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I wrote:

Welcome to Pan America. Your country is officially no longer your country -- It's been sold!

Can we get it back?

Watched reruns of "brave-heart" the other day. I think William Wallace had it easy compared to what we face. Our modern "Nobles" could care even less about America than the ones in his time.

You wrote: Not only is "BRAVE HEART" a movie; but the vast majority of it is FICTION and completely inaccurate, vis-a-vis historically factual.

My reply: Yes, Brave Heart IS a Movie. Movies often take "liberties" for the sake of dramatic effect. I was employing the movie as a vehicle to draw an analogy between the complacent nobles -- as portrayed in Brave Heart -- and the elites of our own time.

Our American revolution probably would not have succeeded without the help of SOME of the elite(by analogy nobles in Brave Heart).

Whether the movie was historically factual, or a complete fiction; would neither bolster, nor diminish my point.

By the way, fiction is often used, or quoted, to make a point: Brave New World by Aldous Huxley and 1984 by George Orwell ("big brother is watching")come to mind.

Maybe I should have written:

Watched reruns of "Brave Heart" the other day. I think William Wallace{dramatically portrayed as a martyr in the movie Brave Heart} had it easy compared to what we face. Our modern "Nobles"{the elites of our day} could care even less about America than the ones {the complacent nobles dramatically portrayed in the movie Brave heart}in his{Wallace's}time.

I hope I have succeeded in clearing up any misunderstandings.

I am fully cognizant of what you wrote and what you intentions were, when you wrote your post. It was childish and you are still writing emotional drivel, worthy of a 14 year old, who doesn't yet comprehend reality, but is off in some drowsy/frenetic dream world of his/her own making.

This nation has NOT "been sold"; unless you are referencing the freebies and sellouts of secrets by Clinton and his horde. But that is a different topic................

Orwell wrote 1984 as a condemnation and commentary on COMMUNISM. He had once been a fervent SOCIALST and this book was a refutation of all that, as well as his own past works such as DOWN AND OUT IN PARIS AND LONDON; to name but one such previous work.

BRAVE NEW WORLD was not really a foray into politics. Rather, it was far more just one of Huxley's Sci-FI turns. From his early days of being a rather minor/fringe member of the Bloomsbury Group, until his death, he was more or less a Fabian. And if this is the only book of his, that you've ever read, I suggest that you read AFTER MANY A SUMMER DIES THE SWAN ( anther fantasy/Sci-Fi kind of thing ) as well as THE GENIUS AND THE GODDESS, which is his paean to Ottoline Morrell...one of THE ugliest women who has ever lived, but the virtual head of the Bloomsbury bunch.

Taking cues from works of fiction, as how one should react to reality, is usually NOT a very good idea.