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Re: Question for the Conservatives out there
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Fri, 4 Jun 2004 17:58:37 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler wrote:
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Don Heyse wrote:
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler wrote:
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Well, thanks for nothing, Don. The reason I asked it here is because
I was hoping to learn what people in this forum think, rather than what
the distilled wisdom of the Internet has to offer.
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Sorry, I just found it interesting that google returned this link:
http://216.239.51.104/search?q=cache:ZxTwHLsCi9cJ:www.williambowles.info/spysrus/terror.html+movie+terrorist+strike+martial+law&hl=en&start=17
on the second page of my search for terrorist movie references.
Apparently that’s where you get all your material. It’s got your
question, your cigar mag reference, everything. And google corrolated
it with a bunch of blather about some silly movie. That says something
to me.
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Well, what does it say to you, exactly? Franks’ interview in Cigar
Afficianado is now a matter of public record, so it’s fair game for my
question.
I’ve never seen The Siege, so I can’t
comment on the relevance of that piece of fiction to the current political
landscape. I will say that
Orwell’s 1984 parallels much of the policy of Dubya’s administration.
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I was thinking that season 2 thru 4 of Bab 5, specifically regarding President
Clarke’s assention to power and the corruption thereof, with all the
‘homeguard’, the ‘poli-speak’, and the ‘if you’re not with us, you’re against
us’ rhetoric is as close as I have seen to a ‘fictionalized’ Dubya
administration.
I’d have to refresh my memory of some of the quotations from that particular
storyline in B5, but from what I recall they’re sounding pretty ‘verbatim’ to
the current administration. JMS was a few years ahead of his time.
Dave K
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| (...) I hate to have to tell you this, but JMS was actually a few decades behind his time! Orwell pegged all of that stuff way back in 1948! I'm not a B5 fan, so I can't comment on the particulars of that series, but it sounds like JMS was offering (...) (20 years ago, 4-Jun-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| (...) Well, what does it say to you, exactly? Franks' interview in Cigar Afficianado is now a matter of public record, so it's fair game for my question. I've never seen (URL) The Siege>, so I can't comment on the relevance of that piece of fiction (...) (20 years ago, 4-Jun-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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