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Cameron Diaz's bag with Maoist slogan raises ire (70,000 dead Peruvians resent Commie purse)
AP ^ | 66/23/07

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.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: camerondiaz; communismkills; hollywoodreds
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To: dead
If memory serves, I believe she stated prior to the last presidential election that “if George Bush is reelected, he will legalize rape.”
21 posted on 06/23/2007 6:48:58 AM PDT by Zman
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To: dead

Well this is the third time this morning this story has been posted, and as far as I know no one has found it curious that so many Peruvians can read Chinese!!


22 posted on 06/23/2007 6:51:10 AM PDT by Lucius Cornelius Sulla (A person who does not want the best for America)
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To: Zman

I am still buying the latest Shrek when it comes out on video. Great movies.


23 posted on 06/23/2007 6:53:19 AM PDT by tioga (Fred Thompson for President.)
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To: tioga

Bolshevik leader V.I. Lenin once wrote, “The capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them.”


24 posted on 06/23/2007 7:02:29 AM PDT by Zman
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To: Lucius Cornelius Sulla

Probably few to none. But they damn sure know what the red star means.


25 posted on 06/23/2007 7:04:01 AM PDT by Riley (The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column.)
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To: dead

"Ma'am - where did you get that insulting bag?"

"What? Well, a waitress friend of mine gave me this bag as a gift. Says here 'Serve the People', see? Well, that's exactly what she does - every day. What's so offensive?"


26 posted on 06/23/2007 7:04:50 AM PDT by peteram (Liberals are just Stupid!)
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To: dead
The field of quantum mechanics truly lost one of the great ones when Cameron Diaz chose an acting career.
27 posted on 06/23/2007 7:05:09 AM PDT by avacado
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Cameron Diaz is a dunce celebrity slut. This just shows you how clueless she is. This is almost the equivalent to filming wearing a slogan by Nazi about Jew's. What a dingbat!
28 posted on 06/23/2007 7:10:33 AM PDT by Sprite518
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The field of quantum mechanics truly lost one of the great ones when Cameron Diaz chose an acting career.

But she still is furthering the frontiers of microbiology by serving as a walking petri dish.

29 posted on 06/23/2007 7:11:16 AM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: dead
Funny, I saw her one time at the LAX Airport when I was coming back from New Zealand. I was waiting at the United Counter to get my boarding pass. A bunch of paparazzi showed up as well. She looked kind of annoyed !

The spectators were falling all over themselves trying to get pictures as well. I didn't bother due to my contempt towards most of the hollywood crowd. I remarked to one guy that I am glad that I am unknown - can stay pretty private.
30 posted on 06/23/2007 7:11:22 AM PDT by CORedneck
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To: claudiustg
Imagine no possessions ...

This line always make me "imagine" what his reaction would be if someone just walked off with his guitar.

31 posted on 06/23/2007 7:14:43 AM PDT by LantzALot (Yes, it’s my opinion. No, it’s not humble.)
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To: dead

Typical celebrity feel-good liberalism. These idiot “stars” haven’t got anything between their ears that is capable of higher functions, such as thought, reason, will, understanding.


32 posted on 06/23/2007 7:17:02 AM PDT by Leftism is Mentally Deranged
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To: dead
Didn't she say something like "rape will be legal if you don't vote"?

On Oprah, iirc.

33 posted on 06/23/2007 7:17:52 AM PDT by Calvin Locke
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"Didn't she say something like "rape will be legal if you don't vote"?"

I thought she went as far as to say that if you vote for Bush he'll take your body away from you. I may be wrong, but nonetheless, she is dumber than a box of rocks.

34 posted on 06/23/2007 7:27:18 AM PDT by avacado
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To: Lucius Cornelius Sulla
Previous postings here and here.
35 posted on 06/23/2007 7:40:14 AM PDT by Christopher Lincoln
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To: dead

She saw the red star and screamed, “Ohhhhh...Macys!”


36 posted on 06/23/2007 8:00:15 AM PDT by OpusatFR
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I thought she went as far as to say that if you vote for Bush he'll take your body away from you. What a stupid thing to say. Take away your country from you, sure, but your body?
37 posted on 06/23/2007 8:03:07 AM PDT by Bommer (Global Warming: The only warming phenomena that occurs in the Summer and ends in the Winter!)
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She saw the red star and screamed, “Ohhhhh...Macys!”

Never thought too much about that until we saw Macy's commercials with the odious Susan Sarandon - this was during the Christmas holidays last year. Haven't seen her since.

38 posted on 06/23/2007 8:10:22 AM PDT by Inspectorette
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To: peteram

“saw the bag in a shop on Rodeo Drive”

Or available at sportsmansguide.com. I bought a red tee-shirt for my daughter with the `Great Helmsman’s’ image in black, & chinese characters beneath, and beneath those, in parenthesis the English translation:
“I know communism doesn’t work.”


39 posted on 06/23/2007 8:13:16 AM PDT by OkieDoke (you picked a fine time to leave me, loose wheel; "The wheels may fall off this thing" Trent Lott)
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To: Bommer; Calvin Locke
I found the exact quote from this airhead when she was on Oprah.

"Women have so much to lose. I mean, we could lose the right to our bodies. If you think that rape should be legal, then don't vote. But if you think that you have a right to your body, then you should vote."

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40 posted on 06/23/2007 8:15:41 AM PDT by avacado
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