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<p>AS THIS PRESIDENTIAL campaign began, we knew that something fundamental was at stake: Our country faces a growing threat to our liberty and justice in America.</p> <p>Thomas Jefferson and James Madison spoke of the fear that economic power would one day seize political power. That fear is now being realized -- under the Bush administration, pharmaceutical companies draft our Medicare laws. Oil executives sit in the vice president's office and write energy bills. A majority of the reconstruction contracts in Iraq have gone to the president's campaign contributors. This president has squandered the goodwill of the world abroad while pursuing reckless fiscal policies here at home all for his personal agenda and that of his campaign contributors.</p>

Ten months from now he's supposed to preside over the re-nomination of President Bush at the Republican National Convention at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. But that didn't stop "Republican" New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg from playing sidekick to notorious Bush-basher Martin Sheen for the city's celebrated Christmas tree lighting at Rockefeller Center last night. Sheen, a notorious critic of Bush's war policy in Iraq, was supposedly on hand to help turn the ceremony into a what he described as a tribute to "all our servicemen stationed in faraway places." But the star of NBC's "West Wing" has marched and...

Not In Our Name and the World Wide Terrorism WebBy Michael TremoglieFrontPageMagazine.com | March 19, 2003 In the run-up to this war, Not In Our Name became one of the major “peace” organizers and coalitions in the United States. Not In Our Name has spared no cost purchasing ads in newspapers around the world to publish its anti-American Statement of Conscience.  Its signatories include scores of Hate America bigwigs, like Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Michael Parenti, Gloria Steinem and Barbara Kingsolver.  Hollywood icons (and many more has-beens) like Danny Glover, Jessica Lange, Tyne Daly, Martin Sheen and Ed Harris have...

American actor and activist Martin Sheen had kind words for Canada when he received an award for being a Christian role model, the CANADIAN PRESS reports. "Every time I cross this border I feel like I've left the land of lunatics," Sheen said Saturday, adding he was "proud" of Canada for not entering the Iraq war. "You are not armed and dangerous. You do not shoot each other. I always feel a bit more human when I come here." Sheen, who has been outspoken recently in his opposition the U.S.-led war in Iraq, was in Windsor to receive the Christian...

Hollywood-Hero – Commentary on Harrison Ford Well, there they go again. Harrison Ford is the latest Hollywood star to attack the Bush Administration and the Iraq war on foreign soil. In Madrid to promote his latest release “Hollywood Homicide”, he uttered the following: ''I'm very disturbed about the direction American foreign policy is going,'' said Ford, with U.S. post-war casualties having exceeded those during the actual conflict. ''I think something needs to be done to help alleviate the conditions which have created a disenfranchised and angry faction in the Middle East.'' ''I don't think military intervention is the correct...

<p>The conservative commentator James Hirsen, a columnist for Newsmax.com and a regular on Fox News and "The Sean Hannity Show," once played keyboards for the touring Temptations. At the time he was the only white face in the group.</p> <p>His hiring, he says, was "no affirmative action decision. I really had to be funky, or I lost the gig."</p>

HOWARD DEAN'S LETTER FROM: Martin Sheen Dear Friend, Please do something after reading this email. Do what you can, but please do something. A few days ago Howard Dean did something we haven't seen in our country in decades. He called on all of the American people to participate again in our common future. Governor Dean spoke out loud and clear against the crisis of community our current President has created at home, and against the Bush administration's abandonment of the heritage of America as the Idealistic Moral force in the world. And then he said this: "The history of...

American actor Martin Sheen has expressed solidarity with a group of Irish war protesters, charged with causing criminal damages to a US warplane, saying they had "moral courage." Sheen, who stars as a US president in the television drama series 'The West Wing,' said he was prepared to give the five Irish demonstrators his own special dispensation and "grant them full pardon," the Irish Independent newspaper reported Saturday. "As a fellow Catholic peace activist I am compelled to support them and their struggle for peace and social justice and their efforts to gain a fair trial," he said after meeting...

LOS ANGELES –– Aaron Sorkin, creator of the Emmy-winning White House drama "The West Wing," is leaving the series after this season, he said Thursday. Sorkin, who was involved in writing most of the scripts for the NBC series, also served as executive producer. Thomas Schlamme, another executive producer, also is leaving. The show will continue with John Wells, another executive producer, in charge. Wells' other series include NBC's "ER" and "Third Watch."

They came out to protest the war against Iraq. They did their utmost to demoralize, humiliate and slander everyone and everything from President Bush to the soldier in uniform for even thinking about bringing an end to Saddam Hussein and his monstrous regime. Communists, socialists, terrorists, polititians and anti-Americans from every slimey corner of the country rushed to Hollywood actors to rally their cause acrooss the country. Here are just a few of them at anti-American rallies. What do they have to say about protecting their hero Saddam and his band of hideous terrorist thugs now?

DISCLAIMER: The content on this site, including news, quotes, data and other information, is provided by Reuters and its third party content providers for your personal information only. In the weeks leading up to war in Iraq actors Martin Sheen, Mike Farrell, Sean Penn and Janeane Garofalo joined a cast of thousands in a fierce Hollywood resistance played out in protest marches and from the sofas of television talk shows. But with the war in its waning hours, all is quiet on the western coast -- leading conservatives to suggest that Garofalo and her fellow travelers are in full retreat...

Actor/Director Tim Robbins hates free speech. So does his long-term partner, Susan Sarandon, as well as Janeane Garafolo, Martin Sheen, The Dixie Chicks, Mike Farrell, Sean Penn, Michael Moore, Harry Belafonte, Ed Asner, Danny Glover, Chrissie Hynde, and other ''anti-war'' celebrities. They only love free speech when they are using it to bash the military, President Bush, and America, both in our own media and overseas. However, when the American consumer, offended by their blame-America first rhetoric, reacts with petitions and boycotts, the words ''blacklist,'' ''undermining free speech'' and ''suppressing dissent'' are used by these celebrities. Hollywood is scared, because...

<p>Ken Paulson is executive director of the First Amendment Center with offices in Arlington, Va. and Nashville, Tenn. His mailing address is Ken Paulson, First Amendment Center, 1207 18th Ave South Nashville, Tenn. 37212.</p> <p>C O L U M N This just in: Janeane Garofalo is now more un-American than George Clooney.</p>

<p>From the Dixie Chicks and Martin Sheen to Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins, stars who speak out against President Bush and the war in Iraq are seeing repercussions.</p> <p>"There's a piling on, and we're isolating people. That's just wrong," says Kevin Costner, standing up for "courageous" Bull Durham co-stars Sarandon and Robbins.</p>

Martin Sheen Tapes Mouth Shut in Protest Wed Mar 26,10:09 PM ET LOS ANGELES - Actor Martin Sheen (news) covered his mouth with a piece of duct tape that said "peace," then led about 60 protesters in a prayer vigil Wednesday. Sheen, star of the NBC series "West Wing," carried a huge painted cross during the protest. He did not speak but the Rev. Michael Kennedy of Delores Mission Catholic Church in East Los Angeles read a statement from him. "Nationalism and militarism have become the gods of our idolatry at the expense of our humanity," Sheen wrote."By some demented...

Hollywood's box office revenue plummeted in March, as high-profile movie stars like Martin Sheen, Susan Sarandon and George Clooney turned up the volume on their antiwar outbursts and audiences stayed home in droves. Exhibitor Relations Co., a box office tracking service, told the Wall Street Journal Tuesday that Hollywood's movie ticket take was down 15 percent last month. The drop represents a whopping 18 percent falloff in movie attendance when higher ticket prices are taken into account. The wartime drop in movie revenue has shocked Tinseltown's movers and shakers, who are used to seeing moviegoers flock to the silver screen...

Hollywood anti-war set needs some new lines April 8, 2003 BY RICHARD ROEPER SUN-TIMES COLUMNIST TO: Jennifer Aniston, George Clooney, Sheryl Crow, David Duchovny, Janeane Garofalo, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Woody Harrelson, Jessica Lange, Michael Moore, Edward Norton, Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, Susan Sarandon, Martin Sheen, Eddie Vedder, et al. RE: Operation Iraqi Freedom Dear Celebrity Anti-War Activist: Over the last several weeks and months, you have used your status as a person of fame to tell the world you're against the war with Iraq, which you believe to be unwarranted, unethical, unconstitutional and un-American. Some of you have said you "hate"...

'Join the other superpower," said the bumper sticker on the back of the clapped out Chevy van on the ferry, "world opinion." How I wish I could. Just walk right into that ocean of warmly felt righteousness until the waves were over my head, then breathe. But that would mean I had an IQ of twelve. That would mean I conflated Bush and Saddam. That I was somehow convinced that Saddam, causing the death of an estimated 300,000 children, not to mention the brutal torture or murder of unnumbered Iraqi adults over the past 10 years, is somehow equal to...

<p>For a few days after the Dixie Chicks' lead singer, Natalie Maines, told a London audience, "Just so you know, we're ashamed the president of the United States is from Texas," there was not a ripple about the remark. The American ambassador to Britain, William Farish, was at the show and made it a point to greet the Texas trio at a reception afterward. Although six critics reviewed the March 10 concert, only one mentioned the comment in print.</p>

View it here! http://www.feministsforlife.org/taf/2001/spring/Spring01.pdf I always thought Sheen was pro choice. I even heard him on an interview saying he was an athiest who loved catholic traditions and ritual. Sheen can't be pro life - he is a prime supporter of Fidel Castro and communist Cuba. As you know, Cuba is a brutal dictatorship with one of the highest abortion rates in the world. In Sheen's Cuba, abortion is used as birth control. Sheen's name always appears as a sponsor on fliers and posters for events relating to communist Cuba. Someone should contact Fems for Life and tell them of...