"So, this is how liberty dies…with thunderous applause."
Such were the words spoken in "Star Wars - Episode III: Revenge of the Sith" (2005) when galactic senators applauded Emperor Palpatine's order to create the Imperial Empire, in what was clearly seen in that "galaxy far, far away" as a socialist dictatorship.
I thought about that after watching Democratic Senators on the House floor cheer March 21 when national health care passed in a 219-212 vote, with no regard for what American thought.
A good number of films and one current science-fiction television show came to mind as I thought about how this 2,000-plus page, $90 billion monstrosity called health care legislation was passed.
"It's a depression," Beale says. "Everybody's out of work or scared of losing their job. The dollar buys a nickel's work. Banks are going bust. Shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter. Punks are running wild in the street and there's nobody anywhere who seems to know what to do, and there's no end to it. We know the air is unfit to breathe and our food is unfit to eat, and we sit watching our TVs while some local newscaster tells us that today we had 15 homicides and 63 violent crimes, as if that's the way it's supposed to be."
I find it sad that in the 34 years since that film came out, the same still applies today in this country. Is this what referred to in the movies as "timeless?"
I was as skeptical of this young African American Democratic presidential candidate from Chicago from the get-go as FBI Agent Erica Evans, the character Elizabeth Mitchell plays on ABC's V (2009-2011) who doesn't trust Anna, the attractive high-heeled slender leader of The Visitors who've come from another "galaxy far, far away" to provide the people of Earth universal health care.
Many Americans are either skeptical on whether this health care package will benefit the country as a whole or want the entire bill scrapped. Many are furious at how Democrats are trying to change, ignore and rewrite the constitution.
It's no secret a lot of Democrats are scared they could be voted out of office this November as a result of the health care legislation passing and they very well should be.
When it comes to how conservative Americans feel about how this health care bill was passed, to quote the promotional line from "V," "It's US versus THEM." Or to quote a character from the recent box office hit, "Clash of the Titans" (2010), "One day, somebody's got to make a stand. One day, somebody's got to say: Enough.”
Obama's radical socialist Empire might have struck back March 21 against the American people. Come November 2010, if conservatives, libertarians and maybe even Democrats who voted for him and are now refusing to drink the liberal Kool-Aid have their say, the election results for Republicans might not be so much a case of "Return" as it is "Revenge of the Jedi."
©4/5/10
Such were the words spoken in "Star Wars - Episode III: Revenge of the Sith" (2005) when galactic senators applauded Emperor Palpatine's order to create the Imperial Empire, in what was clearly seen in that "galaxy far, far away" as a socialist dictatorship.
I thought about that after watching Democratic Senators on the House floor cheer March 21 when national health care passed in a 219-212 vote, with no regard for what American thought.
A good number of films and one current science-fiction television show came to mind as I thought about how this 2,000-plus page, $90 billion monstrosity called health care legislation was passed.
It was us, conservative Americans, better known as "The Rebellion," from that "galaxy far, far away," who lost March 21. The Democratic Party was impenetrable against the Tea Party movement. We might as well have been on that ice planet, Hoth, in The Empire Strikes Back (1980) going up against those metallic four-legged Imperial Walkers.When it comes to how bad things are getting in this country, I am reminded of the comments Peter Finch's unstable newscaster Howard Beale uttered in "Network" (1976) shortly before he told viewers to yell, "I'm mad as Hell and I'm not going to take this anymore!"
"It's a depression," Beale says. "Everybody's out of work or scared of losing their job. The dollar buys a nickel's work. Banks are going bust. Shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter. Punks are running wild in the street and there's nobody anywhere who seems to know what to do, and there's no end to it. We know the air is unfit to breathe and our food is unfit to eat, and we sit watching our TVs while some local newscaster tells us that today we had 15 homicides and 63 violent crimes, as if that's the way it's supposed to be."
I find it sad that in the 34 years since that film came out, the same still applies today in this country. Is this what referred to in the movies as "timeless?"
When Captain Kirk in "Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country" (1991) refuses to trust his sworn enemies, the Klingons, and says, "I have never trusted Klingons and I never will. I can never forgive them for the death of my boy," I came up with my own line applying my utter contempt for the Democratic Party.I have made it no secret how much I have been against President Obama's administration and his radical socialist agenda. I, for one, stand proud I did not drink from the Obama Kool-Aid that Hollywood and the liberal drive-by media have been feeding the gullible public over the past year and a half.
"I have never trusted Democrats and I never will. I can never forgive them for passing health care legislation without so much as a thought to what the American people want."
I was as skeptical of this young African American Democratic presidential candidate from Chicago from the get-go as FBI Agent Erica Evans, the character Elizabeth Mitchell plays on ABC's V (2009-2011) who doesn't trust Anna, the attractive high-heeled slender leader of The Visitors who've come from another "galaxy far, far away" to provide the people of Earth universal health care.
Many Americans are either skeptical on whether this health care package will benefit the country as a whole or want the entire bill scrapped. Many are furious at how Democrats are trying to change, ignore and rewrite the constitution.
When are these free-loading liberals, all of whom stupidly think they are entitled to get something for nothing and that the government's No. 1 job is to take care of their lazy, sorry asses, going to get it through their thick skulls the reason we don't want this billion-dollar joke is not because we don't feel the nation's health care system needs to be overhauled. Everyone agrees that something has to be done. It's because we don't want the government mandating that we all have to have health insurance, whether we want it or not.You liberals might get off paying high taxes, and thrive on being told what to do, how to think, what to say, what to watch, what to eat, what to read, what to buy, who to vote for as though you were still living under your parents' roof following their rules, but I sure don't.
It's no secret a lot of Democrats are scared they could be voted out of office this November as a result of the health care legislation passing and they very well should be.
When it comes to how conservative Americans feel about how this health care bill was passed, to quote the promotional line from "V," "It's US versus THEM." Or to quote a character from the recent box office hit, "Clash of the Titans" (2010), "One day, somebody's got to make a stand. One day, somebody's got to say: Enough.”
Obama's radical socialist Empire might have struck back March 21 against the American people. Come November 2010, if conservatives, libertarians and maybe even Democrats who voted for him and are now refusing to drink the liberal Kool-Aid have their say, the election results for Republicans might not be so much a case of "Return" as it is "Revenge of the Jedi."
©4/5/10
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