Posted on 03/28/2019 6:38:33 PM PDT by EdnaMode
The date April 3rd has held a unique place in our history over the years. Theologians and astronomers will tell you that Christ was crucified on that date. On April 3rd Harry Truman signed the Marshall Plan, arguably the greatest postwar intervention in the history of man. The first portable cellphone call was made on April 3rd. Marlon Brando was born on that day.
But this April 3rd will hold its own place in history. On this particular April 3rd the nation of Brunei will begin stoning and whipping to death any of its citizens that are proved to be gay. Let that sink in. In the onslaught of news where we see the world backsliding into authoritarianism this stands alone.
Brunei isn’t a significant country. Its population is less than 500,000 people, pretty small in relation to most of its neighbors, The Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia. But Brunei has oil. This year it was ranked as the 5th richest nation by Forbes. Good for them. Of course they haven’t had an election since 1962 and have adopted the most extreme version of Sharia law so, not so good for them. At the head of it all is the Sultan of Brunei who is one of the richest men in the world. The Big Kahuna. He owns the Brunei Investment Agency and they in turn own some pretty spectacular hotels.
A couple of years ago two of those hotels in Los Angeles, The Bel-Air and The Beverly Hills Hotel were boycotted by many of us for Brunei’s treatment of the gay community. It was effective to a point. We cancelled a big fundraiser for the Motion Picture Retirement Home that we’d hosted at the Beverly Hills Hotel for years. Lots of individuals and companies did the same. But like all good intentions when the white heat of outrage moves on to the hundred other reasons to be outraged, the focus dies down and slowly these hotels get back to the business of business. And the Brunei Investment Agency counts on that. They own nine of the most exclusive hotels in the world. Full disclosure: I’ve stayed at many of them, a couple of them recently, because I hadn’t done my homework and didn’t know who owned them.
They’re nice hotels. The people who work there are kind and helpful and have no part in the ownership of these properties. But let’s be clear, every single time we stay at or take meetings at or dine at any of these nine hotels we are putting money directly into the pockets of men who choose to stone and whip to death their own citizens for being gay or accused of adultery. Brunei is a Monarchy and certainly any boycott would have little effect on changing these laws. But are we really going to help pay for these human rights violations? Are we really going to help fund the murder of innocent citizens? I’ve learned over years of dealing with murderous regimes that you can’t shame them. But you can shame the banks, the financiers and the institutions that do business with them and choose to look the other way.
Below I’ve listed the nine hotels. It’s up to each of us what we want to do.
George Clooney
The Dorchester, London 45 Park Lane, London Coworth Park, UK The Beverly Hills Hotel, Beverly Hills Hotel Bel-Air, Los Angeles Le Meurice, Paris Hotel Plaza Athenee, Paris Hotel Eden, Rome Hotel Principe di Savoia, Milan
Oh, to be able to actually boycott something which I could only dream of doing.
Boycott/ Are you Crazy? Organize and fly over there to Protest, take All of Hollywood’s Gay community and make a statement directly to them in their country, otherwise you are just a pussy.
SMUG ALERT!
I just find it interesting that everybody is worried about the homosexuals, but what about the adulterers that will also get stoned to death ? Why do we expect men to restrain themselves from fooling around on their wives, but not from banging another men
Virtue signaling at no cost or trouble for him. Whoop-de-do.
It’s the Islam, stupid.
Its time to start shaming these people because they think they are moral superiors of everyone else.
Take the power back. Dont give them the power by accepting they have this power to be our conscience or anyone elses.
For gods sake they love women murdering unborn babies and hating people being able to have equal power against lethal attackers. They hate regular people living their lives eating meat, owning pets, raising boys as boys and girls as girls. They embrace every form of perversity as good. They think everyone should be able to force everyone to accomodate them except white christians, the majority backbone of the country, which they desire government to openly harass, deprive of their god-given liberties, and prosecute.
They are in zero position to morally sit in armchair quarterback judgement of anyone. Take the beams out of your eyes, libtard self-inflated hypocrites.
Sounds good, George... but what about Iran and pretty much every other Muslim country?
I’m sure his request to boycott has hundreds of thousands of potential tourists to Brunei reconsidering their choices. /s/
Wow, George, way to go out on a limb here. Calling for a boycott of a couple of hotels that are only frequented by — what? — 1 in 10,000,000? You GO, boy.
Islam is full of homos. They fake being against it. They just like murder more.
Maybe a little more concern for the tens of thousands of Chistians being murdered in muzzie hellholes.
People shouldn’t be murdered by muzzie filth, period. Until idiots like Clooney connect the dots and realize who’s doing all the murdering and raping, it will continue no matter what he boycotts.
London 45 Park Lane: Price per night US$1,182
Le Meurice, Paris: Price per night US$1,182
Hotel Plaza Athenee, Price per night US$1,206
That settles it George! I will never stay at one of these hotels!
Gays should do like they did with the Christian baker. Start a test case. Fly George Takei to Brunei and see what happens to him. Take some selfies.
When conservatives criticize Islam, they’re immediately branded as Islamophobes. Is Georgie an Islamophobe or does he get the usual leftist exemption?
“Brunei is a Monarchy and certainly any boycott would have little effect on changing these laws ............ But you can shame the banks, the financiers and the institutions that do business with them and choose to look the other way.”
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George, boycott the hotels but that won’t work so then boycott the banks, the financiers, etc.?? Make up your mind.
George, you seem to know it all. Why don’t you make a little effort to learn about real islam?
I usually stay at the Super 8. The Sultan doesn’t own that, does he?
what an idiot. Here Amal has been busting her bustle for the last year finally getting the curtsy down correctly, trying to get a foot in the door of the royal abodes, where politics are most certainly not discussed, and where she and her hubby are dying to be invited pretending royalty can rub off, and her hubby goes and gets all political.
might as well sell that London apartment.
Well George, you’ll be happy to learn that many years ago my wife successfully sued the Beverly Hills Hotel because they wouldn’t allow her and female friends sit at the bar without male escorts. My wife’s friend, a local reporter named Connie Chung helped her through the process.
Yes, it is virtue signaling for Clooney to make his stand against this one tiny country. But I applaud him for even noticing something repugnant happening in a Muslim dominated country. He is light years ahead of most of Hollywood and the rest of those in the entertainment industry who refuse to recognize the atrocities that have been committed on a daily basis by the “Religion of Peace”. I just wish he would add to his concern of the mistreatment of gays the terrible abuse of Muslim women, female circumcision, honor killings of rape victims, the forced marriages of young girls, and the killing and persecution of Christians and Jews in Muslim countries.
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