Saturday, July 29, 2006

The Passion Of Mel Gibson


I was one of those who thought The Passion of the Christ was a pretty decent movie. I did not see it as anti-Semitic. However, now we all know that Mel Gibson the man is definately an anti-Semite:


TMZ has learned that Mel Gibson went on a rampage when he was arrested Friday on suspicion of drunk driving, hurling religious epithets. TMZ has also learned that the Los Angeles County Sheriff's department had the initial report doctored to keep the real story under wraps.

TMZ has four pages of the original report prepared by the arresting officer in the case, L.A. County Sheriff's Deputy James Mee. According to the report, Gibson became agitated after he was stopped on Pacific Coast Highway and told he was to be detained for drunk driving Friday morning in Malibu.

The actor began swearing uncontrollably. Gibson repeatedly said, "My life is f****d." Law enforcement sources say the deputy, worried that Gibson might become violent, told the actor that he was supposed to cuff him but would not, as long as Gibson cooperated.

As the two stood next to the hood of the patrol car, the deputy asked Gibson to get inside. Deputy Mee then walked over to the passenger door and opened it. The report says Gibson then said, "I'm not going to get in your car," and bolted to his car. The deputy quickly subdued Gibson, cuffed him and put him inside the patrol car.

TMZ has learned that Deputy Mee audiotaped the entire exchange between himself and Gibson, from the time of the traffic stop to the time Gibson was put in the patrol car, and that the tape fully corroborates the written report.

Once inside the car, a source directly connected with the case says Gibson began banging himself against the seat. The report says Gibson told the deputy, "You mother f****r. I'm going to f*** you." The report also says "Gibson almost continually [sic] threatened me saying he 'owns Malibu' and will spend all of his money to 'get even' with me."

The report says Gibson then launched into a barrage of anti-Semitic statements: "F*****g Jews... The Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world." Gibson then asked the deputy, "Are you a Jew?"

Deputy Mee then wrote an eight-page report detailing Gibson's rampage and comments. Sources say the sergeant on duty felt it was too "inflammatory." A lieutenant and captain then got involved and calls were made to Sheriff's headquarters. Sources say Mee was told Gibson's comments would incite a lot of "Jewish hatred," that the situation in Israel was "way too inflammatory." It was mentioned several times that Gibson, who wrote, directed, and produced 2004's "The Passion of the Christ," had incited "anti-Jewish sentiment" and "For a drunk driving arrest, is this really worth all that?"

We're told Deputy Mee was then ordered to write another report, leaving out the incendiary comments and conduct. Sources say Deputy Mee was told the sanitized report would eventually end up in the media and that he could write a supplemental report that contained the redacted information -- a report that would be locked in the watch commander's safe.


Yeah, you wouldn't want people to know the truth.

Mel Gibson got one thing right in there. He is fucked.

If you don't think this is a big deal, imagine the outrage that would be expressed had he said these things about blacks, or Muslims.

10 comments:

Yasmin said...

I’m shocked! I hope he doesn’t get away with it. ‘Christ Being Turned into Sausage Meat’ would have been a more accurate title rather than Passion of Christ.

By the way, what came of Ayaan Hirsi Ali's plans for a Life of Brian style Muhammad film? It would be great if an alternative bio/film of Muhammad was produced.

Anonymous said...

Yasmin said "By the way, what came of Ayaan Hirsi Ali's plans for a Life of Brian style Muhammad film? It would be great if an alternative bio/film of Muhammad was produced. "

No chance - child pornography is illegal.

Anonymous said...

LA is a company town. The Sheriff's Department didn't want to publish the truth because it would seriously embarrass a Hollywood big shot. The original report "too inflammatory," what a crock.

Anonymous said...

Folie à deux (literally "a madness shared by two") is a psychiatric syndrome in which a symptom of psychosis (particularly a paranoid or delusional belief) is transmitted from one individual to another.

The Gibsons' Judeophobia seems to fit the description, especially when one considers the effect of alcoholic psychosis and paranoia working simultaneously in two genetically similar brains which have been reduced by excessive consumption to the size and functionality of pickled walnuts.

Gibson's movie was a barely concealed hate manifesto against the Jooooz. The one thing he forgot is that it wasn't the Joooooooooz who crucified Jesus. Crucifiction was never a Joooooooooooish punishment. So who invented crucifiction and must for ever be guilty of Christ's death? Surely not the citizens of Romulusville and all its present day inhabitants, including .va?

Pox Vobi Scum

The_Editrix said...

Pastorius, when will you American Jews finally learn that antisemitism is the norm and absence of it the aberration?

I haven't seen the film, but I don't need that to know that it is the most blatant violation of the Second Commandment, which forbids the creation of an "image" or "likeness". (I don't know the proper English term.) I think what makes it even worse are its inavoidable sexual overtones. What about a drop-dead-gorgeous and almost naked young actor (by the way how will this part overshadow the rest of his life, having been a "likeness" of God?) beaten to a pulp by other beefcakes? It is deeply blasphemous.

WHAT, do you think, might be the reason for a devout Christian to make a film like that?

Antisemitism is not a resentment, an emotion, it's a brain disease that overshadows even the most basic principles, needs and plainly reasonable objectives a person may otherwise have.

Would you grant that it was, for Germany, a REASONABLE objective to win WWII? Well, historians are sure that they would have won it hadn't it been for the genocide of the European Jews in which they invested all resources that were desperately needed for the war effort. And I bet they KNEW that.

In the same way, a devout Christian like Gibson pissed on the Second Commandment, fully aware what he was doing, because he had to follow this sick urge. (That the film was, as far as I know, a commercial success, has nothing to do with it. I am sure he would have made it even if he was anticipating a commercial flop.)

Just my two Eurocents.

Pastorius said...

Editrix,

Three points:

1) I am not Jewish.

2) I agree that anti-Semitism is the norm, not an aberration.

3) A person can make a blasphemous film which is not anti-Semitic. That is logically clear. That being said, I also do not hold to your strict interpretation of the term blasphemy.

Kiddo said...

I do agree COMPLETELY that antii-semitism IS the norm. It just lies dormant for some periods of time. I do think though that many portrayals of Jesus in film aren't necessarily anti-semitic when one thinks that, other than the Romans, everyone character INVOLVED is Jewish. People seem all of the sudden to forget that all of Jesus' followers (in His lifetime) were Jews, the people listening to Him and being ministered were as well, family, Apostles, etc. Yes, the Pharisees are seen as the bad guys here. They went after numerous sects, all Jewish. Jesus also said to pray for those leading to his crucifiction. Even in "The Passion". The Romans are seen as brutes, and eventually as the ones persecuting all Jews and Christians alike. But that's just the history, this was Judea. When almost every player in the story is Jewish and it is a story of conflict, some of the Jews won't look that great. But the majority of those persecuted, harmed, killed, and eventually exiled WERE the Jews, and I think that is plain.

As for Gibson, his "Passion" is so incredibly similar in style and even tone and content to "Braveheart" that it is almost a manifestation of his over-identification with the underdog. He found that in Wallace and continued on in The Passion. Look at the camera angles, the use of slow motion in crowd scenes, the emphasis of one person in those crowd shots, the bizarre eye contact between the main character and random people, among all of the other similarities from a directing point of view. I think his delusions of grandeur with directing "Braveheart" and that epic sort of film just got to him.

At least we now know where he really does stand on Jews though, and I mention the frequent condemnation of the telling of Jesus' story as anti-semitic simply as hard to escape as most of the people involved were Jews. If that was Gibson's aim though, most horrid.

Interesting take on the 2nd Commandment, I have never even heard that mentioned before, strangely.

The_Editrix said...

Pastorius, you say: "A person can make a blasphemous film which is not anti-Semitic. That is logically clear." That was not my point. My point was that he would commit what, to him, must be clearly blasphemy if it only satisfies his antisemitic reflexes.

I am sorry I ass-umed you were Jewish, but it was, of course, not meant as an insult. Take it as a compliment! ;-)

Pastorius said...

Editrix,
Believe me, I do take that as a compliment. These days, I would rather have someone identify me as a Jew than as a Christian, as I am ashamed of the Church's lack of support for Israel and the Jews.

Last thing I want to be is a shiny, happy Christian. If God will recognize me, and find my name in the Book of Life I hope that it will be because my sins were paid for, and I hope that I have served Him well. Serving means getting dirty, and sometimes it means we feel like we have to cut some people's ears off.

We're living in horrible times, and we may have to do horrible things to protect innocent people.

Mr. Spog said...

If it's blasphemy to make images of the Passion, where does that leave Western painting for the last 400 years?