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“Last year I went to Iraq. Before Team America showed up, it was a happy place. They had flowery meadows and rainbow skies, and rivers made of chocolate, where the children danced and laughed and played with gumdrop smiles.” - Sean Penn, satirized in Team America: World Police

Sean Penn wants reporters jailed for calling Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez a “dictator”:

First Amendment be damned … If Oscar-winning actor Sean Penn had his way, any journalist who called Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez a dictator would quickly find himself behind bars.

Penn, appearing on HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher” on Friday, defended Chavez during a segment in which he detailed his work with the JP Haitian Relief Organization, which he co-founded.

“Every day, this elected leader is called a dictator here, and we just accept it, and accept it” said Penn, winner of two Best Actor Academy Awards. “And this is mainstream media, who should — truly, there should be a bar by which one goes to prison for these kinds of lies.”

So what would you call a guy that nationalizes entire sectors of his country’s economy and wants to be president for life? He is a dictator, or at least a wannabe dictator.

If Sean Penn to comes to my doorstep, he better be prepared to meet the Second Amendment.