They are very good at what they do, and they’re going to get better. Playing CIA agent Saul Berenson on Homeland, I’ve had the privilege of meeting many people who work to ensure our security. If you have no humanity, there is nothing to defend.
People forget to keep their humanity up to an equal degree as their defenses. I’m not saying for a second that we don’t need to keep our defenses up. We must help the refugees that come to this country, listen to their stories, and welcome them. I asked the couple: “Are you afraid of anything?” And they said to me: “We’re afraid of nothing.” If they can live without fear, we, who haven’t experienced that hell, can be a little less afraid and a little more courageous. America is a country that has opened its arms to humanity. I know those same words have been spoken in Yiddish and Hebrew and Italian and German and Irish and by many in America-other than those who were brought here by slavery. Fleeing ISIS for the Turkish border with their two children, the wife said she saw death behind her and life in front of her. When I visited Greece in November, I met this extraordinary couple who had lived through hell during the Syrian war. And people in our country are saying close the doors and don’t let them in? Refugees come to us seeking asylum, seeking freedom, justice and dignity-seeking a chance just to breathe. You would never put your child in a boat like that if you had an alternative. We need to find ways to be hopeful and welcoming and caring toward our fellow man, not to shut the doors, as certain governors have done, to refugees who are fleeing horrific violence, who have spent years trying to save their children’s lives, risking them by putting them in rafts to get to safety. We need to learn to accept and certainly mourn any harm that comes to any human being on this earth. And I’m certain that that is not the way to heal a wound.
My wife, Kathryn Grody, has taught the men of our family-my two sons, Isaac and Gideon, and me-a phrase that has become one of the mantras of our family: “Hurt people hurt people.” In my opinion, someone who thinks like Ted Cruz does has been hurt some time in his life, and believes that the only way to heal that hurt is to hurt others.
As a citizen of the world, I’m very concerned that this kind of behavior is being cheered on by anyone. Legally, FTC PAC cannot coordinate with the O’Rourke campaign.Ted Cruz, who uses phrases like “carpet-bombing” the people of ISIS and who said, after the incidents in Paris, that we need a war president, is using fear mongering and hate speech.
YED CRUZS POLITICAL VIEWS TRIAL
Investment banker Vaughn Vennerberg II of MorningStar Partners, an oil and gas company, and Dallas trial lawyer Marc Stanley provided the super PAC’s seed money, Texas Monthly reported in April.įTC PAC reported having received about $278,000 in contributions through the year and having nearly $104,000 in cash-on-hand in its September FEC filing. Gonzales rates the race as Likely Republican after initially rating it a Solid Republican race.įire Ted Cruz PAC, an Austin-based super PAC, produced the ad. “If somebody called my wife a dog, and said my daddy was in on the Kennedy assassination, I wouldn’t be kissin’ their ass.”Ĭruz is locked in a tough re-election battle with upstart candidate Rep. “Somebody left something on my door the other day that said, ‘ Ted Cruz: tough as Texas,’” actor Sonny Carl Davis, who explained Texas to outsiders in Linklater’s film “Bernie,” says in the ad.
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