Posted on 03/26/2012 2:33:47 PM PDT by No One Special
The reason I made this post is because the writer presents a dystopian future that he believes the left is aiming at. I agree with him. When I read it, I thought that is where I think they want to end up. I have not seen the movie nor have I read the book. I think it’s important to know where they want to go because it may help us prevent it.
it would seem this article is simply taking our current slippery slope to at least one possible conclusion...if we allow ourselves to be enslaved and disarmed...
waaaaay off the mark...i hadnt heard of this series till a few days ago, and grudgingly went with the Mrs and several other couples to see it...
the 'heroine' is really anything but a ninja lara croft super saviour...
she was good with a bow, which isnt a stretch for wimmin...
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When I read the book, skimming much of the disturbing descriptions of violence, I saw a hatred of the wealthy. Perhaps Freepers want to interpret the book's Capitol ruling class as the government only, but I don't think that the left will see it that way. My interpretation is in line with what I heard Donald Sutherland, who plays President Snow, say on the radio this morning. He said that the movie was about the occupy movement. He went on at length describing the ruling class as the 1% and the people in the districts as the 99%. In the view of the left, it's rich vs poor more than government vs people. I hope the movie helps some people wake up to the dangers of an all-powerful government, but I'm not sure it will.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Love people like you, but not in a good way. You admit you don’t know what you’re talking about, but espouse anyway like you did. It’s funny, pathetic, but funny.
She doesn’t win in the “manly” way of strength or speed. She wins by being smart, and sneaky, and nice, which are all ways women (or anybody not built like an action star) can win. Next time either read the material or shut the mouth.
He went on at length describing the ruling class as the 1% and the people in the districts as the 99%. In the view of the left, it’s rich vs poor more than government vs people. I hope the movie helps some people wake up to the dangers of an all-powerful government, but I’m not sure it will.
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Boy I read the book and saw the Ruling Classes and their minions and the co-opted sectors as Big Intrusive government and the other sectors as anti government freedom fighters.
Sutherland isnt very bright.
Sounds like you hit the nail on the head, sad to say. Hatred of the wealthy and financiers is what Lenin emphaized as he was forming the Soviet Union. Covetousness goes a long way towards dividing a people. Once that’s done, all that is needed is for the statists to offer up their “hopium” and it’s all over.
My idea is that the first thing that should be done is give people a real understanding of what their nation is and how it is so different, as founded, from the rest of the world. I’m not sure how this can be done but I feel this is the quickest way to send the left a-packin’.
“Progressive Hallmark: Ownership of Weapons is Forbidden
This is not explicitly stated but it is implied.”
If he’d read the book - and he admits he hasn’t - he’d know it IS explicit. Narrator states in no uncertain terms that if making & distributing weapons suitable for even rudimentary opposition to government was discovered, the perpetrator would be executed on the spot.
“Needless to say, a Panem-style government could never come about so long as gun ownership was as prevalent among private citizens as it is today. “
He hasn’t read the book, has he? Ah, right, he admits he didn’t.
The one totalitarian tactic never considered in the gun control vs despotism debate is the one used by the Panem rulers: total obliteration of a significant fraction of the nation. District 13 doesn’t exist any more, and the Hunger Games are a reminder that the Capitol has no qualms about doing that again to keep the remaining districts under heel.
How far would gun ownership get under a government willing to outright nuke the whole of, say, New England (NY included)?
Well then read the book already. Takes just a few hours. $0.86 at Kobo.com with checkout code thehungergames (append 2 and 3 for the other books, separate purchases, total cost about $3). Easy engaging read.
Read the book already. (Amazing me how many people blathering about it haven’t.)
Spoiler: she survives by avoiding most head-on combat, winning by wits, charm, and the occasional arrow. Nothing John Wayne or Charlie’s Angels about this girl.
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