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Politics : Stop the War! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: tsigprofit who wrote (12356)	4/11/2003 3:55:08 PM
From: Alan Smithee	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21614

What I disagree with is actors who use their notoriety and their significant personal wealth to broadcast their views in a very public forum. They're free to have whatever views they care to have, but there are hundreds of thousands of others in this country who don't have the ability to try to influence public debate and thought about the war. Hollywood is out of touch with mainstream America on this and a number of other issues. I don't have the forum and clout that a George Clooney does in getting my views out in front of the public. I do have the ability to withhold my money from him and that's what I plan to do. I doubt it'll be for a lifetime, but it will be a while.

To: tsigprofit who wrote (12356)	4/11/2003 4:01:31 PM
From: Jorj X Mckie	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 21614

Especially Clooney, come on - he speaks his mind on an issue - and you boycott him for life? A little extreme, don't you think? I was in international sales for some time. If I voiced my political opinions to most of my customers, it is very likely that they would not buy product from me. It wouldn't matter that I may have the best product, it is the fact that I mixed politics with business. Clooney, the Dixie Chicks, et al, have used the platform that their job affords them to try and influence people. They shouldn't object when people respond by not wanting to "buy their product".

To: tsigprofit who wrote (12356)	4/11/2003 5:18:19 PM
From: Bald Eagle	Respond to of 21614

I wonder what all the people who complained about the way we treated the guys in Guantanamo bay will say about this. My guess is .. nothing. Cuba Executes Three Men Charged With Ferry Hijacking Friday, April 11, 2003 HAVANA — Three men charged with terrorism for hijacking a passenger ferry last week were executed Friday after summary trials, the government reported. The men were prosecuted Tuesday in summary trials for "very grave acts of terrorism" and given several days to appeal their sentences, according to a statement read on state television. However, the sentences were upheld both by Cuba's Supreme Tribunal and the ruling Council of State, and were carried out at dawn Friday, the statement said. Capital punishment in Cuba is always carried out by firing squad. It has been used sparingly in recent years. Another four men received life sentences, it said. No one was hurt when the group, reportedly armed with at least one pistol and several knives, seized the ferry and its 50 passengers in Havana Bay early April 2 and ordered the captain to sail to the United States. Later that day, the 45-foot ferry Baragua ran out of fuel in the high seas of the Florida Straits, and officers on two Cuban Coast Guard patrol boats that chased them there tried to persuade the hijackers to return to the island. The hijackers allegedly threatened to throw passengers from the boxy, flat-bottomed boat overboard but soon agreed to let the ferry be towed 30 miles back to Cuba's Mariel port for refueling. After the boat was docked in Mariel, west of Havana, Cuban authorities eventually gained control of the ferry April 3 and arrested the suspects after a quick-thinking French woman hostage jumped into the water to confuse her captors. The standoff ended with all the hostages, then the suspects, jumping into the water. The Baragua was hijacked a day after a Cuban passenger plane was hijacked to Key West, Fla., by a man who allegedly threatened to blow up the aircraft with two grenades. The grenades turned out to be fake. Ten of the Cubans aboard that flight opted to remain in the United States and 19 others asked to go home. Another Cuban plane was hijacked to Key West less than two weeks earlier. The hijackings coincided with a crackdown on dissidents in Cuba and rising tensions with the United States.