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Prisoner_Number_Six

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Tue Aug-29-06 11:22 AM
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Red Dawn Redux

Edited on Tue Aug-29-06 11:25 AM by Prisoner_Number_Six

"We have met the enemy, and he is us." --Pogo
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I always loathed the movie "Red Dawn". When I could work up the nerve to sit down and watch it, I found no real reason to challenge my instincts. I laughed at the bad acting. I was disgusted by the obvious NRA in-jokes. I thought the plot was ludicrous- going about your daily business one moment, then being fired upon by an invading army the next. Silly story, that! It was the stuff of bad fiction and nothing more.

It turns out I was dead wrong about the plot.

Now, I'm not talking about the silly "Wolverines" nonsense- a group of young teens holding off the Commie invasion and all that crap. No. What I'm talking about is the concept of the out-of-the-blue invasion of a harmless, peaceful country by an overwhelming group of well trained, heavily armed soldiers.

When the movie came out in 1984 we all knew it was fiction. If it had any sort of "message" it was buried deep inside nonsensical bad drama, hidden within the improbability of something like that ever really happening. It was cheap entertainment. It was a couple hours in a cool dark theater with a tub of popcorn in your lap. It was fiction. It was a young Swayze at his cheesiest.

Fast forward to 2006. We woke up one morning to the realization that Red Dawn had actually come true. Not here, perhaps, but in other places you might know of- Afghanistan. Iraq. We hear rumors of other invasions in the works- Iran. Syria. North Korea. Places scattered across the far away deserts have become the focus of sudden, unprovoked invasion and occupation by well trained, heavily armed soldiers. Machine guns and rockets are being used against unarmed civilians. Schools. Places of worship. Convoys of refugees. Wedding celebrations. FUNERALS- all these and more are being indiscrimately attacked daily. Death squads are roaming the cities, killing defenseless women and children. Babies are being blown into tiny chunks of bloody flesh by grinning soldiers. Helpless young women are being gang-raped at gunpoint.

The truly horrible part about this is also the most unbelievable part- all this is being done by us. Red Dawn Redux, sponsored by The United States Of America. A gift from the government of The Land Of The Free. WE have become the unprovoked invaders. WE have become the vicious attackers of civilians. WE have met the enemy, and damn it all to hell, he is US.

Red Dawn is no longer bad fiction. Red Dawn has now become the terrible reality of several nations. And if we are unable to somehow eject the monsters from the helm of the great American war machine, more innocent people are scheduled to die in the next act.

What can we do to stop this madness? How can we reverse the course of such a powerful stream of deliberate death and destruction? How can we possibly rip the enemy from the body of our own nation without destroying ourselves in the process?

I have no great pearls of wisdom to cast before you. I have no well-tailored, one-size-fits-all answers. I don't know if anyone here does. All I do know is we have just a few short weeks left in which to figure things out. You see, it's simple- if the Democrats reach down and discover their balls (sorry, ladies, just consider it a metaphor), we will get our chance to begin the process of making things right. On the other hand, if the ongoing down and dirty Republican psyops program successfully penetrates the American psyche, we will never get another chance. Our nation will be finished as the world's bastion of freedom. Our once-wise government will proceed to Red Dawn nation after nation, and very soon the entire planet will soon be embroiled in World War III.

Let's face it, America. We've sat back and allowed our nation to become nothing more than a bad action-adventure movie. Only this time the Bad Guy is us.