Straight Shooters

 

This article, I read on Canada Free Press, was amazing. The author, Lance Thompson, uses “The Magnificent Seven” story in modern times. The middle class are the Mexican villagers that need help. The bandit Calvera is Obama. Calvera’s gang is Obama’s czars. “The Magnificent Seven” are warrior entrepreneurs, offering services that are valued by others. You have to read the rest of the article to see how it goes.

 

Straight Shooters

 

The Magnificent Seven, now considered a classic Western, wasn’t a hit when it was released in 1960. Based on Kurosawa’s The Seven Samurai, this allegorical tale was transplanted to the southern border of the American frontier and populated with a stellar cast of manly actors—Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, James Coburn, Robert Vaughn and Eli Wallach as the leader of the predatory bandit band that terrorizes a small Mexican village. In view of Hollywood’s enthusiasm for sequels and our current political situation, I believe the time is right for a remake.

In the original film, the peaceful farmers of the Mexican village are all hard-working and able to support themselves. For the remake, recast in the villagers’ roles would be the American middle class. They are self-reliant, industrious, and uncomplaining. They are the settlers, the providers, the builders of their community.

 

The villagers are regularly raided by the bandit Calvera and his gang of thieves. They take anything of value, from produce to poultry, leaving only enough to allow the villagers to subsist and produce more goods for the taking. The villagers are beyond the help of the law—Calvera makes the rules. When one villager suggests hiding a little extra from the raiders, another says, “Calvera never takes everything. He always leaves us something.” Calvera would be played by Barack Obama in the new version, and the bandits by his administration’s tax collectors, law makers and appointed czars. They prey upon the middle class, taking an ever greater share of their wealth while placing restrictions on how they produce it, what they can do with it, and how much of the proceeds they can keep.

 

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