(Susan Sarandon) fearing for safety after death threats over her Iraq Stan

[Robbien]

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In the ITV interview, Sarandon told Dimbleby there should have been more public debate before the war, but that anyone questioning the government’s policy was labelled “un-American” and had smear campaigns and death threats levelled at them. “I don’t think I ever thought someone would ever really kill me, although there were some people who said ‘I’d like someone to knock her off’ on the radio and stuff like that,” she said.

“I don’t think I thought I’d really never work again, but when there is nobody else, when you look out on the field and everybody is quiet and they’re all looking away and nobody’s saying anything, it’s a really scary place to be.”

The actress, who is hoping to play the role of American mother Cindy Sheehan, whose protest over her son’s death in Iraq became global news, also criticised President Bush for hijacking the 9/11 attacks to justify the Iraq war.

“I’m a New Yorker, I was there,” she said. “I saw the buildings go down, my kids were in school, I rounded them up through the smoke and everything else. I had friends on that first plane.

“Every time something happens, the Bush administration tries to play that card.”

Sarandon also condemned the Democrats for failing to stand up to the Bush administration’s war machine in the run-up to the 2004 presidential elections. “There was no reason for Hillary Clinton, for instance, to vote , for John Kerry to vote, they were protecting their reputations – they didn’t want to seem un-American.

“They crumbled under the pressure of that moment and it was a very lonely, very scary time to ask a question. “That’s a horrible condition to exist in a democracy.”

http://www.sundayherald.com/55447

[Media_Lies_Daily]

1. She's 100% correct. Too bad we don't have a million more like her.

[Proud2BAmurkin]

2. If she hates Bush she shouldn't have voted for Nader n/t

nt

[Media_Lies_Daily]

4. How many years ago was that? With what we know about...

...massive election fraud in 2000, 2002, and 2004, what difference would it have made if she HAD voted for Gore and Kerry?

[robbedvoter]

12. Not only that, she made fun of Palm beach voters!

Went on David letterman's show and ridiculed the victims of the robbery! I can't ever forgive that. Check my handle if you doubt it.

[Tigress DEM]

13. 2004 was when we KNEW beforehand Nader took RNC money.

2000 as far as I know may have been a real attempt to run as an Indy. Possibly misguided, but people at that time were looking for a viable 3rd party candidate instead of anyone but Bush. Not so many knew as much as we knew in 2004.

[robbedvoter]

15. Nah, he took RNC money then too!

Hard proof emerged.

[Tigress DEM]

16. Before the 2000 election?

I can believe he did, but in 2000 I didn't know. I just thought he was being rather bullheaded and stupid at that time.

[robbedvoter]

18. Yup. Paid for his TV ads after he exhausted his own,

From LA Times, NY Daily News

[acmejack]

5. It's America she has the right to vote for who ever she wants to

without little moralizing smartasses like you running around sanctimoniously making gratuitous remarks like that. NT my ass...

[robbedvoter]

20. Who she voted for is not the issue. Derriding robbed voters is.

If you are going to build a pedestal for her now, I'll bring some facts to the table. That's also still allowed in America , non?

[Wickerman]

6. In New York it was pretty safe to vote for Ralph

a look at her donatioins shows her to be a pretty solid Dem.

http://www.newsmeat.com/celebrity_political_donations/Susan_Sarandon.php

[suziedemocrat]

7. But a friend of mine said she recorded phone messages for Nader.

She got a voice mail from her and Tim Robbins saying you should vote for Nader - and my friend was in Colorado.

[Robbien]

8. No one said she hated Bush. She didn't say that.

She said she was against dropping bombs on and invading another country.

For that viewpoint she got death threats. And now it appears, people complaining that she exercised her right to vote.

[BrklynLiberal]

3. The edge of McCarthyism

[Raine]

9. Those threats are probably

all from those who call themselves 'good Christians'...I would bet money on it.

[onehandle]

10. Many potential McVeighs at Free Republic.

That's the pool of hate I'd worry about.

Free Republic, well known hate group.

[Judi Lynn]

23. "Free Republic, well known hate group," also familiar haunt of Jeff Gannon

and Tony Snow, the new pResidential Press Secretary.

[0007]

25. The Eric Rudolph's - Abortion bomber - The Ted Kaczynski's (The Unibomber)

Freepers don't come out in large numbers at protest. Most stay behind the scenes doing the work of assassins.

[fooj]

11. I place the blame on this administration...

they have encouraged these heinous acts...it is disgusting.

[Tigress DEM]

14. In truth that is where the blame squarely belongs, but...

each of us has our own piece to bear. A few here have a lot less than the rest, but by simply living our lives and not knowing about some things, many of us made decisions that kept us from being able to catch this before it started to go wrong. Truly that was 30 years ago and how many of us had much power to make changes then?

As a society we mostly relaxed and got comfortable with America and decided to let the crooked politicians run the place as long as they didn't burn it down. If someone was a real bozo, we got up and dumped 'em out, but little by little they got away with more and more and we worked harder and harder just to keep food on the table and a roof over our heads.

When more charity was needed we went there and helped those in need. We were so busy dealing with the complications of this administrations preset booby trap that we didn't see the man behind the curtain was manipulating the real boob until 2000 or 2004.

Susan is doing the best she can based on what she knows, but those who are purposefully destroying America must be the ones held accountable if we are going to get them out of office and replace them with people who will do the job the way it needs to be done.

[lovuian]

17. Go Susan GO!!! She's totally right on!!!

:patriot:

[Pastiche423]

19. I hope she gets that role!

Susan is one of my favorite people, in film and in the activism she and Tim do.

Anyone remember Tim's A Chill Wind is Blowing in This Nation... ?


http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0416-01.htm

[anchor of hope]

21. Death Threats

Well said, Susan Sarandon. What is division and polarizing are the numerous Rethuglican and other right wing death threats, intended more to intimidate their opponents than to actually carry out violence. Same on our Republican leadership for being willing to tolerate this conduct by their supporters. Such people are afraid to live in a truly free country; they are afraid that dissenting voices will reveal the marginal intelligence and frivolity of the Bushies.

[area51]

24. Welcome to DU, anchor of hope. (n/t)

[rodeodance]

22. "American public were voting against their own best interests in areas" s,

he is right on about this ---and will probably do again--


...The actress also said the American public were voting against their own best interests in areas, including health care, immigration, civil liberties and the economy, because the issues had been “fanned by fear” by the US government.

Sarandon, who won an Oscar for her role in the 1995 movie Dead Man Walking, returned to Scotland last summer to introduce Bob Geldof at the Live 8 concert in Edinburgh and to raise awareness of African poverty.

The interview will be shown on the Jonathan Dimbleby programme this morning at 10.30am.

[Voltaire99]

26. Susan is right: cowards help fascism

And we will remember this in future elections.

For most of the Democrats now in office, party affiliation will be no guarantee of a vote. "What did you do in the war against Bushism?" will be the only important question.

Did you wave flags and promise a "stronger America," vow to fight wars better, rubberstamp invasions and yet caution against censoring or impeachment? Did you talk the imperial talk of a "war on terror," thunder about increasing military spending, declare outsourcing and corporate tax breaks inevitable, and then scurry into the shadows while the bullies reigned and the threats against peaceful, thinking Americans mounted?

If so, fuck you, cowards and quislings! You were Bush's greatest help, and we'll never trust you again.