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Fifth Column
Stars deliver anti-war petition
2003-03-11
These stories are really getting old.
OSCAR winner Jessica Lange was among a clutch of Hollywood stars today who helped deliver an anti-war petition — signed by more than 1 million people — to the US mission to the United Nations.
I'd like to go over those signatures. How many times did Heywood Jablome sign?
Lange was joined by Ethan Hawke and Steve Buscemi in leading a small group of protesters to the mission in New York, where they handed over the petition which called for a tougher UN inspection regime in Iraq to replace the threat of military action against Baghdad.
Lange's an aging, washed up has been, Hawke's a pretty boy with no clue. Buscemi I'm surprised at. He's an ex NYC firefighter who worked on the pile.
"I do not want my children to inherit the legacy of this war. Americans are a moral people and that requires that we do not let our government lie to us about the righteousness of our cause. This war will not serve the basic goodness of the American people and this is not the moral compass we can allow ourselves to be directed by," Lange said.
When Hollywood folks start talking about "moral compasses", it's really time to go.
The signatures for the petition were gathered worldwide over the internet in just five days by a lobby group, Moveon.org, which is part of a peace coalition known as Win Without Thought War. Copies of the entire petition, which included 600,000 US signatories, were handed to all 15 members of the UN Security Council, ahead of a key vote this week on whether to set Iraq a specific deadline to disarm or face war. "We are calling on the world's second superpower, the general public, to rise up and tell their governments ... that we can contain and control Saddam Hussein without war," said Tom Andrews, the national director of Win Without War.
Keep it up, Tom. Sammy loves you guys...
"We want to give the UN inspectors more time to do their job. It is not too much to ask," Andrews said.
"How much time, Tom?"
"How about another 12 years?"
Hollywood has lent a publicity-generating voice to the anti-war movement in the United States, specifically through its own lobby group, Artists United to Win Without War. There has been speculation that anti-war actors and actresses will use the upcoming Oscars ceremony as a forum to put their message across.
Great. Another reason not to watch that celebrity stroke fest.
"I hope they do. I think that would be fun," said Ethan Hawke, who rejected the suggestion that the anti-war movement was unpatriotic.
...as stated previously, a pretty boy without a clue.
"I'm proud to be an American," he said. "That's why I'm here. I want to go on being proud of being an American."
Ethan, when you cease to be proud to be an American, feel free to leave. I think we'll all get over the loss.
Posted by:tu3031

#8  I wonder if anyone has looked closely at the funding sources for MoveOn.org? This is an outfit that came out of nowhere and suddenly has the wherewithall to run full page ads in the NY Times and freeway billboards in San Francisco (talk about preaching to the choir!). Where does all there money come from? Is a certain Middle Eastern country, or two, helping them out a bit?

At some point they have to file a tax return, unfortunately it'll be for 2002, and that's public. Wonder if an enterprising journalist might be interested in taking a look? Naaahhh.
Posted by: R. McLeod   2003-03-12 00:35:27  

#7  Of course if these so called actors were indeed the "activists" the claim they be, the line should have been forming behind Sean Penn in Baghdad weeks ago... not that we should give Mr Peen credit for anything meaningful. Geez, if transportation was the main impediment they could have taken the Big Red Bus.
Posted by: Anonymous   2003-03-11 22:01:48  

#6  Get back to work, you twits. Nobody gives a shit about your opinion. You're supposed to ACT, y'know?
That's where you basically pretend to be somebody else, somebody with a life...
Posted by: mojo   2003-03-11 17:45:25  

#5  At least they stayed in country.
Posted by: badanov   2003-03-11 17:32:32  

#4  As far as this so-called petition goes, I just signed up Saddam Hussein 10 times, so I'd REALLY like to scope out their million signatures. At least NION let you see who signed. What bullshit.
Posted by: tu3031   2003-03-11 11:10:22  

#3  re: "how many of them are Haywood Jablome"
I signed an anti-war petition at a Sum 41 concert (great band, silly political views). I signed it "Adolph Oliver Busch; 420 Appeasement Lane; Neville Chamberlain, CA 66420" Wonder if that's one of the 600,000?
Posted by: Abu Hamza   2003-03-11 10:26:37  

#2  never have watched the oscars,what a bore
Posted by: raptor   2003-03-11 10:16:57  

#1  MoveOn.org was formed when Clinton was being impeached - they wanted America to ignore his felony perjury, public lies and corruption...
and they talk about moral compasses? Riiiggghhttt
Posted by: Frank G   2003-03-11 09:29:04  

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