Angelina Jolie Gets Cambodian Passport

Breitbart ^ | 11/22/2005

[Panerai]

Hollywood star Angelina Jolie has received a Cambodian passport after being made a citizen of the impoverished Southeast Asian country, an associate said Tuesday.

The Hollywood star can use it when she visits the native land of her adopted son, Maddox, said Stephan Bognar, executive director of the Maddox Jolie project in Cambodia.

The project, managed by San Francisco-based WildAid, promotes wildlife conservation and community development in a former Khmer Rouge guerrilla stronghold in northwestern Cambodia.

Bognar said the actress was "ecstatic and thrilled" last month when he handed her the passport and an official copy of a royal decree giving her Cambodian citizenship.

"Maddox was there and she showed him" the passport, he said.

"It gives her a closer link, a stronger bond" with her adopted son's native country. she said.

Jolie has donated $1.5 million for the project in the past three years.

The project trains villagers in sustainable economic activities in the hope that they will conserve natural resources. It also aims to provide supplemental income for government rangers to protect wildlife and forests in the former war zone, Bognar said.

Parts of Jolie's adventure movie "Lara Croft: Tomb Raider" were filmed at Cambodia's famed Angkor Wat temple.

The actress adopted Maddox three years ago, and has recently adopted an orphaned baby girl from Ethiopia.

[Panerai]

[wardaddy]

Cambodia could do worse....expect the average height to go up.

[mym]

Jolie is worthy of respect.

[Triggerhippie]

Jolie is worthy of respect.

For getting a passport???

[NJ_gent]

"For getting a passport???"

For doing a hell of a lot more than your typical Hollywood liberal who shows up for third would fundraisers long enough for photo ops. She's done a lot to get poorer people in real hellholes working toward self-reliance and self-sustainability. That means getting them off IMF welfare and on the road to productivity. She's grown up a lot since the Billy Bob Thorton days.

[mym]

====Jolie is worthy of respect.====

==For getting a passport???==

For helping poor Cambodians.

[Hong Kong Expat]

Have you ever tried to get a passport!?

[The Duke]

I have trouble finding anything about Angelina not to applaud. I particularly like the way she's seemingly not allowed herself to be associated with Hollywood propoganda.

I also have no trouble watching her movies - for a couple of reasons. :)

[bill1952]

What in particular has she done?

[bill1952]

Again, what in particular has she done, other than to adopt?

[Grim]

She's done a lot to get poorer people in real hellholes working toward self-reliance and self-sustainability.

The WildAid Project in Cambodia is an effort to stop the starving peasants from eating endangered critters and fouling up the "habitat." Their "community building" consists mainly of training and arming park rangers.

[KarlInOhio]

For getting a passport???

It was tough work getting a passport. The first ten times the cameraman tried to take her picture the camera failed and the picture was a foot too low.

[television is just wrong]

there are American children in need of a loving home. Why didn't she adopt them?

Maybe she plans on going to live there.

[weegee]

Why is there no mention of her renouncing her "other" citizenship? Or like Peter Jennings, does she claim dual citizenship?

[NJ_gent]

"What in particular has she done?"

Starting with the fact that she went to the UN on her own to ask what she could do to help after seeing just a glimpse of the conditions people lived in in Cambodia while filming a movie, she's since traveled around the world to hotspots, warzones, and places that still look like they're warzones. There, she's actually rolled up her sleeves, helped with things like food distribution and such, and donated millions on the spot to organizations that work on bringing people to self-sufficiency. In one trip to Cambodia where people still lose limbs regularly to long buried landmines (much like in Afghanistan), she helped detonate some herself. Much of her work these days mirrors what Princess Diana had been doing prior to her unfortunate death. They've each marked a stark difference from the usual Hollywood get-together to drain some pocket change to ship overseas in that they've rolled up their sleeves, gone themselves, and given out of their own pockets to help better conditions in the worst areas of the world.

[dfwgator]

Cambodia could do worse....expect the average height to go up.

At least it isn't Gary Glitter.

[section9]

Jolie has grown significantly since her Billybob days.

She is actually trying to help out and has eschewed the mindless pap of Hollywood liberalism. This is not to say that she hasn't led the chequered, sexually active lifestyle of the A-list Hollyweird actress. But she has, apparently, turned a corner in her life.

Be Seeing You,

Chris

[Gay State Conservative]

For helping poor Cambodians.

Is this to say that she,unlike 99.999% of this country's obscenely wealthy liberals,actually puts her money where her mouth is?

If so,then this suggests that's she is,in fact,worthy of respect.

[sarasota]

Anybody got any updates on the Jolie-Pitt pregnancy?

[HoustonCurmudgeon]

Why is there no mention of her renouncing her "other" citizenship? Or like Peter Jennings, does she claim dual citizenship?

You don't always need to renounce anything. I'm not sure if it's still true, but in the 80's and 90's you could get an Irish or in some cases a British passport if you had one grandparent from there.