Jane Got a Gun

Oh, look, Natalie Portman saving the day with a gun! [More]

Yeah, that Natalie Portman:

From my "The Fandom Menace" in the Nov. 1999 issue of GUNS AND AMMO Magazine:

So there is no apparent disconnect when anti-gun Rosie O'Donnell displays armed "Star Wars" figurines while praising this newest release. There is no incredulity when "Phantom Menace" co-star Natalie Portman (the lightpistol-packing Queen Amidala of Theed) tells Rosie "I'm proud of you, your power, and talking about what you believe in."

As someone who has played the title role in Broadway's "The Diary of Anne Frank," you'd think Ms. Portman would know only too well the evil real life consequences of population disarmament. Instead, she vacuously asserts, "I'm in high school too, and I know what you're talking about...this stuff is hitting my school now too. Somebody's got to say something about it and not be afraid to do so." 

And the audience cheers. After all, she's beautiful, successful, self-assured– what more do you need to be considered an authority in this era of image over substance? Yet they can't wait to see this privileged dilettante lead a make-believe armed retinue against the forces of darkness (as opposed to hiding in an attic with her unarmed family before being dragged off to a death camp).

Oh, and look who's releasing this.

I want Skip Coolzip's Academy Awards takeover quote on a T-shirt.

Vendetta

Angry Engineer joins other bloggers in expressing anticipation for the upcoming "V for Vendetta" (based on the graphic novels by Alan Moore).

What's not to like? The slogan: "People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people;" the trailer ending with a line from the Guy Fawkes poem...

I want to see it, too. Let's just not forget that the Chairman and President of Time Warner, and the conglomerate itself (of which the film's production company, Warner Bros. is a division) all made the gungrabber list.

Rule of thumb: rich and powerful Establishment types have no incentive to change the status quo.

As for Natalie Portman, the film's star, let's hope she's grown up some since I wrote "The Fandom Menace" for the Nov. 1999 issue of GUNS AND AMMO Magazine:

So there is no apparent disconnect when anti-gun Rosie O'Donnell displays armed "Star Wars" figurines while praising this newest release. There is no incredulity when "Phantom Menace" co-star Natalie Portman (the lightpistol-packing Queen Amidala of Theed) tells Rosie "I'm proud of you, your power, and talking about what you believe in."

As someone who has played the title role in Broadway's "The Diary of Anne Frank," you'd think Ms. Portman would know only too well the evil real life consequences of population disarmament. Instead, she vacuously asserts, "I'm in high school too, and I know what you're talking about...this stuff is hitting my school now too. Somebody's got to say something about it and not be afraid to do so."

And the audience cheers. After all, she's beautiful, successful, self-assured– what more do you need to be considered an authority in this era of image over substance? Yet they can't wait to see this privileged dilettante lead a make-believe armed retinue against the forces of darkness (as opposed to hiding in an attic with her unarmed family before being dragged off to a death camp).

We'll see how close the film "gets it," and I'll suspend judgment 'til then. But I am concerned that the guy in the comedy mask is bringing throwing daggers to what should be a gunfight...yeah, I heard the story takes place in a futuristic UK, but if the yobs in "Gunchester" can get 'em, why shouldn't revolutionaries?

The Force Awakens and Rolls Back Over

Any bets on how they'd view a real life rebel alliance resisting a monopoly of violence empire? [More]

I am reminded of my first magazine article, "The Fandom Menace," published in the Nov. 1999 issue of GUNS & AMMO. It's not online and I've not been successful  in my attempts to obtain contractual reprint rights, along with "The New Eloi" and some others.

[Via Jeet]

Only at the End Do You Realize the Power of the Dark Side

Luke has defected to the Empire. [More]

Considering "progressives" and Opposite Day, we shouldn't be surprised.

This makes me recall my first published article, "The Fandom Menace."  Guns and Ammo editors saw it online and asked if they could print it. It's no longer available, but I did include a few paragraphs in a post here several years back.

Out of Africa

Somalis flee terror, pour into Kenya refugee camp...

Forget it Jake. It's Africa.

Yet all the enlightened liberals sneered at the late Neal Knox for suggesting arming Somali mothers would enable them to defend their children.

We see over a decade later the fruits of doing things the IANSA/UN way.

I see over in Tanzania, albinos are being hunted down so witch doctors can extract skin, bones and hair to make potions. I wonder if the shamans collaborate with their Canadian colleagues and peers?

And meanwhile, no less an authority than Mia Farrow is urging us to stop the genocide in Darfur.

Naturally, she and useful idiots like her are the first ones screaming blue bloody murder against non-politically correct/Hollywood endorsed foreign interventions, and none of them seem to understand that revolutions are won by the people rising up and taking control of their own destinies. To do that, they need the tools.

So where does Mia stand on the only proven deterrent against genocide?

The following is from "The Fandom Menace," my first published article for GUNS & AMMO (Nov. 1999), and unfortunately, not available online:

Mia Farrow, elaborating on the Second Amendment to anti-gun Larry King: "It's time to amend that right." (Like all rich socialists, she sees the Bill of Rights as a menu of privileges bestowed by government, and thus revocable. The concept of unalienable rights not subject to mob opinion no doubt affronts her democratic sensibilities.)

She has a number (toll-free, naturally) where fans can "find out who their congressman is." (You don't expect them to already know, do you? Who better to demand Constitutional change than people so detached from the process that they don't even know who their representatives are?)

On why the Second Amendment is no longer is applicable: "There were muskets or something…" (Aren't informed opinions wonderful?)

A scrap for the vassals: "I'm not talking about hunting guns [but about] guns used to kill people." (God help me, I'm starting to sympathize with Woody Allen. How on earth could anyone endure such impaired reasoning?)

As long as we're locked into primitive superstition, the killing will continue. Matter of fact, as we continue to replace reason with feeling in our own governance, hope won't be enough to stop the type of change that always results in widespread and very real misery.

[Title link via AvgJoe]

Give the Public What It Wants

Guns On The Playbill? Every Major Studio Has Them This Season [More]

Hollywood hypocrites?  Say it ain't so!

The congitive dissonance among the ticket-buyers shows how far the culture has degraded.  Some day I hope to resurrect my old "The Fandom Menace" piece from Guns & Ammo.

[Via Mack H]