Sean Penn Wants Reporters Jailed for Calling Chavez 'Dictator'
As usual, no free speech allowed for critics of the Left
"First Amendment be damned . . . If Oscar-winning actor Sean Penn had his way, any journalist who called Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez a dictator would quickly find himself behind bars.
Penn, appearing on HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher" on Friday, defended Chavez during a segment in which he detailed his work with the JP Haitian Relief Organization, which he co-founded. "Every day, this elected leader is called a dictator here, and we just accept it, and accept it" said Penn, winner of two Best Actor Academy Awards. "And this is mainstream media, who should -- truly, there should be a bar by which one goes to prison for these kinds of lies."
Judge Andrew Napolitano, Fox News' senior judicial analyst, said the same constitutional protection that applies to journalists also applies to Penn, who can say pretty much anything he wants in the "political arena" -- aside from an immediate incitement of violence. "What he is saying is protected, as wacky and weird as it is," Napolitano told FoxNews.com. "But the substance of what he's saying would be absolutely contrary to the First Amendment, which fully protects all political opinions. So if a journalist says Dick Cheney should go to jail, the journalist is privileged to say that."
"Mr. Penn is calling for a communist-like regime in which journalists who criticize the government are sent to jail because of that criticism," Napolitano added. "That is utterly un-American and hasn't happened here since the Civil War."
Napolitano, meanwhile, said Penn apparently prefers "thuggery" to democracy. "In light of his ignorance of freedom of speech, his wishing rectal cancer on his detractors, and his embracing tyrants, Mr. Penn obviously prefers thuggery to democracy," he continued.
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Jon said, "I think his right to say what he thinks is undoubted under the 1st Amendment. And if that right is upheld by SCOTUS it will be a bright shining example of American tolerance that every American could point to with pride."
Penn, the pro-communist "alleged" actor and "genuine" dupe, should spend his time learning to act, instead of singing the praises of one of the worlds most brutal dictators. His success in Commiewood doesn't come from his acting "skills", which are truly limited, but from his communist sympathies.
Chavez must get a great deal of pleasure knowing how easy it is to dupe morons like Penn, Danny Glover, and Hugo's favorite mouthpiece, Joe Kennedy. These clowns are so impressed with communism, yet you don't see them giving away their millions to "the workers". No, it's YOUR money they want to give away.
Forget about so-called health care and global scaming, we should have legislation that says anti-Amrerican "Americans" should be publicly executed for their treason. Now that's a show i'd gladly pay to see!
Bird of Paradise proves that conservatives hate punctuation marks.
The Barbarian, I am sure you never make any grammatical mistakes oh perfect one. Anyways, Sean Penn is also a big fan of Che and Fidel, so goes to show that he loves Communists and Socialists.
Anonymous said...
"I see, you admire the islamic solution to dissent."
Absolutely! At least it's effective, whereas our treatment is not. Only a nation of mindless weaklings would allow those who would destroy it to do so from within.
Sean Penn can say what he wants but I hope he can see the irony of his statement. He is free to criticise as much as he likes and is protected by a system he decries, but he would deny the same freedom to others.
Tragic.
It reminds me of that episode of Parks and Recreation where the representatives of the sister city in Venezuela come for a visit.
Funny.
"Sean Penn can say what he wants but I hope he can see the irony of his statement. He is free to criticise as much as he likes and is protected by a system he decries, but he would deny the same freedom to others."
Rest assured he doesn't see it. In fact no doubt he thinks it's entirely logical that only he and those that agree with him can do and say what they want, that everyone else is subservient to them.
After all, that's the way it works in his socialist paradise as demonstrated by Cuba and the USSR.
sean penn is a poser actor and a talentless hack, so who cares what this freak says... he can hardly speak a complete sentence.
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