![]() And it can be as great as a people can be but it's also as fallible as people are. "He summed (up his humiliating internment experience) to me by saying that both the strength and the weakness of American democracy is in the fact that it is a people's democracy. So you recognize people for what they are and you carry on." "Fred Phelps may have been a tortured soul, but Bill is a self-possessed soul. "Bill is Bill," Takei said of notoriously self-involved Shatner. His relationship with his former starship captain has been prickly over the years, with Shatner once implying that his marriage was a publicity stunt, with their ex-castmates who played Uhura and Chekov in the wedding party. It instead goes always to its lonely, dusty end." He was a tormented soul, who tormented so many. ![]() "We will not dance upon his grave, nor stand vigil at his funeral holding 'God Hates Freds' signs, tempting as it may be. "I take no solace or joy in this man's passing," he wrote on his Facebook feed. On the death of Fred Phelps, founder of the notorious gay-bashing Westboro Baptist Church: On Facebook I have more than 6.3 million friends isn't that amazing?" "I, too, am astounded by the rapidity of growth and size of the growth (of his social media profile). Once he had grown his audience, Takei said, he started slipping in his pleas for social justice and was astonished at how rapidly they took off, too. Kirk shouting "Yes we Khaaaaaaaan!" that went viral. "It's the funny that keeps people coming back," he said of his adventures in social media, such as the election season meme of Capt. I could see the barbed wire fence and sentry tower right outside my schoolhouse window as I recited the words 'with liberty and justice for all.' It was just something they taught us and I memorized by rote not understanding the stinging irony behind those words." "We started every school day with the pledge of allegiance to the flag. You can hear more at and click on Links in today's Times. ![]() Here's some excerpts from our wide-ranging talk. #OH MY STAR TREK MEME DRIVER#He was at the helm of the starship Enterprise, the best Asian driver in the galaxy, fully embracing the show's revolutionary model for diversity. He will be in Tampa on Tuesday to give the keynote speech for the National Tutoring Association, talking about "the most egregious violation of our Constitution" when as a 5-year-old, he and his family were faced by soldiers carrying bayonets who ordered them out of their home and into a camp for Japanese Americans during World War II.īut of course it all began for sci-fi fans when in 1965 producer Gene Roddenberry cast him as Hikaru Sulu in the Star Trek television series. ![]()
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