Wednesday, December 30, 2009

"You can't kill ideas. But we can certainly kill you."

Ted sends us an interesting quote from science fiction, no less.

"Here's why you can't exterminate us, Aruetii. We're not huddled in one place-we span the galaxy. We need no lords of leaders-so you can't destroy our command. We can live without technology-so we can fight with our bare hands. We have no species or bloodline-so we can rebuild our ranks with others who want to join us. We're more than just a people or an army, aruetii. We're a culture. We're an idea. And you can't kill ideas-but we can certainly kill you." -Ranah The Nasst, Mandalore the Destroyer, daughter of Uvhen Chal, giving the Consul of Luon a final chance to surrender during the siege of the city.


Then he explains,

This is the historic quote to start chapter 11 of the book Star Wars: Imperial Commando: 501st. Mandalorians, Boba Fett's people, are mercenaries and soldiers and assassins and generally kick ass. Aruetii is their word for outsider and, well, not Mandalorian, similar to Japanese gaijin, as best as I can tell. Don't know how much you like sci-fi or Star Wars in particular, but thought you'd like the quote and emotion and meaning behind it.

I like Absolved, It's really gotten me to think more of how the government has gotten pushy and overbearing over the years. Hopefully the people "in charge" read it and start to think some more too.

Good luck, God bless and Happy New Year

Ted

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

Did you forget to remove the author's first name which he used as a signature? ;)

Anonymous said...

Sadly, TPTB (The powers That Be)don't get it. They have the power and see no reason to give any of it up; rather the converse, that they must have all the power in order to efficiently regulate the world.

Power is ethereal thing that may be wielded via various means of officialdom, but is never stagnant and is always seeking new outlets unless contained. So those that possess it seek to contain it for their purposes, rather than to let is escape for others benefit.

The people will have to take it back, as they have in all struggles for Liberty throughout time.

Ted said...

That's pretty damn cool.

Happy D said...

Thank you I will be modifying this when I try to drive the point home to collectivists why they should back off.

parabarbarian said...

Believe it or not there is a whole made up language called Mando'a (why do all made up language have to have glottal stops?) for the fictional Mandalorians.

http://www.karentraviss.com/html/mando.htm

There is a link to a dictionary and a grammar guide for the really interested.

Anonymous said...

These aren't the carbons you're looking for.

Eric
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Happy D said...

How about this rewrite?

"Here's why you can't exterminate us, Socialist. We're not huddled in one place-we span the planet. We need no lords of leaders-so you can't destroy our command. We can live without technology-so we can fight with our bare hands. We have no exclusive race, creed, color, religion, nationality, Class, or bloodline-so we can rebuild our ranks with others who want to join us. We're more than just a people or an army, Socialist. We're a culture. We're an idea. And you can't kill ideas-but we can certainly exterminate you."