Posted on 12/04/2002 6:59:43 AM PST by WaterDragon
December 4, 2002, Charlie Rose (PBS) -- Viggo Mortenson. He is the actor who plays Strider (Aragorn of Arathorn) in the Ring Trilogy. He is, he says, an American. He appeared on this program with Peter Jackson, the director and Elijah Wood, who is Frodo. Wearing a t-shirt that he made himself, which said "No more blood for oil....(snip)
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Buy them previously owned, at least...
Last time I looked, there weren't any African nationals flying planes into buildings (like the terrorists) or rolling their tanks into other nations to take them over for THEIR oil (like Saddam in 1990).
Buy them from a recycled records store. In my area, Streetlight Records and Rasputin will replace any defective CDs or DVDs no questions asked.
Wow, you're going to have to explain that twisted concept of governments role. Government exists to defend liberty and property. We recognize a natural right to defend our own liberty and property, and the State exists as delegate to enforce justice on those principles. The United States military exists to protect our liberty and property from foreign threats. How do you make the leap from that principle, to deciding that the military also exists to ensure your "quality of life" by manipulating commodity prices through force and coercion? Should we use the military against Japan to prevent them from selling us cars cheaply, and thus reducing the number of livelihoods supported by domestic car manufacture? Afterall, isn't their "quality of life" being impacted negatively? Just whose "quality of life" and by what measure of quality to whom?
Using the American military to manipulate commodity prices has the function of deflecting the cost of commodity away from those consuming it to those who simple pay for the military - the cost is not avoided. It also limits individuals from rewarding entrepenuers with alternative energy sources by at the same time pre-emptively taking and spending their money on oil (via taxes directed to support military interventions for oil) and reducing the marginal benefit alternative energy sources (attacking the profits of alternatives helps ensure the market doesn't alter the status quo). By using our military to try and enforce an arbitrary price at the pump we also reduce the incentives of producers to find and exploit not just alternative energy sources, but other sources of oil yet to be tapped. "Go ahead and build your multi-million dollar rigs among these brutal savages, if they turn on you Uncle Sam will come save your bacon..."
In short, using the military to manipulate the price of oil has the perverse effect of forcing us to pay more (through coercion in taxes, instead of by choice at the pump) and have less probability of escaping the present situation.
LOL!! You're partly right, Mr. Dwarf, Viggo is an airhead liberal, Ian is an obnoxious homosexual and I can't say whether or not Hugo is, ahem, regular, but I do like the characters he has played, be it a sad, flaming transvestite in "Priscilla, Queen of the Desert" or a sinister 'Agent Smith' in "The Matrix".
Viggo hasn't done anything treasonous a la Jane Fonda sitting in the seat of an anti-aircraft battery in N. Vietnam, or incited violence like Alec Baldwin saying folks should kill Rep. Henry Hyde and his whole family. He has a stupid opinion that is informed by his apparently liberal worldview. When I'm watching him on the screen in FoTR, TTT or RoTK, I'll see Aragorn not Viggo!
Any war can (and will) be used by political parties for advantage. We did not station troops in Saudi Arabia in 1990 because it was in the GOP platform, or the Democrats for that matter. We did so because there is a lot of oil in the ground in that country, even if we don't actually buy much of it in the States.
"If idiots could fly, the sky would be black." -Some unknown wit who undoubtedly worked in Hollywood for at least a while.
Yeah, this sort of thing just kills my ability to enjoy a movie. It really does. I just sit and brood, "that SOB hates my country" everytime the actor appears on the screen. I am seeing fewer movies all the time, these days. But according to Michael Medved's 1990 book HOLLYWOOD VS AMERICA, Hollywood's profits have been declining since about 1969, and have never rebounded to those in the golden years of the 1930s and 1940s. Serves them right.
How much of your blood are you willing to spill? Do you have a handy pint/barrel ratio we should use? I'd rather just buy the stuff. What's wrong with doing that?
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