*Spoiler Warning (House)*
You know the guy who plays Kumar in the Harold and Kumar films? He’s a pothead (the character, not the actor) who gets up to no good with his equally stoned friend Harold. Never seen them? OK, well what about House? You know the guy who plays Doctor Lawrence Kutner, the character who was a mainstay of the show until he committed suicide in Monday’s episode?
Well anyway, assuming you know who I’m talking about, actor Kal Penn, you’ll be as shocked as I was to hear he’s given up his acting career, or at least “put it on hold” in order to join President Obama’s administration as an associate director in the Office Of Public Liaison.
Wow, just wow. Sure, Arnold Schwarzenegger made a more shocking move from movies into politics but this is still all a bit sudden and unexpected. On Monday Kal Penn was playing a doctor on television and today he’s part of the American government. That just seems a little bizarre to my sense of right and wrong.
According to Dark Horizons, Penn “will be working to forge alliances with the Asian-American and Pacific Islander communities and the arts community.” This does however mean Penn will take a very serious cut in pay in order to give something back to the community. Which is a most noble cause, especially for someone from a profession not especially known for its generosity.
Penn has stated this doesn’t mean he’ll be running for public office anytime soon, but if and when he does, I’ll have trouble getting the image of him as Kumar out of my head. Having said that, if I can imagine John Cho as Sulu in the new Star Trek I suppose I’ll be able to manage it.
Does this mean the chances of any more Harold and Kumar movies has gone out of the window?
He volunteered to work the democratic national convention in August simply because he wanted to help the campaign. Its been clear since then that leaving acting for politics would not be a surprise.
“Escape from Guantanamo Bay ”
I remember my first time of shock during a CIA murder. When the killed the car of guys.
It was shocking because i realized the government was killing people, even people whom were not even charged with crimes. That was not only just shocking for me but for other people whom thought the trend of government murder and exicutions as well as violating sovergnty of countries was totally against international law.
Amnesty International issued a press release saying, “If this was the deliberate killing of suspects in lieu of arrest, in circumstances in which they did not pose an immediate threat, the killings would be extra-judicial executions in violation of international human rights law.” The organization warned that “the prohibition against the arbitrary deprivation of life cannot be derogated from in any circumstances, even in a time of national emergency.”
Could the Yemen strike be interpreted by other nations and even non-state groups as a justification of their own preemptive attacks on perceived adversaries? Silliman thinks so: “We are basically opening up and crafting a new tool and tactic which is not [only] for the United States to use. . . . We may be putting our leadership at risk.” Assassination of a U.S. Secretary of State or another cabinet official cannot be ruled out. Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh expressed similar concerns: “Even terrorists must be treated according to international law. Otherwise, a nation can start executing those whom they consider terrorists.” Silliman mused, “if we does this outside the traditional combat area in Afghanistan . . . could we not do it in Germany, Ottawa, or even Cincinnati?”
These concerns were quickly silenced with the agressive war in Iraq and regard to human rights and international law went out the door. Also the Swedish Foriegn minister was assinated maybe as well by the CIA.
So anyways, this maybe an old point but i can see people in florida from the Law school teacher, to that reporter at howards party and others don’t see things the same way as the international community does.
Both the reporter and the law school teacher said that it did not matter if those guys were murdered because they were hanging around terrorists. Which was a point how does anyone know that? There was no due process.
In regards to forced homosexual sex and tourchure which also the US practices in… This is much less of a crime then murder… Therefore, i believe then this type of people would have the same line of reasoning…
That the Muslims deserved to be forced to perform philatio and tourchured because according to the US government they were hanging around with terrorist.
When what we saw in the documentary the soldiers said many of these guys in guantanamo were bakers and mechanics and just regular guys because the USA was just picking up males and putting them in the prison.
I am not surprised at Richard’s response because it is similar to the others. Muslims are not seen by American’s as humans therefore they don’t consider that they have rights or deserve respect or human dignity.
It could not be anymore apparent.
“Escape from Guantanamo Bay ”
By making a comedy out of other people’s suffering then hiring the guy who did that to represent usa is really just a slap in the face for muslims and i am sure the usa government did that on purpose, to antagonize the muslim community.
So, the illegally “elected” african-arab crossbreed terrorist Obama, Americas first fraudulently elected dictator, wants to dictate BOTH “Asian AND Pacific Island” politics where a negro-arab crossbreed terrorist is not wanted. Obama needs a history and cultural lesson. Americans need to get him out of The White House right NOW, or else America will rightfully rise to get this done the militaristic way and he and his gruesome family of crooked homeless will perish before they can flee back overseas to their true and beloved homeland.