Officers’ Boycott of Quentin Tarantino Films Grows

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Quentin Tarantino at a New York march in October against police brutality. Credit
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Officers' Boycott of Quentin Tarantino Films Grows
By MICHAEL CIEPLY NOV. 1, 2015
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/02/business/media/officers-boycott-of-tarantino-films-grows.html

  "LOS ANGELES — A call for a police boycott of the Weinstein Company's
   coming film "The Hateful Eight" and other works by Quentin Tarantino
   has gained support from the National Association of Police
   Organizations and the New Jersey State Policemen's Benevolent
   Association, expanding the backlash to remarks about police violence
   that Mr. Tarantino made at a rally in New York on Oct. 24.
   
   A boycott — which had already been endorsed by police organizations in
   New York, Los Angeles, Philadelphia and elsewhere — picked up
   considerable strength with the endorsement last week by the national
   police group.
   
   The organization represents more than 1,000 police units and at least
   241,000 law enforcement officers. In a statement posted Thursday on its
   website, the group objected to what it called Mr. Tarantino's
   "anti-police rhetoric," and asked supporters both to boycott his films
   and to refuse to provide security or technical advice for his future
   projects.
   
   Representatives for Mr. Tarantino declined to comment on Sunday.
   
   According to an earlier report by The Associated Press, Mr. Tarantino —
   who has made an art form of cinematic violence in films like "Pulp
   Fiction" and "Django Unchained" — told a gathering organized by the
   RiseUpOctober group that he regarded some police shootings as murder.
   "I'm here to say I'm on the side of the murdered," the report quoted
   the filmmaker as saying.
   
   The protest occurred shortly after a New York police officer, Randolph
   Holder, was shot to death while chasing a suspect in East Harlem,
   heightening police concerns about violence against them.
   
   The growing calls for a boycott pose an acute challenge for Weinstein,
   which is counting on "The Hateful Eight" as both an Oscar bet and a
   possible box office hit. The film, set for release on Christmas Day, is
   a Western tale about a bounty hunter, played by Kurt Russell, and his
   encounters with hard characters while trying to bring an accused
   murderess, played by Jennifer Jason Leigh, to a reckoning.
   
   In many theaters, a trailer for "The Hateful Eight" this weekend
   accompanied Weinstein's "Burnt," which stars Bradley Cooper as a
   brilliant but volatile chef with drug and other addictions. "Burnt"
   opened on Friday on about 3,000 screens, but had barely more than $5
   million in domestic ticket sales for the weekend.
   
   Weinstein has typically been quick to embrace controversy as a tool in
   selling its films. In the past, it has weathered, and perhaps profited
   from, disputes over movies like "Priest," "Kids," "Fahrenheit 9/11,"
   "Bully," "Blue Valentine" and "Silver Linings Playbook."
   
   In this case, the studio has not mounted a public campaign to counter
   the calls for a police boycott of Mr. Tarantino. A frequent
   collaborator with Weinstein, Mr. Tarantino worked with the company on
   "Django Unchained," which was nominated for the best picture Oscar and
   won two others — for acting and writing — in 2013.
   
   Queried on Sunday, a Weinstein spokeswoman would not comment on the
   boycott call.

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[MikeWB]

Good. That guy's a pice of shit shabbos goy. He's a pro-zionist, anti-white, pro-black supremacy retard. I stopped watching his movies after Kill Bill.

[Michael K.]

I wouldn't want Quentin Tarrantino as my spokesman, unless maybe I was a deranged murderer like Genrikh Yagoda.

http://m.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/stasi-quentin-tarantino-shut-mouth-article-1.2413914

Quentin Tarantino should shut his mouth
LINDA STASI
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS 10/27/2015 10:03 PM ET


Quentin Tarantino showed a lack of consciousness when he joined an anti-police rally and called cops "murderers" — days after a New York police officer was killed.
Quentin Tarantino preaching against police violence is like Jared Fogel preaching against child porn, Kelly Osbourne attending a rally for Latina bathroom attendants, and Paula Deen marching with Martin Luther King Jr. Something's wrong with the, er, picture. Like everything.

In case you somehow missed it, violence-mongering filmmaker, Tarantino, who rose to fame with "Reservoir Dogs" featuring a "hilarious" cop-torture scene, and dozens of other grotesquely violent movies, had the balls to show up at an anti-cop rally in New York just days after Officer Randolph Holder was shot and killed by a pig of a career criminal.

And what was Tarantino here to do exactly? He was here to call police officers "murderers" — this as police officers stood by protecting him and the rest of the protesters at the RiseUpOctober rally, organized by Revolutionary Communist Party spokesman Carl Dix and race-baiting Prof. Cornel West, who once said of President Obama: "The first black president has become the first n----r-ized black President."

If you managed to miss Tarantino's first big hit, "Reservoir Dogs," the movie's most famous scene has Mr. Blonde (Michael Madsen) cutting off the ear of a cop (Kirk Baltz), while dancing to "Stuck in the Middle With You" by Stealers Wheel. Blonde then smells the severed ear and asks the bleeding, earless cop, "Was that as good for you as it was for me?"

This is the filmmaker who is now protesting police brutality? Or any brutality? Tarantino's become the $100 million man from a career of having a ball with the blood and the guts and the beer.

Yes, there is police brutality, and yes way too many people — especially people of color — have died at the hands of the police. But in less than one year, four New York City police officers have also been shot to death by criminals and psychopaths.

We all have not just the right, but the obligation, to protest to right wrongs. How right was it for Tarantino to come to our city to call our police officers murderers because, as he claimed, he's "a human being with a conscience."

Really? A human being with a conscience would have held off attending an anti-police rally within days of a cop being slain. Any self-professed human being with a conscience would not have made such disrespectful remarks out of respect for the slain officer's distraught girlfriend and inconsolable family, which includes three generations of cops.

That's why PBA President Patrick Lynch called for a boycott of Tarantino's films, that's why Police Commissioner Bill Bratton told John Gambling, "Basically, there are no words to describe the contempt I have for him and his comments."

But hey, Tarantino's a man of conscience — and a 100 million big ones can buy a guy a lotta conscience.

http://www.weaselzippers.us/237724-just-days-after-killing-of-nypd-officer-communist-organized-protesters-including-quentin-tarantino-chant-fk-police-in-nyc/

Just Days After Killing Of NYPD Officer, Communist-Organized Protesters Including Quentin Tarantino, Chant 'F**K Police' In NYC

The protest, part of #RiseUpOctober, was organized by Carl Dix, who is behind Stop Mass Incarceration and who is a leader in the Revolutionary Communist Party. You can see Tarantino hugging it up with Dix in the above video, Dix is wearing a Rev Com sweatshirt. Cornel West is also an organizer and can be seen among the chanting folk.

They're not 'against police brutality', call it what they are, they are against the police, they are against incarceration of criminals and they are for revolution. It isn't about black people, and you'll notice many, if not most, are not black. The issue is never the issue. Most black people would never support this nonsense. It is, as it always has been, about the revolution.

Just a small coda to the story. Who is covering these protests wall-to-wall on Twitter, showing the horrible racist chaos of the United States? People's Daily China and that arm of the Kremlin, RT.

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Metro
Grave robbers target bronze vases in Queens cemetery
By Isabel Vincent and Melissa Klein                October 24, 2015 | 11:35pm
http://nypost.com/2015/10/24/grave-robbers-target-bronze-vases-in-queens-cemetery/

           
Maple Grove Cemetery in Queens Photo: Angel Chevrestt

  "It's dead wrong: Ghoulish thieves are robbing local graves, stripping
   them of valuable bronze vases in ­order to sell them as scrap.

   The number of larcenies has risen with the price of bronze over the
   last few years, and cemeteries across the country are reporting crypt
   theft. One Maryland graveyard lost 100 vases in a single September raid.

   "We've seen a recent rash of thefts," said Harry Appleby, vice
   president of field operations at the 65-acre Maple Grove Cemetery in
   Kew Gardens, Queens.

   Appleby said the crimes happen in spurts and that over the last 10
   years more than $100,000 worth of vases — they each cost $175 and weigh
   8 pounds — have been stolen. The cylindrical vases sit upside down in
   the hollowed-out section of a grave marker and can be removed and
   turned over in order to hold flowers.

   To stop the most recent spate, which cemetery sleuths suspected was the
   work of a former employee with a drug problem, Appleby went to local
   scrap yards to ask if the ex-worker had been there. Bronze sells for
   about $1.30 a pound.


Bronze vases missing from graves.Photo: Angel Chevrestt

   Two months ago, a dealer identified the man, who was arrested. The
   ex-worker, whom the cemetery wouldn't name, was caught with an
   estimated $6,000 worth of vases, Appleby said.

   Maple Grove, which dates to 1875, sells plastic vases to replace the
   pilfered pots.

   At Long Island National Cemetery in Farmingdale, the resting place of
   347,000 veterans, some 80 metal vases have been pinched in the last
   year.

   "It's constant," said cemetery director Tony Thomas.

   Some of the older vases are engraved with the deceased's name.

   Sen. Charles Schumer cosponsored legislation in 2012 that places
   restrictions on scrap metal sales. The bill was never enacted and is
   expected to be reintroduced.
   
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