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In lugnet.technic.bionicle, Kyle Beatty wrote:
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Lego has put up a teaser about the Vahki enforcement squads in Mertu Nui.
Substitute “Department of Homeland Security” for “Vahki” and “Constitution”
for “law” and you have an all too topical bit of agitprop. “Matoran are
disappearing.” Indeed.
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Yeah, very true. The entire Vahki/Metru Nui saga is taking a Soviet turn (as is
the US, IMO). The press release for the Vahki has a new tagline: “Surrender or
Run”. The fonts and artwork style used on the ad collateral is very reminiscent
of Soviet propoganda of the middle of the last century.
Note the blocky font, backwards R, big star, and the central portion of the
Vahki logo is a lot like a sickle - combined with the star, the image hearkens
back to the CCCP flag.
The promo movies for the Vahki enhance this theme, with pithy sayings like “A
busy Matoran is a happy Matoran,” “Turaga Dume Sees All,” and “Thoughts Can Be
Dangerous” - the last as a Vahki kicks down a Matoran’s door.
Not terribly subtle in setting up a totalitarian existence.
On to political diatribe
It’s not hard to see where the Bush administration is equivalent to the
enigmatic Turaga Dume and his enforcers. Misplaced zeal is rampant - for
example, in my local area, a woman who emigrated to the US more than a decade
ago was arrested by the INS, incarcerated for a week, and threatened with
permanent deportation... solely because of a decade-old marijuana possession
conviction. Her American husband had to go to the governor to get it overturned,
I believe.
It’s a good thing we’re keeping those troublesome 40-something ex-hippy
Scandinavians in their place. We’d be in trouble otherwise.
Yes, there’s all too much of a correlation between the city of Metru Nui and the
current US... fear (as much of our own people as of “those others”), powerful
enforcement agents who consider themselves above the law, a ruler who
manipulates people and events for his own shadowy purpose.
Turaga Bush Sees All. Questions Are Dangerous (and Unpatriotic). Vahki Ashcroft
is Coming. Surrender or Run.
Kelly
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| Lego has put up a teaser about the Vahki enforcement squads in Mertu Nui. Substitute "Department of Homeland Security" for "Vahki" and "Constitution" for "law" and you have an all too topical bit of agitprop. "Matoran are disappearing." Indeed. (...) (20 years ago, 15-Jul-04, to lugnet.technic.bionicle, lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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