05/21/05

In the lead up to the last Star Wars movie, Weekly Standard online editor Jonathan Last took his magazine over to the dark side. The Empire may be a dictatorship, Last wrote, but it's 'a dictatorship people can do business with. They collect taxes and patrol the skies. They try to stop organized crime ... The Empire has virtually no effect on the daily life of the average, law-abiding citizen.' Last went on to explain that imperial ruler Darth Sidious/Emperor Palpatine 'is a dictator -- but a relatively benign one, like Pinochet.' Last's column was written tongue-in-cheek -- I think. But, in post-Patriot Act America, I hope his ideas stay far, far away from Capitol Hill...[editor's note: That makes two of us -- YUCK! - SAT]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,157229,00.html

from Fox News, by Thomas A. Firey


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp