Posted on 07/29/2006 2:12:15 PM PDT by Vision
Mel Gibson apologizes for DUI arrest
LOS ANGELES - Mel Gibson issued a lengthy statement Saturday apologizing for his drunk driving arrest and saying he has battled alcoholism throughout his life.
Gibson also apologized for what he said were "despicable" statements he made to the deputies who arrested him early Friday morning on Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu.
"I acted like a person completely out of control when I was arrested," he said in a statement issued by his publicist. "I disgraced myself and my family with my behavior and for that I am truly sorry. I have battled with the disease of alcoholism for all of my adult life and profoundly regret my horrific relapse."
Publicist Alan Nierob declined to elaborate beyond the statement.
Gibson, 50, was arrested for investigation of driving under the influence of alcohol after deputies stopped his 2006 Lexus LS 430 for speeding. Sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore said deputies clocked him doing 87 mph in a 45 mph zone.
A breath test indicated Gibson's blood-alcohol level was 0.12 percent, Whitmore said. The legal limit in California is 0.08 percent.
The actor was released early Friday after posting $5,000 bail.
Oh dear!
My true nature is very very sleepy.
See my post number 88... the American Medical Association to the best of my knowledge is part of "medical science"...
Let he who is without sin cast the first stone
No stones being thrown from this corner.
Not intended for you. It was more for those who have never said or did something really stupid and then woke up the next day and said "What was I thinking!"
I not participate in such sophistry any more than I would argue with you or him about whether the earth orbits the sun. Some things are simply manifestly self-evident. He is wrong, and if you agree with him, you too are wrong.
Take my word for it, it happens a lot. Mostly the comments are shallow, as are the antisemitic feelings behind them, but they aren't exactly rare. One wonders, though, if Gibson's views may be deep seated.
This is not to say that the US has not been a wonderful home for Jews, because it has. Just that antisemitism still exists here, though it is much less prevalent and respectable these days. 'Course, there is a little revival of antisemitism going on over on the Left.
Let me add that sometimes condescension is richly earned.
"I not..."
Should be:
"I will not..."
Chris Matthews favorite word.....neo con.......IOW, those damned jews.
Mr. Coors didn't blame the jews for his troubles. Just apologyzed for the error of driving himself home from a wedding.
Coors is a true class act.
Well, it's great that he apologized, but he's still a bigot.
As noted, a fundamental premise to the disease concept is that the alcoholic is "powerless over alcohol"; In fact, AA's entire treatment program is built around this premise as stated in the first of its 12 Steps: "We admitted we were powerless over alcohol, that our lives had become unmanageable". Exactly what does "powerless" mean? One Internet writer, himself an alcoholic, explained it this way: "The disease of alcoholism is a two fold disease. It is an obsession of the mind, coupled with an allergy of the body. The obsession makes it impossible for the alcoholic to predict when he will start drinking, and the allergy makes it impossible for him to predict when he will stop drinking. Now, if he cannot predict when he will start drinking because of the obsession and cannot predict when he will quit drinking because of the allergy, then he is powerless over alcohol."[ix]
You are not very familiar with AA... Yes, you accept responsibility and make amends for those you have harmed. But read the whole 12 steps...
The 12 Suggested Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous
1. We admitted we were powerless over alcohol, that our lives had become unmanageable.
2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.
4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
5. Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
7. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.
9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God, as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.
12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.
Note the first step is to accept "powerless over alcohol". An alcoholic can never drink, period. No amount of will power will ever allow them to be a "normy", one who can moderate his/her drinking. I had an alcoholic father who died at 50, an alcoholic stepfather who died at 56 alone in a VA hospital, an alcoholic ex-wife with an alcoholic mother, an alcoholic brother, and have known many alcoholics on a close personal basis. I myself went through a period in my life where I became a problem drinker, but after those events passed, I was able to moderate my drinking and become a "normy". None of the above were ever able to. They went into recovery and never drank again, or they died. Needless to say, I have been through hundreds of AA and ALANON meetings through the years, and read their "Big Book" many times. Alcoholism is a disease you can never cure. That's why an alcoholic is always "in recovery, one day at a time".
It's not about the drinking, it's about the bigotry.
It really bothers me that so many Freepers are fine with what he said.
Then they whine because it's in the media, and the media will have a field day.
As if the MSM got him drunk, made him drive and forced him to spew bigotry.
I'm surprised by the hypocrisy of Freepers who condemn the left's anti-semitism but support Mel, because he made a movie they liked.
Lighten up. He's just another celebrity making an fool of himself. It's happened before, and it'll happen again.
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