Ping.
Progressivism and the ruling class in action:
1. The general population faces a sparse holiday because of high unemployment and high underemployment and home forclosures.
The first family enjoys a million dollar vacation in Hawaii at taxpayer expenense, the aforementioned general population.
2. Historically high unemployment throughout the nation and declining personall income.
Employment in the Capitol (D.C.) is booming and income increasing.
3. Families faced with $4.00/gal gasoline
The first family flying luxury jets all over the country and the world at taxpayer expense. In fact often flying multiple jets so Mommy and the kids can leave in the morning and not have to wait for Daddy in the afternoon.
Conservatives have to be ready for a civil war to protect our way of life. The civil war has already started as a cold civil war. If the progressives do not willingly step back from their aggressiveness, it’s only a matter of time until people start killing one another and the hot war will be on.
Who knows? Maybe Breitbart was the first step in that direction. The hysteria over Trayvon certainly indicates the Left wants to keep pushing us toward a race war, for starters.
Obama seems intent on pushing us toward civil war in order to be re-elected. My advice: Load up on armaments and ammunition. Have alternative places to live away from the big cities. Develop methods of communication with like-minded people. I don’t think anyone has really begun to prepare for what may be coming our way.
Look at the assault on the Catholic Church. You would think we were about to enter another Hundred Years War between Christians and the radical left and their minions.
Bttt
Given the ax Mr. James seeks to grind, I don't see what The Hunger Games has to do with it. Especially after he admits, "To be fair, I have not actually read the full trilogy."
It's a story about a dystopian future. The author does not dwell on how the environment came about. She hints the US has been subjected to a cataclysmic event, but gives no details.
Mr. James, get a grip, it's just a story. Enjoy it for what it is and quit trying to read between the lines.
I find it funny all the progressive women on my FB account seem to be celebrating this movie.
Too stupid to realize they’re stupid?
I watched it this afternoon. I may have to sharpen my bow skills.
It is The Running Man with teen romance.
Another thought from watching Hunger Games:
* People are fenced into their designated areas and not allowed in the woods, although they are clearly hungry. I think the term for this was “Agenda 21”.
* Hunting isn’t allowed, though the designation of districts and views in the movie suggest most of the land is fallow. People starving is not as important as preserving nation.
* The dominant form of entertainment and news is ONE WAY, via television. No debates, no discussion, no public forums. It’s like the liberal MSM wants it - everyone watches the TV screen at the designated time to get their propaganda.
Amazing how so many conservatives are willingly accepting the premise that a girl is the top dog of the ladder as far as being the hero.
I have not read the book, and do not plan on watching the move, because in reality, whenever a battle of any kind that includes death for the losers and life for the winners, the women, girls will ALWAYS LOSE!
However, in today’s emasculated society, even in movies conservatives hail as great, a woman is portrayed as the hero.
Sorry, I’ll put in an old Chuck Norris/Silvester Stallone/ Bruce Willis/Mel Gibson/John Wayne type move where men are portrayed as real men while a women is portrayed as a woman that needs men to protect them like in reality.
Try as they want, America is not France. The American heroes that won wars and still do are the men, while the ladies have in the past, and still do today, support their men.
When I read the book, skimming much of the disturbing descriptions of violence, I saw a hatred of the wealthy. Perhaps Freepers want to interpret the book's Capitol ruling class as the government only, but I don't think that the left will see it that way. My interpretation is in line with what I heard Donald Sutherland, who plays President Snow, say on the radio this morning. He said that the movie was about the occupy movement. He went on at length describing the ruling class as the 1% and the people in the districts as the 99%. In the view of the left, it's rich vs poor more than government vs people. I hope the movie helps some people wake up to the dangers of an all-powerful government, but I'm not sure it will.
“Progressive Hallmark: Ownership of Weapons is Forbidden
This is not explicitly stated but it is implied.”
If he’d read the book - and he admits he hasn’t - he’d know it IS explicit. Narrator states in no uncertain terms that if making & distributing weapons suitable for even rudimentary opposition to government was discovered, the perpetrator would be executed on the spot.
“Needless to say, a Panem-style government could never come about so long as gun ownership was as prevalent among private citizens as it is today. “
He hasn’t read the book, has he? Ah, right, he admits he didn’t.
The one totalitarian tactic never considered in the gun control vs despotism debate is the one used by the Panem rulers: total obliteration of a significant fraction of the nation. District 13 doesn’t exist any more, and the Hunger Games are a reminder that the Capitol has no qualms about doing that again to keep the remaining districts under heel.
How far would gun ownership get under a government willing to outright nuke the whole of, say, New England (NY included)?