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Domitan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-15-06 08:46 PM
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Bruce Willis is NOT a Republican
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In fact, he has renounced the GOP!!! Check out this colourful interview. You can safely say that Bruce is no neocon...a macho old-school conservative, perhaps, but with compassion for society's needy and a strong affiliation for the working people.

http://www.chud.com/index.php?type=interviews&id=5913

Q: You are one of the few major Hollywood stars who are proud to be Republican...

Willis: Let me stop you right there. I'm a Republican — and everybody write this down because I'm sick of answering this fucking question.

Q: Can I continue –

Willis: You can continue, but let me answer that part of it. I'm a Republican only as far as I want a smaller government, I want less government intrusion, I want them to stop pissing on my money and your money, the tax dollars that we give 50 per cent of or 40 per cent of every year, and I want them to be fiscally responsible, and I want these goddamn lobbyists out of Washington. Do that and I'll say I'm a Republican. But other than that, I want the government to take care of people who need help, like the kids in foster care, the half a million kids who are in orphanages right now, they call them foster homes but they're orphanages. I want them to take care of the elderly and give them free medicine, give them whatever they need. There's tons, billions and billions of dollars that are just being wasted. Okay? I hate government. I'm apolitical. Write that down. I'm not a Republican.

Q: I thank you for this

Willis: There you go. Now you can finish your question.

Q: Can I change my question?

Willis: Go ahead. I just need to get that Republican shit out of the way.

Q: Do you think it's legitimate to use violence in order to do the right thing?

Willis: Occasionally. Occasionally, when push comes to shove. I'm not a violent man or advocate violence.

I will say this: the example that comes to mind is — I think what the United States and everyone who cares about protecting the freedoms that the largest part of the free world now has should do whatever it takes to end terrorism in the world. And not just in the Middle East. I'm talking also about going to Colombia and doing whatever it takes to end the cocaine trade. It's killing this country. It's killing all the countries that coke goes into. I believe that somebody's making money on it in the United States. If they weren't making money on it, they would have stopped it. They could stop it in one day. They could stop it in one day. It's just a plant that they grow, and these guys are growing it likes it's corn or tobacco or any other thing. By the time it gets here it becomes a billion-dollar industry. And I think that's a form of terrorism as well.

I don't know what this has to do with 16 Blocks, but I'm in the mood. Did I answer your question? Violence — look, we live in a violent world, man. This country was founded on violence. Who's kidding who? We came here and said to the Native American Indians, ‘OK, we got some bad news, we got some pretty bad news, and we got some really bad news. The bad news is we're here. The pretty bad news is we're not leaving. The really bad news is we're going to take all your land, every tiny little bit of land that you guys have and put you on this little postage stamp of desert where you can't grow a thing, unless of course we find oil on that land. Then we’re gonna move you to another little postage-stamp place in Arizona, and we're going to fuck you over and give you blankets filled with smallpox,’ and if that's not violence, then what is, my man. What is?

So I'm apolitical! Could I be any clearer? Could I be any clearer?
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