Posted on 08/09/2019 9:00:15 PM PDT by RightGeek
Richard Gere on Friday boarded a Spanish humanitarian ship that has been stuck in the Mediterranean Sea for more than a week because no European government will welcome the 121 migrants who are aboard.
In a bid to draw attention to the standoff, Gere boarded the Open Arms some 27 nautical miles off Lampedusa, Italy’s southernmost island. The vessel, which faces a fine of up to 1 million euros if it enters Italian waters, has been idle for eight days.
The “Pretty Woman” actor helped bring food and supplies to the boat and asked for support for the ship, whose passengers include 9-month-old Ethiopian twins.
"The most important thing for these people here is to be able to get to a free port, to get off the boat, to get on land and start a new life," Gere said, urging the world to "please support us here on Open Arms and help these people, our brothers and sisters."
Some online praised Gere for his humanitarian efforts, while others scorned him as a "multi-millionaire" who ought to “put some of them up in (his) own home.”
Italy's firebrand Interior Minister Matteo Salvini, who is popular for his hardline stance against migrant arrivals and who this week plunged Italy into a political crisis, mocked Gere on Twitter.
“Richard Gere on Open Arms? I hope he gets tanned and he feels alright…Since this ship is a Spanish NGO, they can unload the passengers at Ibiza or Formentera, right?” Salvini wrote.
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Blow the dust off your checkbook, Dick.
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Take them back to Libya. Shoot the captain on site for human trafficking and piracy. Sink the ship.
No gerbals below deck?
and who this week plunged Italy into a political crisis..
Is there a political crisis in Italy or is this just what the writer would like people to think?
What a grand standing buffoon! Why doesn’t he take them to one of his mansions.
Snap election - https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-49287219
My first thought is Whiskey Gulf Alpha Foxtrot about this wussie?
Richard Gere, what a dolt.
A lovable dolt, but what a dolt.
Wow.
Thanks.
Looks like the birthplace of my father is waking up.
Beautiful place but very glad dad and mom’s parents left.
Because 1. This country is great and 2. I wouldn’t exist :)
I like this new guy a lot. He’s like an Italian Trump.
Here’s what the crisis looks like...
The “crisis” is Salvini surging in the polls because of his tough stance against invaders, so he thought this would be a good time to collapse the coalition government and call for an early election and officially become the prime minister.
He’s by far the most popular and effective politician. They call him Italy’s Trump.
Oh, look. A rich white guy they never heard of.
Wow. He shows features of a normal human being who also likes to have fun.
Crucify him!!
Slick Willy raping women? No biggie.
I read another article about the situation too and it’s not a crisis.
Just will be him kicking some Italian a@@ at the polls.
Considering that the ship is Spanish, and Spain has a SOCIALIST GOVERNMENT, Italy is asking a fair question as to why Spain doesn’t simply take the ship.
Only one possible answer that I can come up - they still have elections in Spain (for now), and I wouldn’t be surprised if elections are coming up soon.
We have people without values lecturing to us about values. Enough of the hypocrisy. —goldstategop
Idiot former Celebrities Like Richard Gere and why they do bs like this.
To Sail Beyond the Sunset Quotes (showing 1-1 of 1)
“But there seems to have been an actual decline in rational thinking. The United States has become a place where entertainers and professional athletes were mistaken for people of importance. They were idolized and treated as leaders; their opinions were sought on everything and they took themselves just as seriously — after all, if an entertainer or athlete is paid a million or more a year, he knows he is important … so his opinions of foreign affairs and domestic policies must be important, too, even though he proves himself to be both ignorant and subliterate every time he opens his mouth. (Most of his fans were just as ignorant and unlettered; the disease was spreading.)”
Robert A. Heinlein, To Sail Beyond the Sunset
Why don’t African governments take them in? Why is Africa exempt?
These leftist Hollywoods jerks spend their life getting paid enormous sums to act out a fantasy for films and at some point they lose all connection with the real world. Why anyone would think that their opinion means anything is beyond me. They are all pampered egotistical idiots and I value the opinion of my dog more than theirs. As someone else indicated, if they feel so bad for the so-called refugees then get together with their Hollywood buddies and George Soros and buy them their own island. They have no right to expect the citizens of any country to have to pay higher taxes to support freeloaders.
Hope he doesn’t forget to feed his gerbil
Yes, good post.
They need to return home and better their own countries.
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