Gillian Anderson  Edward Asner Rene Auberjonois  David Bale Kim Basinger  Ed Begley, Jr.  Theo Bikel Barbara Bosson  Jackson Browne  Peter Beck (REM) Diahann Carroll  Eugene J. Carron, Jr., Rear Adm. U.S. Navy (Ret.)  Kathleen Chalfant  Don Cheadle  Jill Clayburgh  David Clennon Jack Coleman  Peter Coyote  Lindsay Crouse

Suzanne Cryer Matt Damon Dana Daurey Ambassador Jonathan Dean (U.S. Rep. to NATO­ Warsaw Pact) Vincent D'Onofrio  David Duchovny Olympia Dukakis  Charles S. Dutton  Hector Elizondo  Cary Elwes Shelley Fabaras  Mike Farrell  Mia Farrow  Laurence Fishburne  Sean Patrick Flanery  Bonnie Franklin  John Fugelsang Janeane Garofalo  Larry Gelbart  Melissa Gilbert  Danny Glover

Elliott Gould Samaria Graham  Robert Greenwald  Robert Guillaume  Paul Haggis  Robert David Hall  Ethan Hawke  Ron Howard Helen Hunt  Anjelica Huston  LaTanya Richardson Jackson  Samuel L. Jackson  Jane Kaczmarek  Melina Kanakaredes  Casey Kasem  Mimi Kennedy  Jessica Lange  Tea Leoni  Wendie Malick  Camryn Manheim  Marsha Mason  Richard Masur  Dave Mathews

Kent McCord Robert Duncan McNeill  Mike Mills (REM)  Janel Moloney Esai Morales Ed O'Neill Chris Noth             Peter Onorati  Alexandra Paul  Ambassador Edward Peck (former U.S. Ambassador to Iraq)  Seth Peterson  CCH Pounder  David Rabe  Alan Rachins       Bonnie Raitt  Carl Reiner  Tim Robbins  Steve Robinson, Sgt. U.S. Army (Ret.) (National Gulf War Resource Center)  Mitch Ryan  Susan Sarandon

Tony Shalhoub  Jack Shanahan Vice, Adm. U.S. Navy (Ret.)  William Schallert  Martin Sheen  Armin Shimerman  Gloria Steinem  Marcia Strassman  Michael Stipe (REM)  Susan Sullivan  Loretta Swit  Studs Terkel  Lily Tomlin  Blair Underwood  Dennis Weaver  Bradley Whitford  James Whitmore  James Whitmore, Jr.  Alfre Woodard  Noah Wyle  Peter Yarrow  Howard Zinn

 

 

This list of people are calling themselves, “Artists” united against war.  First of all, most of these people are actors not artists.  An actor is just a parrot, who’s learned to mimic life and recite verse.  That hardly qualifies them as artists.  Before I explain why that is important, I would first like to verify that yes, Michael Stipe would be an artist, and people like him on this list should therein be considered such.  But since he is more or less the only artist on the list, and the rest are just actors, it might be important to you to realize that the use of the word artist is intentionally used by these people.  It is their sense of intellectualism.  Their sense of some how being in a position to recognize their own greatness and thus, force you to acknowledge it back to them.  They use it to trick you into thinking that their opinion on this position is some how more valid than your own…after all, they’re big time artists, and you and I are just little time 7-11 clerks.  What could I know in the face of an intelligent, intellectually gifted artist?  Right?  It is that stigmatism that will be the end of all of us.  Realize that they are but silly empty humans like the rest of us.  That in fact, even the most educated of them (Matt Damon) does not have the best of information in this encounter.  Does he have the Presidents connections?  The CIA?  The British SAS?  NATO?  Or any of the other millions of resources available to the privileged few in the highest reaches of power?  No, of course not.  But it is the consensus of these ‘artists’ that they do.  That they know enough of the fact to build a perfectly acceptable judgments against the war.  What idiocy.   

 

Could it be simply that Iraq has failed to do as it committed to do at the closing of the Gulf War in ‘91?  Could it be that the UN required Iraq to disarm and since has not done what it was asked and by doing so relegated the UN to a position of powerless old fools?  Could it be that in ’98 Iraq kicked out the UN, before its job was complete thus proving that the UN has not official power?  Could it be that September 11^th changed the way we should look at potential enemies?  Everything changed that day.  Everything.  And it seems to have already been forgotten by a growing number of people in this country.  My guess is that the truth is that they are cowards at heart.  They are afraid of future (eventual) attacks and would rather cower in fear under the possibility of retaliation than stand up for something and die.

 

I think, as the peaceniks do, that President Bush does in fact want this war.  But I don’t see how that is relevant.  Because, let’s face it, the showing of force is more important than they actual use of it.  Are we to assume that President Saddam is such a fool as to not recognize the obvious destruction he and his compatriots will suffer?  Of course not.  They understand.  They get it.  And it could very well be the White House plan to just to sit there like the ever vigilant watch dog…threatening to attack under the first pretense of error by the enemy.  And face this.   President Saddam is the enemy. 

 

I heard mostly from the antiwar crowd about how the people of Iraq are going to be victimized by this war.  Well duh.  But what about the 30 years of victimization by the leader?  They just had an election there and 100% of the people voted to keep President Saddam in power.  100%?  Who they hell do they think they are kidding?  Let us face some obvious facts.  People in the US only vote for two basic reasons.  1.  They actually believe in the system and think they have a patriotic duty to do such or 2. They are angry at the system and want to force something to change or stop.  Even in the years when the country is most angry or most patriotic…we never see 100% of the registered voters turn up at the polls.  It’s just not possible.  People are not that predictable.  Then we must assume that the election in Iraq was fixed?  But fixed how?  The only real way to fix an election is by the use of power, that is, at the end of a gun.  So the real question becomes: If the Iraq people are so worthy of our praise, then why don’t they do something about their evil dictator?  They suffer at his destruction, yet fail to climb up from their dark hiding places.   I’ve always been of the mind set that if you fail to do what needs to be done when it needs to be done…don’t be surprised when strangers step in and take the controls and force you into a sense of slavery.  You think I’m nuts?  Look around you at the world of the US today.  Take this for instance.  You have to wear your seatbelt.  In a world where you had the freedom to dictate your own existence, would there really be such a law?  No of course not.  I would have the right to decide exactly what I considered safe.  Or to what level of safety I want to comply with.  But we don’t.  Why because the system has suspected that we were incapable of making that decision of our own intellect.  That we don’t know what’s best for us.  Thus the system stepped in and took the reigns.  Yet, I don’t hear ‘artists’ clamoring for our lost freedoms.  I don’t see a single solitary movement in Hollywood to stop the encroachment of social programs on the freedoms afforded to us through the Constitution.  Why is that?  Where do they get off saying that it is okay for the system to dictate how we approach our safety, but it’s wrong to allow the system to dictate the safety of another people that have failed to do so of their own volition?  It’s a classic case of attempting to pluck the splinter from your neighbor’s eye, while ignoring the plank in your own.  Of the common idiocy left to us from the dark lords of evil socialism and freedom haters, this ability to redirect the energy of people away from the obvious is the most devious and destructive of all their dark tricks. 

 

The funny thing is that these people are helping to deliver us into the police state they don’t want for the rest of the world.  They think that they are advertising for freedom, but they’re saying that dark forces are not to trampled under, but to be ‘worked’ out.  They take the same moral road that Weasly Mouch takes through the tales of Atlas Shrugged, by ignoring the basic tenets of being human.  By failing to acknowledge the great spiritual truth of the flesh.  By “feeling” instead of action.  They only help to doom us by opening doorways in which the darkness may enter.

 

I had a friend say that he was concerned that Hollywood would be the next big target of terrorists.  At the time I told him that he was crazy.  That Hollywood would never be a target simply because of all the places in the US, Hollywood is the terrorists most trusted ally.  For it is from their mouths that pour the most anti American of thoughts.  And it is in their power to stand before the millions of world wide cameras and cry for social reform and negotiations.  It is from their safety behind that wall of money and lights that they let their guilt of un-earned wealth eat away their individual souls and dream up ways of ‘righting’ the wrong of the world with out the use of force against an enemy that would use it.  No Hollywood is safe from the dark…because, even unknown to it, Hollywood is signed away to it.  What should be the real worry is to question what it is that they are really trying to achieve?  Would a single one of these artists die for a principle?  Would they be willing to stake their very lives on something?  Or, like the badly played two dimensional characters they act out on the screen, do they really want simply to accept world peace, even it costs our very freedom?  I’ve heard enough about those that think it okay to give up some of our freedoms for more security.  I’ve heard the clamoring fools and their talk on such subjects.  I say fine.  Take it the way you want.  But don’t expect me to stick around.  Or for that matter anyone who actually has a single gift of godliness to them.  They can’t oppress those who will not suffer the oppression.

 

Here is a list of Agencies that represent these parrots, feel free to write to them and express your opinion to them:

Moveon.Org

Phone – 510-524-6100

E-mail – [email protected] , [email protected]

 

Win Without War

Phone – 202-478-3429

E-mail – [email protected]

 

Artists United To Win Without War

Phone – 310-204-2581

Fax – 310-204-0174

Mike Farrell – [email protected]

 

Fourth Freedom Forum

Phone – 1-800-233-6786

Fax – 574-534-4937

 

International Creative MGMT.

Phone – 310-550-4000

Fax – 310-550-4100

 

William Morris Agency, INC

Phone – 310-274-7451

Fax – 310-859-4462

 

The Endeavor Agency, L.L.C

Phone – 310-248-2000

Fax – 310-248-2020

 

Creative Artists

Phone – 310-288-4545

Fax – 310-288-5244