Posted on 07/30/2006 7:49:33 PM PDT by Hildy
Since so many here want so much to forgive Mel Gibson for his anti-semetic tirade and beligerent behavior towards law enforcement I was trying to come up with the best punishment. I think I got it. Besides the obligatory fine, I think the Judge should sentence him to 500 hours community service at the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust. What do you all think his sentence should be?
Read more carefully, I said going into an anti-semetic tiraade (if that is what he did) is not actionable. If he was caught driving drunk, he should get the same sentence as anyone else would.
Hi It's me,He was drunk.I am a Catholic and not happy with what he said and did.I like Mel and know a drop of his pressures.I pray for him.
Where is that in scripture?
Mel needs to get the help that will get him back on his feet.
And this has what to do with sanction for DUI?
Yes, a large portion of his substantial assets donated to the IDF in his name and with his explicit blessings.
Nothing will ever temper their taste, when people are clearly out for blood. Do you enjoy running down a man who said words and nothing more? Did this make you an emotional wreck? Did he strap bomb to his chest and try to blow someone up?
And, show his shadow.
Gibson's drunken rant against Jews was no more hateful than Ron Howard's/Tom Hanks' STONE COLD SOBER rant against Catholicism by filming Da Vinci Code (which accused Catholic Church of being, in essence, Murder Incorporated). If Gibson deserves punishment - and your never-ending scorn - for his anti-Jewish prejudice, then there are scores of Hollywood bigwigs (starting with Howard and Hanks) who deserve EXACTLY THE SAME PUNISHMENT for their anti-Catholic prejudice.
Gibson is prejudiced against Jews, apparently. Most of Hollywood is prejudiced against Christians, -- and spits out that prejudice in repeated, SOBER acts of bigoted filmmaking. A hundred movies over the last 20 years stand as irrefutable proof of that point, as Michael Medved has documented. Let's call the current controversy a draw and lay off Mel (at least until there's an equally outraged national revulsion against the producers of Last Temptation, Da Vinci Code, Handmaid's Tale, "Saved," "40 Days and 40 Nights," and a hundred other movies that sneer their venomous hatred of Christ and His Church).
Apparently not if Hildy has his/her way.
"Carrying the label "anti-semite" for the rest of his life will be punishment enough."
I so agree. His career is over, IMO. I don't think he can redeem himself, ever.
Beligerance is not uncommon in DUI arrests, and that can be taken into consideration at sentencing.
As for expressing his opinions, I think we'd be vastly in error for calling for judicial redress for expressing unpopular beliefs.
What thoughtcrime penalty would be next for expressing some doubleplusungood idea? And who would get to decide?
People are welcome to decide how much (or little) they wish to support his products and behaviours based on their own standards. The marketplace will take care of that.
Irrelevant suggestion. Anti-Christian bigotry is a virtue, not a vice. All the important and trendy people in Hollywood do it.
And, as world reaction to Israel's recent self-defense efforts proves, there are self-loathing Jews and LOOPs (liberals of other persuasion) who freely bash Jews, but they are applauded and cheered for their anti-semitism. No one at FR is demanding that they be sentenced to community service at holocaust exhibits.
Similarly, there are self-loathing Catholics who never waste a breath defending the Catholic faith, but attack it without ceasing and yet somehow avoid being condemned for their virulent anti-Catholicism.
I think these hypocrites should be sentenced to being pummeled by the same stones they have been heaving at Gibson.
Was he arrested... or convicted?
If arrested... for what?
If convicted... of what?
I think Mel's punishment should be the same as the Move-On org members demanding the President's execution and persecution.
Bingo.
How about, he gets a DUI? This will require treatment as well. I don't see why he should have to do anything else.
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