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DanCa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-15-05 12:17 PM
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Woah Billy Jack versus Bush
I wanted to check out Tom Laughlin's website to get info on the new Billy Jack movie that's comming out and guess what. Not only is it going to be a anti Iraq film but he whole site is Anti Bush. Here's a small snippet.


Bush's Messianic Complex


Bush is the most dangerous President in American history
The World is on the Precipice of a nuclear/terrorist catastrophe because Bush, possessed by a Messianic Complex -“We will end world tyranny”- is incapable of understanding the extreme nuclear and terrorist danger he has put America in

“I’m the Commander see, I do not need to explain why I say things. That’s the interesting thing about being the President … (I) don’t feel that I owe anybody an explanation.”

-- President Bush, to the National Security Council



Underneath his mano-a-mano posturing (“Bring ‘em on!”) Bush is a deeply insecure, frightened little man possessed by a Messianic Complex with all its delusions and fantasies as a compensation to his lifelong fear he’d never be the man his father was. Bush, a “Mama’s Boy,” was called “The Chosen One,” through his childhood by his mother.

Bush’s irrational refusal to ease the nuclear tension and negotiate one-on-one with North Korea until Jong Il caves into his demands is a result of Bush’s deep-seated need to prove his manhood – escalating, not lessening, the world’s danger.An absolute proof that Bush’s mental illness has put him out of touch with reality, including the real danger of North Korea having nuclear bombs, is Bush appointing Bolton as Ambassador to the UN one of the most mentally ill, fascist authors of The Bush Doctrine who has viciously vilified the UN and who is the author of the extreme hard line Bush has taken against North Korea which has caused Jong Il to race to develop nuclear weapons.

Jong Il refers to Bolton as “blood sucking scum.” And this appointment is supposed to defuse the nuclear crisis with North Korea? It is insane to think so. Just when world pressure was causing Syria to withdraw its troops from Lebanon, Bush’s narcissistic need to take the spotlight and prove his manhood by demanding Syria get out immediately, “I will accept no half measures,” was equivalent to pouring gasoline on the Lebanese crisis. The next day well over a half a million anti-American/pro-Syrian Lebanese, furious that Bush was trying to dictate how they should run their country, flooded the streets demanding Syria stay and pushing an extremely dangerous and explosive situation to the brink of a civil war, all because of Bush’s sickness and inability to understand that with quiet diplomacy this crisis could have been peacefully solved. Bush’s delusion that people tremble when he speaks and will unilaterally obey him is what has brought the world to this brink of chaos and nuclear catastrophe.

For the safety of the entire world, we cannot impeach Bush soon enough.“Bush thinks war is a videogame, and he’s John Wayne.”

wwww.Billy Jack.com
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mcscajun Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-15-05 12:43 PM
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1. Link typo...
Here's the link: www.BillyJack.com
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DanCa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-15-05 12:46 PM
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2. Thanks :D
Sometimes it takes my fingers to get warmed up
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understandinglife Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-15-05 12:48 PM
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3. Excellent. Spread the word!!
Peace.
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SammyWinstonJack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-15-05 12:51 PM
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4. Deeply insecure
That's obvious. His mom called him "The Chosen One"? :wow: :scared:
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DavidDvorkin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-15-05 12:55 PM
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5. I thought Laughlin was right wing
Got that impression somehow, years ago.

Was I mistaken, or did he switch?
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DanCa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-15-05 12:57 PM
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6. Not if you watch the movies
Painful as his acting was the billy jack films and superman films taught me about liberalism.
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deutsey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-15-05 01:08 PM
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7. "Billy Jack" was very countercultural left, if I remember correctly
Edited on Mon Aug-15-05 01:42 PM by deutsey
I don't know what Laughlin did after that movie or its sequel (which also seemed leftish to me, but I haven't seen it in years), but I remember him being pretty much a lefty hero back in the '70s. I was only in 3rd grade when I saw "Billy Jack", so maybe I was too young to really know any better.

If I'm correct, one of the reasons I believe the movie "Billy Jack" was so popular among leftwing countercultural types was it pretty much contained the best of both worlds for them: watching pacifists and hippies "doing their thing" combined with the guilty pleasure of watching rednecks and reactionaries get the crap beat out of them.

I'm not condoning that, mind you, but there was definitely a mixed message in the movie (even though I think the pacifist/hippie point of view ultimately prevails, didn't it?). In reflecting on the meaning of that movie, I've wondered if that was one of the reasons it was such a big hit.
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