What should Mel Gibson's punishment be? (VANITY)

July 30, 2006 | Hildy

[demkicker]

Gibson so much as admitted it in his mea culpa. If you go back and read it, I think you'll agree. The fact he hasn't denied it is even more evidence.

No, not really. Gibson's mea culpa does no such thing. Obviously, he's embarrassed that he's fallen off the alcoholic wagon and acted like a fool and apologized. Everything else is circumspect.

[muawiyah]

Most of the persecution Jews suffered prior to the destruction of Herod's Temple was at the hands of polytheists who practiced human sacrifice or ceremonial murder.

The same folks would have persecuted you if they could have gotten their hands on you ~ since, as it turns out, your own vision of reality and truth is pretty much the same as the Jews in those days.

After the destruction of the Temple, most persecution arose out of the fact that the tribe of Judah no longer had a warrior caste, and other tribes within Israel had been taken captive and scattered ~ they didn't have a warrior caste either. Still, just as "things" seemed to be improving in the 20th century, socialism came along and its followers decided to kill Jews believing (rightly or wrongly) that Jews were the very emblem of capitalism.

That's probably why socialists want to destroy America as well.

Frankly, right now I can't think of a single enemy the Jews have who isn't also an enemy to America, and if 100% of all the Jews on Earth were to disappear in a twinkling, the hatred of those other people for America will not diminish in the least.

They used to say of the French that they'd persecuted and expelled the Jews back in the 15th century only to recreate them in the body of the Huguenots, who they persecuted with equal vigor.

It may be our destiny to play the role played by the Jews should we ever let down our military guard a second. Then you can find out the "whys" of persecution.

[AmeriBrit]

Words, that's all they were, repeated by someone who was drunk.

All the hullabaloo is 'much ado about nothing'. I don't understand what all the fuss is about. Many, many times a certain 'bigot click' here on FR says much worse about the Brits and their hateful comments don't get this much attention.

[beyond the sea]

Thanks for that information.

[1 spark]

Here's a little bit of history on persecution of the Jews.

http://www.sullivan-county.com/news/mine/timeline.htm

http://www.sullivan-county.com/news/mine/antisemitism.htm

[Miss Behave]

;-)

[A CA Guy]

Hollywood won't punish him since even the liberal Jews seem to hate Jews.

I guess I'd make him take Anabuse drugs for starters so he'd get sick if he tried to drink.