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Subject: AmeriKa -- 20 Years After
AmeriKa -- 20 Years After
by roxy317
Thu Aug 02, 2007 at 12:32:36 PM EST
http://scoop.epluribusmedia.org/story/2007/8/2/0524/20742
In 1987 the mini-series Amerika aired on ABC amid much hype and
controversy and then died a quick death. In 1995 there was a
limited release on VHS. While the premise of the mini-series was to
show the United States 10 years after a take-over by the Soviets,
the story is hauntingly familiar to the America [Amerika] we are
living in now.
For the most part, apathetic Americans let the coup progress with
no resistance, resulting in an occupied America.
"Nobody wanted to risk anything for anybody else. Everybody was
afraid they were going to lose what they had. They knew it was bad.
They were just afraid it'd get worse. That's all they lived for -
for things not to get any worse."1
The country was under direct control of the "Kremlin." Factories
were dismantled and shipped to the Soviet Union -- leaving 40%+ of
the population unemployed; history was rewritten -- Lincoln's
picture now appearing beside Lenin.
Freedom of Speech -- gone. Freedom of Assembly -- gone. Resistance
movement -- imprisoned. And the country being divided into three
distinct region-countries -- Pacifica, Heartland and New England.
Six Years into the Bush Occupation
With the Bush Administration's brutal rape of the Constitution, our
freedoms are in jeopardy today. The movement of jobs to the global
marketplace is resulting in a rising tide of unemployment,
Americans are disheartened.
In 1838, a young Abraham Lincoln spoke these prophetic words:
"From whence shall we expect the approach of danger? Shall some
trans-Atlantic military giant step the earth and crush us at a
blow? Never. All the armies of Europe and Asia . . . could not by
force take a drink from the Ohio River or make a track on the Blue
Ridge in the trial of a thousand years. No, if destruction be our
lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of
free men we will live forever or die by suicide."2
He did not foresee America falling to a foreign invader. "No, if
destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author [...]"
Are we authoring our own destruction right now? Have we come so
far from the intents of our founding fathers that we have forgotten
what it was they fought for?
In todays America would we elect an Abraham Lincoln? Unlikely. Our
political offices go to the highest bidder, especially the "crown-
jewel" of American politics -- the presidency. Instead of electing
representatives of the people, we elect politicians. These
politicians with their "power vested in me" attitude are destroying
the basic fundamentals of our representative government.
"We the people" was not just a platitude ... it was a statement of
hope, a statement of purpose. 185 years later, in his inaugural
address, President Kennedy said:
Let the word go forth form this time and place, to friend and foe
alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of
Americans.
[...]
To those people in huts and villages across the globe struggling to
break the bonds of mass misery, we pledge our best efforts to help
them help themselves [...] If a free society cannot help the many
who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
We are that "new generation," and the torch we have been holding is
flickering, ready to go out. Where is the hope and the purpose of
America? That brightly burning torch that was passed to us only 46
years ago?
Party politics have not only divided us into Red and Blue, we have
been divided into "patriot" and "non-patriot," "Christian" and
"heathen."
We are no longer Americans, with a common bond -- a common purpose,
we are just a disjointed collection of people living in fear --
fear of losing our jobs -- fear of neighbors, both next door and
across our borders -- fear of "terrorists" -- gangs -- drug addicts.
Fear has moved in to replace the emptiness left when hope and
purpose were taken hostage.
Footnotes
1Wikipedia - Amerika
... the United States will be divided into "client states" such as
Heartland, and the U.S. Capitol building will be destroyed as a
symbolic gesture of the destruction of America. At the same time,
most of the members of the United States Congress are to be killed
in a "terrorist attack" after they refuse to disband their
legislative body, which the movie depicts very graphically.
After the attack is carried out – the climactic scene of the
miniseries – Samanov surveys the damage, and realizes the enormity
of the crime that he has allowed to happen. Sitting in the
Speaker's chair in the United States House of Representatives, he
commits suicide. Denisov, who knows nothing about the attack until
he is rushed to the Capitol and finds Samanov dead, is devastated
by this turn of events.
In the final episode of the miniseries, Heartland is about to
secede from the United States, with other regions to follow. There
are scenes of Americans digging up guns they have hidden for ten
years. Heartland troops, along with local militia, attack the local
U.N.S.S.U. compound, effectively declaring war on the Soviet
occupation. One scene shows Americans raising the U.S. flag on top
of a grain elevator, and there is even reference to a Second
American Revolution.
The miniseries ends on a downbeat note, though, with General
Sittman (the leader of the Heartland Defense Force and a former
Marine) shooting Devin Milford just as he is about to make a
nationwide broadcast calling on Americans to resist the breakup of
the United States – doing so because this is an act of unlawful
resistance against the newly-established Heartland, which Sittman
believes to be the best hope against continued Soviet domination.
Although there is hope that the spirit of America lives on, in the
end it appears that the Soviet plan to dissolve the United States
will come to fruition.
2Lincoln's Collected Works, ed. Roy Basler, Rutgers U.P., 1953-55
3Profiles in Courage, John F. Kennedy, pg. vii-viii
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