{"id":1714547,"date":"2022-10-28T06:30:26","date_gmt":"2022-10-28T10:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1714547"},"modified":"2022-10-28T07:48:57","modified_gmt":"2022-10-28T11:48:57","slug":"tim-robbins-you-cant-over-regulate-peoples-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tim-robbins-you-cant-over-regulate-peoples-lives\/","title":{"rendered":"Tim Robbins: \u201cYou Can\u2019t Over-Regulate People\u2019s Lives\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftim-robbins-you-cant-over-regulate-peoples-lives%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1714547&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Tim-Robbins-lockdowns-vaccine-mandates-2.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p><strong>Actor\/activist Tim Robbins hasn\u2019t been as vocal as in the past.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Robbins, 64, spoke out early and often during President George W. Bush\u2019s presidency, savaging the war in Iraq and what he saw as chilling infringements on free speech.<\/p>\n<p>The versatile star\u2019s film resume has quieted of late \u2013 his last big-screen role came in 2019\u2019s \u201cDark Waters.\u201d Pandemic lockdowns deeply impacted what he could do on stage or film sets.<\/p>\n<p>Now, he\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/taibbi.substack.com\/p\/tim-robbins-and-the-lost-art-of-finding\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">speaking out to independent journalist Matt Taibbi<\/a> about the past two-plus years in America, and it\u2019s safe to say he\u2019s nauseated by what he\u2019s seen.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Hey <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sagaftra?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@sagaftra<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ActorsEquity?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ActorsEquity<\/a> : Way past time to end your discriminatory policies. NY Supreme Court just ruled that all unvaccinated NYC employees are \u201creinstated to their full employment\u201d and are \u201centitled to back pay in salary from the date of termination.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tim Robbins (@TimRobbins1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TimRobbins1\/status\/1584967883255603200?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 25, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Robbins, who works extensively in theater as well as big-screen projects, mourned the loss of theatrical attendance both during the pandemic and after. Vaccine mandates and other draconian restrictions, he says, are partly to blame.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you start specifying reasons why people can\u2019t be in a theater, I don\u2019t think it\u2019s a theater anymore,\u201d Robbins told Taibbi on the journalist\u2019s Substack platform. The actor\/director compared America\u2019s return to \u201cnormal\u201d to England\u2019s shift, where more stages opened without caveats.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you\u2019re told you\u2019re not welcome, you might not necessarily want to go back,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>Robbins admits he did as told at the start of the pandemic lockdowns. That included demonizing those who didn\u2019t follow the government narratives. In short, he was part of the problem, and he has no qualms about admitting it.<\/p>\n<p>He later joined a BLM protest, mask over face, and later reflected on the hypocrisy of such \u201capproved\u201d mass protests.<\/p>\n<p>Lockdown rules directly impacted his art. Both SAG-AFTRA and Actors\u2019 Equity insisted artists couldn\u2019t even audition for a role if they <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodintoto.com\/adam-carolla-actors-fear-criticizing-covid-19-rules\/\">didn\u2019t get the jab.<\/a>\u00a0Now, as we\u2019re learning the vaccines didn\u2019t prevent the virus\u2019 spread, the rules make even less sense.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTheir livelihoods are threatened. They can\u2019t participate yet\u2026 there\u2019s no rhyme or reason with it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What about those with conditions that preclude them from getting the vaccine, like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodintoto.com\/tim-pool-only-ever-wanted-itunes-pete-parada\/\">musician Pete Parada<\/a>, or those who previously caught the virus and had natural immunity, he asks.<\/p>\n<p>Robbins worries for American culture, noting our increasingly tribal in-fighting and inability to connect with those who hold different political views. Even rock-ribbed liberals have morphed into something unrecognizable during, and after, the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou go from someone that is inclusive, altruistic, generous, empathetic, to a monster,\u201d he says. \u201cWhere you want to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-us-canada-60383385\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">freeze people\u2019s bank accounts<\/a> because they disagree with you. That\u2019s a dangerous thing. That\u2019s a dangerous world that we\u2019ve created.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He blasted people like <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/in-the-know\/in-the-know\/571388-jimmy-kimmel-jokes-unvaccinated-shouldnt-get-icu-bed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jimmy Kimmel<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodintoto.com\/howard-stern-freedom-covid\/\">Howard Stern<\/a> who argued unvaccinated people didn\u2019t deserve medical treatment, noting how addicts and obese people similarly hurt their bodies but deserve our love and care.<\/p>\n<p>Robbins says he went out and talked to people protesting the lockdowns, expecting to find hateful souls on the streets. Instead, he found \u201cold hippies and homeopaths,\u201d but when he shared his impressions Twitter Nation excoriated him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have kind of a hard line on freedom. You can\u2019t over-regulate people\u2019s lives. I don\u2019t know what that makes me, what label that puts on me, but I am an absolutist on freedom,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>Robbins\u2019 Oscar-winning drama \u201cDead Man Walking\u201d typifies his approach to art. The 1995 film, starring Sean Penn as a killer on death row who bonds with a nun (Susan Sarandon) in his final days, wasn\u2019t an overt attack on the death penalty.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wanted to make it for everybody, and I wanted people to have a discussion about it,\u201d he says. \u201cSo we had to give dignity and screen time and respect to the people that had lost their family members, and were for the death penalty.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Robbins on the unvaccinated: \u201cI bought into it. I demonized people. I was guilty of everything that I came to understand was not healthy.\u201d<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9OU5NisivZ\">https:\/\/t.co\/9OU5NisivZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mtaibbi\/status\/1585275884491231233?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 26, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Robbins also indirectly referenced\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/1637580991\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cancel Culture<\/a>\u00a0in his Taibbi chat, suggesting the arts are under attack in today\u2019s society.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s now not only just the scolds from the right, like in the old days when the Moral Majority wanted art to die. Now it\u2019s unions and people that are, again, claiming virtuous reasons for all of this.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actor\/activist Tim Robbins hasn\u2019t been as vocal as in the past. Robbins, 64, spoke out early and often during President George W. 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