Star Wars Fans Fantasize About the Destruction of the USS Enterprise
Given that this video is the product of Al Gore’s Current TV, you have to realize that the Death Star is only forcing Starfleet to become ‘Carbon Neutral” by destroying the USS Enterprise.
Since this clip is intended to evoke the inner geek, I will allow him to be unleashed by providing the following commentary on the things wrong with this video…
First, Star Wars took place in a galaxy far far away. Second, it was a long, long, time ago. During the short period of time during which Darth Vader controlled the Death Star under the direct control of Darth Sidious, did he somehow figure out how to time travel and heave the huge moon-sized Death Star to Sector 001 of the Terran System?
Of course not. According to Star Wars history, the Death Star was only used once to destroy the planet of Alderaan. Afterwords it was destroyed by Luke Skywalker prior to its use against a Rebel Base. During that time it was able to shatter a planetary body.
Even is this version of the Death Star was the unfinished version depicted in Return of the Jedi, the same time traveling issue still remains, plus, the operational phase of the Death Star was fully documented in the movie, during which the Millennium Falcon delivered a killing blow to the unfinished space station. There was never any time for the Death Star 2.0 to travel forward in time to Earth’s future to 2245 AD to deliver this death blow to the Enterprise.
Thanks to [GAS] for the vid!
Speaking of crazies, pass this on:
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Insane Conspiracy Theorists!
The Department of Homeland Security has just discovered a paranoid and treasonous militia that is plotting insurrection. Here is evidence of their belief in an absurd Conspiracy Theory:
Whenever any form of government becomes destructive … a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism … a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny…. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has refused his assent to laws … He has forbidden his governors to pass laws … He has refused to pass other laws … He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures. … He has dissolved representative houses repeatedly … He has refused…to cause others to be elected … the state remaining in the meantime exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within. … He has obstructed the administration of justice … He has made judges dependent on his will alone … He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance. … He has kept among us, in times of peace, standing armies without the consent of our legislature. He has affected to render the military independent of and superior to civil power. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution … Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us … protecting them, by mock trial, from punishment … cutting off our trade with all parts of the world … imposing taxes on us … depriving us…of trial by jury … transporting us beyond seas to be tried for pretended offenses … abolishing the free system of [traditional] laws … establishing…arbitrary government … taking away our charters, abolishing our most valuable laws, and altering fundamentally the forms of our governments … suspending our own legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever … abdicated government here, by declaring us out of his protection and waging war against us … plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burned our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people … transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to complete the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of cruelty and perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages … constrained our fellow citizens taken captive on the high seas to bear arms against their country, to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall themselves by their hands … excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavored to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless [alien] savages, whose known rule of warfare, is undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions. …
In every stage of these oppressions we have petitioned for redress in the most humble terms: our repeated petitions have been answered only by repeated injury.
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We have warned them…of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. … we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. …
We, therefore, the representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress, assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the name, and by the authority of the good people of these colonies, solemnly publish and declare, that these united colonies are, and of right ought to be free and independent states; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the…[tyrant]… and that as free and independent states, they have full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and to do all other acts and things which independent states may of right do. And for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.
Signed by the following Conspiracy Nuts:
– New Hampshire: Josiah Bartlett, William Whipple, Matthew Thornton
– Massachusetts: John Hancock, Samual Adams, John Adams, Robert Treat Paine, Elbridge Gerry
– Rhode Island: Stephen Hopkins, William Ellery
– Connecticut: Roger Sherman, Samuel Huntington, William Williams, Oliver Wolcott
– New York: William Floyd, Philip Livingston, Francis Lewis, Lewis Morris
– New Jersey: Richard Stockton, John Witherspoon, Francis Hopkinson, John Hart, Abraham Clark
– Pennsylvania: Robert Morris, Benjamin Rush, Benjamin Franklin, John Morton, George Clymer, James Smith, George Taylor, James Wilson, George Ross
– Delaware: Caesar Rodney, George Read, Thomas McKean
– Maryland: Samuel Chase, William Paca, Thomas Stone, Charles Carroll of Carrollton
– Virginia: George Wythe, Richard Henry Lee, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas Nelson, Jr., Francis Lightfoot Lee, Carter Braxton
– North Carolina: William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, John Penn
– South Carolina: Edward Rutledge, Thomas Heyward, Jr., Thomas Lynch, Jr., Arthur Middleton
– Georgia: Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, George Walton
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Another Conspiracy Nut exposed by Rockefeller Heimatschutz:
“Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day, but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period, unalterable through every change of ministers, too plainly prove a deliberate, systematical plan of reducing us to slavery.”
Thomas Jefferson