Besides, let me remind you that the Original Trilogy was the same set of movies that had two old men outright lying to the hero about the fate of his father (claiming Vader murdered him, when in fact, Vader and Luke’s father were one and the same), and when called out on it, Obi-Wan essentially peddled moral relativism by saying it was “true from a certain point of view.” And how the Ewoks beat the Empire despite being complete primitives (in such a way that grossly exaggerates the efforts of the Vietcong, and was one of the reasons ROTJ was a disappointment to several people).
I can deduce Lucas lying when there’s actual proof against his claims (like development notes and the sort), like for example his recent claim that Greedo always shot first, since the shooting script made clear Han shot first.
Oh yeah, and the main heroine lied about Alderaan being “peaceful” and “lacking weapons or any form of defense” like she did about Dantooine being the hidden Rebel base (or do I have to remind everyone that the opening for the movie not only had a space battle between her ship and a Star Destroyer and explicitly firing upon it, but also had its crew, including Leia herself, using blasters. And don’t get me started on how she and her family were funneling funds to the Rebel Alliance and materiel, meaning the weapons definitely had to come from Alderaan. Sorry, but it’s the same kind of lie that one of the Weathermen members did by screaming as if she were a distressed damsel to catch the cops offguard while her friends shot them during a bank robbery.
People talk about it being comparable to the American Minutemen, but I don’t recall the American Minutemen stealing blueprints for military weapons or doing stolen contraband, or doing ANY of the stuff the Rebels did. Those were closer to French Revolutionaries, and one of the old comic characters named Elscol Loro had explicitly targeted civilians while operating under Rogue Squadron, and made a statement regarding neutrals that came closer to something the likes of Louis de Saint Just would say.
And do I need to remind you of George Lucas’s Prequel Trilogy where he REALLY let loose with his politics, including his inserting a non-too-subtle jab at Bush that resulted in the implication that the Jedi were nihilists?