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Rhys-Davies aka dwarf Gimli: Christianity in the Middle East and in Africa is being wiped out
2015-08-16
[MAIL] Lord of the Rings star John Rhys-Davies has spoken out about the 'extraordinary silence in the West' over the threat of Islamic extremism.

The actor, 71, also talked about the pressure of political correctness - claiming people were too afraid to speak out on the actions of other groups for fear of being seen judgmental.

Mr Rhys-Davies, who played the dwarf Gimli in the blockbuster trilogy, made his comments on The Adam Carolla Show, while promoting his new film Return To The Hiding Place, about the persecution of Jews in Holland during World War II.
Caution: Hyperlink goes directly to vid trailer.
The conversation quickly switched to modern-day atrocities, including the ISIS beheadings in the Middle East.
Posted by:Besoeker

#4  How do we hold them accountable so that it doesn't need to come time to start taking them out with deadly force?

You play the game they play via the Commerce Act. You make papers independent of any other revenue sources. You require News Divisions to be separate accounting entities and profit listings. No mergers, no conglomerates. Further you write the audit standards. Copies dropped off at hotels and schools do not fall into the subscription column of distribution.

Suddenly, they don't get hidden in the prospectus by being buried by owners and managers to hide the loses of their personal hobby and political bias.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2015-08-16 16:10  

#3  
Posted by: Heriberto Henbane5351   2015-08-16 14:37  

#2  This is the problem I have been harping on for years: Democracy requires an informed electorate. That is the vital function of the free press. How can a democracy sustain itself in the face of a mis-informed, and a mal-informed (deliberate) voting populace? We have accountability that can be imposed on various parts of our society - but what about big media? How do we make them pay the rpice for their malfesance of deliberately ignoring some stories, and deliberately playing up others to slant and distort situations to the favor of thier desired politics?

How do we hold them accountable so that it doesn't need to come time to start taking them out with deadly force? How do we act so as to avoid "the revolution" and its car bombs and assassins bullets?
Posted by: OldSpook   2015-08-16 13:25  

#1  Not being covered in the MSM or college protest, ergo it must not exist. /sarc off

If a tree falls in the middle of the most congested intersection of the city stalling traffic for hours, and the MSM doesn't cover it, did it really happen? Hey, it just Christians, you know the type that won't back cakes or make floral arrangements for a particularly favored community, therefore they are 'evil' and unworthy of 'victim' status and attention. Never mind what their oppressors will do to the same favored community if they ever get their hands on them. Urban Bubble Culture.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2015-08-16 09:12  

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