Posted on 04/21/2002 7:46:09 AM PDT by Darth Sidious
Excuse me, but that's like saying that all dogs are canines.
Democracy is Dictatorship of the majority over the minority. That is why a founders rejected direct democracy and instead created a Constitutional Republic.
In the end, it becomes to where we put our trust: in things or in God. Lose the things and you gain God. Lose the things you think defines you, and your true identity gains more room to grow.
Actually, I read a bit of the review from Harry Knowles and he said that AOTC actually makes TPM a better movie.
But a Canadian as Darth Vader? "Join the dark side, eh."
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As a 42 year old married woman I gotta say Hayden is very attractive. Have you seen "Life Is A House"? Hayden did very well in it and deserved every acting award/nomination he received for it.
I would have liked Joshua Jackson cast myself but hey its GL's baby.
I can't wait until Wed when Amazon.com fed ex's the book and unabridged audio CD to my doorstep this week.
I'll have to disagree with that statement. The counter examples in our own Republic are enough to point out the fallacy of such a statement.
I can wait until Nov. 1 of this year when its rumored that Ep. II will be released on DVD.
Obi-Wan echoes John McCain on campaign-finance reform: "It is my experience that Senators focus only on pleasing those who fund their campaigns ... and they are by no means scared of forgetting the niceties of democracies in order to get those funds." Padme, in a scene cut from the film, sounds like Kofi Annan pleading for Palestinians when she tells the Senate, "If you offer the separatists violence, they can only show us violence in return! Many will lose their lives. All will lose their freedom." Anakin, like Brutus just before the Ides of March, says if the Senate cannot resolve its differences, "then they should be made to." By whom? "Someone wise," he says. Padme muses, "That sounds an awful lot like a dictatorship to me."
So where does Lucas stand in this political polemic? "I'm more on the liberal side of things," he says. "I grew up in San Francisco in the '60s, and my positions are sort of shaped by that ... If you look back 30 years ago, there were certain issues with the Kennedys, with Richard Nixon, that focused my interest." Lucas' own geopolitics can sound pretty bleak: "All democracies turn into dictatorships?but not by coup. The people give their democracy to a dictator, whether it's Julius Caesar or Napoleon or Adolf Hitler. Ultimately, the general population goes along with the idea ... What kinds of things push people and institutions into this direction?"
I think that Lucas if right on the money in the general case, that self-serving corrupt political leaders can use a time of crisis to grab power for themselves, and that with the approval of the masses devolve into dictatorships, but I think that in the specific case of the present, they got the good guys mixed up with the bad guys. McLame is the one who wants us to sell our freedoms for 'reform'. I really hope Ep2 isn't used as a pro-demoncrat political soapbox, I want it to be something enjoyable.
May I remind you that the purpose of FreeRepublic is to "...roll back decades of governmental largesse..." It sure sounds like more than a few members here have mentally accepted a dictorship already.
No system of government, will preserve for us, what is our own responsibility to defend. And for all the fury which might release upon catastrophic failures by our government officials to uphold the lawful laws, no recovery is possible without the people being well-informed of what is our responsibility and trust ... and duty to restore.--First_Salute
I wonder if Mr. Lucas is a product of the public school system?
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1. Undermining the dignity and sanctity of the home, which is the basis the basis of human society
2. Higher and higher taxes, the spending of public of public money for free bread and circuses for the populace
3. Mad craze for pleasure and sports becoming every year more exciting, more brutal, and more immoral
4. Building of great amarmaments when the real enemy is within; the decay of individual responsibility
5. Decay of religion, fading into mere form, losing touch with life, and losing power to guide the people.
In summary: A nation's decline begins with spiritual apostacy (no sense of right and wrong - it's all relative ...), which is followed by moral awfulness (we are there, aren't we?), and results in political anarchy.
I see how All democracies turn into dictatorships.When we reach political anarchy, a strong man/woman easily takes over and is most welcomed.
It is re-telling Dune. Luke Skywalker is a young man with special powers who lives on a desert world. Muad'dib is a young man with special abilities who resides on a desert world. Obi Wan holds the wisdom of the desert, so does Stilgar. One masters the Force, or the Weirding Way. Fighting is anachronistic either using a large laser sword or knives.
You get the picture. Except Dune was written in 1965.
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Pretty good guy. I like that.
And as Patrick Henry said, and I paraphrase; "...sometines only by the use of force..."
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Thanks.
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