Posted on 06/21/2010 7:40:57 AM PDT by Second Amendment First
When actor Val Kilmer recently applied for permits to turn his 6,000-acre ranch outside Santa Fe into an upscale bed-and-breakfast, several of his neighbors protested.
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Mr. Kilmer, ... was quoted—misquoted, he says—describing his rugged corner of New Mexico as "the homicide capital of the Southwest."
He went on to avow that "80% of the people in my county are drunk," requiring him to carry a gun for protection. That was in a 2003 interview with Rolling Stone.
In Esquire two years later, Mr. Kilmer was quoted—again, misquoted, he says—opining that he understands Vietnam better than its veterans, because most of them were "borderline criminal or poor … wretched kids" who landed in the military because they "got beat up by their dads" or "couldn't finagle a scholarship."
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Jerk
Hollywood liberals don’t like it when their words have consequences.
I guess playing in the movie "Thunderheart" made him think he's really an Indian.
He’s looking pretty bad these days. When I saw his photo from Dennis Hopper’s funeral, I thought he was Chastity/Chaz Bono.
Val....pick up a copy of “How to Win Friends and Influence People.”
Time wounds all heels. Gotta luv it.
I’m your huckleberry...
ROFL
Val Kilmer’s dad was a ‘developer’ in Los Angeles, primarily in the San Fernando Valley who was a crook. Period.
Val seems to be suffering from his own version of a mid-life crisis.
Go back to Los Angeles, & make all those investors whole, Val.
Then you can talk about others.
Val who?
I think he’s the one that played Tinker-Belle in Peter Pan.
How would you like these folks deciding on your carry permit?
Mr. Salazar, the commission chair, acknowledges that, apology or not, the county is bound by law to consider the permit application on its merits. Still, he said, "you never know what might happen."
Turn the tables...you end up living in a lib area and they all think you're a jerk. You apply for a carry permit and they say "sure, but you never know what might happen."
In 2009, Kilmer listed Pecos River Ranch for sale for $33,000,000 with conservation real estate firm Orvis/Cushman & Wakefield.
He briefly flirted with running for Governor of New Mexico in 2010, but in the end declined to run. He made a donation to Ralph Nader’s 2008 presidential campaign.
Great line
Cool, he’s a fat, has-been actor who donates his money to libs. It’s OK for the local government to hold him hostage for this permit because they don’t like him?
Sorry, Abran, it's a free country. It ain't illegal to be an a-hole.
At a hearing last month on Mr. Kilmer’s application, a half-dozen locals and veterans demanded the star apologize before being allowed to welcome paying guests onto his Pecos River Ranch. The county attorney, Jesus Lopez, backed them up. Mr. Kilmer’s quotes were “incendiary” and, dated as they may be, created a “clear and present danger threatening public safety,” he said.
Now surprisingly, Kilmer is getting support from the local ACLU. According to the WSJ, the rights watchdog declared that “whether or not (Kilmer) had actually talked trash about his county, he had every right to do so without fear that his permits would be held hostage.”
A second hearing is scheduled for this Wednesday on Kilmer’s quest for his needed permits. Some of the locals are hoping he’ll apologize at that hearing. “It’s a situation that’s pretty volatile,” David Salazar, chair of the Board of County Commissioners
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And some protesters vow to keep up the pressure, even if Mr. Kilmer does show up this week, ten-gallon hat in hand.
“An apology isn’t good enough. He’s insulted and hurt too many people,” said Abran Tapia, a veteran and local resident. “People here want him out of New Mexico.”
great actor
crotchety man
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