "political arena" -- aside from an immediate incitement of violence.

"What he is saying is protected, as wacky and weird as it is," Napolitano told FoxNews.com. "But the substance of what he's saying would be absolutely contrary to the First Amendment, which fully protects all political opinions. So if a journalist says Dick Cheney should go to jail, the journalist is privileged to say that."

"Mr. Penn is calling for a communist-like regime in which journalists who criticize the government are sent to jail because of that criticism," Napolitano added. "That is utterly un-American and hasn't happened here since the Civil War."...

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Here is the part about voting Chavez in by use of "stormtroopers" and threats seems to have been missed by Penn. I work with a Venezuelan and I got the non-Marxist viewpoint that Penn provided above:

A Peak at the Future of the Fairness Doctrine

This could be any Democrat in congress speaking about talk radio...

Chavez hits at Venezuelan media with new laws

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is taking steps to tighten restrictions on the media despite mounting opposition by private media to a series of proposed reforms that would expose them to criminal prosecution.

Chavez supporters argue that the measures limiting broadcasting rights for radio and television will lead to a significant "democratization" of the media, which has been controlled by a handful of owners.

"We will launch a strong fight for the democratization of communication, to break the media oligarchy in Venezuela," Communication and Information Minister Blanca Eekhout said recently.

In a recent report, National Telecommunications Commission (Conatel) chief Diosdado Cabello said 27 families have "privileged ownership" of 32 percent of the radio broadcast industry.

But for Chavez's opposition, this "now or never" approach to the media is just the latest onslaught on press freedoms by the firebrand leftist leader, who has never forgiven the privately owned media for backing a failed coup against him in 2002.

"The only player that exposes many of the things the government is doing is the media, and the government feels it has to regulate them," professor Marcelino Bisbal, editor of the book "Communication Hegemony and Control," told AFP....

What does a Sane Democrat/Liberal think about this? Let’s ask Camille Paglia

Link:

Hugo Chavez Parroting the Left

I do not think the Left will disagree with anything said by Hugo Chavez, except if they had a chance, they [the American Left] would do actual harm to Bush whereas Hugo Chavez might be afraid of the consequences. (The American Left is so post-modern they do not even know about consequences... which is why they always kick and scream on their way to the poky.)

Here is the U.S. version of Chavez:

Venezuela and South America's Direction

Venezuela Woes

One News Now - props

I look at what is going on in Venezuela as setting the stage for where the other countries in South and Central America will eventually end up. Free-markets? Or Marxist like control over lives and wealth? Old allies reunited? Or “Red Dawn” (Wolverines!!)?

Where is our Reagan? Newt? Thompson? We shall see.

U.S. urged to counter power grab by Venezuela's Chavez

Jim Brown OneNewsNow.comAugust 20, 2007

A former State Department official says the U.S. needs to be very concerned that President Hugo Chavez is solidifying a Castro-like communist dictatorship in Venezuela by continuing to broaden his authority.

Last week in a speech to Venezuela's National Assembly, Chavez called for the elimination of presidential term limits and the autonomy of the country's Central Bank. He also proposed giving his government more power to seize private property without court approval.

Jim Roberts, a research fellow in economic growth and freedom at the Heritage Foundation, says Chavez has steadily been tightening his grip on power since he took office in 1999. "Since then, he's really cracked down on press freedom," Roberts observes. "He closed the only significant press outlet, which was called RCTV, a television station that reached the whole country that would air reports that were critical of him and analyzed his regime."

And the dictator has also politicized the military, says Roberts. "[H]e's put his military people into jobs around the country that normally are held by civilians who are running the state and local governments of Venezuela," he notes.

In addition, Chavez has already been using "trumped up charges" to seize land that had been in productive use and turn it over to peasants, says the Heritage Foundation fellow.

"These are disturbing signs," Roberts admits, "and it reminds me, and many others, of the attempt in the early 1970s in Chile when Salvador Allende also gained power through constitutional means, and being advised by Fidel Castro back then nearly ruined Chile. Fortunately, the people rebelled and overthrew him, and Chile is now the most prosperous country in South America."

Roberts says the U.S. needs to confront Chavez by surrounding him with the market-based democracy of the West. He believes Congress should pass pending trade promotion agreements as they were originally negotiated -- or try to achieve new economic agreements -- to improve the economies of other South American countries like Colombia, Uruguay, and Paraguay.

Chavez for Life!

I am posting this here because my compatriot in “the pit,” the area I work in, is from Venezuela. This is an import from Little Green Footballs, I wanted to give my friend a chance to see the news because he is usually too busy either complaining or cooking (ha, ha).

Now that he can use the new Constitution to charge any opposition to his leadership role as opposing the “constitution,” the killings and disappearances can begin. And all those Hollywood starlight’s that went to Hugo Chaves’ side for photo and ideology opportunities will be hiding their faces… and their beliefs about Marxism. At least for a while.

Chavez: President for Life

Aug 17, 2007

Daily Telegraph - UK

Several times when I’ve referred to Hugo Chavez as a “dictator,” I’ve received indignant emails from Chavez supporters protesting that he was democratically elected and shouldn’t be labeled that way.

Well, I hope the Venezuelans who voted for Chavez enjoyed that election, because it’s the last one they’ll have for a long time: Hugo Chavez to make himself president for life.

The Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez has anointed himself president for life by proposing sweeping changes to the country’s constitution.

Setting out his plans for completing his socialist revolution in the oil-rich Latin American nation, he proposing radical constitutional reform which has at its centre indefinite re-election for himself.

In a rambling televised speech reminiscent of his close ally and friend Fidel Castro, Mr Chavez told the national assembly of 33 changes he plans to make to the constitution he introduced in 1999 which will cement his grip on power.

Hugu Chavez for Life

Pres for Life

(Drudge Report – props)

Washington Post - Article

Venezuela's Chavez seen wanting office "for life"

By Bernd Debusmann, Special Correspondent

June 26, 2007

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Insecurity, "malignant narcissism" and the need for adulation are driving Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's confrontation with the United States, according to a new psychological profile.

Eventually, these personality traits are likely to compel Chavez to declare himself Venezuela's president for life, said Dr. Jerrold Post, who has just completed the profile for the U.S. Air Force.

Chavez won elections for a third term last December. Since then he has stepped up his anti-American rhetoric, vowed to accelerate a march towards "21st Century socialism" and suggested that he intends to stay in power until 2021 -- a decade beyond his present term.

But Post -- who profiled foreign leaders in a 21-year career at the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency and now is the director of the Political Psychology Program at George Washington University -- doubts that Chavez plans to step down even then. "He views himself as a savior, as the very embodiment of Venezuela," Post said in an interview.

"He has been acting increasingly messianic and so he is likely to either get the constitution rewritten to allow for additional terms or eventually declare himself president-for-life."

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More Venezuela Action

RCTV from Venezuela

Video from Venezuela

Two of the latest videos from Venezuela.

RCTV - Venezuela

Some More Venezuelan Stuff

I do not read or speak Spanish, so I hope this video is supporting the resistance to Marxist idealism. I pray and support these people to have freedom of speech!! You should too!! I co-worker has family that are connected to the military down there. I have been able to find out many things I wouldn’t have been able to otherwise. For that I am thankful.

RCTV

SOME NEWSPAPER HEADLINES ARE SHOWN

Some Protesting

Some Protesting

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I think this guy is a Chavista, a pinko-commie… Brunno will have to tell me.

Venezuela... Marxist Haven? or, Free Economic Choices?

Videos from Venezuela

This is just for the Spanish reading people who read my blogs… I know of one.

Chavez “Stormtroopers”

(BRUNO... READ)

FOX NEWS Correspondent Goes Off!!! Rightly So!!!

Venezuela is in a bit of an upheaval, but we have socialists here in the States defending such actions. Below is a link to a blog and at the bottom of the blog is a video that is a must watch! The Fox News correspondent RIPS the New York City Councilman a new one with facts, but the councilman continues with colloquial responses. Bottom line is that the councilman wears red as well, just on the inside.

For those who are inept at using the internet… (Bruno)… click on the blue underlined part of the sentence above and it will bring you to the HOT AIR article.

RCTV Shut Down, Che Guevera, and the Left

The Left is on the militaristic march in Latin America. Many people lauded by the left as speaking for them have had their photos taken with this despot.

You can find much of their programming on YouTube, here:

http://youtube.com/profile?user=elobservadorenlinea

I find it odd that many on the Democratic Left in America back this guy. Cindy Sheehan, Danny Glover and others love Marxism for some reason, but then so does much of the Democrat base. Angelina Jolie has a tattoo of Che Guevara, as does Mike Tyson and other Hollywood starlets.

“The Cuban revoltuuion,” Hemingway wrote in 1960, “is “very pure and peaceful…. I am encouraged by it..... the Cuban people now have a decent chance for the first time.”

- Hemingway

"Che was the most complete human being of our age."
-Jean-Paul Sartre

Che Guevara founded the labor camp system, in which countless Cubans judged "deviant" by the regime would suffer and die. Many Christians has been judged as being "deviant" in Cuba. Carlos Santana has said "I want to transform this planet and get closer to, in 25 years, creating heaven on earth, free from flags, free from the corruption of politics and religion."

This is the goal of most on the Left, they want secularism as their religion. Here I will post an article by an author that is my “Book of the Month” choice. All I can say is that if there are any youngsters who think Che was a good guy… read on.

“The Cuban revoltuuion,” Hemingway wrote in 1960, “is “very pure and peaceful…. I am encouraged by it..... the Cuban people now have a decent chance for the first time.”

"Che was the most complete human being of our age."
-Jean-Paul Sartre

Reprinted from NewsMax.com

Che Guevara: 39 Years of Hype

Humberto Fontova

Thursday, Oct. 5, 2006

Thirty-nine years ago this week, Ernesto "Che" Guevara got a major dose of his own medicine. Without trial he was declared a murderer, stood against a wall and shot. Historically speaking, justice has rarely been better served. If the saying "What goes around comes around" ever fit, it's here.

The number of men Che's "revolutionary tribunals" condemned to death in the identical manner range from 400 to 1,892. The number of defenseless men (and boys) Che personally murdered with his own pistol runs into the dozens. Imagine Charles Manson, Ted Bundy and Son of Sam T-shirts on such as Johnny Depp and Prince Harry. Granted, these last three didn't match Che's murder tally.

"Executions?" Che Guevara exclaimed while addressing the hallowed halls of the U.N. General Assembly on December 9, 1964. "Certainly we execute!" he declared, to the claps and cheers of that august body. "And we will continue executing (emphasis HIS) as long as it is necessary! This is a war to the DEATH against the revolution's enemies!"

According to the Black Book of Communism, those firing-squad executions had reached around 10,000 by that time. Sloboban Milosevic, by the way, went on trial for allegedly ordering 8,000 executions. The charge against him by the same U.N. that deliriously applauded Che Guevara's proud proclamation was "genocide."

The "revolution's enemies" bound, gagged and murdered by Che and his henchmen were among the most enterprising and valiant fighters of the 20th century. These Cuban freedom fighters rank alongside the Polish Home Army and the Hungarian Freedom Fighters. They fought just as valiantly, as desperately – and, ultimately, just as hopelessly. They fought to the last bullet and usually to the death.

Most heartbreaking of all, they fought alone and abandoned. They specialized in ripping off their gags and blindfolds to yell "VIVA CRISTO REY!" or "VIVA CUBA LIBRE!" or "ABAJO COMUNISMO!" before the bullets shattered their bodies and the coup de grace from Che's henchman shattered their skulls.

The few survivors live today in places like Miami and New Jersey and qualify as the longest-suffering political prisoners in modern history. But you'll look for their stories on the History Channel and PBS and in The New York Times, etc., in vain. They fought the Left's premier pinup boys, you see. So their heroism doesn't qualify as politically correct drama.

To be ignored would be bad enough. Instead, whenever they are acknowledged, the mainstream media (MSM) parrot the Castroite slander against them of "terrorists" and "mafiosi." It's a tribute to the MSM and academia's incurable obtuseness and imbecility that they still depict Castro/Che as the "plucky underdogs" against an aggressive colossus – when that colossus was in fact protecting Castro's regime, as pledged to Nikita Khrushchev by JFK in October 1962.

"I don't need proof to execute a man," snapped Che to a judicial underling in 1959. "I only need proof that it's necessary to execute him!"

Not that you'd surmise any of the above from the mainstream media or academia – much less from Hollywood. From the high priests of the fourth estate Che Guevara receives only accolades. Time magazine, for instance, honors Che Guevara among "The 100 Most Important People of the Century."

The man who declared, "A revolutionary must become a cold killing machine motivated by pure hate" (and who set a spirited example), who boasted that he executed from "revolutionary conviction" rather than from any "archaic bourgeois details" like judicial evidence, and who urged "atomic extermination" as the final solution for those American "hyenas" (and came hearth-thumpingly close with nuclear missiles in October 1962) is hailed by Time not just among the "most important" people of the century – but in the "Heroes and Icons" section, alongside Anne Frank, Andrei Sakharov and Rosa Parks.

"If the nuclear missiles had remained, we would have used them against the very heart of America, including New York City," Che Guevara confided to the London Daily Worker in November 1962. "We will march the path of victory even if it costs millions of atomic victims. ... We must keep our hatred alive and fan it to paroxysm." This was Che's prescription for America almost half a century before Osama bin Laden, Mullah Omar and Al-Zarqawi appeared on our radar screens.

But for the prudence of Nikita Khrushchev, Che Guevara's fondest wish would have made New York's 9/11 explosions appear like an errant cherry bomb. Yet listed alongside Che Guevara in Time's "Heroes and Icons of the Century" is Mother Teresa. From here the ironies only get richer.

The most popular version of the Che T-shirt, for instance, sports the slogan "Fight Oppression" under his famous face. This is the face of a man who co-founded a regime that jailed more of its subjects than did Hitler's or Stalin's and declared that "individualism must disappear!"

In 1959, with the help of Soviet GRU agents, the man celebrated on that T-shirt helped found, train and indoctrinate Cuba's secret police. "Always interrogate your prisoners at night," Che ordered his goons. "A man's resistance is always lower at night." Today the world's largest Che mural adorns Cuba's Ministry of the Interior, the headquarters for Cuba's KGB- and STASI-trained secret police. Nothing could be more fitting.

Yet somehow, this same image is considered the height of hipness on everything from shirts, watches and snowboards to thong underwear and an undisclosed location on Angelina Jolie's epidermis. Ms. Jolie, by the way, recently won the U.N.'s Global Humanitarian Award for her work with refugees.

Will someone please inform Angelina Jolie that her tattoo idol, with his firing squads and prison camps, provoked one of the biggest refugee crises in the history of this hemisphere? On top of the 2 million who made it with only the clothes on their backs, the Cuban Archives Project meticulously compiled and documented by scholars Maria Werlau and Dr. Armando Lago, estimates that close to 80,000 Cubans have died of thirst and exposure, drowned, or been ripped apart by sharks while attempting to flee the handiwork of the man "Ms. Global Humanitarian" honors by having him permanently emblazoned on her skin.

Yet prior to Fidel and Che's glorious reign, Cuba took in more immigrants (primarily from Europe) as a percentage of population than the U.S, and this includes the Ellis Island years. Prior to the glorious Cuban revolution, people were as desperate to ENTER Cuba (especially from neighboring Haiti and Jamaica) as they are now to EXIT Cuba (at extreme risk to life and limb). Perhaps Castro acolyte Charlie Rangel can explain this? Perhaps Jesse "Viva Fidel! Viva Che!" Jackson can explain it?

Not that ignorance, willful or otherwise, is exactly rare on the topic of Cuba or Che Guevara. When Carlos Santana and Eric Burdon (among many other rockers) smugly sport their elegant Che T-shirts, they plug a regime that in the mid- to late '60s rounded up "roqueros" (Cuban rock-and-roll fans) and "longhairs" en masse and herded them into prison camps for forced labor under a scorching sun. These young prisoners' "counter-revolutionary crimes" often involved nothing more than listening to music by The Animals and Santana.

When Madonna camped it up in her Che outfit for the cover of her American Life CD, she plugged a regime that criminalized gays and anything smacking of gay mannerisms. In the mid-'60s the crime of effeminate behavior got thousands of youths yanked off Cuba's streets and parks by secret police and dumped in prison camps with the sign "Work Will Make Men out of You" in bold letters above the gate (the sign at Auschwitz's gate read: "Work Will Set You Free) and with machine-gunners posted on the watchtowers.

The initials for these camps were UMAP, not GULAG. But the conditions were identical.

"Iron" Mike Tyson used to end fights with his arms upraised in triumph. In 2002 he got a huge Che tattoo on his torso, visited Cuba, and has been consistently and horribly stomped in fight after fight ever since, a process perfectly mimicking the combat record of his tattoo idol. Che was indeed proficient at smiting his enemies, Mike, thousands of them – but only after they were bound, gagged and blindfolded. Chances are, nobody disclosed this to you in Cuba, much less in the mainstream media. But I'm afraid the National Boxing Federation won't allow it anyway.

When the crowd of A-list hipsters and Beautiful People at the Sundance Film Festival (which included everyone from Tipper and Al Gore to Sharon Stone, Meryl Streep and Paris Hilton) exploded in a rapturous standing ovation for Robert Redford's "The Motorcycle Diaries," they were cheering a film glorifying a man who jailed or exiled most of Cuba's best writers, poets and independent filmmakers while converting Cuba's press and cinema – at Czech machine-gunpoint – into propaganda agencies for a Stalinist regime.

Executive producer of the movie Robert Redford (who always kicks off the film festival with a long dirge about the importance of artistic freedom) was forced to screen the film for Che's widow (who heads Cuba's Che Guevara Studies Center) and Fidel Castro for their approval before release. We can only imagine the shrieks of outrage from the Sundance crowd about "censorship!" and "selling out!" had, say, Robert Ackerman required (and acquiesced in) Nancy Reagan's approval to release HBO's "The Reagans" that same year.

Che groupies are many and varied. Christopher Hitchens, for instance, marvels at Che's "untamable defiance" and assures us in the same New York Times article that "Che was no hypocrite."

The noted historian Benicio Del Toro, who will star as his hero in a Hollywood biopic due next year, says that "Che was just one of those guys who walked the walk and talked the talk. There's just something cool about people like that. The more I get to know Che, the more I respect him."

More than his cruelty, megalomania or even his epic stupidity, what most distinguished Ernesto "Che" Guevara from his peers was his sniveling cowardice. His groupies can run off in a huff, slam their bedroom door and dive headfirst into their beds sobbing and kicking and punching the pillows all they want – but Che surrendered to the Bolivan Rangers voluntarily, from a safe distance, and was captured physically sound and with a fully loaded pistol.

One day before his death in Bolivia, Che Guevara – for the first time in his life – finally faced something properly describable as combat. So he ordered his guerrilla charges to give no quarter, to fight to the last breath and to the last bullet.

A few hours later, his "untamable defiance," lack of hypocrisy and "walking of the walk" all manifested themselves. With his men doing just what he ordered (fighting and dying to the last bullet), a slightly wounded Che snuck away from the firefight and surrendered with a full clip in his pistol, while whimpering to his captors: "Don't Shoot! I'm Che! I'm worth more to you alive than dead!"

His Bolivian captors begged to differ.