Danny Glover Bashes Bush (as Racist) in Brazil !

MSNBC.com ^ | Feb. 11,2003 | With Ashley Pearson

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Add actor Danny Glover to the growing list of celeb Bush bashers. The “Lethal Weapon” star was in Brazil recently, where he called George W. a “racist” and blasted many of the president’s policies.

“YES, HE’S RACIST,” Glover said in response to a question from a reporter from the Brazlian magazine Isto E, according to our source’s translation.

“We all knew that but the world is only finding it out now. As Texas’s governor, Bush led a penitentiary system that executed more people than all the other U.S. states together. And most of the people who died from [the] death penalty were Afro-Americans or Hispanics.”

Glover continued: “[Bush] promoted a conservative program, designed to eliminate everything Americans had accomplished so far in matters of race and equality.” A spokeswoman for the actor said she had no further information.

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We all knew that but the world is only finding it out now.’ — DANNY GLOVER quoted in Brazil's Isto E

[ladtx]

Too bad such a fine actor is a racist. Used to try to catch all his movies. No more.

[Brian Mosely]

Glover? I thought he was too old for this s#$%.

[Jerry Attrick]

Oh well, another one down. I am not gonna get to see any movies anymore if these hollywood idiots keep spouting off this way.

[openotherend]

I took the liberty of adding this to his "permanent record".

[ElectricStrawberry]

Well, if Mr. Glover says W's a racist than that's good enough for me.

--Peace Weenie

(When did the Hollywood elite become the speakers from America?)

[Hillary's Folly]

What if Hollywood Celebrities were 911 operators?

[Marauder]

Glover's not only a racist, he's paralyzingly stupid. Aside from the glaring fact that most of these executed prisoners were sentenced under Ann Richards' term, Bush had no control over executions beyond 30-day stays.
Death row's racial makeup has nothing to do with quotas or equal opportunity and everything to do with the fact that here in Texas, if you kill a citizen, we'll kill you back.

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McCarthyism Watch

We will be regularly updating the site with examples of the New McCarthyism that is sweeping the country.

December 21, 2001

Danny Glover, Under Fire http://www.progressive.org/webex/wxmc1221a01.html


The actor and activist Danny Glover is now under fire for daring to say that he was categorically opposed to capital punishment, even for Osama bin Laden.


"Here's what happened to Danny," says Frances F. Korten, executive director of the Positive Futures Network and publisher of YES! Magazine (Glover is a board member of the network).


"On November 16, at the invitation of the local Amnesty International chapter, Danny gave a speech about the death penalty to a packed auditorium at Princeton University," Korten says.


After his speech, a questioner "wanted to know if Danny would extend his opposition to the death penalty to Osama bin Laden," says Korten. "Danny affirmed his opposition to the death penalty, period."


That sounds like a principled, consistent stance to me.


But it "elicited a hailstorm of outrage," Korten says. "For two weeks, The Trentonian newspaper ran angry comments suggesting that if Danny didn't love this country he should leave it--or worse. Ollie North broadcast the story across the country on his Radio America show, provoking hundreds of hate-filled calls to Danny's agency in Los Angeles. Ollie urged his audience to boycott The Royal Tenenbaums," which Glover stars in with Gwyneth Paltrow, Gene Hackman, Anjelica Huston, Ben Stiller, and Bill Murray.


It's unclear whether the boycott will affect that movie's take, but the controversy has already dampened demand for Glover's public speaking.


"In Modesto, California, the controversy caused the City Council to pull out of sponsoring Danny as the featured speaker for celebration of Martin Luther King Day," Korten notes.


This is no time for spinelessness.

-- Matthew Rothschild

[carlo3b]

Well, HOLD MA POPCORN MA..we'll will be watchin "Mr Smith Goes To Washington"...again

[Puppage]

As Texas’s governor, Bush led a penitentiary system that executed more people than all the other U.S. states together

Well, don't commit any crimes & ya don't have to worry about the Texas punishment, now DO ya Danny boy?

[Doc Savage]

This from a mental cretin who kills people on screen without even thinking. Why did Mel Gibson ever climb in bed with this Communist!

[Piquaboy]

Boycott all of these idiots movies.

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Mandela and Belafonte

"At a New York press conference, Glover, who follows in the footsteps of other Goodwill Ambassadors such as Harry Belafonte and Audrey Hepburn, said, "I hope to see people take charge of their existence, rebuilding their lives; above all, I hope to use my voice to make theirs heard."


"In South Africa, Danny Glover was given a private lunch by President Nelson Mandela and his new wife, Mrs. Graça Machel. He also attended the events marking President Mandela's 80th birthday. But even in the midst of the celebration and festivities, Danny Glover did not lose sight of his mission. He took the opportunity of his meetings with President Mandela to press the government of South Africa to maintain its focus on poverty eradication."

"In the 1960s, he organized student protests and was involved in social programmes. He was also active in the fight against apartheid, using theatre and film to denounce a system he found abhorrent and against the very tenets of human coexistence."

http://www.un.org/ecosocdev/geninfo/afrec/subjindx/122undp2.htm

[stainlessbanner]

Stay in Brazil, buddy. The rest of America doesn't need this trash right now.

[carlo3b]

LETHAL LESSON  

 PRINCETON -- Movie star Danny Glover, known for his brutal gunplay in the Lethal Weapon movie series, last night called on the U.S. to spare the life of Osama bin Laden

 
 
DAVE SOMMERS, Staff Writer November 16, 2001
Danny Glover speaks at a seminar entitled "State Execution: the Death Penalty in America" at Princeton University.
 
As guest speaker at an anti-death penalty forum at Princeton University, Glover said America was the one to blame for bombing and terror around the world.

"Yes -- Yes!" Glover said when asked if American forces should spare the Saudi terrorist's life.

"When I say the death penalty is inhumane. I mean [it's inhumane] whether that person is in a bird cage [jail] or it's bin Laden."

Glover spent the first 30 minutes of his presentation at McCosh 50 auditorium deriding the death penalty, which he called "homicide as the official tool of the state."

He went on to chide the U.S. government for incarceration of nearly 1,000 illegal immigrants in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks, and derided John Ashcroft for asking permission to listen to conversations between terrorist suspects and their lawyers.

"It gets even worse," he added. "This week President Bush implemented a military tribunal ... which will make it easier for us to execute (people)."

"This clearly is a slippery slope. We must stand vigilant against Bush in these times and work with the abolitionists.

"One of the main purveyors of violence in this world has been this country, whether it's been against Nicaragua, Vietnam or wherever," Glover added.

The event was sponsored by the Mercer County Chapterof Amnesty International, a group with 1,000 members which opposes the death penalty and advocates human rights.

Glover has received wide recognition for his roles in more than 50 films, including his role as a gun-toting police officer in the Lethal Weapon movies.

When asked how he could justify playing a Los Angeles cop who guns down villains in the movies, Glover said he compromised with Warner Brothers and Sony, the movie financiers.

For example, Glover said Warner Brothers agreed to finance half the cost of movies with pacifist themes, such as Beloved and Buffalo Soldiers, in exchange for him agreeing to perform in films where he often ignores the rights of criminal characters.

Glover said 741 people have been executed in the U.S. since the U.S. Supreme Court made it legal again in 1976.

Currently 13 states allow executions, and two allow juveniles to be put to death, he said.

Of the thousands currently on death row, 98 were freed recently after new evidence proved them to be "absolutely innocent" and not on some technicality, he claimed.

"I've been an advocate for peace my whole life. But one of the main purveyors of violence in this world is this country," he said.

Glover, who grew up in South Central Los Angeles, also starred in the screen adaptations of Alice Walker's The Color Purple and Toni Morrison's Beloved.

He received a Cable ACE Aware after starring in HBO's production of Mandela and has been the recipient of an NAACP Image Award.

A tireless human rights crusader, Glover is a recipient of the Amnesty International USA Lifetime Achievement Award for his role in the civil rights movement in Namibia, his work as Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Development Program and his commitment to abolition of the death penalty.
 
©The Trentonian 2001 
 

[sheik yerbouty]

There are lots of good old movies.

[magua]

boycott the oscars.we can take this pond scum on.boycott the oscars

[Paul Atreides]

Dummy Glover is now the pitchman for MCI.

[mass55th]

Must be the film offers are slim to none for Danny Boy that he has to go to Brazil to bad-mouth the President. He's another has-been who's big mouth has cost him his career.