Posted on 05/28/2005 5:41:23 PM PDT by CHARLITE
Pity George Lucas.
Why should we pity George Lucas? The man could fill an Olympic-sized swimming pool with ten-thousand dollar bills and still have money left over. The Lucas six-episode saga of good versus evil, StarWars, is being dissected by nearly everyone who sees them. I must admit, I can’t resist doing some dissection myself.
This last episode, Revenge of the Sith, is drawing more attention than the previous five installments.
For anyone not familiar with the Star Wars movies, all one needs to know is that the Jedi Knights and the Sith are sort of like cousins. Both have the ability to use a power called the “force,” which is an inborn ability to draw power from all that is around them.
The Jedi use this power for peace and good and the Sith use it for evil and conquest and draw on emotions such as hatred and anger to make their powers even stronger.
The Star Wars movies were filmed and released out of sequence. The third movie, “Return of the Jedi,” is actually how it all ends, with good winning over evil. In fact, even the hated Darth Vader returns to the good side as he lay dying.
Revenge of the Sith shows the audience how the young Jedi Knight, Anaken Skywalker, is turned to the “dark side” and becomes the dreaded Sith enforcer, Darth Vader. His conversion to evil complete, Vader now believes that only the Sith, by ruling with a cruel and iron fist, can bring peace and order to the galaxy. If Vader must kill everyone in the galaxy to convince them of the righteousness of the Sith, he will.
What the bloggers have all been chattering about is the political undertones in the final Star Wars chapter. Is Lucas liberal or conservative? Was he slamming President Bush when he threw in the line that diplomacy should be given more time? Was Lucas painting Bush as the evil Sith master, the emperor? Was the line, “You are either with us or you are with evil,” a reference to the War on Terror?
Poor George Lucas has repeatedly stated that he wrote these storylines thirty years ago, but no one listens.
As I listened to all the endlessly mentioned references to present day Earth and our problems, I found most of the one-liners pertinent to the dialog and storyline of the movie. After all, Lucas is known for action, not dialog.
There was one line that did catch my attention: “Carry out order 66.” The reaction of the followers of evil, the Sith, was startling. One minute, these men are loyal to the democratic Republic and friends of the Jedi. They have fought side by side and shared meals. They were neighbors.
When the Sith master issues his “order 66” these loyal and lifelong friends turn on the Jedi without hesitation. The Jedi Knights are slaughtered. They are shot in the back. They are hunted down like animals and exterminated. The blind followers of the dark side have no friends, no families, no lives. They have only the Sith and their slavish devotion to its beliefs.
As for the Jedi Knights, they are caught totally off guard. They had no idea that the poison of the Sith had spread so far and wide. The Jedi didn’t stand a chance.
I don’t believe that George Lucas had Islam in mind when he first wrote about the evil Sith. But since liberals can’t resist comparing Bush to the evil Sith master and Republicans in general to his followers, I, as a Republican conservative, cannot resist comparing the danger of the Sith to Islam.
I have had many ex-Muslims tell me that we Americans just don’t understand. We don’t understand that Islam has pre-programmed its followers since birth to follow Islam and only Islam. They are not American or Canadian or French; they are Muslims. Islam has no country and no borders and no loyalty to anyone or anything but Islam. I am told by those who are in a position to know that Islam has nothing to do with peace and everything about conquest and war.
For decades, the Saudis have funded Muslim schools here in America to assure that American Muslim children are taught in the Wahhabi ways of Islam. The Saudis have built hundreds of mosques all over the country and often placed Saudi clerics in charge to hammer the “Islam first and only” doctrine into the minds of American Muslims. Middle Eastern Muslims have immigrated here and have spent their time chastising American Muslims for not being “true Muslims.” Millions of dollars have been spent plowing the fertile fields of America and planting the seeds of Islam.
The Saudis and other Islamics fund it all, and groups like the Council on American/Islamic Relations and the American Civil Liberties Union protect it. American gullibility feeds it.
The question remains: When American Muslims are given their “order 66,” how many will follow it? There is no way to know.
There are roughly 6 million Muslims in America. If only 20% answer the Islamic call to battle against their fellow Americans, that is a frightening 1,200,000 Muslims. Are we ready to deal with that? I don’t think so.
What to do about this potential problem? American Muslims are Americans. Having them sign a loyalty oath is worthless, because the followers of true Islam would just lie and sign anyway. Camps are out of the question. It was outrageous when it was done to Japanese Americans and it would be just as outrageous to do it to American Muslims. I believe that there are millions of American Muslims who really do believe Islam is peaceful. When the shooting starts, they will be targets right along with the rest of us.
Which brings us back to the first square: What do we do to prepare for this possibility?
Perhaps the best way is to realize that the threat exists. Americans must realize that Islam has not been high-jacked by anyone. Islam is what it is: dangerous. Once a threat is exposed, that threat looses the advantage. Islam will lose the element of surprise. I don’t want Americans caught by surprise like the Jedi Knights were.
Americans must start paying attention to the former Muslims who are yelling at the top of their voices but no one is listening. We must start paying attention to cries of warning coming from the Christians persecuted in Islamic countries. If Islam was tolerant and loving, as it professes to be, Christians living under Islamic rule would be free to practice their own beliefs instead of being imprisoned for the crime of not being Muslim.
The warnings have been given. It’s time Americans started listening before that “order 66” is given. Once it has been given, it will be too late.
About the Writer: Barbara J. Stock is a registered nurse who enjoys writing about politics and current events. She has a website at http://www.republicanandproud.com/. Barbara J. receives e-mail at dickens502003@yahoo.com.
Yeah I do. I regularly shoot and practice against targets.
America survives because of freedom. Things may not look good to some but trust me on this, once you are free the turds from within and without don't stand a chance.
As far as Muslim nut jobs are concerned, we beat the Nazis and the Commies and they were better armed.
Thank you. Always interested.
Sith were mostly ok, from a certain point of view of course.
Personally, I just think of the jedi as the acadamia elites, and Palps and Anakin as big business finally correcting 10,000 years of liberalism.
Very erudite, sophisticated observations.
Excellent reply. Thanks so much!
Char :)
Prepping and training my children.
Bring it on.
I thoght that an apprppriate response to 9/11 would have been to vaporise Damascus, Tehran, Baghdad, Riyadh andd Mecca.
That would have gotten the point across: "Attack our civilisation and we'll destroy yours. Utterly."
That would have gotten the point across: "Attack our civilisation and we'll destroy yours. Utterly."
My thinking exactly.......and I've believed it since sometime around Noon (EDT) on September 11, 2001. Should have put on what the French call "son et lumière." It means "sound and light," but I can retranslate it as "shock and awe."
When are our leaders going to understand that the only thing these people respect is exactly what you propose? Frankly, I believe that Rumsfeld knows that this would have been a very quick way to settle things with "global jihad." Colin Powell surely disagreed, alas. I'm not sure what President Bush would have done, had most of his military advisors recommended the "Noumenon" solution.
Thank you so much for such a strong comment......with which I agree........"UTTERLY!"
Char
"What is best in life?" To crush the jihadists, to drive their collaborators before you, and to hear the lamentations of the mullahs! Allahu fubar!
Darryl Worley. And I'm never going to forget...
well, as silly as it is to use Star Wars as allegory for the real world, i must say this author "gets it" on taqiyah.
All we can do is wait to clean up the mess our government has gotten us into by not being careful about who they allow into our home, culture, and lifestyle.
What the government is doing is on a par with inviting the dreaded SS, in the days of Hitler, to migrate to America.
Sometimes bias is reasonable. Especially when dealing with a population that is exactly 180 degrees opposite from us.
Well I've got Col. Hunt's book, and I've finished reading about half of it so far, but I can't recommend it.
He really doesn't tell you anything the average freeper doesn't know already. And frankly, I'm not real impressed with people who get on their horses to tell politicians what they ought to do without ever broaching how they are suppose to do it without being swallowed by their opposition.
I'd have a whole lot more respect for such criticism if Col. Hunt suggested to any Red-Blooded American who happens to be related to Norman Minetta "call him up, and tell him what a moron he is," than his easy bitching about little old ladies getting frisked on their flight to Albuquerque.
Sorry, but America has been
pussified.
Whimpy, spineless men who have no vision, no courage, and no honor.
Speak for yourself, but I can assure you that there are still men of America with vision, courage, and honor. Whether there are enough of same to prevail or not, is a valid, and thought provoking question...
the infowarrior
That really doesn't matter until they can bypass those who don't, now does it?
> Like I read on another post the Sith represent the Islamic terrorists...
I haven't seen III yet, and wasn't going to because I tend not to follow the herd. But now I shall have to, so that when liberals make the comparison with W, I can say, Nooo, it's about how the Moooslims are taking over the world!
This article is right on!
You know it's not politically correct to understand this simple fact!
http://www.chick.com/information/religions/islam/#worship
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