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That's a valid observation. Does that mean it's irrelevent? Look folks, Gere is a fellow traveler. Is he ours or theirs? Do you think his donations are going into our coffers?

He would donate money to Tibetan causes not to politics. I would never place him with the stupid goo-goo liberals. He's coming from another place. Here is something of his that I do not agree with.

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>Dalai Lama devotee Richard Gere is preaching that the best way for
>Americans to deal with the 11 September terrorist attacks is with "the
>medicine of love and compassion." The Buddhist actor is a great
>believer in karma and stresses the importance of pity for everyone -
>including terrorists. He insists we must also think about "the
>terrorists who are creating such horrible future lives for themselves
>because of the negativity of this karma. If you see it from a much
>wider point of view, we're all in this together. We're all intimately
>interconnected in all of these actions." He adds, "It's all of our
>jobs to keep our minds as expansive as possible. If you can see them
>[the terrorists] as a relative who's dangerously sick and we have to
>give them medicine, and the medicine is love and compassion. There's
>nothing better."

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Thanks Dennis. It's my thought that Gere may not be out there on the platform with Sarandan, but he has never announced a departure from his past views either. Look I agree that his efforts on behalf of the Tibetins is good. I think that has more to do with his religion than anything. Remember, he was a Budhist in the 1980s too. Nothing has changed there. I think you folks are overlooking the obvious, but that doesn't mean I'm right.

Thanks for the comments.