Posted on 04/01/2009 3:24:01 AM PDT by Scanian
Last night, for the first time, I watched the movie, The Fugitive, from start to finish. The film is about a surgeon, falsely accused and convicted of murdering his wife, who escapes during a prison transfer, and is pursued by a US marshall.
For Chicagoans, the film is one of the great movie portrayals of the city. But I now believe the classic moment in the movie comes in the 82nd minute. Harrison Ford, playing the falsely accused doctor, Richard Kimble, tries to lose himself from his pursuers by joining in the St. Patrick's Day Parade. This parade always draws Chicago and Illinois politicians to show their Irish stripes, regardless of their ethnicity.
So which leprechaun is the politician shown marching as Kimble breaks into the parade? Roland Burris! Yes, that Roland Burris, who at the time the movie was released in 1993, was Illinois Attorney General. Both my wife and I jumped up at the sight of our new US Senator, in a moment that should be engraved on his tombstone.
Another note on timing: The Fugitive is a movie about a drug company that attempts to fake the results of a new cardiac drug (which causes liver damage) and uses murder to get its way (FDA approval). The drug company's security agent kills Kimble's wife, and sets up Kimble to be convicted of the crime, murders another doctor whose drug trial results showed the liver damage, murders a cop on a train, and tries to murder Kimble and a US Marshall (Tommy Lee Jones).
Just an average day's work for your big bad corporation. Big pharma plays dirty and how!
Now recall the date of the movie's release: the summer of 1993 (on my birthday in fact). Do you remember what was on the national agenda at that
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This is very true and very frightening. I think one of the reasons it has been easy to get the ball rolling on this is the factor that the author cites, that is, for years we have had movies and entertainment feature Big, Mean, Eeeevil Capitalist Corporations and the public, as a result, is primed to pick this particular focus for its hatred.
This may be all Obama needs for a while, but I bet he's going to have to haul out another, more specific enemy for his mass movement (particularly once he's destroyed all the Eeeevil Corporations). I don't know what or who it's going to be, though.
Christians.
Christians and Jews and individualists and entrepreneurs and CEOs who haven’t been bought and then anyone who is *negative*.
A rolling set of targets that will keep everyone afraid to speak out, ignore the government or dissent, either publicly or privately.
The only class divide is the Rulers against the unwilling subjects.
Christians will definitely be among his targets; I don’t think he feels he has quite enough power to go after us overtly yet.
However, I think reformed liberal is right, and you will see a set of rolling targets. In fact, we’ve already seen that, as he has demonized one industry leader after another. It may last for only a week or so, but it has the effect of making everyone so afraid that they might be the next target that they simply try to keep their heads down and stay out of his range of vision.
Or how about Silkwood? That was in the 1980’s. Big bad corporation against the little guy, plutocrat vs. peasant...It’s a Wonderful Life had bad old Potter. In the earliest flicks, the wolf was at the door ready to take your rent, or your home or your blooming young daughter.
And populism didn’t start with the movies either.
This may be all Obama needs for a while, but I bet he's going to have to haul out another, more specific enemy for his mass movement (particularly once he's destroyed all the Eeeevil Corporations). I don't know what or who it's going to be, though.
The AIG execs have already been used as the Alinsky #12 targets.
Che called them “counter revolutionaries”,
and as such they deserved death.
Make no mistake, this is what the hardcore leftists want to do to you. They want you dead.
Fundamentally, the people who go into media do so in order to hype themselves. And the easy way to hype yourself is to tear down anyone who deserves credit for doing important things. So the businessman, who takes risks in order to accomplish things and get the credit (especially, in the form of money) for his accomplishments, finds that the journalist is his worst enemy and the fiction writer is not far behind. Ditto for the military and the police.
Yes. Once they kill or totally cow everyone opposed to them, they begin in on each other. Eventually, you end with killing fields, the disappeared and death squads.
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