Sean Penn loves a good dictator. Don’t tell him that, or he might find a way to throw you in jail- for expressing that thought.

While on the HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher” this past Friday, Penn expressed his anger over the way Venezuelan president dictator Hugo Chavez is described by some journalists- as being a dictator.

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

Fortunately for us, we live in the United States- we have that thing called the Bill of Rights. People like Sean Penn would be relieved if this pesky little ammendment was absent:

Amendment I: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

While Sean Penn has lived a life that most people only dream about, had he been born in Cuba, where his buddies the Castro brothers imprison people for expressing ideas and views that go against “their revolution”, Penn would probably be a cigar roller or tobacco picker rather then a millionaire actor with several homes.

Penn has been a Hugo Chavez “groupie” for years too. The Venezuelan dictator is a preacher of Marxism- he’s a Socialist. Penn has been drinking the Chavez “Kool-Aid” by the gallons.

Useful idiots like Sean Penn would point to Hugo Chavez and describe him as an “elected” president. While Chavez may have started out as an elected president, soon after being inaugurated (in 1999) a new constitution was “approved” that, just so happened, to include an increase to the presidential term years, and expanded powers.

It didn’t take long for “common sense” thinking Venezuelans to see what was happening to their country. There was a 2003 referendum to recall Chavez. Even though 3.2 million signature were presented in August, the National Electoral Council rejected them. In the end, the recall was “defeated”.

In 2009 Chavez “won a referendum” to eliminate term limits- he can govern indefinitely. The Organization of American States (OAS), who in 2006, gave their “blessing”  to the results of the 2006 election, released a report in 2010 that expresses concerns over freedom of expression, freedom of press, authoritariansim, and human rights abuses. Put these with their concerns with political intimidation and the erosion of separation of powers- we get a real picture of a dictator in the purest form.

You know, it’s kind of ironic. Here we have Sean Penn, the “official celebrity groupie” to the dictators calling for journalists to be imprisoned for daring to describe Hugo Chavez as a dictator. One might even get the idea that Sean Penn would agree with Chavez and the Castros for imprisoning journalists and political prisoners.

I guess it is really true what they say- show me your friends and I’ll show you your future. Mr. Penn- I’ll hand it to you, you really do live what you preach. I’m just glad your a washed up actor with an anger management problem rather then a…what’s that word- dictator! (wink, wink)