V for Vendetta?

[Originally posted on goofyblog 8.25.06]

Just rented V for Vendetta a few days ago. What a strange storyline.

Elites within the government execute a terrorist act that kills thousands of people, blaming it on religious extremists. Using the fear generated by the “attack,” all manner of controls and surveillance is put in place, with the people too cowed and fearful to do anything but acquiesce.

A few weeks ago, I wrote about 9/11, concluding with this paragraph:

“Muslims extremists planned an attack on the WTC as they had done in 1993. Neo-cons needed a Pearl Harbor. No chances were taken with potentially inept terrorists. Before the NYFD could fully assess and begin putting out the fires from the jet crashes, the buildings were blown down. A missile was shot into the least-populated side of the Pentagon. Flight 93 was blown out of the sky before it could get to wherever it was going.

“You know what it all means. Although the terrorist’s acts caused several hundred deaths, the remaining deaths, almost 3,000, were caused by some other group. Why? Isn’t it obvious? Look at what’s happened to our country and our world since then. . . and what is yet to come.”

Maybe I can re-write that slightly, let’s see…how about:

Elites within the government execute a terrorist act that kills thousands of people [by well-placed explosives, well-directed missile(s), distracting/disabling NORAD], blaming it on religious extremists [who they had advanced warning about and/or helped facilitate their plans]. Using the fear generated by the “attack,” all manner[Patriot Act, NSA surveillance, bank records, National ID] of controls and surveillance is put in place, with the people[and legislators] too cowed and fearful to do anything but acquiesce.

Funny how life imitates art, isn’t it (V was written in the 80s)? Now, where is the American V?