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Friday, June 4, 2010

Irritate a collectivist . . .

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Alvie D. Zane said...: Lady Zane and I went to see this over the holiday weekend. There's some annoying parallels to Gladiator. But there's some great themes that run through this movie.

Paying taxes compared to patriotism-where have we heard that before? Joe Biden.

A meeting of armed men speaking from the back of a wagon. I leaned over to her and said, "Hey, it's Restore the Constitution on the back of my pickup truck!!"

A young leader who thinks he's nigh on to God himself and disdains any word of dissent or disagreement. Sounds familiar.

And is it just me, or does Godfrey look like Rahm Emmanuel?

And of course, Russell Crowe kicking everybody's ass. Hardly seems like acting for him.

A good flick.; June 4, 2010 at 6:32 AM
Dennis308 said...: Yes indeed Al a great movie and I will be going to see it again this weekend.And yea that wagon was a lot like your pick-up.Bet your chest swelled with pride,
rightfully so.(I´ll not miss the next one so help me god)

Dennis
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Texas; June 4, 2010 at 11:40 AM
Anonymous said...: Already seen it with the LOML (Love Of My Life). Love it.
May go & see it again.

B Woodman
III-per

wv: "nutrosi" Nutrious Pelosi? AN oxymoron.; June 4, 2010 at 11:58 AM
Alasdair said...: I saw this movie the other day because I'd heard from many people and sites that it was a pro-libertarian kind of movie. It was, but I still didn't like it (on the basis that it was more of a prequel to Robin Hood than the actual story of Robin Hood).

I am almost 100% sure that there will be a sequel, and I'm almost 100% sure I will like it better.; June 4, 2010 at 1:28 PM
Anonymous said...: Timing for the story is perfect.; June 4, 2010 at 7:24 PM
Anonymous said...: Ol' Jones recommends this movie. . .

if only to watch the mysterious, angular and full-lipped beauty of Cate Blanchett. I could watch her forever.

Spoiler alert:

Oh, and you ladies will like Russell Crowe too. Especially when Mrs. Loxley assists him in removing his chain mail.; June 5, 2010 at 2:10 PM

"Progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress."

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

-- Mike Vanderboegh, The Lessons of Mumbai:Death Cults, the "Socialism of Imbeciles" and Refusing to Submit, 1 December 2008

"A common language of resistance . . ."

"Colonial rebellions throughout the modern world have been acts of shared political imagination. Unless unhappy people develop the capacity to trust other unhappy people, protest remains a local affair easily silenced by traditional authority. Usually, however, a moment arrives when large numbers of men and women realize for the first time that they enjoy the support of strangers, ordinary people much like themselves who happen to live in distant places and whom under normal circumstances they would never meet. It is an intoxicating discovery. A common language of resistance suddenly opens to those who are most vulnerable to painful retribution the possibility of creating a new community. As the conviction of solidarity grows, parochial issues and aspirations merge imperceptibly with a compelling national agenda which only a short time before may have been the dream of only a few. For many Americans colonists this moment occurred late in the spring of 1774." -- T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Oxford University Press, 2004, p.1.

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