Posted on 04/19/2010 12:28:08 PM PDT by AJKauf
Get yourself ready for it. The media is going to praise Danny Glover for getting arrested for standing up for workers abused by capitalism run amok. On April 16, he was arrested at a protest against the Sodexo food service company for their treatment of workers. He’ll be hailed as a hero and other Hollywood stars will follow in his footsteps, if for no other reason than publicity, but Glover deserves no praise. He has a history of painting America as the problem and anti-American regimes as the saviors of the oppressed.
“We’re here today to say no more to deplorable pay and working conditions,” Glover shouted before he was arrested after crossing a police line. He wasn’t apprehended for the protest, but for deliberately provoking law enforcement. He was asked three times to move back over the yellow tape and refused.
His admiration for Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez, who is surely treating his critics far worse than Sodexo is, gives us an idea of the lens through which Glover views the world. Chavez’s government donated $30 million to a film being made by Glover about Toussaint Louverture. The funding sparked protest from figures in the entertainment industry in Venezuela, who were then punished by having their film guilds shut down....
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He was arrested with a few SEIU Executives.
A Purple T-Shirt Photo-Op
Real ‘man of the people’ guy there.../sarc
Glover hates America.
I cannot understand why, he has been privileged to get rich off Americans going to see his films, but he is eaten up with the Black thing and the perceived notion that all blacks are treated badly by this country.
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