May the Fourth be with you - and with the government

[robkelk]

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/st ... -1.3060601

(Note what else was on the play list.)
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

[Pyeknu]

Nice to know the folks on the Hill are artistic!

[Dartz]

You know you've been indoctrinated by the Catholic Church when your instinctive response to 'May the Fourth be with you", is "And also with you."

The fact that it's always the first thing that comes to mind really creeps me out.
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--m(^0^)m-- Wot, no sig?

[Foxboy]

Signal boosting +1 to Dartz's response.
My own Irish ancestry may have been Protestant, but my French ancestry gave me back to the Guilt Trip Faith™.
At least I'm young enough my indoctrination is in English and not Ominous Latin Chanting.
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''

-- James Nicoll

[Star Ranger4]

and another +1 for Dartz and Fox....

While not raised that way, I have the misfortune to be the son of a professional organist. For an Episcopalian parish. And since I've been singing for... well... a long time, guess who she drafts whenever the service music changes. and Christmas. And Easter. And the Bishops annual pastoral visit.
Hear that thunder rolling till it seems to split the sky?
That's every ship in Grayson's Navy taking up the cry-
NO QUARTER!!!
-- "No Quarter", by Echo's Children

[Ebony]

In all honesty, it sounds like something that should have a response. Of course, the semi-religious credo from the other major sci fi franchise ("Live Long and Prosper" "Peace and Long Life") does have a response, so that might also have an influence.
Ebony the Black Dragon
http://ebony14.livejournal.com

"Good night, and may the Good Lord take a Viking to you."