No, they didn’t. The Spanish used concentration camps in Cuba, in 1896, some four years before their use by the
British, in South Africa. ‘Concentration camp’ comes from the translation, into English, of the Spanish term
‘reconcentrado’, a name for a Spanish concentration camp and also one for the Cuban civilians who were imprisoned
in them.

The claim that the British invented concentration camps originates with the Nazi Propaganda Ministry, i.e., Dr. Goebbels.

I wonder is she would like to spend some time living among the Islamofacists, confined behind the veil, a prisoner who must stay out of sight unless accompanied by a male family member. Nothing to read, no movies to watch in fact nothing to do. Maybe she’d think differently or maybe not.

Nothing new here – just like America’s liberal patiots – luv al quaeda and all other America killers.

At least Redgrave is not as big a hypocrite as pelosi, reid, shumer, etc.

She lives her America hatred. She is a true unabashed liberal – classier than the American liberals (the classless deny it when they are caught – and whine about their lack patriotism being questioned).

Besides, was there another Troy for her to burn?

These folks live in a fantasy land. They play characters and bring those characters to life. As a result, they believe in those characters and their stories, no matter that they are fictitious. Why, historically, have so many “fallen in love” with their co-stars? Whgen they’ve actually fallen for their co-stars’ characters.

Similary, they “fall in love” with the ideas and the stories that are portrayed in their movies. And all movies, with very few exceptions, project Western, industrial, capitalist society to be the villian and all non-western, dark-skinned societies to be the helpless, if not hapless, innocent victim. The film “makes real” to them incidents that, at best, are “based on” real events (e.g., Charlie Wilson’s War) and, at worst, are made up out of whole cloth (e.g., Apocalypse Now, any Michael Moore “documentary”).

And, just as in the Hollywood marriage where two co-stars marry, these people become wedded to the false reality represented in their films. The good news is, the couples can, and most often do, divorce when confronted with the reality of the person they married who was hidden inside their co-star. The bad news is that they are rarely, if ever, forced to confront the reality that is hidden behind the falsehoods of their storylines, and they see themselves as the real-life embodiment of the heroes of their stories who speak “truth to power” and stand up to the villain, typically a corrupt, middle-aged, white, Christian American.

One wishes they’d go back to being the overpaid court jesters they are and leave running the world to the rest of us.

But that will take a public and political class less awed by celebrity than is the case today.

I think it is simple. When you see Redgrave, Penn or Saradon on the screen you’re seeing the writer’s and director’s vision come to life, the actors are playing a role. When you see them in person you see the same flaws that we all have to greater or lesser degrees. The mistake is in looking at the brilliance of the writer’s work and the brilliance of the acting and thinking they represent the same person. They do not. If you recall the Myers-Briggs Personality Test, you’ll remember that decision making falls along the “Thinking – Feeling” continuum. This quote from Wikipedia seems to be correct:

“Thinking and Feeling are the decision-making (judging) functions. Both Thinking and Feeling types strive to make rational choices, based on the data received from their information-gathering functions (S or N). Those with a preference for Feeling prefer to come to decisions by associating or empathizing with the situation, looking at it ‘from the inside’ and weighing the situation to achieve, on balance, the greatest harmony, consensus and fit, considering the needs of the people involved. Those with a preference for Thinking prefer to decide things from a more detached standpoint, measuring the decision by what seems reasonable, logical, causal, consistent and matching a given set of rules.” (from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myers-Briggs_Type_Indicator)

Actors should fall largely into the “Feeling” category simply by the nature of the business. They have to be able to read the script and to instantly become sympathetic with their character. The farther along the “Feeling Scale” the better able they are to sympathize, which might make them a better actor. It also makes them incapable of objectively evaluating real world events. Actors emote and they make decisions based on emotions rather than on facts. For them, perception is reality and you’ll never be able to convince them otherwise.

They didn’t change the world. They didn’t cause a revolution. We’ve got soldiers fighting valiantly in Iraq and Afghanistan who were still in diapers during the 20th anniversary of Woodstock. Go stick that in your pipe and smoke it, Vanessa.