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Sean Penn: ‘Donald Trump Is the Enemy of Compassion’
Time ^ | January 12, 2018 | Sean Penn

Posted on 01/13/2018 9:33:58 AM PST by EdnaMode

Within days of the devastating earthquake that struck Haiti on Jan. 12, 2010, 29 American volunteers and I became quickly embedded with the 82nd Airborne Division of the U.S. Army. Alongside our military mentors, our hands and souls touched the bodies of the dying and the dead. Our doctors tended the injured. Our educators moved swiftly to establish schools and normalcy for the youth, many of whom had been abruptly orphaned in the disaster that killed as many as 300,000 Haitians.

President Barack Obama deployed about 22,000 U.S. service men and women to Haiti, on one of the most extraordinary missions of support in humanitarian history. No other country in the world offered the generosity of support to the Haitian people that ours did — with our church groups and other NGOs, the money and supplies sent by average citizens. Perhaps most moving for those 30 of us was the extraordinary humanity, respect and commitment offered Haiti by our soldiers.

On this pale blue dot Earth that we call home, the Haitian people are our neighbors, to whom our support is both the policy of a great America as it is a sacred duty.

While nothing could bring back those hundreds of thousands of lives and little could console their families, from day one there was not a broken street I could look upon from the ground without thinking, This can be fixed. Or rather, I can fix this. But soon, I came to realize: Only the Haitians themselves could fix this. Our true sacred duty was to understand the support they may need in their effort.

(Excerpt) Read more at time.com ...


TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Society; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: haiti; seanpenn; trump
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To: ClearCase_guy

That article was most excellent. If we had more men like Crockett after he met Horatio Bunce, our country would have been the better for it. Thank you for posting it.


41 posted on 01/13/2018 10:14:52 AM PST by wastedyears (US out of the UN, UN out of the US.)
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To: EdnaMode

Pathos: logos and ethos weak little sister.
Trumping “racism,” puling is their hole card now.

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whining; whimpering:
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42 posted on 01/13/2018 10:16:34 AM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all white armed conservatives)
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To: EdnaMode

I’d say Trump is very compassionate as evidenced by his approach with DACA.

If it were up to me as President, on day one I would have cancelled DACA and started to round up and deport every illegal in the country.


43 posted on 01/13/2018 10:18:47 AM PST by Jonny7797
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To: EdnaMode

Stop talking, actor boy penn.

JoMa


44 posted on 01/13/2018 10:21:18 AM PST by joma89
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To: ImNotLying

He is a very good actor. He just also happens to be a complete a******


45 posted on 01/13/2018 10:21:46 AM PST by dp0622 (The Left should know that if Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR!)
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To: EdnaMode

But no compassion for Venezuelans starving to death ? And taking people from their homelands under false pretenses, is not compassion. It is greed.


46 posted on 01/13/2018 10:24:16 AM PST by justa-hairyape (The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
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To: euram

Me too.


47 posted on 01/13/2018 10:26:54 AM PST by EdnaMode
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To: EdnaMode

Recent photos of Penn look like they found a homeless guy and hastily put him in an ill-fitting crumpled suit.


48 posted on 01/13/2018 10:28:39 AM PST by SpaceBar
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To: EdnaMode

ConservaTeen: ‘ Sean Penn is the enemy of Common Sense.’


49 posted on 01/13/2018 10:29:10 AM PST by ConservaTeen (Islam is Not the Religion of Peace, but The religion of Pedophilia...)
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To: EdnaMode

No... Democrats who take over good American cities all across the land and turn them into sh&tholes are the enemies of compassion!..... Detroit, Chicago, Baltimore, Philly, San Francisco, are all dead from decades of liberal fraud......need more!


50 posted on 01/13/2018 10:30:51 AM PST by high info voter (Liberal leftists would have "un-friended" Paul Revere!)
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To: EdnaMode
The role that made his career, and which most closely matches his actual intelligence:


51 posted on 01/13/2018 10:36:09 AM PST by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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To: EdnaMode

Penn lost all credibility when he consorted with our enemies; as in their leadership. I’d have more respect for a pile of camel dung than this twit.


52 posted on 01/13/2018 10:37:13 AM PST by Boomer (Leftism is a Cancer on Society; Pray for a Cure!)
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To: high info voter

Good point. And yet people keep voting for them. Boggles the mind.


53 posted on 01/13/2018 10:40:10 AM PST by EdnaMode
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To: euram
I live in Hollywood and you’re absolutely correct.

It is a shithole

54 posted on 01/13/2018 10:52:48 AM PST by atc23 (The Confederacy was the single greatest conservative resistance to federal authority ever)
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To: himno hero

Figured as much. Two inches to being a woman I hear. Most likely been on more wieners than Ketchup.


55 posted on 01/13/2018 11:04:17 AM PST by rlbedfor
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To: EdnaMode

Spoken like a true ‘tard.


56 posted on 01/13/2018 11:46:56 AM PST by broken_arrow1 (I regret that I have but one life to give for my country - Nathan Hale "Patriot")
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To: EdnaMode

Says the man who worshipped the ground that Hugo Chavez walked on.


57 posted on 01/13/2018 11:48:16 AM PST by hattend
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To: EdnaMode

What about the 10 billion dollars the Clintons “diverted” from Haiti, Penn?


58 posted on 01/13/2018 11:54:48 AM PST by july4thfreedomfoundation (SCHLONGED: How Donald Trump Beat My Lying, Marxist Ass and Went On to Win the November Election. HRC)
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To: EdnaMode

Sean Penn could, and should, buy Haiti with his own $$ and make it great ag... oh never mind.


59 posted on 01/13/2018 12:08:53 PM PST by ronniesgal (still winning !!)
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To: EdnaMode

Sean and Danny should make an announced cargo run delivering groceries to an airstrip in Venezuela. They could experience the warm greeting of the crowd which overran a military guarded food collection center(warehouse) in Merida.


60 posted on 01/13/2018 12:14:15 PM PST by Ozark Tom
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