Posted on 05/28/2005 5:41:23 PM PDT by CHARLITE
Pity George Lucas.
Why should we pity George Lucas? The man could fill an Olympic-sized swimming pool with ten-thousand dollar bills and still have money left over. The Lucas six-episode saga of good versus evil, StarWars, is being dissected by nearly everyone who sees them. I must admit, I can’t resist doing some dissection myself.
This last episode, Revenge of the Sith, is drawing more attention than the previous five installments.
For anyone not familiar with the Star Wars movies, all one needs to know is that the Jedi Knights and the Sith are sort of like cousins. Both have the ability to use a power called the “force,” which is an inborn ability to draw power from all that is around them.
The Jedi use this power for peace and good and the Sith use it for evil and conquest and draw on emotions such as hatred and anger to make their powers even stronger.
The Star Wars movies were filmed and released out of sequence. The third movie, “Return of the Jedi,” is actually how it all ends, with good winning over evil. In fact, even the hated Darth Vader returns to the good side as he lay dying.
Revenge of the Sith shows the audience how the young Jedi Knight, Anaken Skywalker, is turned to the “dark side” and becomes the dreaded Sith enforcer, Darth Vader. His conversion to evil complete, Vader now believes that only the Sith, by ruling with a cruel and iron fist, can bring peace and order to the galaxy. If Vader must kill everyone in the galaxy to convince them of the righteousness of the Sith, he will.
What the bloggers have all been chattering about is the political undertones in the final Star Wars chapter. Is Lucas liberal or conservative? Was he slamming President Bush when he threw in the line that diplomacy should be given more time? Was Lucas painting Bush as the evil Sith master, the emperor? Was the line, “You are either with us or you are with evil,” a reference to the War on Terror?
Poor George Lucas has repeatedly stated that he wrote these storylines thirty years ago, but no one listens.
As I listened to all the endlessly mentioned references to present day Earth and our problems, I found most of the one-liners pertinent to the dialog and storyline of the movie. After all, Lucas is known for action, not dialog.
There was one line that did catch my attention: “Carry out order 66.” The reaction of the followers of evil, the Sith, was startling. One minute, these men are loyal to the democratic Republic and friends of the Jedi. They have fought side by side and shared meals. They were neighbors.
When the Sith master issues his “order 66” these loyal and lifelong friends turn on the Jedi without hesitation. The Jedi Knights are slaughtered. They are shot in the back. They are hunted down like animals and exterminated. The blind followers of the dark side have no friends, no families, no lives. They have only the Sith and their slavish devotion to its beliefs.
As for the Jedi Knights, they are caught totally off guard. They had no idea that the poison of the Sith had spread so far and wide. The Jedi didn’t stand a chance.
I don’t believe that George Lucas had Islam in mind when he first wrote about the evil Sith. But since liberals can’t resist comparing Bush to the evil Sith master and Republicans in general to his followers, I, as a Republican conservative, cannot resist comparing the danger of the Sith to Islam.
I have had many ex-Muslims tell me that we Americans just don’t understand. We don’t understand that Islam has pre-programmed its followers since birth to follow Islam and only Islam. They are not American or Canadian or French; they are Muslims. Islam has no country and no borders and no loyalty to anyone or anything but Islam. I am told by those who are in a position to know that Islam has nothing to do with peace and everything about conquest and war.
For decades, the Saudis have funded Muslim schools here in America to assure that American Muslim children are taught in the Wahhabi ways of Islam. The Saudis have built hundreds of mosques all over the country and often placed Saudi clerics in charge to hammer the “Islam first and only” doctrine into the minds of American Muslims. Middle Eastern Muslims have immigrated here and have spent their time chastising American Muslims for not being “true Muslims.” Millions of dollars have been spent plowing the fertile fields of America and planting the seeds of Islam.
The Saudis and other Islamics fund it all, and groups like the Council on American/Islamic Relations and the American Civil Liberties Union protect it. American gullibility feeds it.
The question remains: When American Muslims are given their “order 66,” how many will follow it? There is no way to know.
There are roughly 6 million Muslims in America. If only 20% answer the Islamic call to battle against their fellow Americans, that is a frightening 1,200,000 Muslims. Are we ready to deal with that? I don’t think so.
What to do about this potential problem? American Muslims are Americans. Having them sign a loyalty oath is worthless, because the followers of true Islam would just lie and sign anyway. Camps are out of the question. It was outrageous when it was done to Japanese Americans and it would be just as outrageous to do it to American Muslims. I believe that there are millions of American Muslims who really do believe Islam is peaceful. When the shooting starts, they will be targets right along with the rest of us.
Which brings us back to the first square: What do we do to prepare for this possibility?
Perhaps the best way is to realize that the threat exists. Americans must realize that Islam has not been high-jacked by anyone. Islam is what it is: dangerous. Once a threat is exposed, that threat looses the advantage. Islam will lose the element of surprise. I don’t want Americans caught by surprise like the Jedi Knights were.
Americans must start paying attention to the former Muslims who are yelling at the top of their voices but no one is listening. We must start paying attention to cries of warning coming from the Christians persecuted in Islamic countries. If Islam was tolerant and loving, as it professes to be, Christians living under Islamic rule would be free to practice their own beliefs instead of being imprisoned for the crime of not being Muslim.
The warnings have been given. It’s time Americans started listening before that “order 66” is given. Once it has been given, it will be too late.
About the Writer: Barbara J. Stock is a registered nurse who enjoys writing about politics and current events. She has a website at http://www.republicanandproud.com/. Barbara J. receives e-mail at dickens502003@yahoo.com.
You my FRiend, "get it."
"Bush can do no wrong"
I don't know anybody who feels that way. We realize Bush is human .. and not perfect. No one is .. and to expect perfection is unrealistic.
This country is bountiful enough to support many useless growths, and has for years. If or when it can no longer support those growths, they will be excised...count on it.
I wonder just how Americans will celebrate Memorial Day...just how many will celebrate our freedom? Most Americans do not believe how serious and determined and single minded Muslims are. To have so called "peaceful and moderate " Muslims not in outrage is a chilling sign. The only time they get upset is when they feel put upon here cause of some relatively minor animosity at them here after 9-11.
Hey all you moderate Muslims! You can kiss your happy trips to Wallmart, your American TV, your freedoms GOOD BYE
when your fellow "peaceful" Wahabbis force you into Burkas and blow Detroit, Michigan up on their way to taking over America. Like Bush said, "You're either with us or against us" and from my view "You ain't F..king with us!"
I sure hope you are right...but it looks like we're just real fat and happy now.
Where can I find this "They just dont get it" to read it please?
Just remember, anyone who thinks the pedophile is a prophet is a target. As the author said, they aren't Americans....they're muslimes. Once you understand that, the rest is easy.
Thanks for the ping
Amen.
The more holes in the paper, the fewer holes required to drop the real target.
I love efficiency.
That's not what the president says. Right from the get-go, he's been telling us the war is against terrorism, not Islam.
I think Americans realize the true nature of Islam just fine, thank you very much. Maybe it's George W. Bush who should get with the program.
Omar M. Ahmad, chairman of the board of [CAIR] the Council on American-Islamic relations, spoke before a packed crowd at the Flamingo Palace banquet hall on Peralta Boulevard, urging Muslims not to shirk their duty of sharing the Islamic faith with those who are "on the wrong side."
Muslim institutions, schools and economic power should be strengthened in America, he said. Those who stay in America should be "open to society without melting (into it)," keeping mosques open so anyone can come and learn about Islam, he said.
"If you choose to live here (in America) . . . you have a responsibility to deliver the message of Islam," he said. "Islam isn't in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant, " he said. "The Koran, the Muslim book of scripture, should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on Earth," he said.
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Sorry I didn't even notice they were clones. They interacted with the Jedi as normal people. They laughed, joked with them and seemed to be friends. Not being a Star Wars expert I guess I just didn't notice they were clones. In some ways, the comparison would have been stronger had I realized that. Many followers of Islam ARE mindless clones in their behavior. Note they scream about someone touching the Quran (an infidel can lose an arm for that or his eyes if he looks at it)yet, they just blew up a whole bunch of Qurans in Pakistan when Suni's attacked Shia at a festival. (Not to mention the people they blew up) Our soldiers at GITMO are not allowed to touch the Quran. They must only move it by using a towel. If they hands even brush against it, they scream desicration. That, and the prisoners lie a lot. It's right in the Al Quada handbook. Lie and claim you were beaten and tortured.
BJ Stock
Thank you for your helpful post. You really pointed out some good things I had forgotten in my frustrations.
Thanks for the ping!
Vapoorize their moongod/kubah/rock, and it will be a very short war. That would end eyeslime forever. Which way would they pray to with nothing left there to pray to? Simple, too bad the Kahn and Crusaders didn't have the ability to dispose of this slimeball cult of satan hundreds of years ago. We have the tools and the technology today. Last crusade against satan anyone????
Remember, when Obi Wan says "Only the Siths deal in absolutes." it's an absolute.
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