Which Fictional Evil Force does the Far Right remind of you the most?

Pick any one you think it is.

I'd say they remind me most of the Covenant from the Halo series. Foul language, social stratification (A hierarchy), religious fanaticism, and a Cult of Personality all mixed into 1 little package.

At least a few Klingons respected honor and integrity.

...*WITHOUT* any honor! No upstanding Klingon would stand
for such a comparison! They would rip your intestines out
with a Batleff immediately!

Tesha

Back when beards, bushy eyebrows, and swarthy makeup (not bumpy foreheads) defined who was a Klingon, they were just militaristic thugs.

We never actually got to see much of the backstory of "those"
Klingons (stand-ins for the "commies" and "Red Peril" that
they were).

Tesha

An oldy but a goody:

This global superculture that consumes and subverts all local culture,
yet offers nothing but wage slavery, a metaphorical borg thing, where
people are hollowed out agents, and rather than acting by soul,
act in fear of economic plantation masters. And the irony that
anyone would call it "neo", being so much of the 1850's.

To program a borg, you implant an economic friedman, preaching the
decay of all non-profitable systems, in a race to reduce all persons
to economic and social isolation. And in the cold hollowed out room
of human morals after it is "enslaved" by a plantation, as much as
people wear the uniform of their employer...

And finally, with a bible rammed up their ass. This provides the
uncomfortable egotism, the pretense of feeling as if the bible is
really part of them, and that digestive discomfort of the blockage
of their intestines.

So they change colour and have sexual implants, collogen injections
and liposuction, lounging in the compnay of naked young virgins,
thankful of the bounty of islam.

Technological Hierarchy for the Removal of Undesireables and the Subjugation of Humanity

If that doesn't remind you of the Cheney/Rumsfeld/PNAC cabal, you need to go visit a New York tailor shop.

Can I keep it?
;)

I would love to see that show again! Now that I'm no longer a kid, I wonder if I would enjoy it as much...

Now this is funny

A totalitarian cult, bent on destroying the American way of life
by worming its way into every aspect of government
and then toppling the nation from within.

1984.

Crude, vile, corrupt, power-crazed.

Tesha

Lord of the Rings.


The corporate, big money interests are Sauron's all-seeing "eye in the sky." The social conservatives are the orc armies that they rally from the mud and muck of the earth to mindlessly fight their battles for them.

You can extend this analogy: Elves are the effeminate/detached East Coast liberals.

Where's Bond, James Bond, when we need him?

http://www.yaleinsider.org/bush/Spectrum7.html

http://alaric3rh.home.sprynet.com/science/bceo.html
Arbusto, an oil exploration company, lost money, but it got considerable investments (nearly $5 million) because even losing oil investments were useful as tax shelters.
Spectrum 7 Energy Corp. bought out Arbusto in 1984 and hired Mr. Bush to run the company's oil interests in Midland, Texas. The oil business collapsed as oil prices plummeted by 1986, and Spectrum 7 Energy was near failure.
Harken Energy acquired Mr. Bush's Spectrum 7 Energy shares, and he got Harken shares, a directorship, and a consulting arrangement in return. Harken, under Bush, brought in Saudi real estate tycoon Sheikh Abdullah Bakhsh as a board member and a major investor. Over the next few years, Harken would turn out to have links to: Saudi money, CIA-connected Filipinos, the Harvard Endowment, the emir of Bahrain, and the shadowy Bank of Credit and Commerce International.
A 1991 internal SEC document suggested George W. Bush violated federal securities law at least 4 times in the late 1980s and early 1990s in selling Harken stock while serving as a director of Harken. This is essentially the same kind of activity that Martha Stewart is going to prison over. Except at the time of the investigation, Mr. Bush's father was president and the case was quietly dropped.

with their demand for "group think", "one party" Politics, "we create the reality" philosophy, secrecy, outright lying, and programming (brainwashing)and absolute control of the population.

1/2 Life also comes pretty close.

1) They walk around with no human emotion;
2) You can't reason with them;
3) They live off of the blood of the living.

Sounds an awful lot like the new GOP...

The great conjunction must be coming soon then.

I think that makes Fitzgerald "Jen" all he needs to do now is hand out about 20 indictments and heal the Dark Crystal to restore balance and order to the universe.

They are dark, hate filled people.

"If I were creating the world I wouldn't mess about with butterflies and daffodils. I would have started with lasers, eight o'clock, Day One!"

You'll turn yourself into a newt if you don't dispose of them carefully.

Well, now, I have a sentencing hearing I must attend to. Hurry up and clean this mess out, and make sure you don't leave any pieces of the Administration behind! Who knows what trouble will be caused if any Evil is not disposed of properly.

"...and the world will be different, because I have understanding."

"Understanding of what, master?"

"Digital watches. And soon I will have understanding of videocassette recorders and car telephones. And when I have understanding of them, I shall have understanding of computers. And when I have understanding of computers, I shall be the Supreme Being! God isn't interested in technology. He knows nothing of the potential of the microchip or the silicon revolution. Look how he spends his time: forty-three species of parrots! Nipples for men!"

"Slugs."

"Slugs! He created slugs! They can't hear, they can't speak, they can't operate machinery."

I get the same creepy feeling from the both of them.

The offspring of the Borg and a genetic mixture of Darth and Freddy on October 31st, on Elm street in Texas with a chainsaw.

They formed a collective that never would have wanted to assimilate the bushbot neocons. Their DNA would have almost been deadly to them.
I will admit that the bushbots are "borgs" but only in that they cannot think for themselves.

such number, wasn't it?)

but the Ferengi code was called "The Ferengi Rules of Acquisition."

'nuff said? Plus, the big ears?

Size is right.

stranger than fiction.
Look at history. Pick your era, totalitarianism in one form or another has always reared its ugly little head.

Scooters:

"Alert, Sir! Two members of your vice-presidential staff are testifying to Fitzgerald -- and they're ordering room service on company money!"

Mr. Cheney:

"How Dare They! Release the Flying Blackwater Mercenaries!"

"Fly, my pretties! FLY!"

Scooters: "Target destroyed"

Mr. Cheney: "EX-cellent."

Scooters: "I love it when you have that homicidal gleam in your eye, sir."

Meanwhile, in the Oval Office:

Homer Bush:

"Hmm, hm hmm hmm... Ooo! I wonder what this button does!"

CHENEY: (intercom) "Bush! Hard at work, I trust?"

Homer Bush: "Yike! Y-y-yes, Mr. Cheney"

CHENEY: "Go-ood. I have a job for you, Bush. I want you to take out Syria for me. The media will eat it right up."

Homer Bush: "M-mmm... Syria."

Karl Rover the Evil Assistant Clown:

"Thank you, Mr. Fitzgerald. Your kindness has touched my heart. To make amends, Here are the following Fitzgeralds I will NOT destroy... that is all."

the movie

Dark Helmet

"...because good is dumb."

Star Wars...

...especially after seeing Star Wars III! As I sat watching that movie, the parallels were downright frightening!

the movie was based on the BFEE.

I'm just sayin'.

If you read Star Wars the book, the beginning goes into it a bit, although the final story was different. His first inclination was to make Palpatine a puppet, which is even more like what is happening today.


"All democracies turn into dictatorships—but not by coup. The people give their democracy to a dictator, whether it's Julius Caesar or Napoleon or Adolf Hitler. Ultimately, the general population goes along with the idea ... What kinds of things push people and institutions into this direction?"

- George Lucas

then why was it that bad?

:hide:

in between the movies is just as eerie... The parallels to the rise of the empire are undeniable..

"We need that oil, President Spaceball!"

"Transform Spaceball One into... MEGA-KATRINA!"

"SUCK! SUCK! SUCK!"

"They're sucking all the oil out of the Gulf Coast, Lone Starr!"

Here's a partial list:

• The Nazi Party (National Socialist German Worker's Party, or NSDAP)


• The Communist Party (many)


• The Fascist parties of Italy and Spain


• The Khmer Rouge


• The Kuomintang (KMT) (of Chiang Kai-shek)


• The Japanese Imperial Diet under Hideki Tojo


• The American "Silver Shirts" (pro-Hitler)


• The Native American Party ("Know-Nothings"; no connection with American Indians)


• The National Front (of England)


• The Church of the Creator (the "Rahowa" neo-Nazis)

Did I miss anybody?

--p!

in "The Time Machine."

by Harlan Ellison

1) accurate with regards to their attempt to preserve a "good old time" that never was

2) someone else has seen this movie and remembers them

that's the reason for the note to the author

but everyone should see Don Johnson when he was just 19...

ever read the sequel short story Run Spot Run?

"she might not have been smart but she had good taste"..

:rofl: I think that will become my new sig line

"Another helpful hint from...the Committee's Almanac."

Love that movie. An unsung classic. Apparently even Harlan Ellison was happy with it, which is totally out of character for him.

Graydon Creed, after all, was based on Frank Collin (chairman of the American Nazi Party).

I mean, with all the hatefulness, bigotry, and sexism, it only seems like a perfect match.

The Empire (Star Wars) is also a nice match, as stated earlier in this post.

Or Boris and Natasha

The Association. Corrupt and evil from too much power and control over others.

from X Men 2

Driven by total hatred and desire for power he manipulates government and even arranges terrorist attacks to scare people in to giving him what he wants. He manipulates everyone around him, even his own family, in order to maintain power and uses excessive force and crass tactics when ever he can.

Start a huge war as a distraction for the true agenda. But ultimately incompetent and flushed with hubris.

Bigoted, inflexible, hatemongers, no tolerance for anything.


Ed: although they aren't fictional, there are a lot of similarities.

Especially because Cobra Commander was just a whiny dude. That's what I think * is really like when things aren't going his way -- whiny.

...from Star Wars. They definitely make me feel tiny and powerless. I have to compensate by punishing this guy: www.entertainmentanytime.com. Also fun to laugh at when you can't talk back to your boss :)

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

Intelligent, cunning and completely without honor. They care only about the 'win'.

From Harry Potter. All selfish, all secretive, only concerned with winning at any cost, and their house is in a dungeon of the castle (undisclosed location), unlike Gryffindor who's house in in a tower.

While we're at it, I'd say the Bush family reminds me alot of the Malfoy family from the HP books: both families are rich, have lots of influence, and have ties to evil people (the Bushes have ties to Hitler, the Malfoys to Voldemort).

Or, the Commonwealth Navy a few centuries earlier. Virtual cookie to the one who names the Mythos.

But who will liberate Kentares?

The House of Harkonnen from the Dune books by Frank Herbert.

Pelican Brief
Enemy of the State

The Jedi are the Democrats, Palpatine is Cheney, and Dumbass is Vader.

I live in perpetual fear of the day when we get hit with another "catastrophic event" and Bush (or god forbid another GOP President) goes before Congress and issues forth his declaration of martial law and "reorganization" of the USA into a global empire (isn't this more or less one of the PNAC goals?). What scares me even more is that I'm not even sure most of Congress would oppose him if he pulled such a stunt. OTOH, ordinary citizens might not feel the same way especially if poll numbers for Bush/GOP stay low and since our military (at least not yet) is not populated by clones whom are genetically programmed to be loyal to the designated leader so hopefully they would not support such a declaration either (especially since they've had the screws turned on them by Bush since he has been in office along with the rest of us).

I miss that show. Joss is a good Democrat, and campaigned for Kerry.

Just the Devil.

nuff said

Deluding people into thinking everything is okay while hiding the real truth, and "meddling" by telling people what to think.

Can't stop the signal, baby!

Cheney and Bush as Dr. Forrester and TV's Frank.

B.

from the 8th Dimension. Where's Buckaroo Bonzai when you really need him...?

Especially the scene where the government official is expplaining away the increase in infant mortality...just like Frist/Cheney/Santorum/etc.

too because so much destruction happens all around him all the time...ever notice?

"He's havin' his bath!"

hell Paul Hallas son IS george...

Location: Granite City, Wyoming (South-east of the City of Lud, between Candleton and Topeka)

Point person: Pat Robertson AKA the Walkin' Dude... the man with no face.
(moves backward in time; many disguises over the centuries.)

Front man: George Bush, "The Good Man".

Henchmen: Low men in yellow coats, AKA "neocons"

Already Controls: Numerous Alternate realities, and the people living in them

Seeks to Control: The reality-based community

Created thru foul craft: "Slow mutants" (Intelligent Design theorists)

Speaking Demons: Karl Rove, Donald Rumsfeld (when needed to jawbone the nation into war)

Supposed Target: Mid-east oil

Actual Target: Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, next to the U.N. building

Preferred Method of Armageddon: Superflu

Will settle for: Disorder, War, Devastating floods, nukes

Likes: crashing planes into buildings

Dislikes: children; people with heightened powers of perception

Missing: A beautiful white terrier, SCOOTER. Responds to calls. Injured in one leg. We lost him in the woods in autumn. We miss our puppy very much! REWARD OFFERED.

Arch-Enemies: The Kennedy family, Roland of Gilead, Fitzgerald, and other Gunslingers

Trivia: Briefly inhabited Ralph Nader's body in the disguise of a creepy person named John Roberts in an effort to kill Al Gore's presidential campaign and make the Democratic Party schizophrenic, creating an alternate reality in which President Bush actually won the election in Florida. The resulting temporal paradox was resolved several years later when the Bush regime was exorcised by a male demon.

:-)

He's watching, you know.:yoiks:

They definately have the Evil Empire style and flare, but they're too stupid to be actual Sith, so I'd say Spaceballs is the closest I can think of.

administration is a real life, evil, Boss Hogg and Roscoe P. Coltrane. Bushco's bafoonish greed and corruption is a complete rip-off of how Boss ran Hazzard County.

We are the good people of Hazzard, Conyers, the CBC and a few others are the Dukes and Patrick Fitzgerald is Enos Straight.

When it's all over, I think our orphanages will be well funded.