I stay away from politics on this blog. But I can no longer be silent. Hollywood has gone too far. Forget about the controversy of Flight 93. A movie will be released this summer that takes one of the biggest hot button issues of the day and reduces it to a simplistic, one-sided piece of propaganda.
That movie is Superman Returns.
When will Hollywood stop trying to force its morals on our citizenry? This movie is a transparent call for amnesty for illegal immigrants?
This so-called "Superman," this "strange visitor from another world" entered our country's heartland, illegally mind you, from his decaying homeland. Sure he's assimilated and doesn't speak Kryptonian when he should be speaking American. But he has taken no steps whatsoever to obtain legal status as a citizen.
Don't give me that crap about Ma and Pa Kent adopting him. They never officially adopted him. No, they hid him from INS for decades and took advantange of his powers beyond those of mortal men and worked him on their farm, likely displacing dozens of able-bodied American workers.
And who is his "arch-enemy?" Lex Luthor a wealthy white male industrialist. Well that figures, right?
I know what you're thinking, what about all of Superman's contributions? I invite you to look at the implications. Superman may occasionally save the planet, which necessarily includes America. But couldn't an American citizen have performed these same heroic acts? You mean to tell me that Green Lantern couldn't handle these jobs as efficiently?
Put simply, Superman is taking away superheroic opportunities from American superheroes. He works for free. But by doing so, he's undercutting the hardworking middle-class superheros and has nearly priced them out of the market. Spider-Man can barely make ends meet. You practically have to be a billionaire playboy like Bruce Wayne or Tony Stark these days just to compete.
Now that I think about it, his alter-ego Clark Kent works as a journalist. That makes two jobs that he has taken away from Americans.
Did you ever notice how many of our so-called superheros are undocumented? As a matter of fact, superheroics is only exceeded by agriculture and food service as the industry that employs the most undocumented workers.
Look at his friends in the Justice League of America. Why, there's hardly a real American among them. The Martian Manhunter's roots are self-explanatory. Hawkman is from Thanagar. Wonder Woman is from Themyscria. Aquaman claims the throne of Atlantis.
And don't get me started on the X-Men.
Superman says he fights for "Truth, Justice, and the American Way." Well, to me that means respecting our laws. All of them.
At first, the media told us that Superman was the "Last Son of Krypton." Then all of a sudden, his cousin "Supergirl" arrives. What happened to him being the last one? How many other of his undocumented relatives can we expect to fly over our borders?
The question is no longer whether we should build fences around our borders, but rather how high must they be?
Tuesday, May 02, 2006
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So, it's safe to assume that D wasn't participating in the 'amnesty protests' that were held recently throughout the country?
I wonder how upset we would all be if Superman had stuck to jobs that 'average Americans' don't want (like picking produce)? Although I imagine the farm industry would have loved him....
I wonder if our society would have been so welcoming of Superman if he weren't a 6'2" handsome white guy. What if he looked like Patrick Ewing or Herve Villachaise?
Actually, if Herve Villachaise had the powers of Superman, that probably would be accepted;
"Oh, you just reversed the Earth's rotation? That so CUTE!"
Of course, if reports are true, Herve would also have the power of super-wife-beating, which is not good.
As an avid lover of both superheros and controlling metaphors, I've got ot say that's just friggin' genius.
I'm no Superman apologist. Frankly, I find it cute when my daughter puts her underwear on over her pants and disturbing beyond words when anyone else does it, but D, please consider the following:
(1) Superman did not choose to come to the USA, or Earth for that matter. He was blasted here in his super disco rocket sled from a dying planet as a baby.
(2) One of the very first things he did (yes I recognize he's a fictional character), was lift up the busted down American made truck his adopted father was caught under.
(3) He had a job at a respectable newspaper. I expect that meant he got a W-2. That means he had a SSN.
(4) He drove a car - means he probably had a drivers license. Although there is no statistical evidence to support the notion that driver a car means one has a valid license. In fact, it's probably the other way around.
(5) He owned property - the fortress of solitude. Sure, he may have been adversely possessing it, or perhaps even squatting, but I'm sure he paid taxes on it so he could take the deductions.
(6) Aside from his identity, he did not hide from the law.
(7) In Superman II, he took and banished the other "illegals". Under your theory shouldn't he have started a protest group with them?
On the other hand, he thought Margot Kidder was hot. I take back everything I said. He's a dolt.
Xenophobe!
So D, are you in favor of reviving the Cadmus project?
Dear God! I feel like I just wandered into a Star Trek convention! All this "expertise" is making my skin break out and my eyes feel nearsighted. Stop the madness!
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