A reminder that the highly successful 2008 film Taken, starring Liam Neeson, followed a retired CIA operative hunting down the men who abducted his daughter during a trip to Paris.
The gang he fought were Albanian sex traffickers.
This wasn't some bigoted fantasy. France has long been a destination and transit country for human trafficking, including sex trafficking, and Albanian organised crime groups have operated there for decades.
Citizen Vigilante, starring Armie Hammer, follows a similar premise by tackling a real-world issue. In fact, it was inspired by a case in Germany where the perpetrators of a horrific crime walked free.
Yet now the left wants you to believe Citizen Vigilante is somehow "racist" or "far right". Funny how nobody had that complaint about Taken back in 2008.
Imagine strapping an 8-kilo explosive vest on your 14yo son, promising him Islamic paradise for bravely blowing up Jews.
Then you watch IDF soldiers spot the threat, clear civilians, and calmly talk the boy into letting the bomb squad remove it — because jail is better than death.
Now imagine his family having the audacity to launch a global campaign, outraged that the ‘evil Jewish supremacists’ imprisoned their ‘sweet boy’ under ‘apartheid.’
You don’t have to imagine it. This is the Israeli experience, with far too many variations of it happening to absurd degrees.
Fifty years ago today, Air France Captain Michel Bacos showed the world what true moral courage looks like.
When Flight 139 was hijacked by Palestinian and German terrorists and flown to Entebbe, the non-Jewish passengers were eventually released. Bacos and his crew were also offered their freedom.
However, Bacos, who also served in the French army under DeGaulle, refused to leave his Jewish passengers. All his crew also refused, without exception.
Instead, they chose to remain alongside the 94 Jewish hostages, fully aware of the danger they faced. As Bacos later said, abandoning his passengers was simply "unimaginable."
Days later, they were freed in the legendary Israeli rescue mission, Operation Entebbe, led by Yoni Netanyahu, who would die in the battle.
For his extraordinary courage, Bacos was honoured by both France and Israel. Yet his greatest legacy was not the medals he received, but the example he set: that decency, duty and humanity must never yield to terror or antisemitism.
Michel Bacos was a true hero. May his life, his courage and his memory forever be a blessing and an inspiration.
📸 Jim Varney and his high school drama teacher, Thelma Beeler.
As I quoted Jim in a newspaper article featured in my book:
"She hung in there with me, and we won drama awards left and right."
When BILL MURRAY filmed KINGPIN, they needed to shoot him bowling 3 strikes. The Farrelly Brothers told the hundreds of extras to keep their energy up because it could take him a while. Murray immediately rolls 3 strikes in a row and the crowd erupted in genuine amazement.
Robert Eggers confirms that the dialogue in ‘WERWULF’ is all 1300s Middle English.
“We worked with 2 Oxford professors on the dialogue, which is in Middle English, & then worked with a dialect coach on a way to temper the pronunciation”
(Source: https://t.co/MATt6uyU0l)
First of all, you live in Turkey. My country is none of your business, foreigner. Second, yes I absolutely want a new era of McCarthyism to crush the communists. McCarthy was right and fully justified.
In 1989, Jim Varney and Robin Williams were caught on camera riffing with each other backstage at COMIC RELIEF III, and it's really amazing to see. The two had a known mutual respect for each other, first met crossing paths on the standup circuit, with Williams even saying that no one could keep up with him more than Varney 🔥 Two legends we lost way too soon
‼️CNN Attempted to Trap Me‼️
CNN: “I’ve noticed when you urge people to action, you often use the word, ‘peacefully.’
Is that to avoid another Jan. 6 type incident?”
Me: “With all due respect, it’s to avoid people like you guys saying that I’m anything but [peaceful].”
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