At 05:29 am 12/11/2006 -0800, you wrote: >--- Jones Beene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >[**Mel Gibson's anti-Semitic rant caused >uproar...because of this very lame defense... that >criticism for 'The Passion Of The Christ' was the real >problem. > >In all his hero-themed movies...even Mad Max, the >Patriot, Braveheart, and so on - he is playing the >hero of a group who were wronged by a dominating >majority. There are surely lots of Brits who didn't >like the inferences... **] > >[**but Mel didn't rant on the many Brits who >criticized that movie. > >That says volumes about this silly defense of having >been "smeared". Where is this so-called smear, other >than in a racist (juvenile) mentality?**] > >There was an unrelenting campaign, lasting for months, >by the ADL and other Jewish organizations to paint the >movie, and, therefore, Gibson, as anti-semitic. You >can go to any search engine and find references. >Naturally, the smear included mention of his father's >dislike of Jews. > >Yet you pretend that the criticisms by Brits of >Braveheart, if they really exist, are comparable to >the shit that Jews threw at Gibson for months, simply >because he had the gall to make a movie about the >founder of his religion. > >His rant against Jews is quite understandable given >their smears against him. > > > >[**...some of this paternal garbage has got >to rub off on any kid - but it is no excuse at age 50 >to have not "gotten over it".**] > >No doubt you have never met Gibson and can only guess >about the kind of man he is and about how he was >formed. Certainly, nobody completely 'gets over' the >experiences of childhood, good or bad, but not getting >over it isn't 'juvenile' and it is ludicrous to say >that it is. > >You decided to casually smear Gibson by referring to >him as juvenile, and now try to justify it by further >smearing him as a child of his father, somewhat like >the situation in Stalinist Russia, where the children >of an 'enemy of the people' were treated like >second-class citizens, if they themselves didn't end >up in the gulag. > > >[**and owe most of your considerable wealth and >success to the very Jewish-named businessmen who >control some of the movie industry...**] > >It's obvious that Gibson owes his wealth and success >to his own abilities. > >By the way, what is it with 'Jewish-named' and >'control some'? What a strange view of reality you >seem to have. Why not just say that Jews control the >movie industry? Even Jews say it.
You are right about the Brits not being upset by Mel Gibson's film. That idea is frankly risible. Though a lot of the rest of your argument is correct I'm afraid Mel Gibson asked for trouble when he drove a car drunk (grievously sinful - and mortally sinful if done with full knowledge. If he died in that state he would have merited the fires of hell for all eternity). If he had killed someone he would have merited a long prison sentence. I speak as a catholic just as traditional as Mel Gibson. Frank Grimer
