Reality on film

I remember when Matewan came out in 1987. It was just one of those movies that nobody you know reported seeing, and reviews in guides were pretty ho-hum. It's a shame it wasn't hailed as teaching a lesson much needed then and yet more today. As BrasscheckTV tells it in one of their daily emails:

The Second Amendment talks about a "militia."

The militia is most definitely NOT the National Guard.

Here's one 20th century example of a citizen's militia in action.

Video:

http://www.2ndamendmenttv.com/page/22028.html

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What a riveting scene between clear-cut sides of right and wrong! So good to see Chris Cooper in the cast on the good side -- he helped with a lot of values clarification via another movie that never hit the big time but really deserved to:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5C7XUvFkKpM
Pharaoh's Army - Trailer

Yes, that's him on the wrong side here. I suspect this film sends an entirely different (i.e. righter and truer) message than intended.

Wow, I see an incomparable freedom movie is up in Youtube -- the whole thing, in wide screen!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wbHZaWDmyM
The Robe 1953

It was in fact the first flick filmed in CinemaScope. What a cast -- what sets, music, dialogue, characterizations.... Please don't miss the last 15 minutes or so, but please, please take time to view the whole thing soon. Hollywood refuses to tell any story straight on principle, of course, and here the lie it throws into the works is that Jesus Christ left a paralytic woman paralyzed during his ministry in Cana. "Many crowds followed him, and he healed all of them" -- Matthew 12:15, c.f. Luke 6:19 etc.  The only other real problem is the beatifically silly looks the saints wear some of the time, but that's a quibble in view of where movies have gone since then.

This masterpiece, so studiously ignored by critics today, ends with a perfect example of Christians speaking truth to power -- the great Burton and the entrancing Jean Simmons to Caligula himself, played by the frenzied Jay Robinson. THIS is what drama, lights, camera, action were invented for. THIS is what culture is there to do -- to educate, edify, inspire, and rouse up good people to take it all back from the devil! 

.......Our fraternal organization the South Carolina Conservative Action Council was before the cameras again Saturday. It was our third annual Burning of Columbia remembrance, with the full blessing of the legislature. WLTX-TV interviewed Dr. Carter and me and put a reportedly fine, fair account of it on the 6PM and 11PM news. Compiling a post-mortem email to the leaders, it was pleasantly surprising how many organizations, media outlets and individuals publicized the even in advance, taking the information from releases we sent out. Come to the next Greenville-area PN meeting for the full story.

About those militias... original intent is paramount, and James Madison was probably voicing the general feeling of the founding era what he wrote in 1787 "Who is the militia? It is all the people." The proper militia certainly includes all able-bodied min in a community or country -- you know, the Swiss model. Matewan was portraying what I'd call a posse, but there's probably a yet more precise buzzword for it out there somewhere. I see a letter online that says the term "well-regulated" in the Second Amendment means a force of "well-trained" citizen marksmen, not "regulated" in the tyrannical sense of today.

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