Showing posts with label Rogue One. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rogue One. Show all posts

Saturday 17 December 2016

Rogue One : No Capitulation, No Compromise, No Collaboration with the Imperial Zionist Entity

"Just remember - everything I do now, I do for you.
Remember that."


What is Sacrifice...?



Randal: All right, look-you're a roofer, and some juicy government contract comes your way; you got the wife and kids and the two-story in suburbia-this is a government contract, which means all sorts of benefits. All of a sudden these left-wing militants blast you with lasers and wipe out everyone within a three-mile radius. You didn't ask for that. You have no personal politics. You're just trying to scrape out a living.


(The Blue-Collar Man (Thomas Burke) joins them.)

Blue-Collar Man:
Excuse me. I don't mean to interrupt, but what were you talking about?

Randal: The ending of Return of the Jedi.

Dante: My friend is trying to convince me that any contractors working on the uncompleted Death Star were innocent victims when the space station was destroyed by the rebels.

Blue-Collar Man: Well, I'm a contractor myself. I'm a roofer... (digs into pocket and produces business card) Dunn and Reddy Home Improvements. 

And speaking as a roofer, I can say that a roofer's personal politics come heavily into play when choosing jobs.


Randal: Like when?

Blue-Collar Man: Three months ago I was offered a job up in the hills. A beautiful house with tons of property. It was a simple reshingling job, but I was told that if it was finished within a day, my price would be doubled. Then I realized whose house it was.

Dante
: Whose house was it?

Blue-Collar Man: Dominick Bambino's.

Randal: "Babyface" Bambino? The gangster?

Blue-Collar Man:
The same. The money was right, but the risk was too big. I knew who he was, and based on that, I passed the job on to a friend of mine.

Dante:
Based on personal politics.

Blue-Collar Man: Right. And that week, the Foresci family put a hit on Babyface's house. My friend was shot and killed. He wasn't even finished shingling.

Randal: No way!

Blue-Collar Man: (paying for coffee) I'm alive because I knew there were risks involved taking on that particular client. My friend wasn't so lucky. (pauses to reflect) 

You know, any contractor willing to work on that Death Star knew the risks. 

If they were killed, it was their own fault. 

A roofer listens to this... (taps his heart) not his wallet.




LAFORGE
If this works the way I think it will, once the invasive programme starts spreading, it'll only be a matter of months before the Borg suffer total systems failure.

PICARD
Comments.

CRUSHER
A question. 
What exactly is total systems failure?

DATA
The Borg are extremely computer dependent. 
A systems failure will destroy them.

CRUSHER
I just think we should be plain about that. 
We're talking about annihilating an entire race.

PICARD
Which under most circumstances would be unconscionable. 
But as I see it, the Borg leave us with little choice.

RIKER
I agree. We're at war.

CRUSHER
There's been no formal declaration of war.

TROI
Not from us, but certainly from them. 
They've attacked us in every encounter.

PICARD
They've declared war on our way of life. 
We are to be assimilated.

CRUSHER
But even in war there are rules. 
You don't kill civilians indiscriminately.

RIKER
There are no civilians among the Borg.

PICARD
Think of them as a single, collective being. 
There's no one Borg who is more an individual than your arm or your leg.

Rogue One : Weekend Revolutionaries (Will Get You Killed)

Samuel Taylor Coleridge :
"Well, Citizen John - this is a fine place to talk Treason!"

John Thelwell :
"Nay, Brother Samuel - here is such a place as to make you forget there were ever a need for Treason..."

Michael Collins - Minister for Mayhem

"His militancy has become something of an embarrassment to The Rebellion..."


 

"This is to Inform You That Any Further Collaboration with the Forces of Occupation Will be Punishable by Death.

YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED

Signed - The Irish Republican Army"


DATA
There are dozens of Bajoran camps on the three class-M planets.
 I suggest we may want to begin on Valo Three, where an adhoc leader named Jas Holza lives. 
The Federation has had several dealings with him. 

CRUSHER
I met Holza at a symposium a few years ago. 

PICARD
What can you tell us about him, Doctor? 

CRUSHER
I found him to be a very concerned leader and a good spokesman for his people. 
And a terrific dancer. 
No, really, I'm serious. At a reception afterwards. 

TROI
At least this man has genuine experience in diplomacy. 

PICARD
And that's a big advantage on this mission. 
Very well. Mister Data, will you contact Holza, arrange a meeting? 

DATA
Sir. 

RIKER
Ensign Ro, you're familiar with this star system. You'll take the conn. Is there a problem, Ensign? 

RO
You're wasting your time. 
Holza is nobody. 
He's the token Bajoran that respectable people invite to symposiums and diplomatic soirees. 
But he has no real influence among my people. 

DATA
Ensign, whom do you suggest we speak to? 

RO
Don't you understand? 
These are desperate people ready to martyr themselves. 
They don't want to talk. 

WORF
This ship is prepared to defend itself if necessary. 

RO
Oh, it will be. Don't fool yourself. 
This mission will end in bloodshed. 

PICARD
Well, let's hope that you're mistaken, Ensign. 
But can you point us at the right individual, as Mister Data suggested? 

RO
I would go to the camp on the southern continent of Valo Two. 
Find a man named Keeve Falor. 
He has no diplomatic experience. 
And he won't ask you to dance.



Get Collins, uncovers a murky struggle of deception, betrayal and assassination that played a crucial role in winning Irish independence.

The popular image of the Tan War is of Flying Columns battling it out with British troops in the hills of Cork and Tipperary. In truth, however, the decisive battles of that time were fought in the streets of Dublin. It was a personal affair, as each side raced to identify their opponents – and kill them.

Now, recently uncovered testimonies from those at the centre of the intelligence war shine light on a world in which no-one could be trusted and nothing was what it seemed.
Extensively dramatised, Get Collins reveals this network of ‘backchannels’ – how, at the height of the war, secret contacts were made between British officials and senior Republicans including Michael Collins. The documentary also features newly discovered IRA surveillance photographs which were taken during this dramatic period.

The documentary tells the story of how Michael Collins – an obscure Volunteer officer in 1916 – established himself at the top of the Republican Movement just a few years later. As Minister of Finance, he controlled the purse strings. And as Director of Intelligence, Collins found the perfect weapon with which to take on the British Empire: information.

Operating from an anonymous office in Crow Street, in the shadow of Dublin Castle, Collins’ men established a network of spies and informers at the heart of the British administration. He assembled a handpicked group of Volunteers from the Dublin Brigade to act on the information gathered at Crow Street.

The Squad would operate in pairs, one man shooting the target in the body to bring him down, the other finishing him off on the ground with a shot to the dead. 
Killing the ‘political detectives’ of the Dublin Metropolitan Police was a brutal but effective tactic. The British were now fighting blind.

In response, the British Government sent two very different groups of men to Ireland, pursuing two distinct policies. The hardliners were represented by the new Chief of Intelligence, Colonel Ormonde Winter – codename ‘O’ – who mused that, “the Irishman, without any offence being intended, somewhat resembles a dog. He understands firm treatment”.

In contrast, the Castle’s Assistant Under-Secretary, Alfred ‘Andy’ Cope, had a very different mission – to make contact with the IRA and work out a political deal.

Cope established himself as a go-between, passing information between the IRA and No. 10. Some of these documents were captured in Army raids, placing Cope’s life in danger from hardliners on his own side. Captain Jeune, a British intelligence officer, noted ruefully that “it was decided that no drastic action could be taken against him, as it turned out that he was a protégé of Lloyd-George.”

Get Collins uncovers this network of ‘backchannels’ that led directly to Michael Collins, and shows how the Intelligence War was a vital, though brutal, element of the fight for independence.

NO COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENTS INTENDED Shown on RTE 2007




Samuel Taylor Coleridge :
"Well, Citizen John - this is a fine place to talk Treason!"

John Thelwell :
"Nay, Brother Samuel - here is such a place as to make you forget there were ever a need for Treason..."