NEW YORK — Sean Penn wants to know what you think of his political views — all 4,000 words of them.
The politically active actor has taken out (ANOTHER) a full-page ad in the New York Times, in which he addresses issues ranging from his trip to Iraq and the future of the United States to the American flag and the meaning of patriotism.
At the bottom of his opus he leaves an e-mail address for information or comments: clyde1234@attbi.com.
Did you get that part?
Here’s my email to him:
See, Sean – I see it this way: Anytime you have to pay mega bucks to take out an ad in a newspaper in order to get your views across – - you must be on the list of “Americans We Really Do Not Want To Hear From”.
Even the Wall Street Journal requested an Op-Ed from Dennis Miller.
The New York Times? Monica Lewinsky made the Op-Ed section.
I bet they didn’t have to pay a red cent in order to get their views across.
Truthfully – I could care less what you have to say because you haven’t impressed me so far.
Do yourself a favor and keep it between yourself and your friends/family who actually may care about your opinion. Do yourself further favors and shut up about it before you receive a label you don’t want – - like “Sympathizer Sean” or something along those lines. Just ask Jane Fonda about such labels…A large majority of the American public doesn’t like it when Hollywood celebrities confuse stardom with wisdom.
You asked for a response – there is mine.
Lisa S.
Boycott Hollywoodhttp://www.rightvoices.com
Ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Lisa…you are gonna get it…I’m gonna tell.
I like the dig mentioning Monica…that really has to get his goat; a fellatrix getting free time when the serious infinitely wise actor has to pander to the mighty bastion of principled punditry(Ha).
Sean, see words mean things. And remember, Sean, if you are valued below that of a bimbo, then what does that make you? Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm?
[I couldn't get my e-mail in. So whoever owns the e-mail address is getting a lot of hate mail.]:
The following addresses had delivery problems:
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Delivery last attempted at Sat, 31 May 2003 11:44:17 -0000
Mr. Penn, perhaps one of the reasons why the coalition used the WMD theory as a strong motive for going to war is that, sadly, we live in a world where humanitarian reasons do not provide enough justification for going to war. Why do you think it is that the former President Clinton bypassed the United Nations with regards to the slaughter of Muslims in Kosovo. He knew the United Nations would have obstructed any attempt to deal with that oppressive tyranny. By the way, where was American “hegemony” in that war? I suppose that confronting a tyrannt’s slaughter of 300,000 Muslims in Kosovo was easier to deal with than it was in confronting a tryannt that continued to torture, murder, and starve 24 million Iraqis. Mr. Penn, sadly in our world, we need “threats” to motivate us to take action against oppression. It is not enough for the United Nations or for most countries, including our own, to go to war for humanitarian reason! After all, did not the great “humanitarian” Susan Sarandon preach “what did the Iraqi people ever do to us” well, the Iraqi people were doing nothing to us, they were too busy being tortured, starved and murdered,(activities which were funded by the great “humanitarian” United Nations organization) and because the Iraqi people did “nothing to us” why should we bother to do anything to help them or to help others in living such situations.
PS: Saddam has a proven history of experimenting with, producing and using weapons of mass destruction, and much like his torture chambers, WMDs were one of his favorite hobbies. It is utterly obsurd and insane to think Saddam did not have, or was not capable of producing weapons of mass destruction. Rest assured Mr. Penn, the world will overlook the obvious in order to make a point that the world really does not care about humanitarian issues, all talk but no action. The proof of my theory is your attack on the need to find WMDs to somehow justify this war!
I, for one, am sick and tired of hearing the voice of cowards!
Dear Sean Penn
You gave aid and comfort to the Enemy when you went on a so called fact finding trip to Iraq but used this trip to show your support for the Enemy as well as showing your opposition to my Country American.
With your Actions you have Spit on the Graves of my Great-Great Grandpa John Benjamin LaFurge Union Army Civil War, Grandpa George Carson McReynolds U.S. Navy World War II, Grandpa Robert Ward Hart U.S. Navy Korean War and Great Uncle Hobart Lester Hart Sr U.S. Navy World War II
You also spit on living relatives of mine who either have or are currently serving this great Country I will leave their names anonymous though.
When you spit on the graves of my War Veteran relatives you are spitting on me and other members of both sides of my Family.
Also I am a Christian who happens to have traces of Jewish ancestry on both sides of my family.
You spit on Israel and the Jewish people with your Activities which is a shame too cause the Jewish race has been a great Benefit to every man, woman, and child on this Planet. Even Anti-Semetic people have benefited greatly from the Jewish race.
God forbid you end up with a Heart Attack in the future cause if that happens equipment invented by my Jewish Brothers will have to be used to save your life and I don’t think any Anti-Semitic person who has a Heart Attack deserves to have their Lives saved.
God forbid any Anti-Semetic person have a Heart Attack and if one does have one and their life is saved I hope that they thank my Jewish brothers for inventing the life saving equipment.
Let’s see you have spit on Living and Dead War Veterans and their Families.
You spit on The Jewish Race, You also spit on Christians including my President George W. Bush who by the Grace of God almighty is serving as President of the God Blessed United States of America.
You also spit on the American people Sean Penn and unless you wish to Repent of your Evil Deeds and Publicly Apologize to Yahweh God, Jesus Christ, President Bush, Christians, Jews, The American People, and last but not least Living and Dead Veterans of War, then you leave me no choice but to politely ask you to please leave America.
If you will not repent and apologize for your actions please Move to France, Apply for Refugee Status there telling them you don’t agree with the U.S. Govt, then go to the United States Embassy in Paris and renounce your United States Citizenship.
May God have mercy on your Soul
Sincerely,
Ryan McReynolds
The mailbox is still full! Darn it. I hope that he really does read the emails, and takes into consideration ALL of them, not just the ones he agrees with. So what percent does everyone think is for and against Sean Penny???
Sean, you seem very slow on the uptake. You are apparently missing the entire point.
You may hold whatever opinion you wish on any subject. You may espouse same. But you are also entitled to the consequences – good or bad.
Your actions in IRAQ and your continuing anti-administration, anti-American comments, in the opinions of many who are older and far wiser, are viewed as an attempt to undercut the Country.
You could do yourself a big favor – put a cork in it!
I hope the hell this guy NEVER gets another part offered to him wearing a uniform again! I hope he never gets another part again for that matter.
This guy is such a shit head! I am so sick of these Hollywood Liberal Bastards!!
Mr Penn.
you can rationalize all you want, you are still wrong. you should be glad we have a compassionate conservative in the White House. if i were there and you did what you did, give comfort to the enemy, you would be charged with treason. but we all know rationalizations are more important that sex. if you don’t think so, when was the last time you went a week without a good rationalization?
Mr Penn.
you can rationalize all you want, you are still wrong. you should be glad we have a compassionate conservative in the White House. if i were there and you did what you did, give comfort to the enemy, you would be charged with treason. but we all know rationalizations are more important that sex. if you don’t think so, when was the last time you went a week without a good rationalization?
Sean, you are very annoying, not because of what you do for a living but because you actually think you can change the world. Let me ask you something, if you were living in the late 1930′s would you have gone to Germany to see for yourself if Adolf Hitler was preparing to take over the world? Would you have criticized American policy in the early 1940′s as it prepared to face the Nazis? How about Chairman Mao? Stalin? Polt Pot? Fidel? Hitler pretty much said “Just give me Czchecoslovakia and I’ll behave”. Assholes like you, at the time, believed him.
Appeacement gave all these monsters a chance to kill human beings. Worst Murderers: USSR: 61 million – China: 35 million – Germany: 20 million – Japan: 5 million (million=people, not movies)
Well Sean, what do you say to these FACTS? How many has Hussein killed, did you find that out on your “fact-finding-mission”? Stick to things you know how to do, like beating up Madonna, I heard you were very talented at that. By the way, you seem very desperate, humiliated and defeated by your action: taking a full page ad to state your uneducated opinion was perhaps the funniest thing I have heard this year! You have been crushed, and you know what you did it to yourself and that is what’s driving you nuts: there is nobody to blame but your ignorance. Your dime is up, your free education is over for today.
Why do people keep posting comments to Sean Penn as if this were Sean’s forum, or that he would come here to read these.
Am I missing something?
I just want to get through to the e-mail address that he provided in his article. But it is full.
OK. eveyone calm down. what’s with all the resentment, and anger. Sean Penn took out a full page ad to explain WHY he went to iraq, HOW this came to be, and WHAT he found. that’s more than i can say for this administration. He didn’t go in support of Hussein, he went in support of the Iraqi people, the ones the US military were inevatibly going to kill (in the name of trying to save them). he sits waiting for the slightest evidence of WMDs (another reason they went in) but so far we’ve been given nothing. yes hussein is a bad man. an evil dictator. this has never been refuted by penn, or any of the other artists who have spoken out.
Q: do you suggest that the US go into war with any nation who is ‘experimenting’ with WMDs, like france, pakistan, india, israel, russia etc. And have you considered that the UN sanctions (cause of some 500 000) were actually spearheaded by the US. they vetoed over a hundred motion to lift sanction for some food, medicine, water purification equipment, and other life saving supplies.
and Mr. McReynolds… i don’t know where to start. i hope i am wrong, but you seem to imply a religious war, and that sean penn is some how is taking sides with ‘the muslims’ (or should i call them towel-heads to make the analogy easier to grasp). why is anti-semitism even an issue in this case. usually it is concentrated on those who disagree with the israeli governments illegal occupation of the whole of Palestine. sean penn didn’t even go into that (and nor will i).
and PDM, why do you believe that just because someone is questioning the motives of an administration – and not blindly following every (contradictory) statement that they make – is ‘anti-American’. can a person not have an individiual opinion? and though you might argue that these opinions should be kept private, i’m sure the millions who protest, and still do, you disagree with you.
Finally, Nery (btw, my intention is not to target or criticize any of the writers. we all have a right to an opinion. it’s just easier for me to formulate this entry if i list what disagree with. apologies if these comments sound hostile, this is of course not the intention). Nery talks of how we can’t sit by and watch something we can’t control spin out of control. she uses people like hitler and stalin as examples. these happened to be two of the most militarily powerful people in the world. Hitler went into Czhechoslovakia partly due to a threat he saw there… from there on it spread…
your president has taken over iraq. now there are talks of iran and syria… and the US military is by far the most powerful and well organised… you can make your own conclusions.
Afroman: “…Czhechoslovakia partly due to a threat he saw there”, Huh? czechoslovakia? a threat, to whom, the Red Army hockey team? I believe Hitler wanted to “liberate” the few germans in Czechoslovakia who he “believed” were being “persecuted”, not true, that was just an excuse … Iran, Syria and Saudi Arabia are not DEMOCRACIES. They are each a theocracy that looks for the advancement of their cause, meaning that they will do anything to adavance Islam. Remember the Iran hostage crisis of the early 1980′s and how the American hostages were paraded? The problem in the middle east can be attributed to these theocracies, who see no wrong when events of terrorism take place against non-muslims and who promote, support them at all costs.
In regards to Sean mentioning the dead Iraqi soldiers. My husband brought some tickets home. They were dropping thousands of them down before the war started. They were detailed instructions for the Iraqis to vacate areas and detailed instructions on how to surrender. The tickets were are very detailed in that they gave the Iraqis a countdown on when the shit was gonna hit the fan. My husband said the US military gave them ample warning and more than enough time to leave certain areas that were going to be hit. Did the victims of 9-11 get this warning?
Nery, that is exactly what i meant by ‘saw a threat’: a fabricated excuse used to invade another country. whether it is true or not was not considered at the time. those were his reasons. and arguably not much was done in terms of resistance from the outside world.
And so Iran and Syria might not be ‘democracies’ (though that term is often so misused: the last election in the US and various mis-reprentative polls in both the US and UK go far to show this) but their people have a right to speak out about whether their country should be bombed. Whatever happened to this small, apparently insignificant global organisation called the UN. United Nations. yet it seems that the nations are not all united. it seems that the US is willing to unilaterally ‘free’ all those ‘entrapped’ in the ‘theocracies’ of the middle east.
terrorism comes out of hope that has been shattered, out of a belief that violence is the only solution. whatever religion, desperation can drive people to do horrible things. the Iran hostage crisis, the bombing of US embassies, the 911 attacks (thought unquestionably horrific) are proofs of how far these terrorists are willing to go.
I’m sure you’ve all heard the normal talk: ‘you can’t fight terror with terror, it breeds more violence etc.’ Surely there must be a better way than to attack a country’s water supplies, powerplants, hospitals, and civilian homes. Surely destroying the famous landmarks, institutions (schools included), and traditions (no matter how ‘evil’ we think they are) won’t ‘liberate’ the people.
yes, there might be thousands of people cheering the troops to save them in Iraq, but if my city was being bombed every night for two weeks, with no water, food, or access to any facility, I’d be happy to see anyone that came with the message ‘The War is Over’.
“Thanks for destroying my country. Sure, you can set up your own bases here, and here, and have your companies charge our country ridiculous amounts of money to rebuild what you tore down, indebting our country to yours for an indefinite period… Can i have some food please?”
“well, of course. we’ll just take the oil in what we so cutely call our Oil for Food programme, and give you money to buy Food… from our farmers… Welcome to Democracy”
forgive my sarcasm…
Sandy,
What you liberals don’t get is that for ‘diplomacy’ to work, it requires civil people on both sides. Diplomacy was tried for 13 years.
The US had 30 nations fighting with us.
You liberals do not see because you don’t open your eyes. Where was your protest during Clinton?
Sean,
The more I read your crap, the more I see why your role as Jeff Spicoli was so easy for you to play. Stick to what your good at.
Hey Keith, Sandy’s not one of the liberals; think you’re arguing the wrong person. She, along with most of the rest of us, agree with your
Damn typos…
I couldn’t get to the website but the posts here kind of show what Penn wrote (his publicist probably wrote it). Sandy- right on the money. they had ample warning but Saddam used his people as human shields. Keith- look out! Sandy IS NOT a liberal-think your comments should have been directed at Afrohan. Stephanie- it’s probably 99.9999999% against Sean Penn. Good job Lee.
Haven’t been posting lately- will start again later. Have a good day everyone- Jeni
G’day, eh?
Alfredo, Stephanie, Sandy, Lloyd, PurdyDM, :what you folks said..:)) (dang, *that* was easy..:))
Ryan:*especially* what *you* said, brother.
Lori:about him not getting another part-at least until he learns some gratitude, and that freedom *ain’t* free-ditto.
AfroHan: “it seems that the US is willing to unilaterally ‘free’ all those ‘entrapped’ in the ‘theocracies’ of the middle east”
-Thank You, God that this is so. Rape rooms, people dropped into plastic shredders, 5-year olds being held in prison because of both what they *and* their parents wouldn’t do for Saddam, -I could go on, but this litany is depressing me massively. I’m Canadian, and that we had *nothing* to do with this good mission while the shooting was going on, will depress me for a *long* time. We weren’t always this.. cold. (no pun intended!). Our PM, Jean Chretien, tried to make a stand on principle, but *look* who it made him (and us, by default) stand *with*! Seriously, you ARE judged by the company you keep, Jean.
It’s getting worse up here, and I fear for our nation’s collective soul. Here, in Montreal, Quebec where I live, you’ve *really* gotta wonder about us, sometimes. Whups, I’m swerving off-topic here, and possibly bringing the blog down. I’ll get more specific, should anyone ask.
Back to Sean Penn-and a lighter note:
The strip is archived, so you can go hunt these dates up and have a good chuckle.
A nifty cartoon blog, Day By Day, (http://www.daybydaycartoon.com) lets our dear Sean have it in a three-day strip, on these three consecutive dates- 01-21-2003, 01-22-2003, 01-23-2003, a funny look at his trip to Iraq..
LisaS-this isn’t the first time I’ve brought Day By Day into my posts, and I hope it doesn’t bug you or anything. But I *really* like the strip (and NO, I don’t own stock in it or anything, it’s conservative, and funny, and dead-on so often it’s GREAT) and since my logon time is limited, I almost never arrive at a blog in time to be current; so rather than repeat what others have said, other than to mention if I agree with them, I’d rather add a laugh if I can, and something new.
Take care out there,
Bill (a conservative Canadian)
Keith
you called me out on the wrong topic babydoll
No worries Sandy; we had your back
You know, Afro, you sound just like the folks who opposed going to war with Germany in 1941.
They bitched about fighting the Japanese Empire as well, because hey, we deserved it, we were embargoing their oil.
As one former Iraqi citizen said, Saddam killed more people in one week than the US did during BOTH Gulf I/II.
Guess you like supporting fascist regimes.
Just like Sean Penn.
He didn’t go to ‘support the Iraqi people’, BTW. His Baath Party handlers made sure he didn’t meet any.
Sean penn is a traitor in the same mold as hanoi jane and slick willie and of course benidict arnold need i say more? this old bird get his feathers ruffled
bingo Free bingo
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