>Phlip wrote:

>> bodhi wrote:
>>

>>> It was 30 years ago today that I drove over to the Toshi Station to
>>> pick up some power converters ......

>>
>> Ah, yes, a movie about scrappy freedom fighters heroically resisting
>> an Evil Empire who had labeled them "terrorists".
>>
>> Produced shortly after the Vietnam War.
>>
>> Then, because fascism takes about 30 years to recover from a peace
>> movement, and because Jedi Lucas took 30 years to complete his movie
>> cycle, the last prequel came out after the USA had fallen to the Dark
>> Side in a sequence of events eerily similar to the ones Lucas
>> scripted in the 1970s.
>>

>>> Sydney - An Australian Star Wars fan has been left regretting his
>>> brush with "the Force" after police arrested him for carrying a toy
>>> laser.

>>
>> This is not the toy laser you're looking for.

>
>America is on the edge of the precipice, but has not yet quite fallen in. To
>see a country which has fallen over the edge, wherein the principles of
>liberal democracy have entirely collapsed, take a peek at the UK. The police
>are now to be given powers to question anyone, for no reason whatsoever-
>
>http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;?xml=/news/2007/05/27/nterror127.xml
>
>"Anyone who refuses to co-operate could be charged with obstructing the
>police and fined up to