Bush invites Mel Gibson to White House for screening of Vietnam War movie

AP ^ | 2-26-02

[Oldeconomybuyer]

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Bush invited Mel Gibson to the White House on Tuesday to take in the Hollywood star's new film about a historic battle in the Vietnam War.

"There seems to be such a thing as collective unconscious, because there's a plethora of war films right now," Gibson told reporters at the White House. His movie, "We Were Soldiers," about a Nov. 14, 1965, battle in Vietnam's Ia Drang Valley, before the terror attacks in the United States and the ensuing war on terrorism.

[goldilucky]

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[pocat]

Interesting info on Mel's father. I did a Google search and found 2 reviews of his books:

Is the Pope Catholic?
Hutton Gibson
(1978) Mel "Braveheart" Gibson's dad, Hutton, has a bone to pick with the Catholic Church, and its recent line of false Popes. (See listing for Hutton's other book, "The Enemy is Here!") In this book he focuses on Paul VI Ýas the anti-pope who has softened the Church's intolerance of heretics. Heretics are everyone who has heard Catholic teachings but didn't sign on. They are all going to hell, the traditionalists say. Maybe not, said Paul VI. You're the Anti-Christ, says Gibson. "The object of our war is victory. It is no game to win or lose. Shirked wars are irretrievably lost. Limited wars end like Korea or Vietnam. Compromise equals treachery, which requires neither intent nor even consciousness on the part of the traitor. More often it grows out of 'normal' mistaken attitudes developed in the modernist climate fostered by subversives. Treachery, then, is not necessarily subjective, overt, or culpable; it remains treachery, nevertheless, in fact." Gibson doesn't like the changes he sees in the Church at all, especially its drift into "liberation theology" communism. Hutton Gibson, according to one report I've heard, took his union-guaranteed disability payment from New York to Australia, to keep his sons, including Mel, out of the Vietnam War. 181 pages, paperback IPC $11.00

The Enemy Is Here!
Hutton Gibson
(1994) This is a fairly obsessive 500-page tirade, self-published by movie star Mel Gibson's father, about the false Church doctrines emanating from Rome since Vatican II. Gibson, Sr., has spent the last 20 years or so publishing a periodical in Australia which serves as a vehicle for his fulminations against the "liberalization" of the Catholic Church. This book compiles the most significant of Gibson's articles. Being myself a confirmed heathen, most of the doctrinal recriminations go completely over my head, but I can glean that Gibson has no truck with the "new mass" in which grape juice is substituted for wine, nor for any alteration of Catholic strictures against divorce, evolutionary theories, birth control (even "natural" birth control) and "ecumenicalism." Since all the popes since 1958 have been heretics, Gibson says, the post has been "ipso facto" vacant all these years. Yet the Catholic Church remains the One and True Church, whose mission is to convert every human on the planet to its original, "traditional" teachings. It is the obligation of militant Catholic laymen, like Gibson, to set the record straight and abandon false teachings of blasphemous, wicked men in clerical garb whom have gone so far as to allow Freemasons into the Church. Even the excommunicated "traditionalist" priest Marcel Lefebvre is dismissed by Gibson, since "the enemy always creates its false opposition." As a prose stylist, Gibson does have his moments. "It washes the brain. It slithers by and leaves the great majority unaware of its slimy passage, unaware its rulers have emerged from deep-laid plots and introduced massive subversion." Yet there is something profoundly disturbing about the book. After reading a few pages, you can close your eyes and easily imagine the sounds of the crackling fire, the cries of agonized repentance, and maybe even catch a whiff of human flesh burning at the stake. 498 pages, paperback TEIH $15.00

I work for a company owned and run by a traditional Catholic family. Although I was raised Baptist, I've become very interested in their faith. I've always been suspicious of the "modern" Church, but the pre-Vatican II views seem very legitimate. I'm still looking into this...