This isn’t a political blog, but I saw this article and couldn’t believe it. No one would ever accuse Jackie Chan of being a genius, but I think he is showing that he may be an idiot.
Talking to some business group in Taiwan, he said that the “Chinese need to be controlled. If we’re not being controlled, we’ll do just what we want.” Apparently, Chan thinks that men and women should not have the right to do what they want. While I believe each country has its own right to determine its political structure and that the US should not export democracy (even by force as we often tend to do), I do think that anyone who doesn’t think a person should be able to do what they want is extremely naive or downright stupid.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090418/ap_en_ot/as_china_people_jackie_chan
I imagine Chan probably lives a very decent life – even in China. He probably has the freedom to act as he sees fit. He is a rich celebrity, after all. For him to believe he can act as he wants, but a poor peasant in the rural areas cannot is beyond hypocritical. I would threaten to boycott his movies, but I have never watched one in my life so that really isn’t a legitimate threat. Maybe I will just rip him in my blog.