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The Republic:

As you already know, the Republic was a dysfunctional assemblage of dictators, kleptocrats, aristocratic Antoinettes, monopolists, and slave owners, all given the fig leaf of respectability by sending their diplomats off to cavort in the do-nothing Senate. Being a Senator was a great job, with no responsibility, no accountability, and the constant joy of pretending to work for the poor oppressed people back home, who of course were in thumbscrews trying to foot the bill for all the Coruscant opera tickets.

What you might not know was the Republic was also yet another socialist failure. It didn't have a hard currency, only "credits", and as Watto said, "Republic Credits are no good here." The US Dollar is hard currency, accepted everywhere. Republic Credits are a pretend currency, a cross between an IOU and a Cuban Peso, accepted only in the Republic -where people are forced to take them and pretend they have value. No wonder the Senate was corrupt: they ran their Republic with Monopoly© money. On all of Corsucant, the only thing Lucas showed Galactic Credits actually buying was hard liquor in the bar at the start of Episode II.

Drunks, vodka, Rubles - you figure it out.

The final and fatal failure of the Republic was that nobody without some corrupt vested interest was willing to fight for it. The Jedi protected it to death, with the people growing soft, and all losing faith that it was something worth living or dying for. The difference between the Galactic Republic and the French Republic was that the French Republic could field a French Army. The Galactic Republic couldn't manage even that. They had to pay planets to build ships for them, pay cloners to clone clones for them, give Jedi unquestioned power to assassinate enemy generals for them. If the Republic Army had a rousing battle cry it was, "Tell the Jedi to send in the Gungans."

We know what the Jedi were - pathetic scum, brainwashed from youth - limited – ascetic – narrow minded – enablers of failure – sowers of discord – holy thugs - parasites. There's a reason each and every Jedi had to be master of the light saber, the dagger's big brother, and it's not for personal growth. They used those to kill, and they did their killing up close and personal, not on the field of battle like a man, as their incompetence on Geonosis so proved, but at the conference table, in the back alley, at the wedding party. They were never a military force; they were the enforcers, the muscle, the Stasi officer corps; sucking in information and dealing out violent death at a personal level. In return, they demanded respect, power, adulation, even worship. Fuck that and fuck them. They are not fit to lick Sith boots

This brings us to Mace Windu. What an arrogant, power-mad, overblown ass. Sith always come in pairs, a master and an apprentice. Jedi always come in pairs too, a don and a bald goomba with a bad attitude and a purple murder stick.

The US Dollar is hard currency, accepted everywhere.

Upon finding out that the duly elected Chancellor is a Sith, what does Mace do? He goes to kill him. Hell, Islamic jihadist militants are reasonable by comparison. At least they wait to get a fatwa. Could you image a Secret Service officer, some dyed in the wool Protestant, storming into the Oval Office to assassinate the President of the United States of America because someone in the White House press room claimed the President was *gasp* Catholic?

The Chancellor is a Sith! Big-fucking deal. Bush=Hitler, too. That doesn't give anyone the right to assassinate him. Splash the scandal all over the tabloids. Publish the gritty details in the Galactic Globe and Gazette. Have the Jedi fax-droids bombard the Senators in an avalanche of thermo-paper. Form a non-profit "No Palpatine" 527 PAC and get moving on a no-confidence vote. Level charges of high treason in the Galactic Senate. Subpoena the Chancellor's robes to scan them for Dark-Side auras. Judas H Jedi, you just don't march in with a light saber and decapitate the elected head of the freakin' government.

If it walks like a dumbass, squawks like a dumbass, and talks like a dumbass, it's a Jedi.

Isolder74 wrote:Of course they ARE forgetting that They are arresting the covert head of the Sepretist movment tne man who started this war in the first place a military criminal. An MP does not need a court order to pick up a suspect under this situation. A suspected spy can be picked up and then the militar can bother with the legalities. They were not arresting Palpitine for being a Sith but for being Darth Sidious the sectret leader of the Sepretists for being the man who order coutless atrocities.

Oh well.

Pcm979 wrote:This is a spoof, I know, but:

The US Dollar is hard currency, accepted everywhere.

Really? Gosh, to think I'd been changing my money whenever I went on holiday! If only I knew USD was accepted everywhere!

Things like this work best when they don't actually deviate from the truth (just offer half-truths and perhaps bent truths). Some of it is a bit meh, but nice parts too. I like the part about Mace' intentions and rights when he went to arrest Palpatine in his office

So why do you have the very strong impression that being captured by the Empire is a death sentence, while being captured by the Jedi conjurs up the word "rescue"? Why does this impression stubbornly remain despite of all evidence to the contrary? Because of nothing more than Jedi lies backed by John Williams' clever soundtracks. That's it. Get captured by the Empire and he plays a funeral dirge as you're lead off to your luxury suite. Get captured by the Jedi and he plays an upbeat heroic love theme while they bounce your head off the ceiling and slice you from crotch to neck.

In fact, the Senate was such a useless frat party that certain planets sent hot teenage girls as Senators and frankly, no august body that would accept Teen Nabooian Tatas' Miss August as a voting member could be considered deliberative - titillating maybe, entertaining certainly, but not by a long shot deliberative. Of course, when the Senate persisted as a drunken party after over a decade of functional rule, finally admitting Alderaan's Miss Bra-less Teen, is it any wonder the Emperor dissolved it? It was less likely done as a power grab than as a drunk driving measure, and if you think Senators are bad on bridges, just imagine what happened when they were weaving in between skyscrapers in high-velocity flying cars.

Striderteen wrote:Not true; they only knew he was a Sith Lord. They did *not* know he was connected to the CIS.

So Obi-wan lets Padmé, heavily pregnant Padmé, stand out there, sucking down volcanic carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide, NOx compounds, chlorine compounds, and heavy metals like a chain smoker in a burning tobacco warehouse. Is it any wonder the med droids were stumped? They probably assumed she'd been breathing, you know, air.

Striderteen wrote:
Not true; they only knew he was a Sith Lord. They did *not* know he was connected to the CIS.

GeneralTacticus wrote:

Striderteen wrote:
Not true; they only knew he was a Sith Lord. They did *not* know he was connected to the CIS.

They knew he was Sidious. And they knew Sidious was linked to the Sepratist movement.

Cykeisme wrote:

GeneralTacticus wrote:

Striderteen wrote:
Not true; they only knew he was a Sith Lord. They did *not* know he was connected to the CIS.

They knew he was Sidious. And they knew Sidious was linked to the Sepratist movement.

Labyrinth of Evil, yeah..

...a bald goomba with a bad attitude and a purple murder stick.

Dooey Jo wrote:

...a bald goomba with a bad attitude and a purple murder stick.

Eh... What? Did they just call Mace a Goomba?

Now there's a mental image. Palpatine, the Supreme Chancellor of the galaxy and also a Sith Lord, bested in lightsabre combat by a lowly Goomba with a bad attitude...

Isolder74 wrote:Of course they ARE forgetting that They are arresting the covert head of the Sepretist movment tne man who started this war in the first place a military criminal.

An MP does not need a court order to pick up a suspect under this situation.

A suspected spy can be picked up and then the militar can bother with the legalities.

They were not arresting Palpitine for being a Sith but for being Darth Sidious the sectret leader of the Sepretists for being the man who order coutless atrocities.

Isolder74 wrote:Mace says by the authority of the Senate with palps responding I AM THE SENATE. You would support a president who behaves like this? Jefferson was very good at dancing around this line without breaking the law. Palpitine seems much better at it than is even imaginable.

The president is not above the law, its in the constitution.