Mel Gibson: Jews responsible for all war in the world

Either the media is in love with Mel Gibson, or they are fast asleep while letting a story slip through the cracks by mistake.  I would bet on the former.

While being arrested for driving under the influence, Mel Gibson, the director of the movie Passion of the Christ, blew up and went on an anti-Semitic tirade.

The official police report is here.

Because you probably don't want to skim through the four-page, handwritten report, here are some excerpts:

• MEL GIBSON: "My life is fu**ed."
• POLICE OFFICER: "Gibson almost continually threatened me saying he 'owns Malibu' and will spend all of his money to 'get even' with me."
• MEL GIBSON: "You mother fu**er, I'm going to fu** you."
• MEL GIBSON: "Fu**ing Jews."
• MEL GIBSON: "The Jews are responsible for all the war in the world."
• MEL GIBSON ASKS OFFICER: "Are you a Jew?"

Again, this is all in the police report.

I am trying to imagine Mel Gibson in his best "they'll never take our freedom" voice.  If it weren't for the anti-Semitic comments then I would actually find this funny.  But it just goes to show the real bias behind that movie.

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Comments

[ac olsen]

Mel is the last honest white man around, god bless Mel
It's time for people to really take a strong look at the jewish problem
it's a really big problem

[Administrator: Todd]

Thanks for just announcing to the world that you are ethnocentric.

[Lyndon]

Do we know what triggered the anti-Semitic rant? Seems like a strange time to bring that up, even if he really believed that...Also, why was it more important to apologize for that than for endangering innocent lives on the streets? Sticks and stones...

[Marz]

Please enlighten us, "ac olsen": what is this really big jewish problem you speak of? I do not know your point of view and I would really like to understand it.

[Mel]

Well, fact is fact, if someone is threaten by a sillly law of anti-Semitism that wouldn't change how people feel.

[Sharzad Charlotte F.]

When I read that a blogger thinks what Mel Gibson said was "honest," I am prompted to provide excerpts from my own personal "the jewish problem." I had the misfortune of being born jewish in Iran. At age 6 I was warned by my mother to not reveal my religion at school. Maybe it was the beating her cousin had received at school by peers for being jewish, or the teacher who picked on her in class for being jewish, or my older sister being teased and excluded from birthday parties once she missed a day of school due to Yom Kippur (day of attonement, 25 hours of no eating or drinking and of praying and asking for forgiveness). At age 8, I cried all the way home when I could not convince a schoolmate that jews do not make Passover meal with the blood of muslim children. Age 10, I was denied admission to the gifted school in Tehran even though I passed the entrance exam, the reason given: it would be difficult for a jew to attend a school that required the study of Islam. Age 11, a girl told me that she could not be my friend any more because "jews are filthy, mind body and soul" after her father (a store owner) found out that my family was jewish, because indication of religion is mandatorily written on the identification papers (and birth records) of every jew in Iran. Same year my best friend found "long live Adolf Hitler" painted on the wall of their new house. Age 12, tapped a girl on her shoulder, and she wiped the location rigourously, as though she had become in contact with a contaminant. Same year, my father was warned that plenty trouble could be made for a jew who did not want to sell his laboratory willingly by his competitors, and short after he did not give in, he was taken in for questioning on false reports of medical practice and for not having a picture of Ayatolla Khomaini hanging in his lab. He was released the same day, but he got the message. Fortunately, after almost 7 years of applying for a passport, change of leadership resulted in provision of passport for my mother, sister. This was unusual, as jews are not normally permitted to leave Iran. We jumped on it, even though my father was denied a passport, hoping that he could buy a fake one and join us later. We came to America as refugees, for what I mentioned and much more. My father never made it. He died, and to this day we are not certain what happened. We became US citizens, and take pride in America and the American ideals of freedom of religion. I am in fact married to an American man, and my best friend is Christian.
I usually feel safe in America. But when I hear comments like that of Mel Gibson when he was drunk, or read bloggs that show me how there is a "jewish problem" that Mel has described "honest"ly, I become 8 years old and in tears and 12 years old and scared for my family again. I want to cry out to Mel Gibson and the blogger and ask: what war have I or my family ever caused?

What does getting arrested for drunk driving have to do with the jewish religion? Why blame your misfortune, arrived at from your choices, on jews? Did a group of Jews force feed you alcohol? When more than one person offered you a ride, did a jew prevent you from accepting it and force you to get into your car? Did a jew push your foot on the gass pedal to make you go almost twice the speed limit and give a cop reason to stop you? Or is it that once you realized your DUI would be bad publicity, you looked for someone to blame? And is it that after the backlash over your last movie you came up with the conspiracy theory that the jews must be out to get you back, even though you had had 2 previous warnings for excessive speed in the last 3 years without getting a ticket. If 2 cops let you go and the 3rd gave you a breathelizer, he must be a jew and out to get you?

It makes me want to throw out the Mel Gibson movies I own, and to not ever see another one of his movies again in retaliation. And then he appologizes, and asks for help in healing and that gives me pause. No one who terrorized, defamed, shunned, threatened, or otherwise wronged me or my family in Iran for being jewish ever appologized or thought that they should. Then I hear a rabi's proposal for him to come to temple and speak on Yom Kippur (day of attonement). That reminds me of all the sermons of forgiveness I have heard every year on Yom Kippur, and of how important it is to both ask for and to grant forgiveness because it heals the soul of both the person who asks for it and the person who grants it. And I think to myself that I will forgive Mel Gibson, and I will attone for being mad at him for the pain that others had caused me in the past who reflected that mentality.

[Leo]

I'm sorry to hear your suffering story "Mel". We all have many stories of people suffering because of their background in many parts of the world. Needless to mention the Palestinians that are under seige in their home land by ruthless occupation entities and that is simply because they happen living in their own home lands.

So Mel Gibson gave an opinion under the influence of Alcohol. This opinion may have simply been triggered by current events as unbalanced wars and crimes are committed and with no regards to hospitals, schools and shelters in Lebanon and Gaza. Not to mention that these events are closely associated to the average American citizens whom the majority happen to be mislead and/or controlled by the zionists hands.

Punish Gibson for drinking and driving, but give him a break from drinking and talking, we wouldn't have heard about these remarks unless the police decided to blow it up to ruin the career of an exceptional actor.

[AJ]

As a person of faith I am embarressed by Mr. Gibson. Attacking both women (asking a female officer: what are you looking at sugar tits) and jews, claiming to own Malibu and asking if thye know who he is, threatening to spend all his money going after the arresting officer, cursing, endangering lives of others by both drinking and driving and speeding, and drinking in excess in the first place... how many of the 7 deadly sins and other sins in one incident? Let's see, we got gluttony, pride, lust, wrath, not loving thine brother, endangering others, etc. I hope he can find Jesus. Though if making a movie about Jesus didn't help him learn the teachings of Christ, I don't know what will.

[WC]

Probably over 90% of the people living outside the U.S. or Israel will find Gibson's comments spot-on -- even though he should have used more polished vocabulary and in a more proper occasion.

AJ, I don't think mentioning Jesus or your faith is of any significance here... because the actions you mentioned (e.g. gluttony, pride, lust, wrath, not loving thine brother, endangering others, etc.) are EXACTLY what, if not more, the Jewish state and the U.S. (who supplied most of its ammunition for free) have been doing in the Middle East for decades -- on a much much larger and more destructive scale than the actions of Mr Gibson. And of course you don't see a problem in those.