The Case for the Empire

Weekly Standard ^ | May 16, 2002 | Jonathan V. Last

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Of course the Rebels were like the 1960s radicals. Heck, George Lucas actually made clear since at least 1973 (which Walter Murch further confirmed) that the Rebel Alliance had been based on the Vietcong, and that if anything, the Galactic Empire was based on us, the United States of America, especially America under Nixon (and if you ask me, Nixon was extremely vilified and rather undeservedly so).

That alone made the case on how the Rebel Alliance was closer to being bad guys far more than this article can ever get, and I used to be a Rebel supporter back when I was naïve enough to still think the Rebels were actually based on the American Minutemen, American values, or even the French Resistance during World War II, so don’t think I’m saying this lightly.

Honestly, even if the Empire were Nazis, as bad as the Nazis were the Vietcong were FAR worse, as this article demonstrates: http://www.paulbogdanor.com/left/vietnam/hochiminh.html

Already now, I can see the dank implications behind what is the actual “freedom” the Rebel Alliance is gunning for (I’ll give you a hint, it’s closer to the French Revolution than the American War for Independence).

Thanks to the bombshells that Lucas gave, call me an Empire supporter from now on, because I simply cannot in good conscience support a group like the Vietcong after the horrors they inflicted both before, during, and after the Vietnam War in the name of Marxism, which is ultimately what I am doing if I support the Rebels and the inherent implications behind that. I don’t like it, but guess what, Lucas with his bombshells don’t exactly leave me with much option but to do so, especially when I can’t rely on the American Minutemen, French Resistance, or anything like that. Besides, since the Empire is literally based on our own country, I probably feel a little bit better supporting it.