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Star Wars fans might enjoy this. Weekly Standard backs Galactic Empire. [View All]

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white_wolf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-24-11 11:48 PM
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Star Wars fans might enjoy this. Weekly Standard backs Galactic Empire.
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Yes this is completely nerdy, slight off-topic, and out of date, but someone just linked this in another forum and it is rather funny and creepy to hear the Right praising a totalitarian dictatorship, even if it is fictional. Here is the full link:http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/001/248ipzbt.asp Oh and here is a paragraph that sums it all up well I think. It is a direct quote:

"Make no mistake, as emperor, Palpatine is a dictator--but a relatively benign one, like Pinochet. It's a dictatorship people can do business with. They collect taxes and patrol the skies. They try to stop organized crime (in the form of the smuggling rings run by the Hutts). The Empire has virtually no effect on the daily life of the average, law-abiding citizen."
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