Over-the hill entertainer Harry Belafonte, 78, who two weeks ago called President Bush “the greatest terrorist in the world,” is at it again. “We’ve come to this dark time in which the Gestapo of Homeland Security lurks here, where citizens are having their rights suspended,” Belafonte charged at the annual meeting of the Arts Presenters Members Conference. “You can be arrested and not charged, you can be arrested and have no right to counsel.”
While such nuttiness hardly deserves a response, I just couldn’t resist, since Belafonte apparently represents a sizable wing of the Hollywood set. Think about it a minute. If Belafonte were right, he would have disappeared the first time he opened his mouth, never to be heard from again. His comments refute themselves.
What will it take for these people to realize we are at war and that “the greatest terrorist in the world” is trying to protect them, too?
About Stan Guthrie
Stan Guthrie is an editor at large for Christianity Today magazine and for the Chuck Colson Center for Christian Worldview. His latest book is God's Story in 66 Verses. He also is author of All that Jesus Asks: How His Questions Can Teach and Transform Us, Missions in the Third Millennium: 21 Key Trends for the 21st Century, and A Concise Guide to Bible Prophecy. He is co-author of The Sacrament of Evangelism. Besides authoring, writing, and editing books, Stan is a literary agent, bringing together good authors, good books, and good publishers.
Stan writes the monthly Priorities colum for BreakPoint.org. He has appeared on National Public Radio's Tell Me More, WGN's Milt Rosenberg program, and many Christian shows, including The Eric Metaxas Show and Moody Radio's New Day Florida. A licensed minister and an inspirational speaker, he served as moderator for the Christian Book Expo panel discussion, Does the God of Christianity Exist, and What Difference Does It Make?
