"Most bad people think they're good people," he said.
"What sounded like another dig..." What a crock. This says more about the writers than it does about Lucas, who has been clear that this was not an indictment of Bush specifically.
I saw the movie late last night/earlier this morning, and to the people who read all this anti-Bush stuff in it, I have one word for you: BULLSITH!
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Regards, Ivan
I'll amen that comment. The nerdie Star War types will try to flame you, however.
For clues he should look at Hitler's Germany, Mugabe's Zimbabwe, Chavez's Venezuela... he's not going to find them in Bush's USA.
If you think about it, it's pretty self evident, he's working out his own faults on the screen.
I can't yawn anymore than I am now.
Well let's consider how a Democracy (Representative Republic, in our case)turns itself into a Dictatorship?
The Senate member is elected and can either be voted out, recalled or impeached-The House member is elected and can be voted out, recalled or impeached-the President is elected and can be voted out, recalled or impeached.
The Supreme Court members are not elected,(they are appointed for life) so they cannot be voted out, they cannot be recalled and apparently cannot be impeached, for it has never happened.
Only the Supreme court can turn a Representative Republic into a Dictatorship, but not entirely unassisted, It's dictatorial edicts must be extremely pleasing to one of the major political party's at the time and enabling the agenda it craves but could never attain through the Constitutionally legal legislative proccess.
The US Supreme court has given the liberal Democrats the boost toward the Socialist state it so rabidly craves, and the Democrats are willing to sell their souls to Satan if neccessary, (many obviously already have) to ensure that only activist, socialistic minded Judges are ever confirmed to seats on the higher courts of America.
The transformation from a Republic to a Dictatorship only looks like a bloodless coup, because the blood of 55 million slaughtered Americans happened behind closed doors in abortatoriums across America and was ignored by a MSM that also idolizes dictatorships and finds ecstacy at the thought of innocent blood being spilled, no less than did those ghouls of the final days of decadent and dying Rome.
I wonder if this is related to S.Speilberg's uncredited assistance to Lucas.
Just saw the movie today. The politics are fairly muted but if there are any historical parallels, it's more the rise of the Third Reich, struggle of power between the Holy Roman Empire and the Church, and the end of the Roman Republic. Overall a good film, one I think the actors got into more than the others.
Check out the camo pattern on a few special ops type "Stormtroopers" for the battle to save the Wookies -- looked German WW2 SS style. Concidence? There was another odd reference in this latest film to a planet sounding like "Otepaa" (the name of a small town in Estonia that was a key German military command center in 1941-42). "Stormtroopers" and a Darth Vader helmet that looks like a German WW2 helmet in caracature, and selective use of a color close to German military gray for senior commander outfits in the first 1977 Star Wars, the use of an army built in secret (like Germany violating Versailles provisions ), cloning as a proxy for racial purity for the storm troopers, as well as the theme of how a dictator comes to power in a parliamentary democracy, all smack of 1970s-style allegories to the Nazi experience. Does that make the Jedi Council a representation of the Socialist International and/or Third International (with supposed special insight into "scientific understanding" of the way the world really works) -- where Hitler or the Chancellor turned Emperor in Star Wars, apply the "dark-side" of socialist totalitarianism?