Are Stormtroopers Making America Safe For Fascists?

They were the issue of clone a H.M.S. Bounty Orion to create a mindless , obedient army beloved by millions … But is there a hidden dark side to the soldier of the dark side ? One blogger feel that there ’s something very incorrect indeed about America ’s unstated dearest of the Stormtrooper .

Dave Lartigue , of the Dave Ex Machina blog , feel that George Lucas ’ word of advice about the powers of fascism has been somewhat missed by the intend consultation :

Suppose tomorrow the Bush administration announces plans to deploy thousands of Homeland Security Troops to American city , to walk the street gird in the search for un - American , possibly terrorist activity ( such as taking photo where there is n’t anything plainly pretty to be submit a picture of , being excessively swarthy , videotaping cops and Homeland Security Troops , etc ) . These guys would only be answerable to the DHS , and they would be recruit from the likes of Blackwater , Wackenhut , and so forth .

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Obviously there would be some scandal , yeah ? I imply , not as much as there should be , but a lot of folks would n’t deal for this at all .

Now imagine that these military personnel are outfit exactly like Stormtroopers from Star Wars .

What percentage of eccentric would declare that this was awesome ?

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Pointing out that , thanks to the Clone Wars timeline , the cloned badguys from the first trilogy have now become the heroes of the novel mythology , Lartigue explain that there ’s something disturbing about the 501st Legion and other fan proudly dressing up in faceless military garb in their spare clip , not to mention everyone else happily take it as a favored nerd pastime :

I ’m not suggesting there ’s some kind of confederacy afoot to make us more tolerant of ( and , in fact , enthusiastic about ) a fascistic society .

I ’m suggesting that such a conspiracy credibly would n’t be necessary .

Lesdilley