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Title: “Snowden’s a Hero, Drug War’s a Failure, Guns Aren’t for Hunting” Vince Vaughn Tells it Like it Is!
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Free Thought Project
URL Source: http://thefreethoughtproject.com/sn ... hunting-vince-vaughn-tells-is/
Published: Jun 1, 2015
Author: Matt Agorist
Post Date: 2015-06-01 18:56:50 by Deckard
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Views: 7375
Comments: 49
In a recent interview with the British edition of GQ magazine, Vince Vaughn held no punches about his thoughts on liberty in America. A preview of the interview was posted on the GQ website Monday highlighting four key points. The first point was about Vaughn’s role in “assembly-line comedies” to which he responded candidly and honestly. The next three topics of conversation, however, is when the interview became particularly interesting. All too often we see Hollywood personalities side with the establishment. They toe the line with the day’s current talking points and serve as little more than passive reverberators of the status quo. The line between Hollywood and the government is deliberately blurred, and politicians often use famous personalities to bolster their public image. When a Hollywood actor crosses this blurred line of establishment cheerleading, they are normally drug through the slosh pit of MSM and hung out to dry. However, this has yet to happen with Vaughn, and most likely because his stance is based in logic. When GQ asked Vaughn about where he stands on the American Government, Vaughn responded with the following: “Edward Snowden is a hero. I like what he did. My idea of treason is that you sell secrets to the enemy. He gave information to the American people. Snowden didn’t take information for money or dogmas. Governments claim to write endless laws to protect us, a law for this, a law for that, but are they working? I don’t think so. The consequences are that there is a staggering loss of freedom for the individual. I look at the drug wars and they are absolutely f***ing ridiculous. There is a black market and the prisons are overcrowded and it’s not preventing drug use. There’s a corruption that goes all the way to the top.” Vaughn calling out America’s war on drugs is something that most of Hollywood refuses to do. It’s a gutsy move that needs to be said by more people who have such a large forum. But it just doesn’t happen. He also called Edward Snowden a hero, and he’s right! Snowden risked his life to inform the American people about the atrocities committed by the US government. The typical hot air spewed from the right wing of the establishment about Snowden is that he’s a trader and deserves to be imprisoned and/or killed. Vaughn’s view on Snowden, coupled with his next point about gun control, is likely to cause some conservative heads to explode. GQ asked Vaughn about what he thought on the American’s right to own a gun. This was his response: “I support people having a gun in public full stop, not just in your home. We don’t have the right to bear arms because of burglars; we have the right to bear arms to resist the supreme power of a corrupt and abusive government. It’s not about duck hunting; it’s about the ability of the individual. It’s the same reason we have freedom of speech. It’s well known that the greatest defence against an intruder is the sound of a gun hammer being pulled back. All these gun shootings that have gone down in America since 1950, only one or maybe two have happened in non-gun-free zones. Take mass shootings. They’ve only happened in places that don’t allow guns. These people are sick in the head and are going to kill innocent people. They are looking to slaughter defenceless human beings. They do not want confrontation. In all of our schools it is illegal to have guns on campus, so again and again these guys go and shoot up these f***ing schools because they know there are no guns there. They are monsters killing six-year-olds.” Queue the conservative peanut gallery, “But how can he be pro-gun and pro-Snowden?” That’s an easy one Foxaholics; it’s because he’s pro-Freedom! But Vaughn does not stop there, he turns up the pro-gun notch to “11” in his next answer. Below is Vaughn’s response after he’s asked by GQ if he thinks guns should be allowed in schools. “Of course. You think the politicians that run my country and your country don’t have guns in the schools their kids go to? They do. And we should be allowed the same rights. Banning guns is like banning forks in an attempt to stop making people fat. Taking away guns, taking away drugs, the booze, it won’t rid the world of criminality.” There you have it. Vince Vaughn not only shatters to status quo-supporting Hollywood paradigm, but he obliterates the Left/Right paradigm as well. The Free Thought Project would like to thank Mr. Vaughn for having the courage to speak truth to power. It is quite heartening to see.
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#1. To: Deckard (#0)
Vince Vaughn is far more intelligent than most of the asshats in Hollyweird!
And more conservative than many of the self-proclaimed "conservatives" here.
And more conservative than many of the self-proclaimed "conservatives" here. Nah, not so! Vince Vaughn is someone that people are sometimes surprised is more libertarian than many of the self-proclaimed "libertarians" here....and he is espousing some of his libertarian views. Vince Vaughn: “I would use the term libertarian to describe my politics.” Vince Vaught: “I am a very big fan of Ron Paul." Vince Vaughn is a Paultard. That’s all I needed to know about him….I’m outta here.
That’s all I needed to know about him…. It says more about you that Paul's ideals still scare you, even though he has been out of office for years.
Nothing about Ron Paul was scary to me. Laughable? Yea, everything. Out of office is where he should have been after his first term….in fact, he should not have even served one term. He was worthless, as evidenced by his long record of glorious failures in Congress. Of the 620 bills sponsored by Ron Paul during his long career in the House of Representatives, only four have ever made it to a vote on the House floor and only one of those became an actual law. Tell us what the one that became law was.
The entire concept of freedom is scary to you, Leather Boy.
I am as free as I could ever be. I have been doing anything I want to and whenever I want to do it....since I went into full retirement in 1975. Freedom is a wonderful thing....try to enjoy your day at work for the MSM and don't CHEAT your employer out of too much money by posting all day when you should be working, thief.
You've been retired for 40 years?
You've been retired for 40 years? ---- Pinguinite The 'major gatlin' persona is as old and tired as the 'admiral harrowup' one was. If LF's Walter Mitty was smart, he would give up his silly multi-persona fetish, kill off the major (as he did with h'rup) and come back as what he really sees himself as, -- a sort of demi-God.
The 'major gatlin' persona is as old and tired as the 'admiral harrowup' one was. Well, honestly, I was thinking lately that Gatlin's posts that so casually discount the hardships people suffer at the hands of a clearly out of control police and/or prosecuters, even in cases where such incidences are not necessarily systemic, might not be sincere on Gatlins part. Rather, perhaps he was simply semi-sarcastically siding with the government against these people, perhaps for the purpose of yanking Deckard's and other's chains. But good gravy.... If Gatlin's been retired for 40 years then he may well have retired far too young, which may explain why he's so out of touch with what it's like for people who have to work to put food on the table. Not that I'd hold anything against someone who's truely earned the reward of retiring young. But even in those cases, losing touch with the life of average people is a reasonable consequence of doing so.
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#4. To: Stoner (#1)
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Vince Vaughn is far more intelligent than most of the asshats in Hollyweird!
#9. To: Deckard, Stoner, misterwhite, sneakypete, Pericles, Fred Mertz (#4)
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Vince Vaughn is far more intelligent than most of the asshats in Hollyweird!
#16. To: Gatlin, Dead Culture Watch, Fred Mertz, hondo68, Operation 40, Logsplitter, jeremiad, Pericles, Pinguinite (#9)
Vince Vaughn is a Paultard.
#17. To: Deckard (#16)
It says more about you that Paul's ideals still scare you…
… even though he has been out of office for years.
#18. To: Gatlin (#17)
Nothing about Ron Paul was scary to me.
#21. To: Deckard (#18)
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The entire concept of freedom is scary to you, Leather Boy.
#26. To: Gatlin (#21)
since I went into full retirement in 1975.
#32. To: Pinguinite Y'ALL, gatlin (#26)
Gatlin (#21) --- I went into full retirement in 1975.
#34. To: tpaine, Gatlin (#32)
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