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May 17, 2005
Arthur Chrenkoff on George Lucas
Arthur Chrenkoff has posted an open letter to George Lucas concerning his recent statements in Cannes. Lucas stated,
"In terms of evil, one of the original concepts was how does a democracy turn itself into a dictatorship," Lucas told a news conference at Cannes, where his final episode had its world premiere."The parallels between what we did in Vietnam and what we're doing in Iraq now are unbelievable."
In response, Chrenkoff points out how to him, and many of his former countrymen who lived under the yoke of socialism and communism in Soviet controlled Poland, the Star Wars movies gave an allegory not of the United States as oppressor, but the Soviet Union.
"Yes, we were very wrong indeed - to you, the Empire was the United States of America, and if that's the case, then the brave rebels could only be all those people around the world fighting the American Empire - the Castros, Che Guevaras, Ho Chi Minhs, Pol Pots, and by extension, the Brezhnevs and the Mao Tse Tungs of this world. You, of course, live in the Free World, and as such you have the right to believe that your country is the most powerful force for evil operating in the world. But just for the sake of completeness and historical accuracy, can I just mention that whatever the sins of the United States - and I certainly understand well enough that no country is perfect - your rebels, both when fighting for power and when finally in power, ended up being responsible for the death of tens of millions and enslavement of hundreds of millions; the Luke Skywalkers and Han Solos of the last century gave us gulags and re-education camps, terror famines and political prisons; they institutionalized cults of personality, stifled every human freedom and impoverished whole nations."
In one paragraph, Chrenkoff sums up very well why I question the intelligence, logical thought processes, wisdom, and knowledge of anyone who willingly identifies themselves as "socialist" or "communist."
Posted by Lockjaw at May 17, 2005 10:57 AM
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