Posted on 05/02/2006 9:38:52 AM PDT by peggybac
Acclaimed American actor/director Tim Robbins blasted the US government's policy on terrorism -- and the US media's failure to examine it critically -- at a news conference in Athens promoting his stage version of George Orwell's "1984".
"We have right now a media that is willfully ignoring the high crimes and misdemeanours of the president of the United States," the star of Hollywood hits including "Mystic River" and "The Player" told reporters.
"Clinton lied about a blowjob, and got impeached by the media and Congress," Robbins said.
"(Bush) got us into (the Iraq) war based on lies that he knew were lies. ... His war has recruited more Al-Qaeda members than Osama bin Laden could ever have dreamed for ... yet no one in the media is calling for impeachment," he said.
Robbins pointed out similarities between current US policies on terrorism and the authoritarian society described by Orwell.
"Unfortunately, the book and the play is more relevant now than it ever has been," he said. "(It) talks about continuous warfare as a means to control the Western economy, and as a way to control rebel elements within society through the use of fear, constant fear."
"In my country we seem to be sanctioning renditioning of innocent people without trial ... put them in jail without telling anyone ... and torture them out of suspicion of what we think they might do," Robbins said.
"This is exactly what Orwell was talking about when he spoke of thought crimes," he added.
Orwell's bleak classic, published in 1949, is based on a futuristic society in which the government, known as "Big Brother", spies on its citizens' every move and tortures them on suspicion of dissent.
The play, which Robbins produces and directs, opened in Athens for a five-day run on Tuesday.
He is hoping to also direct a film version of the play in the fall.
I always love how socialists can't seem to understand that 1984 was written about what would happen if they took power.
EngSoc in Newspeak means English Socialism. Which in 1948 pretty much meant the Labor party.
Tim Robbin's most convincing role?
Demented homeowner in the movie, `War of the Worlds'.
Tom Cruise killed him.
Why?
Tim wanted to kill aliens.
That would be wrong.
Robbins is a high crime. The numbskull is anti-American, anti-winning the war, and a complete, fully actualized useful idiot.
asshat.
He's just another left-wing moonbat going over seas and barking and dissing this country. That is their favorite past time.
Tim who?
I think the bigger story is the media underplaying the paranoid delusions of Tim Robbins and his totally unwarranted high opinion of his own intellect.
Sorry, I couldn't get past "Acclaimed American Actor".
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Robbins is as stupid as the rest of the Hollywood left. Clueless, but oh so willing to sell this country down the river no matter how many people get killed.
I've heard of Marty Robbins but I have no idea who this guy is.
"Actors (sigh!) - what don't they know?"
Acclaimed by who? Certainly not by me.
I believe it was Laura Ingraham who said she found it touching that people who make their living by pretending to be other people somehow believe that qualifies them to comment knowledgeably on foreign policy.
Miss Piggy found it's a whole lot easier to write news screed than plays.
One must have talent to write plays....
More inane comments from the illiterate glitterati and another post on the hollywood idiots site. These icons of the demorats continue to demonstrate a level of ignorance unmatched by even the most ignorant from the heart of inner city Boston.
I give Robbins and his "domestic partner" Sarazan a pass. They know they are leftists and make no bones about it. They don't hide like most liberals do. While I totally disagree with their principles, they at least have them, which is more than I can say for the likes of Clooney & Co.
You know, Susan Sarandon's Boy toy!
And Robbins is definitely an expert concerning ignorance! ;-P
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