Mel Gibson: Malibu's Finest

1. Sucking up to the Press!!!

Posted at 1:10PM on Jul 31st 2006 by Jaclyn

2. As a fellow law enforcement officer, I give two thumbs up to the arresting officer and two thumbs down to his supervisors. It is part of the job to completely document everything that happened during an incident, statements included. As a matter of fact, exact quotes from the subjects are preferred in arrest reports. My favorite DUI quotes are: "Why don't you just let me go since I've only had a six-pack." , "F*** you! I'm not drunk, I was just speeding 'cause everyone does that in Southern California!", and my personal favorite, "I'm good friends with the Governor. I'll have your job if you arrest me." If Mr. Gibson made abusive, violent and vulgar remarks to the officers, they needed to be documented. There should be no special treatment just because the man is a movie star and sanitizing a report is just lying by omission. Whether Mr. Gibson believes the vulgar remarks he made is not for me to judge. But, I believe a person must take ownership of what they do and say. Apologizing is a step, but actions speak louder than words.

Again, my kudos to the arresting officer. I hope that the officer doesn't get set to desk duty as a retaliation for doing the right thing. Good Luck!

Posted at 1:11PM on Jul 31st 2006 by Sarah

3. Mel Gibson is a lying sack of s___. He is extremely anti-semetic and everyone, including Hollywood and beyond should boycott anything he says or does from this point forward. Let's see if "Jesus" will save his a** now.

Posted at 1:14PM on Jul 31st 2006 by goldie

4. Read up Harvey....

However, such material, though repulsive, is completely protected under the United States Constitution First Amendment

A tip of the hat to the Department of State, which had the guts and good sense to express its opposition (sort of) to congressional legislation creating an office for monitoring "anti-Semitism."

The bill passed both houses of Congress by voice vote and was signed into law by President Bush last week.

It's a very silly and dangerous measure.

"We opposed creation of a separate office for the purpose and opposed the mandating of a separate annual report," a State Department spokesman told the press. "We expressed the view that separate reports on different religions or ethnicities were not warranted, given that we already prepare human rights reports and religious freedom reports on 190 countries." [Anti-Semitism office planned at State Department, By Nicholas Kralev, Washington Times, October 14, 2004]

But the Department isn't dumb. Having seen how easily it passed, the spokesman explained also why the law really wasn't a problem after all:

"It's more of a bureaucratic nuisance than a real problem. We are not going to fight a bill that has gained such political momentum."


The bill did not, of course, pass Congress because there was such a massive groundswell of grassroots support for it. It passed because Jewish organizations demanded it, and no sitting politician wants to get on the wrong side of these groups.

That's why the bill passed the Senate by agreement and the House by voice voteóthere's no debate and “no record of how anyone voted”.

Pushed by the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith and most other major Jewish organizations, the bill requires the Department to record acts of “physical violence against Jews,” their property, cemeteries and places of worship abroad, and the response of local governments to them.

As the Department notes, it already issues reports on "human rights" abuses, and there's “no special reason why attacks on Jews should be recorded separately”.

“Why not reports about attacks on other groupsóblack people, white people, women, Christians? “


The Department was right the first time that the bill requires a duplication of what it already does, but that's not what's really wrong with the law.

“What's wrong with it is that it opens one more door to the criminalization of thought and expression”.

The bill requires “only” that acts of physical violence against Jews be recorded, not expressions of anti-Semitism, but you can bet the bill's promoters will soon be pushing to include what they claim are "anti-Semitic" expressions to be reported as well. As press reports noted, "among the attacks that prompted passage of the bill" was "the recent claim by former Malaysian prime minister Mahathir Mohamad that Jews 'rule the world by proxy.'"

The pattern is the criminalization of thought for "xenophobia," "racism," "white supremacy," "homophobia," "anti-Semitism," "patriarchalism," and any number of other isms, manias and phobias unknown to any language a few years ago.

What really drives the crusade to criminalize thought and expression is not any legitimate revulsion against real violence (which is already illegal) but the compulsion of powerful and well-organized lobbies to muzzle criticism.

hat is worrisome about the new law is not that the Department will have to duplicate what it already does but that what is not anti-Semitism at all, let alone violence, but merely criticism and dissent will be demonized and curbed.

Maybe in some minds that was the real purpose of the law all along. And maybe, before the congressmen and senators all shouted their approval of the measure, they should have talked and thought about it a little more than they did.

Harvey, it's obvious you are on an antisemetic crusade serving your own personal objective, to which nobody gives a hoot about. What is a crime is that so many people around the world feel the same way as Mel but are forced to suppress their thoughts, "Freedom of Speech" (remember that one Harvey??????), because of idiots like you. Tell me something...have you ever said or done anything that you wished you hadn't while intoxicated???? Could be time to investigate you and your background. Anyone listening?

Posted at 1:20PM on Jul 31st 2006 by Sophie

5. It's sad that someone with so much money (thanks to fans who support his films) couldn't just get his ass in a Taxi or Limo and go home vs driving! Well, I stopped being a fan when he started speaking out against the gays. Now, karma is going to bite him in the ass! Way to go, now you have everyone else disappointed in you!

Posted at 1:23PM on Jul 31st 2006 by Marcos

6. Well Finally Mel Gibson said a few things that need to be said. Unfortuantely He should have included the Vatican, Liberals and Faggets also as being the cause for all the wars and the reason why people around the world is hating america more and more.

The Liberal Democrates and Faggots and Jews Destroyed Rome along time ago and now their out to destroy America as well.

The time will come when the masses will rise up and not speak out, but will mash beneath it's feet the culprits that are destroying the very fabric that made this country great once.

Well I say this go f*** yourself somewhere else or get a gun and shoot yourselves. Your all a waste of good air and resources on this planet or anywhere else for that matter.

Posted at 1:27PM on Jul 31st 2006 by Kelly Phillips

7. It's official : this guy is a total nut job.

Posted at 1:29PM on Jul 31st 2006 by Erika

8. I am already so over this story! TMZ! Move on! Yes, he was wrong and he needs to get a grip. But seriously, who cares at this point?

Posted at 1:32PM on Jul 31st 2006 by Chelsea

9. Remember the recent uprise over the alleged rape at a well-known college? Turned out that the "victim" seems to have lied about the entire event. The NAACP and every other black organization was quick to pass judgement that the boys involved were racists, now you don't hear a thing coming out of their mouths. Now all the anti-semitic organizations are going to go after Mel Gibson, as if there's not enough conflict in the world. Jesus was a Jew and forgave the most cruel of people, his own people, who crucified him. Take a lesson.

Posted at 1:33PM on Jul 31st 2006 by Mae Jeanne

10. Well done MEL!
At least some one has the balls to say what we have known all along.
Namely that YES the Jews are to blame for the ills of this world,
what a crying shame that you had to be under the influence of Alcohol.

Posted at 1:33PM on Jul 31st 2006 by Ash

11. It is unbelievable. I will never see any film with this Gibson again. I think he is looking for trouble for sometime and now, finally, he achieved his goal. I hope people boycot him in all ways possible. Anti-semitism and anti-gay behaviour are incompatibles with a civilazed person.

Posted at 1:34PM on Jul 31st 2006 by Luciane

12. What happened? censorship is another form or terrany. guess the only want selective feed back. never recieved that confirmation email.

Posted at 1:37PM on Jul 31st 2006 by Kelly Phillips

13. Sheriff Lee Baca needs to sever his association with Mel Gibson. Mel Gibson said he owns Malibu, well does he think he owns the Los Angeles County Sheriff 's Dept. also?
Priscilla Lazzara

Posted at 1:40PM on Jul 31st 2006 by Priscilla Lazzara

14. He played a cop via some ficitional safety PSAs in a few guest appearances in his executive produced, failed ABC (TGIF) sitcom 'Complete Savages'. Someome should dust off the C.S. series and take a second look.

Posted at 1:30PM on Feb 6th 2010 by Jeremy Poteck

15. i dont care what anyone has to say . mels a great bloke . hes been working very hard and needs a drink . he made some good points..

Posted at 1:44PM on Jul 31st 2006 by mario