Belafonte Continues To Disgrace Himself

Someone needs to grab this clown up and stick his sorry ass on a slow banana boat to nowhere. And his fellow artists stood and applauded. The fact is, most people probably can't recall anything significant this half-talented half-wit ever accomplished in his life. And Peter Yarrow, there's another disgusting joke.

People shouldn't forget that Hillary Clinton shared a stage with this political bird dropping after his other recent nonsense.

NEW YORK -- Entertainer Harry Belafonte, one of the Bush administration's harshest critics, compared the Homeland Security Department to the Nazi Gestapo on Saturday and attacked the president as a liar.

"We've come to this dark time in which the new Gestapo of Homeland Security lurks here, where citizens are having their rights suspended," Belafonte said in a speech to the annual meeting of the Arts Presenters Members Conference.

"You can be arrested and not charged. You can be arrested and have no right to counsel," said Belafonte.

Belafonte's remarks on Saturday _ part of a 45-minute speech on the role of the arts in a politically changing world _ were greeted with a roaring standing ovation from an audience which included singer Peter Yarrow of the folk group Peter, Paul and Mary, and members of the arts community from several dozen countries.

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[COLUMBO]

Entertainer Harry Belafonte, one of the Bush administration's harshest critics, compared the Homeland Security Department to the Nazi Gestapo on Saturday and attacked the president as a liar.

Alamo? Is that you?

[Phoenix]

The death throes of an idiot's final soulgasm......... as he struts and fruts his hour upon the stage - signifying nothing.

[Donna]

He has a 9th grade education - hardly affording him the intelligence to know more than the President, etc.

Let him keep talking. His kind of idiocy only embarrassess his own party.

[NevadaMom]

I suggest they all go spend some time in North Korea or Iran. Can we use them all as a peace offering?

[COLUMBO]

human shields?

[John Mackie]

I am suprised that everyone criticizes Belafonte, but shouldn't his remarks be taken into the real perspective? The reality is that we live in a democracy. The reality is also that we all can be charged with a crime, but at the same time we do have right to the best legal counsel available and affordable. The moment we let go of these principles and give President Bush a free hand, there is no control over any one of us losing our freedom for an undetermined period of time, without even knowing the reason for it and not being able to defend ourselves. That's obvioously the danger that Belafonte is pointing at. The choice of his words are probably too harsh, as the scale on which it happens in the USA is not to be compared with Nazi Germany. On the other hand, we shoul not even attempt to take away any constitutional rights from our citizens, without having any legal control whatsoever.

[COLUMBO]

Nobody has done that-nobody has taken away your Constitutional rights....don't get swept away by the cover story....and don't suggest for a minute that Belafonte did not mean what he said...to suggest for a minute that Aldrich Ames should have gotten off because the search of his home was warrantless is nonsense....the President has the constitutional authority and responsibility to move against enemies of the state foreign and domestic-period...if you watched the news lately you'd see that the intelligence is being used by the military to bang these guys out in realtime-no due process