Posted on 06/23/2007 6:05:10 AM PDT by dead
AGUAS CALIENTES, Peru - Actress Cameron Diaz appears to have committed a major fashion faux pas in Peru. The voice of Princess Fiona in the animated "Shrek" films may have inadvertently offended Peruvians who suffered decades of violence from a Maoist guerrilla insurgency by touring here Friday with a bag emblazoned with one of Mao Zedong's favorite political slogans.
While explored the Inca city of Machu Picchu high in Peru's Andes, Diaz wore over her shoulder an olive green messenger bag emblazoned with a red star and the words "Serve the People" printed in Chinese on the flap, perhaps Chinese Communist leader Mao's most famous political slogan.
While the bags are marketed as trendy fashion accessories in some world capitals, the phrase has particular resonance in Peru, where the Maoist Shining Path insurgency brought Peru to edge of chaos in the 1980s and early 1990s with a campaign of massacres, assassinations and bombings.
Nearly 70,000 people were killed during the insurgency.
A prominent Peruvian human rights activist said the star of "There's Something About Mary" should have been a little more aware of local sensitivities when picking her accessories.
"It alludes to a concept that did so much damage to Peru, that brought about so many victims," said Pablo Rojas about the bag's slogan. "I don't think she should have used that bag where the followers of that ideology" did so much damage.
Liberal Lunatic of the Day (4/24/2005) Cameron Diaz
where she praises people who live in dung-walled huts for eschewing electricity in favor of being one with the cranes.
Seriously.
another lib/dem hollywood dope!!!!!!!
Wonder what the reaction woulda been if she’d worn her “Che” ‘T’-shirt?
LOL!
Wonder how those folks would feel if they could see how she lives?
FR *bookmark*
Well, it’s not as if she’s ever actually been paid to think. She’s obviously out of practice.
The sum total of Hollywood liberal philosophy about the world:
“Imagine there’s no heaven
It’s easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today...
Imagine there’s no countries
It isn’t hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace...
You may say I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope someday you’ll join us
And the world will be as one
Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world...
You may say I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope someday you’ll join us
And the world will live as one”
Phil Spector helped produce that. Especially adding in the strings.
The real question is “why is Cameron Diaz not serving with the USO, and why is her likeness not being painted on the side of Allied warplanes, and why is she not on pin-up posters at Allied bases in Iraq and Afghanistan?”
What is she doing flouncing around Peru with a Communist handbag? Does she not understand AMERICA IS AT WAR?
And I guess the next real question is this: “knowing all of the above, and still flouncing around Peru, why should Cameron Diaz expect anyone in America — A COUNTRY AT WAR — to watch her movies or even give a bl**dy blast what her ditzy blonde self does?
It is time that America DEMANDS that Hollywood recognize that AMERICA IS AT WAR and behave accordingly.
WHERE IS *OUR* PROPAGANDA!
(sorry for all the shouting, ay.)
My husband and I spent time in Peru in the early 70s. He and his family had lived in Lima for a few years. Reaching Machu Picchu then required a long train ride on a very minimal train. The alto plano was not a safe place to be because of the general stirrings of the socialist with the indios. We also took a week long ride on small diesal boat up the Amazon from Iquitos to Pucalpa. We travelled with a lot of emplty beer bottles, a couple of cows, two reporters from National Enquirer (I have no idea what they were there for) and a bunch of locals. We had a “state cabin” which consisted of a closet sized room with a straw mattress and a sink that had no water but a drain that went directly into the river. We were served overcooked oatmeal with no salt or sugar for breakfast, salt fish and rancid rice for lunch and no supper. We had some supplies we had brought and were able, as we got closer to Pucalpe, to buy things on shore. In Pucalpe we found an uncle of a friend - a farmer from Kansas who was there with the Wycliff Foundation. We had fried catfish and banana bread with this family and learned about this organization. I was profoundly impressed with that organization. Look it up.
..And CD is kind of a "dim bulb" anyway...
Communist aggression in the last century has has killed more people than any other aggressive force in the world including Nazi genocide. Communists can only rise to power when they kill those that believe in property rights, economic rights, religious rights, and any number of other rights that free people hold dear.
The left should apologize for their tireless support for oppression in the world in the name of socialist progress. Even today they rush to support Chavez, Castro, and even more extreme regimes in Iran and North Korea. They can not bring themselves to support the efforts of liberty in the middle east. They claim to be supporters of human rights but individuals like Carter, the standard bearer of the senile left, can not distinguish between terrorists and non terrorists.
While people like Carter are banal deconstructionists of the left, Cameron Diaz is merely a pretty trollop who I can not bring myself to give credit for her actually knowing what the Maoist slogan on her bag denotes let alone believe she is even aware of the millions of lives extinguished in the name of the “people”.
I think that song reveals clearly the power and seduction of evil.
While I am in no way defending her politics or that of most of the rest of hollywood, I really doubt this was malicious or even intentional for that matter. Most girls like her would find the bag “cute” and think nothing of what it actually said.
Ms. Diaz, Ma'am. You DO know that your bag is an insult to everyone you meet, don't you?"
(giggles)"Oh, well - what WAS I thinking?!? I'm just a vacuous blonde from Hollywood, y'know? I just saw the bag in a shop on Rodeo Drive and thought 'I just HAVE to have it!"
Can't get much more offensive than that.
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