Iran demands apology from Hollywood

[BaalChatzaf]

Here is a snippet:

TEHRAN, Iran — An adviser to Iran's president on Sunday demanded an apology from a team of visiting Hollywood actors and movie industry officials, including Annette Bening, saying films such as "300" and "The Wrestler" were "insulting" to Iranians.

Without an apology, members of Iran's film industry should refuse to meet with representatives from the nine-member team, said Javad Shamaqdari, the art and cinema adviser to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

"In my viewpoint, it is a failure to have an official meeting with one who is insulting," Shamaqdari told The Associated Press.

The film "300," portrays the battle of Thermopylae in 480 B.C., in which a force of 300 Spartans held off a massive Persian army at a mountain pass in Greece for three days. It angered many Iranians for the way Persians are depicted as decadent, sexually flamboyant and evil in contrast to the noble Greeks.

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The Iranians who are the latter day successors to the Persians feel insulted. Imagine that.

Ba'al Chatzaf

[galtgulch]

The film "300," portrays the battle of Thermopylae in 480 B.C., in which a force of 300 Spartans held off a massive Persian army at a mountain pass in Greece for three days. It angered many Iranians for the way Persians are depicted as decadent, sexually flamboyant and evil in contrast to the noble Greeks.

The Iranians who are the latter day successors to the Persians feel insulted. Imagine that.

Ba'al Chatzaf

Every child born in that country faces a kind of indoctrination, as does virtually every child born anywhere.

Fortunate are those children who are not indoctrinated but are encouraged to think for themselves. Still they must be careful in cultures where such independence of belief is seen as heretical.

By referring to "the Iranians who are the latter day successors to the Persians" one should be careful not to lump them all together. Imagine the nightmare of living there and not subscribing to the dogma which prevails.

At least in this country a child who comes to think for himself or herself may end up angering his or her parents and siblings but is ultimately free to live his or her own life.

I have met an Iranian who told me that he would go out into the street to hold up his fist with everyone else and chant until the domonstration was over, and then go on about his business.

I just checked on the Campaign For Liberty site and there are actually two members who live in Tehran. See.

There are five in Mexico and seven in France! One in Bolivia and two in Columbia! Twenty four in Netherlands and one in Venezuela. 49 in Germany and five in Russia including one from Ayn Rand's hometown of St. Petersburg, four in Israel and 8 in New Zealand. All over the world. Gotta start somewhere!

www.campaignforliberty.com 2Mar 10AM 105349, noon 105370,

gulch

Edited March 2, 2009 by galtgulch

[Chris Grieb]

I think a message telling the Iranians that they can commit an unnatural act would be appropriate.

[galtgulch]

I think a message telling the Iranians that they can commit an unnatural act would be appropriate.

Chris,

I always thought that if you could commit an act, that it would be a natural one. It is impossible to commit an unnatural act!

gulch

[BaalChatzaf]

I think a message telling the Iranians that they can commit an unnatural act would be appropriate.

Chris,

I always thought that if you could commit an act, that it would be a natural one. It is impossible to commit an unnatural act!

gulch

Substitute the words "anatomically difficult" for "unnatural".

Ba'al Chatzaf

[galtgulch]

I think a message telling the Iranians that they can commit an unnatural act would be appropriate.

Chris,

I always thought that if you could commit an act, that it would be a natural one. It is impossible to commit an unnatural act!

gulch

Substitute the words "anatomically difficult" for "unnatural".

Ba'al Chatzaf

Ba'al,

Oh! I think I get it now.

When Obama promised that he would have a different administration marked by transparency and then proceeded to ram through an enormously expensive spending bill without allowing time for it to be reviewed or discussed and demanding that it be voted on the next morning, he essentially succeeded in simultaneously screwing 300 million people while we were not looking, which certainly qualifies as being anatomically difficult.

One hopes that the consequence will be that those who voted for this charlatan will wonder now that their eyes have been opened.

www.campaignforliberty.com 2Mar 2PM 105389, 4PM 105407; 3Mar 10PM 105606

gulch

Edited March 4, 2009 by galtgulch

[Barbara Branden]

I think the words of that great philosopher Woody Allen are an appropriate answer to the Iranians. Explaining that he had had a very angry argument with someone, Woody concluded. "And I said to him, 'Go forth and multiply'. . . but not in those words."

Barbara

[Selene]

Barbara:

Now that would be really "anatomically difficult"!

Actually, I have been doing some scenario planning with my political folks and friends, many current military/intelligence and a lot of ex mil/intel.

We are rapidly coming to a consensus that nothing would solidify power better than a "Reichstag moment".

However, this would have to be foreign terrorist based, with operational assets that are American Muslim [mercenaries]. We believe it would have to be big and bloody.

Americans would be more than willing to get on board a strong central American State that would guarantee them safety, security and sacrifice for the good of all.

I believe it was Marx who stated that socialism was an interim state and the beginning of the transformation to the communists state.

Yes, I believe there are folks that surround him or that he himself is capable of just that goal.

Paranoid - possibly, but did anyone even postulate that he would be moving this fast?

Adam

[BaalChatzaf]

Ba'al,

Oh! I think I get it now.

When Obama promised that he would have a different administration marked by transparency and then proceeded to ram through an enormously expensive spending bill without allowing time for it to be reviewed or discussed and demanding that it be voted on the next morning, he essentially succeeded in simultaneously screwing 300 million people while we were not looking, which certainly qualifies as being anatomically difficult.

He didn't actually screw. He fucked them over.

Ba'al Chatzaf

[sbeaulieu]

Here is a snippet:

TEHRAN, Iran — An adviser to Iran's president on Sunday demanded an apology from a team of visiting Hollywood actors and movie industry officials, including Annette Bening, saying films such as "300" and "The Wrestler" were "insulting" to Iranians.

Without an apology, members of Iran's film industry should refuse to meet with representatives from the nine-member team, said Javad Shamaqdari, the art and cinema adviser to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

"In my viewpoint, it is a failure to have an official meeting with one who is insulting," Shamaqdari told The Associated Press.

The film "300," portrays the battle of Thermopylae in 480 B.C., in which a force of 300 Spartans held off a massive Persian army at a mountain pass in Greece for three days. It angered many Iranians for the way Persians are depicted as decadent, sexually flamboyant and evil in contrast to the noble Greeks.

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The Iranians who are the latter day successors to the Persians feel insulted. Imagine that.

Ba'al Chatzaf

At least they're not saying that the battle of Thermopylae never occurred. I'd be curious to see an Iranian version of 300!