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Christian Bale roughed up in bid to visit Chinese activist
Rooters ^ | Friday, Dec 16 | Sui Lee-Wee, Robert Birsel

Posted on 12/18/2011 3:13:41 PM PST by sinanju

"...Bale, who plays crime-fighting superhero Batman, and a camera crew from CNN were jostled by men in plainclothes in Dongshigu village in eastern Shandong province, where activist Chen Guangcheng has been under house arrest for 15 months, according to a video released by CNN on its website.

"Why can I not visit this man?" Bale asked several security officers, while they were pushing him.

"You know, I'm not being brave doing this," Bale told CNN. "The local people who are standing up to the authorities and insisting on going to visit Chen and his family and getting beaten up for it, and my understanding, getting detained for it and everything. I want to support what they are doing."

CNN said the guards shadowed its van for more than half an hour.

The fate of Chen, a self-schooled advocate who has campaigned against forced abortions, has become a test of wills, pitting the Communist Party's crackdown on dissent against activists championing his cause and that of artist Ai Weiwei..."

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"It was not clear if the incident would have any impact on 'The Flowers of War,' which is China's Oscar entry for next year, or the release of Bale's new Batman film in the country."

He's taking an actual chance here. The chicoms would be only too happy to punish him by hitting him in the wallet. Bethink thyself of all those other Western interests (Google, Yahoo, MS who have bowed down and done their evil bidding).

Does anyone remember his thirteen year-old self in "Empire of the Sun" back in '87? I'm given to understand there's really nothing left of all that classical architecture of the old International Settlement in Shanghai.

1 posted on 12/18/2011 3:13:42 PM PST by sinanju
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To: sinanju

Let me get my head around this:

A Hollywood Leftist is trying to support an anti-abortion activist who is being held prisoner by the ChiComs?


2 posted on 12/18/2011 3:18:44 PM PST by Old Sarge (RIP FReeper Skyraider (1930-2011) - You Are Missed)
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To: Old Sarge

If you’re washed up, any publicity is good publicity.


3 posted on 12/18/2011 3:21:24 PM PST by Krankor
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To: sinanju

Ummm, when in Rome ........


4 posted on 12/18/2011 3:24:50 PM PST by SkyDancer ("If You Want To Learn To Love Better, You Should Start With A Friend Who You Hate")
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To: sinanju

Welcome to the REAL WORLD, Mr Bale. Communists don’t give a damm who you are... you’re lucky all they did was jostle you a bit.


5 posted on 12/18/2011 3:25:15 PM PST by theDentist (fybo; qwerty ergo typo : i type, therefore i misspelll)
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To: Old Sarge

Is he a leftist? For some reason I remember him going off on an anti-Obama rant a few years ago.


6 posted on 12/18/2011 3:27:16 PM PST by mnehring
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To: Krankor

I wouldn’t call Christian Bale washed up. He just finished filming the third Batman movie, which should be one of the blockbusters of the year.


7 posted on 12/18/2011 3:30:50 PM PST by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults.)
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To: Krankor

Bale ain’t washed up and I have never heard any leftist garbage come out of his mouth


8 posted on 12/18/2011 3:32:21 PM PST by dennisw (A nation of sheep breeds a government of Democrat wolves!)
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To: Jonty30; dennisw

Oops, I was thinking of Christian Slater.


9 posted on 12/18/2011 3:39:12 PM PST by Krankor
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To: sinanju

did he wear his batman costume....carry those wondeful toys on his utility belt....

drive up in the batmobile.

any of these might have helped....


10 posted on 12/18/2011 3:50:16 PM PST by Vaquero ("an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: sinanju

He may be a legend in his own mind, but I bet he wasn’t sh!t in theirs!


11 posted on 12/18/2011 6:34:17 PM PST by RetiredTexasVet (There's a pill for just about everything ... except stupid!)
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To: Old Sarge

Let me get my head around this:

A Hollywood Leftist is trying to support an anti-abortion activist who is being held prisoner by the ChiComs?


Scarier is that we have people claiming to be “conservatives” who are lock-step, goose-step, supporting the Communist Chinese. Mao Zedong smiles in hell every time a Free Trade Communist whines about increasing tariffs on the Communist Chinese


12 posted on 12/18/2011 6:46:49 PM PST by RealImmigrant (National Security begins at the Border)
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