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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.

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

I’m surprised he’s still alive after he helped get a mexican drug lord jailed. Isn’t he a rapist and a woman beater too?


61 posted on 01/13/2018 12:24:38 PM PST by Trillian
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To: EdnaMode
I always listen to violent, out of control, antisocial, communists when they pontificate on compassion.

Maybe it wasn't acting?

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62 posted on 01/13/2018 12:43:36 PM PST by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: EdnaMode
YOU ARE STILL CRYING WOLF

63 posted on 01/13/2018 1:06:50 PM PST by conservatism_IS_compassion (Presses can be 'associated,' or presses can be independent. Demand independent presses.)
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To: EdnaMode

How’s Hugo these days, Penn!?

Oh wait.... /s


64 posted on 01/13/2018 1:46:00 PM PST by cranked
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To: SamAdams76

Donald Trump, you are no Fidel Castro when it comes to compassion.


65 posted on 01/13/2018 1:58:34 PM PST by alstewartfan (If you should leave me now A sudden wind will blow your mansion down. Al Stewart)
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To: EdnaMode

It is possible to have too much compassion. Altruistic sacrifice of values is anti-life.


66 posted on 01/13/2018 2:04:56 PM PST by mjp ((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
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To: EdnaMode

And Sean Penn supports Venezuelan style governments the world over.


67 posted on 01/13/2018 2:16:59 PM PST by 2001convSVT (Going Galt as fast as I can.)
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To: Blue Highway

He acts like an idiot but that is just his disguise, he would prefer to be a murdering disciple of Che if he could achieve his life’s dream.


68 posted on 01/13/2018 2:23:19 PM PST by 2001convSVT (Going Galt as fast as I can.)
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To: dfwgator

Where’s Beeks?


69 posted on 01/13/2018 2:28:00 PM PST by bar sin·is·ter (Climate Scientology - another example of science fiction morphing into a religious cult)
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To: bar sin·is·ter
Where’s Beeks?


70 posted on 01/13/2018 2:48:38 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: Kozy

Harass nothing, I think Mr. Compassion is known to beat up women and photographers.


71 posted on 01/13/2018 3:50:12 PM PST by Cecily
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To: EdnaMode

Why haven’t the Haitians been able to help themselves?


72 posted on 01/13/2018 10:29:31 PM PST by MoochPooch (I'm a compassionate cynic.)
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