Code 66
George Lucas' space opera "Revenge of the Sith" explores the ramification of democracies voting-in dictatorships among other sub-plots within his last movie and ultimately has the peaceful and benign senator from Naboo becoming the evil and dark Emporer of the now infamous "Empire". As the Emporer arrests power from the Jedi Council he unveils his ultimate conspiracy by turning the clone troops of the Republic against the Jedi and all free peoples by activating "Code 66", corny I know, but illustrates Georges' worldview that the military in "real" life certainly can't be trusted and all it takes is "one" person to mold it into a force for evil. As the Left truly believes, our troops are clearly "mindless robots or clones" who follow any orders without due regard to our modus vivendi or constitution and are a threat to our "republic".
Are Georges' beliefs well founded? Does history show that countries that are typically fond of freedom can give it all away for "security" and power? Well, the answer is yes, they can and did. Ironically, it has always been the Left however, that actually formed the conspiracies to overthrow the legitimate conservative and consenual governments in Europe, Asia and Latin/South America. I know George Lucas thinks that conservatives and especially Republicans are the "true" danger to freedom everywhere but frankly its quite the opposite as demonstrated by the facts and history itself.
The Left's embrace of socialism as their modus vivendi is best illustrated by the mutli-headed Hydra. The claim to fame for this beast was if you lopped off one of its heads it would grow two more in its place. In this case, socialism is the body of the Hydra while the different sects of socialism are its heads. The many heads of this socialist beast has been represented throughout the 20th century in the form of Fascism, National Socialism and Communism. We have seen the more western benign heads rise up in France and Britain and certainly in America but are no less insidious as its more violent eastern cousins.
The major characteristics of socialism is its adherence to a redistribution of income and a planned economy. It also has a penchant to murderous violence both domestically and foreign. Its contribution to history is its love of mob-ocracy. If it doesn't get what it wants then they "march" onto the streets as a mindless mob violating the civil order that is the right of all free peoples throughout the world. You will note the sad irony however, that once "they" achieve power then ALL forms of "protest" are completely and violently put down. Free-will is anathema to socialists of every stripe and thus to be extinguished by excessive legislation micro-managing every detail of your life and ultimately centralizing power in one federal head. Another characteristic of socialism is that the political party becomes THE STATE thus ensuring "loyalty" to the state by party apparatchiks. Finally, Christianity is an evil to be either violently suppressed or watered-down by politically correct doctrines of the Left thereby emasculating Jesus Christ from society at large thus giving rise and power to pagan cults and/or atheism.
In Italy in the early 1920's, it was Mussolini and the Fascists using the threat of mob violence of his "Black Shirts" to sow anarchy and civil war that ultimately prompted the traditional conservative establishment as represented by the Italian monarchy of King Emmanuel to "give" the government over to the Fascists. In turn, the Fascist Party would become the Fascist Government of Il Duce.
From Wikipedia:
At various times after 1922, Mussolini personally took over the ministries of the interior, of foreign affairs, of the colonies, of the corporations, of the army and the other armed services, and of public works. Sometimes he held as many as seven departments simultaneously, as well as the premiership. He was also head of the all-powerful Fascist party (formed in 1921) and the armed local Fascist militia, the MVSN, or Blackshirts", that terrorized incipient resistances in the cities and provinces. He would later form an institutionalised militia that carried official state support, the OVRA. In this way he succeeded in keeping power in his own hands and preventing the emergence of any rival. But it was at the price of creating a regime that was overcentralized, inefficient, and corrupt.
Most of his time was spent on propaganda, whether at home or abroad, and here his training as a journalist was invaluable. Press, radio, education, films — all were carefully supervised to manufacture the illusion that fascism was the doctrine of the 20th century, replacing liberalism and democracy.
Under the dictatorship, the effectiveness of the parlimentary system was virtually abolished though its forms were publicly preserved. The law codes were rewritten. All teachers in schools and universities had to swear an oath to defend the Fascist regime. Newspaper editors were all personally chosen by Mussolini himself, and no one could practice journalism who did not possess a certificate of approval from the Fascist party. These certificates were issued in secret, so the public had no idea of this ever occurring, thus skillfully creating the illusion of a "free press".
Mussolini played up to his financial backers at first by transferring a number of industries from public to private ownership. But by the 1930s he had begun moving back to the opposite extreme of rigid governmental control of industry.
Germany in the early 1930's, Hitler and his National Socialists come to power by both the franchise and mob-ocracy. Once again, the "Brown Shirts", a copy of the Fascists Black Shirts in Italy, were used exclusively to bully and intimidate both the people in general and the ministers in government. Their recourse to violence in the street was the leverage Hitler used to convince traditional conservative consensual government in the form of the old Hindenburg to acquiese to a coalition of political parties with the NAZI's as the largest block within this group and allow them to rule Germany. The Party would become the State. Hindenburg felt it was necessary to give them power, the NAZI's only achieved a plurality of votes not a majority, in order to save the country from almost certain civil war between the thuggish Brown Shirts and the subversive communists.
from wikipedia:
The new government installed a dictatorship in a series of measures in quick succession. On February 27,1933 the Reichstag was set on fire, and this was followed immediately by the Reichstag Fire Decree, which rescinded habeous corpus and civil liberties.
A further step that turned Germany into a dictatorship virtually overnight was the Enabling Act passed in March 1933 under pressure. The act gave the government (and thus effectively Adolf Hitler) legislative powers and also authorized it to deviate from the provisions of the constitution. With these powers, Hitler removed the remaining opposition and turned the Weimar Republic into the "Third Reich".
Further consolidation of power was achieved on January 30th, 1934, with the Gesetz über den Neuaufbau des Reichs (Act to rebuild the Reich). The act changed the highly decentralized federal Germany of the Weimar era into a centralized state. It disbanded state parliaments, transferring sovereign rights of the states to the Reich central government and put the state administrations under the control of the Reich administration.
The Nazis also undertook programs targeting "weak" or "unfit" members of their own population, such as the T-4 Euthenasia Program that killed tens of thousands of disabled and sick Germans in an effort to "maintain the purity of the German Master race" The techniques of mass killing developed in these efforts would later be used in the holocaust. Under a law passed in 1933, the Nazi regime carried out the compulsory sterilization of over 400,000 individuals labeled as having hereditary defects, ranging from mental illness to alcholism.
Recent research has also emphasized the role of the extensive Nazi welfare programmes that supposedly helped maintain public support for the regime until late in the war. The German community was nationalized and labor and entertainment - from festivals, to vacation trips and traveling cinemas - were all made a part of the "Strength through Joy" program. Also crucial to the building of loyalty and comradeship was the implementation of the National Labor Service and the Hitler Youth Organization, with the former being compulsory and the latter consisting of nearly six million boys and girls. In addition to a number of architectural projects that were undertaken, the construction of the Autobahn made it the first National Motor Highway system in the world. It should be noted that between 1933 and 1936, Germany outpaced the United States in construction, automobile production, unemployment and employment.
Russia in 1917, after suffering miserable losses on their Western Front against Germany and Austria/Hungary during WWI, gave rise to the greatest of socialist thugs in the now infamous Bolshevik Revolution. Tsar Nicholas having abdicated his throne just some 6 months prior, was under the protection of a provisional left-wing socialist government, when he was captured by the extremely violent Bolshevics, met a murderous fate at the hands of the radical communist party in an effort to rid Russia of Czarist rule forever. There was a time when "democracy" and the "rule of law" could have blossomed in Russia after the Czar surrendered his power and authority, however, with subversive and brutal left-wing thugs roaming unchecked first in the cities then in the countryside came to symbolize all that the Left has stood for since 1917. Once seizing power for itself, THE Communist Party would become THE State:
From wikipedia:
Before the revolution of February, 1917, main Bolsheviks (Zinoviev, Trotsky, Lenin) lived and worked in Western Europe, receiving financial support from the European social democrats.
While the Mensheviks and other moderate socialists believed that an industrially backwards country such as Russia could not hope to achieve socialism and that the task of the revolution was therefore to complete the country's transformation to liberal capitalism, the Bolsheviks believed that Russia could be the spark that would lead Europe to a socialist transformation of society and did not attempt to moderate their program.
The Central Committee of the Bolsheviks spent September and October of 1917 debating whether they should use parliamentary methods or whether they should seize power by force. With Lenin in hiding in Finland, the parliamentary line -- advocated by Kamenev, Zinoviev and Rykov against Trotsky -- at first prevailed and the Bolsheviks participates in the quasiparliamentary bodies convened by the Provisional Government, the Democratic Conference and the smaller, more permanent Pre-Parliament. Lenin sent numerous letters to the Central Committee and Petrograd party activists urging them to abandon the parliamentary path and overthrow the Provisional Government by means of an insurrection.
The rest is history as most of you should well know. What followed after the communist seizure of power is typically ignored by most Leftists as it indeed is a shame upon them that will never be forgotten in history. Consolidating their hold in Moscow, the communists would come to murder tens of millions of their fellow citizens as they attempted to "manage" the people.
The Left has always been subversive in nature and really its they that George Lucas should be in fear of, not George Bush and those Republicans. What I find humorous is that most conservatives love the Star Wars saga and do not find its message as "leftwing" per se. The "Empire" of Star Wars was always considered to represent the Communist Empire as espoused by President Ronald Reagan, a former actor, which no doubt must have bugged old Lucas to no end. The irony of movie history?
Are Georges' beliefs well founded? Does history show that countries that are typically fond of freedom can give it all away for "security" and power? Well, the answer is yes, they can and did. Ironically, it has always been the Left however, that actually formed the conspiracies to overthrow the legitimate conservative and consenual governments in Europe, Asia and Latin/South America. I know George Lucas thinks that conservatives and especially Republicans are the "true" danger to freedom everywhere but frankly its quite the opposite as demonstrated by the facts and history itself.
The Left's embrace of socialism as their modus vivendi is best illustrated by the mutli-headed Hydra. The claim to fame for this beast was if you lopped off one of its heads it would grow two more in its place. In this case, socialism is the body of the Hydra while the different sects of socialism are its heads. The many heads of this socialist beast has been represented throughout the 20th century in the form of Fascism, National Socialism and Communism. We have seen the more western benign heads rise up in France and Britain and certainly in America but are no less insidious as its more violent eastern cousins.
The major characteristics of socialism is its adherence to a redistribution of income and a planned economy. It also has a penchant to murderous violence both domestically and foreign. Its contribution to history is its love of mob-ocracy. If it doesn't get what it wants then they "march" onto the streets as a mindless mob violating the civil order that is the right of all free peoples throughout the world. You will note the sad irony however, that once "they" achieve power then ALL forms of "protest" are completely and violently put down. Free-will is anathema to socialists of every stripe and thus to be extinguished by excessive legislation micro-managing every detail of your life and ultimately centralizing power in one federal head. Another characteristic of socialism is that the political party becomes THE STATE thus ensuring "loyalty" to the state by party apparatchiks. Finally, Christianity is an evil to be either violently suppressed or watered-down by politically correct doctrines of the Left thereby emasculating Jesus Christ from society at large thus giving rise and power to pagan cults and/or atheism.
In Italy in the early 1920's, it was Mussolini and the Fascists using the threat of mob violence of his "Black Shirts" to sow anarchy and civil war that ultimately prompted the traditional conservative establishment as represented by the Italian monarchy of King Emmanuel to "give" the government over to the Fascists. In turn, the Fascist Party would become the Fascist Government of Il Duce.
From Wikipedia:
At various times after 1922, Mussolini personally took over the ministries of the interior, of foreign affairs, of the colonies, of the corporations, of the army and the other armed services, and of public works. Sometimes he held as many as seven departments simultaneously, as well as the premiership. He was also head of the all-powerful Fascist party (formed in 1921) and the armed local Fascist militia, the MVSN, or Blackshirts", that terrorized incipient resistances in the cities and provinces. He would later form an institutionalised militia that carried official state support, the OVRA. In this way he succeeded in keeping power in his own hands and preventing the emergence of any rival. But it was at the price of creating a regime that was overcentralized, inefficient, and corrupt.
Most of his time was spent on propaganda, whether at home or abroad, and here his training as a journalist was invaluable. Press, radio, education, films — all were carefully supervised to manufacture the illusion that fascism was the doctrine of the 20th century, replacing liberalism and democracy.
Under the dictatorship, the effectiveness of the parlimentary system was virtually abolished though its forms were publicly preserved. The law codes were rewritten. All teachers in schools and universities had to swear an oath to defend the Fascist regime. Newspaper editors were all personally chosen by Mussolini himself, and no one could practice journalism who did not possess a certificate of approval from the Fascist party. These certificates were issued in secret, so the public had no idea of this ever occurring, thus skillfully creating the illusion of a "free press".
Mussolini played up to his financial backers at first by transferring a number of industries from public to private ownership. But by the 1930s he had begun moving back to the opposite extreme of rigid governmental control of industry.
Germany in the early 1930's, Hitler and his National Socialists come to power by both the franchise and mob-ocracy. Once again, the "Brown Shirts", a copy of the Fascists Black Shirts in Italy, were used exclusively to bully and intimidate both the people in general and the ministers in government. Their recourse to violence in the street was the leverage Hitler used to convince traditional conservative consensual government in the form of the old Hindenburg to acquiese to a coalition of political parties with the NAZI's as the largest block within this group and allow them to rule Germany. The Party would become the State. Hindenburg felt it was necessary to give them power, the NAZI's only achieved a plurality of votes not a majority, in order to save the country from almost certain civil war between the thuggish Brown Shirts and the subversive communists.
from wikipedia:
The new government installed a dictatorship in a series of measures in quick succession. On February 27,1933 the Reichstag was set on fire, and this was followed immediately by the Reichstag Fire Decree, which rescinded habeous corpus and civil liberties.
A further step that turned Germany into a dictatorship virtually overnight was the Enabling Act passed in March 1933 under pressure. The act gave the government (and thus effectively Adolf Hitler) legislative powers and also authorized it to deviate from the provisions of the constitution. With these powers, Hitler removed the remaining opposition and turned the Weimar Republic into the "Third Reich".
Further consolidation of power was achieved on January 30th, 1934, with the Gesetz über den Neuaufbau des Reichs (Act to rebuild the Reich). The act changed the highly decentralized federal Germany of the Weimar era into a centralized state. It disbanded state parliaments, transferring sovereign rights of the states to the Reich central government and put the state administrations under the control of the Reich administration.
The Nazis also undertook programs targeting "weak" or "unfit" members of their own population, such as the T-4 Euthenasia Program that killed tens of thousands of disabled and sick Germans in an effort to "maintain the purity of the German Master race" The techniques of mass killing developed in these efforts would later be used in the holocaust. Under a law passed in 1933, the Nazi regime carried out the compulsory sterilization of over 400,000 individuals labeled as having hereditary defects, ranging from mental illness to alcholism.
Recent research has also emphasized the role of the extensive Nazi welfare programmes that supposedly helped maintain public support for the regime until late in the war. The German community was nationalized and labor and entertainment - from festivals, to vacation trips and traveling cinemas - were all made a part of the "Strength through Joy" program. Also crucial to the building of loyalty and comradeship was the implementation of the National Labor Service and the Hitler Youth Organization, with the former being compulsory and the latter consisting of nearly six million boys and girls. In addition to a number of architectural projects that were undertaken, the construction of the Autobahn made it the first National Motor Highway system in the world. It should be noted that between 1933 and 1936, Germany outpaced the United States in construction, automobile production, unemployment and employment.
Russia in 1917, after suffering miserable losses on their Western Front against Germany and Austria/Hungary during WWI, gave rise to the greatest of socialist thugs in the now infamous Bolshevik Revolution. Tsar Nicholas having abdicated his throne just some 6 months prior, was under the protection of a provisional left-wing socialist government, when he was captured by the extremely violent Bolshevics, met a murderous fate at the hands of the radical communist party in an effort to rid Russia of Czarist rule forever. There was a time when "democracy" and the "rule of law" could have blossomed in Russia after the Czar surrendered his power and authority, however, with subversive and brutal left-wing thugs roaming unchecked first in the cities then in the countryside came to symbolize all that the Left has stood for since 1917. Once seizing power for itself, THE Communist Party would become THE State:
From wikipedia:
Before the revolution of February, 1917, main Bolsheviks (Zinoviev, Trotsky, Lenin) lived and worked in Western Europe, receiving financial support from the European social democrats.
While the Mensheviks and other moderate socialists believed that an industrially backwards country such as Russia could not hope to achieve socialism and that the task of the revolution was therefore to complete the country's transformation to liberal capitalism, the Bolsheviks believed that Russia could be the spark that would lead Europe to a socialist transformation of society and did not attempt to moderate their program.
The Central Committee of the Bolsheviks spent September and October of 1917 debating whether they should use parliamentary methods or whether they should seize power by force. With Lenin in hiding in Finland, the parliamentary line -- advocated by Kamenev, Zinoviev and Rykov against Trotsky -- at first prevailed and the Bolsheviks participates in the quasiparliamentary bodies convened by the Provisional Government, the Democratic Conference and the smaller, more permanent Pre-Parliament. Lenin sent numerous letters to the Central Committee and Petrograd party activists urging them to abandon the parliamentary path and overthrow the Provisional Government by means of an insurrection.
The rest is history as most of you should well know. What followed after the communist seizure of power is typically ignored by most Leftists as it indeed is a shame upon them that will never be forgotten in history. Consolidating their hold in Moscow, the communists would come to murder tens of millions of their fellow citizens as they attempted to "manage" the people.
The Left has always been subversive in nature and really its they that George Lucas should be in fear of, not George Bush and those Republicans. What I find humorous is that most conservatives love the Star Wars saga and do not find its message as "leftwing" per se. The "Empire" of Star Wars was always considered to represent the Communist Empire as espoused by President Ronald Reagan, a former actor, which no doubt must have bugged old Lucas to no end. The irony of movie history?
posted by Bruce R. McConnell | 11:06 PM
1 Comments:
Well, I am a Jedi Master, you know.
I thought it humorous that George Lucas is such a big fan of Nancy Pelosi, hence my blog.
Been a while since I last heard from ya. Hope everything is well for you.
Love the pic! Its...so you.
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