16 Responses to “Galactic Empire Times: Obi-Wan Kenobi Is Dead, Vader Says”

1. Smith Says:
   May 11th, 2011 at 4:38 pm

   One man’s terrorist organization is another man’s freedom fighters.

   http://whitenoiseinsanity.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/reaganmeetstalibanwhitehouse.jpg

2. knarlyknight Says:
   May 11th, 2011 at 8:14 pm

   Amusing post JBC.
   If you want to start to understand the killing of OBL, you can’t do much better than listen to this man. From wiki, “His research on international terrorism was officially used by the 9/11 Commission in Washington DC.”

   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkIsifrc0aM&feature=player_embedded

3. enkidu Says:
   May 12th, 2011 at 10:08 am

   saw this on boingboing
   the comments are priceless and the sidebars pretty amusing as well
   you can almost hear that regulator and James Earl Jones voice

   nice pic Smith! good ol trading-arms-for-hostages Saint Ronnie!

   i dunno knarly, I listened to that guy and wasn’t impressed, he hedged his bets left, right, center, up (uh oh, just lost shcb) and down. mb they do have him alive (doubt it) and this is all an elaborate psyop, but I think they were happy to have him dead and grab all his computers and hard drives (what a treasure trove that must be!) The Rs wet dream of torturing OBL would have been a rallying point for psychopaths (both R and ienj). Better a dead terrorist than a live symbol of islamic extremist nut jobbery.

   Obama. Cleaning up Rethugglican failures since 2008.
   (now can we finally close Gitmo? also, can we please put John Yoo and Cheney in jail? thx)

4. ethan-p Says:
   May 12th, 2011 at 10:22 am

   So here’s what gets me on this:

   Kenobi was on Tatooine, hiding in plain sight. Surely, the Tatooine government knew of OWK’s presence there. If the Tatooing government was harboring OWK, why are we still supporting them? Personally, I think that it’s time for regime change.

5. enkidu Says:
   May 12th, 2011 at 11:34 am

   Great. Now we’ll have to listen to wwnj talking endlessly about ‘turning em all to &@(#*%$!!! glass from orbit!’ (again)

   Anyone else thinking another ‘environmental disaster’ like Aldreraan is in the offing? Where in the galaxy is Darth Cheney right now, hmmmmm?
   Wake up sheeple, it’s unbridled sociamalism!

   Hang on, there’s a knock at the exterior hatch, brb

6. NorthernLite Says:
   May 12th, 2011 at 12:13 pm

   Can anybody explain to me why in some publications his name is spelled “Obi-Wan” and in others it is spelled “Ubi-Wan”?

7. shcb Says:
   May 12th, 2011 at 1:26 pm

   Wwnj’s spell it the wrong way, damn republicams can’t do anything right, pretty sure it somehow proves they are racist

8. enkidu Says:
   May 12th, 2011 at 1:40 pm

   no, saying crap like “mudhut countries” or π!@@#&$ and $P!($ caused the financial meltdown makes folks think you are somewhat racist (plus all the other crap that you say) Just sayin.

   Hey when are you going to show us your Harvard transcripts wwnj? Just askin!

9. shcb Says:
   May 12th, 2011 at 2:23 pm

   Are you kidding! I don’t even know what state Harvard is in! (and don’t care) I’ll get started on some forgeries. You never know, I might want to run for public office sometime.

10. knarlyknight Says:
    May 12th, 2011 at 6:19 pm

    Enk,
    That wasn’t “hedging bets left right and centre” that was making it clear that no-one has been given sufficient information to make an intelligent bet. Take off your blinders. Torturing OBL would be stupid, the smart thing would have been to humiliate him and his followers in front of the world in a court of law and when found guilty execute him. He got off with a seriously light, quick death.

    Also,
    “I think that there is an important point being missed among all this discussion. Would the U.S government especially the Bush regime, really want Osama on the stand. Bush is already considered a war criminal in most countries, can you imagine the information OBL could divulge in the witness box. Make no mistake, DEAD MEN DON’T TELL TALES.”

    More to the point(s):

    For nine years I wrote and I said that Osama bin Laden was not hiding in a cave. I’m not a cave expert, I was just using my common sense. He was a multimillionaire crime boss (using religion as his cover), and those guys just don’t live in caves. He had people killed under the guise of religion, and not many in the media bothered to explain that every time Osama referenced Islam, he wasn’t really quoting Islam. Just because Osama said he was a “Muslim” didn’t make it so. Yet he was called a Muslim by everyone. If a crazy person started running around mass-killing people, and he did so while wearing a Wal-Mart blazer and praising Wal-Mart, we wouldn’t automatically call him a Wal-Mart leader or say that Wal-Mart was the philosophy behind his killings, would we?

    Yet, we began to fear Muslims and round them up. We profiled people from Muslim nations at airports. We didn’t profile multi-millionaires (in fact, they now have their own fast-track line to easily get through security, an oddity considering every murderer on 9/11 flew in first class). We didn’t run headlines that said “Multi-Millionaire Behind the Mass Murder of 3,000” (although every word in that headline is true). You can say his wealth had nothing to do with 9/11, but the truth is, there is no way he could have kept Al Qaeda in business without having the millions he had.

    Some believe that this was a “war” we were in with al Qaeda – and you don’t do trials during war. It’s thinking like this that makes me fear that, while bin Laden may be dead, he may have “won” the bigger battle. Let’s be clear: There is no “war with al Qaeda.” Wars are between nations. Al Qaeda was an organization of fanatics who committed crimes. That we elevated them to nation status – they loved it! It was great for their recruiting drive.

    We did exactly what bin Laden said he wanted us to do: Give up our freedoms (like the freedom to be assumed innocent until proven guilty), engage our military in Muslim countries so that we will be hated by Muslims, and wipe ourselves out financially in doing so. Done, done and done, Osama. You had our number. You somehow knew we would eagerly give up our constitutional rights and become more like the authoritarian state you dreamed of. You knew we would exhaust our military and willingly go into more debt in eight years than we had accumulated in the previous 200 years combined.

    http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/mike-friends-blog/some-final-thoughts-on-death-of-osama-bin-laden

11. ethan-p Says:
    May 13th, 2011 at 6:24 am

    God damn Michael Moore is a butthole.

12. NorthernLite Says:
    May 13th, 2011 at 6:42 am

    Yeah, I don’t think you can fault the SEALs for killing him on the spot. Put yourself in their shoes – the most wanted and dangerous terrorist ever is standing in front of you in a dark room with people screaming and guns laying around, he could’ve had a suicide vest on, who knows. It must have been so intense.

    I think OBL getting shot in the head in his own house by a U.S. commando is a pretty satisfying ending, imo.

    Of course, that’s if you think he really was responsible for 9/11 ;)

13. Smith Says:
    May 13th, 2011 at 3:33 pm

    ethan continues to amaze us all.

14. enkidu Says:
    May 13th, 2011 at 4:17 pm

    I just heard on the holochannel that ‘Ubi-wan’ had a large stash of really raunchy ‘wookie pr0n’ at his hideout. Lord Vader is carefully reviewing the holo cubes to thwart future plots by these ‘rebels’…. a trrrrst by any other name!

15. ethan-p Says:
    May 18th, 2011 at 12:09 pm

    Smith – that was the most profound thing that I said all day.

16. leftbehind Says:
    May 22nd, 2011 at 6:52 am

    Of course we’re all glossing over the fact that Darth Vader didn’t really kill Obi Wan either. I guess we can expect Osama back for at least two more sequels?

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