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Gere to Indian "Moral Police" -- Kiss My White A**
TMZ ^ | 04-27-2007 | staff writer

Posted on 04/27/2007 9:50:28 AM PDT by bedolido

Richard Gere isn't bothered that a warrant's out for his arrest in India, and he's accusing a "very small right-wing, very conservative" faction in the country for coming after him for his public kissing of an Indian actress. "They do this kind of thing quite often," Gere told Jon Stewart on last night's "Daily Show." "I don't know that anyone has actually gone to jail ... It goes to a reputable court and they throw it out." Yesterday, an Indian judge issued a warrant for Gere's arrest in Jaipur, saying that he had "transgressed all limits of vulgarity" when he smooched Shilpa Shetty at an AIDS benefit.



TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: gere; india; indian; moral; police; savethegerbils
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1 posted on 04/27/2007 9:50:34 AM PDT by bedolido
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Gee, I wish I could be like Richard Gere when I grow up!

Ugh.


2 posted on 04/27/2007 9:52:09 AM PDT by RexBeach (Americans never quit. -Douglas MacArthur)
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To: bedolido

SF Republican to Indian Moral Police - Don’t


3 posted on 04/27/2007 9:53:54 AM PDT by SF Republican
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To: bedolido

Do you think he Hollywierd days are over and he needs this to get attention?

When did he last have a movie that made any money?


4 posted on 04/27/2007 9:53:59 AM PDT by stockpirate (Republican leadership aka "Men without balls")
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To: bedolido

Such a class act.


5 posted on 04/27/2007 9:54:42 AM PDT by Constitution Day
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To: bedolido

Whadda Putz..


6 posted on 04/27/2007 9:55:09 AM PDT by meanie monster
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To: bedolido

“...very small right-wing, very conservative” radical Hindus! Wait til they hear about the hamster.


7 posted on 04/27/2007 9:55:39 AM PDT by 3AngelaD (Enoch Powell was right.)
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To: bedolido

I don’t want to hear about Ger’s Gerbils....


8 posted on 04/27/2007 9:57:15 AM PDT by Cyber Liberty (Don't ask.)
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To: bedolido

Just another example of how Americans are not gaining the warmth, respect and love of others on an international scale. So very sad.


9 posted on 04/27/2007 9:57:37 AM PDT by gipper81
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To: bedolido
Kiss My White A**

Gerbils need love too.
10 posted on 04/27/2007 9:57:46 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Peace without victory is a temporary illusion.)
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To: SF Republican

LOL!


11 posted on 04/27/2007 9:57:54 AM PDT by Constitution Day
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To: stockpirate

2004’s ‘Shall We Dance’ did fairly well.


12 posted on 04/27/2007 9:58:31 AM PDT by Borges
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To: bedolido
"Hey judge, you haven't seen 'transcending'yet!"


13 posted on 04/27/2007 9:58:47 AM PDT by E Rocc (Myspace "Freepers" group moderator)
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To: bedolido

“very small right-wing, very conservative”

So, now not only Christians are right wing conservatives, but Hindus and Siks. Why not throw in Islam Richard? They wouldn’t approve either.

Dear Richard, WWBD (What Would Budda Do?) Tell them to kiss his dead @ss too?


14 posted on 04/27/2007 9:59:03 AM PDT by poobear
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To: cripplecreek

lol...


15 posted on 04/27/2007 9:59:12 AM PDT by bedolido (I can forgive you for killing my sons, but I cannot forgive you for forcing me to kill your sons)
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To: bedolido

The Moral police wouldn!t know where to start he is all A**


16 posted on 04/27/2007 9:59:47 AM PDT by bikerman (_ _ . /_ _ _ /_ . . / / . . . . / . / . _ . . / . _ _ . / / . . _ / . . . //)
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To: SF Republican
SF Republican to Indian Moral Police - Don’t

Yeah, they could wind up with a small furry rodent in their mouth.

17 posted on 04/27/2007 9:59:59 AM PDT by dfwgator (The University of Florida - Still Championship U)
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To: bedolido
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1824165/posts

Richard Gere’s arrest warrant outrages legal experts
The Times of India

Posted on 04/26/2007 5:17:21 PM EDT

JAIPUR/NEW DELHI: A Jaipur additional chief judicial magistrate on Thursday ordered the arrest of Hollywood actor Richard Gere for landing a peck on the cheeks of Bollywood star Shilpa Shetty, triggering an outrage among the country’s top legal experts who called it a “cheap publicity stunt” that bordered on “judicial indecency”.

The magistrate, Dinesh Gupta, reacting to a private complaint filed by advocate Poonam Chand Bhandari, watched a CD of an AIDS awareness function in Delhi at which Gere hugged and gave Shilpa a peck, as shown by a TV channel, to pronounce that the act was “sexually erotic” and “indecent”.

Former attorney-general Soli Sorabjee, who is one of the most respected legal luminaries of the country, took little time to describe Gupta’s ruling as reminiscent of the “Taliban moral police”.

Finding flaws in Gupta’s ruling, other top legal experts too called it yet another instance of “hounding orders on frivolous complaints”. They said the Indian judiciary would become a laughing stock in the world and urged the high court to take suo motu notice of the order and quash it.

“Judicial magistrates should not behave like Taliban moral police,” said Sorabjee. He said the magistrate, acting on an attention-grabbing complaint, had completely overlooked the “clear distinction between obscenity and vulgarity.”

“The order is totally unsustainable and makes us look ridiculous,” he said. Senior advocates Mukul Rohtagi, K T S Tulsi and Dushyant Dave felt the public peck at the AIDS awareness programme was not an act to deprave the morality of the nation. While Rohtagi felt that the magistrate was “trigger-happy”, Dave termed the order as an act of “judicial indecency”. Tulsi said,”The issuance of arrest warrant is contrary to all judicial norms. A consensual kiss between two adults can never be said to be an offence.”

Magistrate Gupta found the episode objectionable and in violation of sections 294 and 34 of the Indian Penal Code(IPC). Section 294 says:

“Whoever to the annoyance of others does any obscene act in any public place shall be punished with imprisonment of three months or with a fine or both.”

18 posted on 04/27/2007 10:00:47 AM PDT by CarrotAndStick (The articles posted by me needn't necessarily reflect my opinion.)
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To: bedolido

Some expert on India and its culture said that this whole thing will probably blow over fairly soon. He doubted that Gere would actually be arrested if he set foot in India again.

Also I understand that Ms. Shetty said she wasn’t offended by it at all. So what’s the big deal?


19 posted on 04/27/2007 10:00:57 AM PDT by fatnotlazy
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To: RexBeach

Gere is a grown-up?


20 posted on 04/27/2007 10:01:42 AM PDT by kalee (The offenses we give, we write in the dust; Those we take, we write in marble. JHuett)
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