The Hamas crowd has come for Keanu Reeves!

American Thinker ^ | 16 May, 2024 | Andrea Widburg

[MtnClimber]

It’s a standing joke in my family that I love Keanu Reeves. It started in my 30s when I loved how he looked, but over the years, it’s morphed into respect for a man who works in a filthy industry but seems to have retained a strong moral compass and avoids all of Hollywood’s worst trends. It says something about the man that the Hamas lovers have come after him.

One of the hallmarks of totalitarians is “hit lists.” Indeed, if you’re at all familiar with Giovannino Guareschi’s delightful Don Camillo books from the 1950s, which describe a small Italian village divided between communists and Catholics, you know that one of the stories describes how the communist mayor, Peppone, tries to protect Father Don Camillo, who’s been put on a list when a rumor goes around that the Communists have won the national elections. Because this is Guareschi, the story is both amusing and imbued with a deep humanism, but the underlying point is the same: leftists make kill lists.

When I was in Vietnam, in Hue, which was the heart of where the Tet Offensive was fought, our guide told us that once the Americans pulled out, the Viet Cong took their list and began the slaughter. An older man, it was clear from how he spoke that he remembered those days.

That’s why it shouldn’t be any surprise that the Hamas folks have been making lists. A list emerged last week on which people could get answers to whether “your fav author [is] a zionist.” The list is color-coded, telling people whether the person is “Pro-Israel/Zionist,” trying to remain balanced, silent on the subject, “It’s complicated,” or “Pro-Palestine/Anti-Zionist.” The list includes dead writers as well as the living.

[ifinnegan]

Thanks.

[BobL]

“which describe a small Italian village divided between communists and Catholics”

Cannot speak for Italy, but here in the Western Hemisphere, there is, absolutely, NO DIFFERENCE between Communists and Catholics. In fact, if it wasn’t for the Catholic Church, the Communists wouldn’t have jack regarding political power on this side of the planet.

[BobL]

“Their beef with Reeves is that he once got training from a former IDF guy.”

Just watched The Matrix (on Netflix), I was wondering where Neo learned those skills. Now it makes sense to me.

[magooey]

You can bet that the FBI is too busy arresting concerned parents to look into this.

Having been in the DC area a decade back and observed some professionals who had converted to Islam, you wonder to what extent federal agency leadership is already under that influence. This might explain some of the anti-traditional Catholic bias that the FBI has openly expressed.

[magooey]

A list emerged last week on which people could get answers to whether “your fav author [is] a zionist.”

One of the early "wins" for Islam occurred when their Prophet asked that a lady poet be put to death for her writings. The assassination of this poet set the stage for future developments, as Salman Rushdie has discovered.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Old-time liberal: I believe in free speech.

With all the qualifications the New Time Liberal has but not saying them out loud because it would not go over very well.

It was always there silently. They just feel they have enough power to say it to your face now.

Sort of like with guns. The New Deal Democrats wanted nothing more then to disarm the people but even with the power of the Great Liberal god FDR they could not quite get there. So they settled for taking away guns that most people did not have. Now they feel quite comfortable telling you that the Second Amendment was only about "LAWFUL" weapons carried by "LAWFUL" people who have been carefully chosen.

BS of course but if they can get the search algorithms to agree they probably will be able to use their "AI" (actually a large language model. Liberals lie about everything) to convince people of that.