Shooter the Movie

So this is a real bad movie and sometimes I get sucked into them late night with nothing on the other 200 channels. Especially when I flip over it during the shootemup scenes. However, after DVR'ing and goging back and watching it front to back, I walked away with a sense of realization.

I believe that often what we see on TV, we just say, "Hey neat movie, good fiction". What if we are wrong. Sometimes the best fiction is based on real life. That is why sterotype jokes work. Somewhere, at sometime, there is a piece of the stereotype that was true enough to make it funny. So like good fiction...

The premise behind the movie is that there is a sniper fresh out of the gulf. He is hiding in the mountains living off the land with his dog and his guns. All american guy. Then one of the ABC groups shows up and wants him to come to Washington to help them stop an assination attempt. They figure who to know better how to stop an assination than one of the top guys in the world who could plan one. So the pull out the patriot card and he goes, only to find out that it was one of the ABC groups who was planning it, and its all set up to frame him for the job. Like all of these, he ends up killing all of them because justice can not touch them. However, near the end of the movie there were two quotes that caught my attention.

Senator Charles F. Meachum: There are no sides. There's no Sunnis and Shiites. There's no Democrats and Republicans. There's only HAVES and HAVE-NOTS.

Senator Charles F. Meachum: This is a country, where the Secretary of Defense can go on T.V., and tell the American public, oh, that "This is about freedom! It's not about oil!" And nobody questions him, cuz they don't wanna hear the answer, because it's a lie! There are only so many places at the table, Gunnie. Now, are you on the INSIDE, or are you on the OUT?

Is this really where we are today.. are we at the point of the haves and have not's, are we at the point of being on the inside or the outside.