Mullahs Confiscate Spicoli’s Camera
Charles Johnson
Sun Jun 12, 2005 at 6:52 pm PDT • Views: 269
Sean Penn ran right up against the totalitarian boot today; his camera was confiscated by the mullahs’ thugs: Camera of Sean Penn, Journalist, Confiscated in Iran.
NEW YORK Iran was rocked by bombings on Sunday, killing at least nine and wounding more than 30, as dozens of journalists from around the world gathered in advance of the presidential election this Friday. One of those journalists, actor Sean Penn—covering the events for the San Francisco Chronicle—was involved in a separate incident, and had his video camera confiscated for a time.
Several hundred women at a sit-in outside the entrance to Tehran University demanded rights revoked after the 1979 Islamic revolution. As chants and taunts arose, police and plainclothesmen surrounded the demonstrators, pushing away those trying to join the group. Officials also cut off cell phone service in the area, and challenged reporters nearby.
In the process, they briefly seized the video camera of Penn, 44, who arrived in Iran as a reporter for his friend Phil Bronstein, editor of the San Francisco Chronicle.
One question: will Sean still find a way to blame this violation of his journalists’ rights on Chimpy McHalliburtonStein?
But the real question of the evening: did these genuinely oppressed Iranian women deliberately provoke this confrontation to take advantage of the visit of Sean Penn, Journalist?
I hope so.
Frank says: