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Britain
Actress Redgrave Launches Rights Party
2004-11-28
Actress Vanessa Redgrave, her foolish brother and the father of a Guantanamo terrorist detainee on Saturday launched a new political party devoted to generating lots of publicity for Vanessa human rights. The Peace and Progress Party says it will field mouthpieces candidates and endorse useful idiots politicians with strong leftist credentials human rights records in the next general election. Organizers discussed the party's mind-numbing platform and doomed strategies at a conference that drew several hundred rubes and simple-minded rustics people. ``Our goal is to smash capitalism ring the alarm bells about the human rights abuses our government is sanctioning, and to install the dictatorship of the proletariat act as a focus for people who want to stand up against them,'' said Vanessa Redgrave's brother, political wanker activist Corin Redgrave.

Redgrave suggested four British terrorist prisoners at Guantanamo Bay could run as propaganda talking points party candidates, as a means of blubbering protesting against their rightful detention and the non-existent alleged human rights abuses at the prison on a U.S. naval base in Cuba. ``It could be one highly effective way of demonstrating the extent of their foolishness sending a message through the polls,'' Corin Redgrave said, recalling how the Irish nationalist cause was buoyed when the 1980s hunger-striking terrorist prisoner Bobby Sands was elected to Parliament.
Always useful to compare your fledgling party to an IRA terrorist. Lets everyone know where you stand on 'human rights'.
Working for the release or fair trial of terrorist prisoners in Guantanamo Bay will be a useful distraction focus for the group, said Azmat Begg, whose evil son, Moazzam Begg, is one of four terrorists Britons held at the prison in Guantanamo Bay. ``The mainstream political parties have correctly shown no interest in the human rights abuses going at Guantanamo Bay and in Iraq,'' Begg said. ``That's why a party based on human rights as its major distraction its central issue is so vital as a cat's paw for Vanessa.'' Other speakers at Saturday's conference included Burns Weston, a useful idiot and president of the University of Iowa Center for Human Rights, and prominent Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya, a vocal Chechnyan sympatheizer critic of Russia's military campaign against separatist terrorists rebels in Chechnya.
Posted by:Steve White

#14  "Guantanamo Bay is not a detention centre, it is a concentration camp." - Redgrave.

This is the kind of gross exaggeration the left is well known for. They are like children, seeing who can yell the loudest in the playground.

Posted by: Bryan   2004-11-28 2:45:51 PM  

#13  And who does she thinks she is? What are the singular merits she has?

Why, she's an actress. This is her yearly 'political statement'.

Now , Vanessa, get back to Beverly Hills before your servants family misses you.
Posted by: Raj   2004-11-28 2:11:47 PM  

#12  Vanessa who? I thought she died a long time ago of old age. I'd say she's senile - but apparently she was always this stupid.
Posted by: 2b   2004-11-28 1:25:04 PM  

#11  What makes her think she is superor to us the unamashed masses? The fact she was reasonably pretty and slept with the right people, is it that?

As usual, my firend, you have gotten it exactly right.
Posted by: Mike   2004-11-28 10:22:50 AM  

#10  Vanessa has long been a true believer and whacka-mole for the Paleos. Years and years ago, it killed her career, and soon after she was videod proudly dancing around a fire with an AK and a checkered head scarf--like in the 1970s. I don't even think the Paleos want much to do with her, as that degree of fanaticism scares everybody but suicide bombers.
Posted by: Anonymoose   2004-11-28 8:35:24 AM  

#9  More on Redgrave here,here, and here.

I used to be a member of Amnesty International and sometimes I feel like an ex boyfriend breathing a sigh of relief I no longer have anything to do with those losers.
Posted by: badanov   2004-11-28 7:46:50 AM  

#8  As I said elsewhere, I miss times not too long ago when actors were considered on one step above societal level than gypsy brigands.

And let's not forget the fact that the actors in theatres (as opposed to movie *'s) had to memorize the whole play, word for word. No multiple takes.

I worked in a theater for a while as technician. The actors had really good memory, being trained in remembering. But most of them had a composite personality that was a parcel of their professional deformation.

Movie stars, are trained to render discrete pieces of a story line. No one can convince me that it does not reflect back on their mental faculties. The apparent abiltity of actors to render cognitive dissonant snippets without a flinch or any awareness of some fault in the logic is a point in my case.
Posted by: Cornîliës   2004-11-28 6:07:49 AM  

#7  And who does she thinks she is? What are the singular merits she has? What makes her think she is superor to us the unamashed masses? The fact she was reasonably pretty and slept with the right people, is it that?
Posted by: JFM   2004-11-28 5:20:20 AM  

#6  I hope everyone here realizes that the Redgraves don't give a damm about human rights or gitmo detainees. These people are hardcore extreme Marxists. Smash the capitalist system revolutionary types who would happily hang 90% of RB regulars from lamp-posts given the opportunity and without regard for our 'human rights'.
Posted by: phil_b   2004-11-28 3:55:58 AM  

#5  Too many double negatives, what I meant was that if a dhimmie gal gets laid and lives, this could happen to her, too. Hope that is clearer.
Posted by: Beau   2004-11-28 3:01:16 AM  

#4  This is the kind of thing that can happen to dhimmies if they don't get laid and die, to go to heaven as virgins in waiting. It is very sad.
Posted by: Beau   2004-11-28 2:56:33 AM  

#3  Actress Vanessa Redgrave, her brother and the father of a Guantanamo detainee on Saturday launched a new political party devoted to human rights.

And uhhh, what kind of influence is this party going to have away from British soil other than just making noise?
Posted by: Bomb-a-rama   2004-11-28 2:17:40 AM  

#2  She's still alive? Isn't she going on eighty now?
Posted by: lex   2004-11-28 2:08:45 AM  

#1  Vanessa believes in human rights for everyone except Jews, Israelis and the right wing.
Posted by: Bryan   2004-11-28 1:42:05 AM  

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