A new hope
Published Tue, Mar 17 2009 10:34 AM
The Star Wars series of movies is a well known part of our popular culture. As most of you know (unless you’ve been sleeping under a rock for the past thirty years or so), the series began in the middle with Episode IV: A New Hope. As I recall this was advertised as coming “from the adventures of Luke Skywalker,” although The Internet Movie Database gives some of the working titles as referring to “Luke Starkiller.”
A short time after the series began, Berkeley Breathed featured a strip in his Bloom County series where Opus and the gang were fleeing from the Death Star, or AT & T’s logo. The entry from Wikipedia about Bloom County remarks…
A common gag in early strips was to have Opus and other characters riding on Cutter John's wheelchair, often in parody of Star Trek. One strip featured the gang turning and fleeing from the AT&T globe logo of the 1980s, calling it "the Death Star!" Bloom County was the first major pop culture outlet to point out the resemblance between the AT&T logo and the iconic Star Wars space station, and the analogy stuck for many years.
If I can find it (I have several of the books) I’ll see about posting a scan of that cartoon in an update to this post. Probably sometime later tonight.
Anyhow, the Death Star’s incredible ability to destroy planets has obviously struck a chord with someone at the Patriot Post. With our country set to run up trillion dollar deficits for the foreseeable future, they present “The Debt Star.” This incredible creation of government may well destroy our children’s inheritance, leaving them bereft of hope.
Where, oh where are the Jedi Knights when we need them?
There are altogether too many similarities between the universe of Star Wars and our own political situation that this reminds me of. Our nation was founded as a republic. In the beginning of the Star Wars saga, that distant galaxy’s government was a republic. Financial considerations, politics and the lust for power turned that republic into an empire. The majority party today is using an economic “crisis” as an excuse to grab power and implement many of the agenda items that they were unable to implement because of politics.
Will it take a new rebellion to rescue our Individual Liberties from the socialist empire that our federal government is becoming? Surely there are a few conservatives that haven’t yet turned to the “dark side,” aren’t there?
Or are we just a nation of droids?
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David responded with: "Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi!"
 | Rather than look to some elite group of noble warriors, all we really have are legions of common folk... many of whom are clueless but frustrated and angry. Perhaps the "tea parties" will rally a few thinking, witting (there is a difference) folks to lend some sense to the senseless masses.
Perhaps. |
Marshall Art responded with:
 | Either that or Glen Beck's "912" people.
But I think there are stronger conservatives out there than what have been peddled as such in the last election. We just have to watch and support those that truly are. I am still withholding dough from the GOP as I am disappointed in Steele as chairman. Not good enough, though I like him in general. |
JMB responded with:
 | You are more then welcome to place me into an overly optimistic fool category, if you so wish.
For I do not believe that the character of the American people, is yet lost, nor do I except any premise, that the final blows to our Republic have thus been struck.
This socialist Federal empire has overestimated our abilities to continue to tolerate it’s abuses.
An irrevocable rejection of what has become, Constitutionally, an unrecognizable federal authority, and a judiciary that thinks it has this authority to rewrite our own State laws, while retaining unto itself absolutely no loyalties to this welfare of our very own Republic, is coming, weather you, or I, or they, like it or not.
“We the People” is not a rejection of our own States authority, it is a recognition of our rightful authority, to have, and retain, control over it. |
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