Isn't it a TRAITOR ALERT when an evil dictator PRAISES an American citizen for his political and social views?

Question

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070802/ap_on_en_mo/people_sean_penn;_ylt=AhQNcD_r8W._Y9.2e1hMQ9Ss0NUE

CARACAS, Venezuela - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has praised Sean Penn for his critical stance against the war in Iraq, saying the two chatted by phone and soon plan to meet in person.

Answer 1

Sean Penn apparently doesn't mind rubbing elbows with a dictator, so long as the dictator runs a country other than his own. He calls our government a dictatorship and then gets all chummy with a dictator.

No wonder they never made a sequel to "Fast Times at Ridgemont High"

Answer 2

Here's another report. Is this what a hated dictator looks like?

http://omg.yahoo.com/sean-penn-takes-back-seat-on-chavez-tour/news/1472

Cheering crowds. Travelling in an open-backed jeep . Not exactly something Bush can do in his own country shaking hands with happy people. So which president has a people who love him?

Answer 3

Why do you call Chavez an evil dictator? Just because he doesn't like Bush? He may be a controversial leader, but he was elected democratically in 2000 and re-elected in 2006. If disagreeing with Bush makes someone a "traitor", that applies to over 70% of the population of the United States. Who's the real traitor?

Answer 4

No. Everyone has a right to their political and social views. Chavez is a democratically elected socialist. I would be more concerned when a truely evil dictator praises an American President, like Azerbaijan's president Ilham Aliyev and Turkmenistan's vicious Saparmurat Niyazov did for Bush.

What is our fascination with the opinions of celebrities? I don't care what Sean Penn, Britney Spears, or George Clooney think. It is truely a sad state of affairs when Linsey Lohan garners more attention on the news than the recall of 1.5 million Chinese-made products.

Answer 5

Being critical of the Iraq war only shows him as not being brain dead.

Getting praise from Chavez is irrelevant.

Answer 6

It's a sign that we still have freedom of speech in America. If speaking out against the government and the war in Iraq becomes a crime, then the US itself will likely be under the rule of an evil dictator. It certainly won't be America, "land of the free" anymore.

Answer 7

Isn't it a retard alert when a stupid American makes even stupider generalizations about someone who had no contact with the evil dictator in person? Even if he does, so what? We're not at war with Venezuela.

If Pol Pot had mentioned he liked the works of Tom Clancy, does that make Tom a traitor too?

A very good writer and former State Department employee, William Blum, wrote a series of books about all of the ways the CIA was used since WWII to cause horrible amounts of propaganda, death and destruction amongst most of the nations we would deem Third World. The one I read was called Killing Hope. As a result, this extraordinarily well documented and written book was praised by Osama bin Laden, and bin Laden further mentioned that it should be required reading for all Americans.

As a result of that statement, retards like you make statements just like this.

Where the hell do you people come from, anyway? Mars?

Answer 8

When I think of evil dictator I think of Hitler or Stalin.. Chavez just hasn't reached that level.. sorry.

And if you consider him evil.. why do you assume he would tell the truth? wouldn't every word from his mouth be meant to be the means to some treacherous end? So maybe he figured people would fall for it and it could divide our nation even more?

I mean.. if you assume he really is evil and all.

Answer 9

Yes, it is. I also see Exxon's profit as a traitor alert. Is Penn or Exxon hurting the most people? Sean Penn is irrelevant to me. 3.00 a gallon isn't.

Answer 10

So all that Chavez has to do is praise somebody and they are then considered a traitor. Aren't you giving Chavez a lot of power? Giving a foreigner that much power in American politics sounds a little traitorous to me.