[lbo-talk] Schwarzenegger screens Terminator 3 at old Saddam palace

[Dennis Perrin]

> The ultimate irony is that he's more right than he'll ever know -- the
> terminators are utterly evil, malevolent killing machines. "I want to be a
> machine", said Hamlet in Heiner Mueller's "Hamletmachine", one of the
great
> meditations on the power of reactionary ideology to turn human beings into
> repressive monsters.
>
> -- DRR

Exactly. The terminators, save for the ones reprogrammed by John Connor and
sent back in time, are relentless single-unit death squads out to extinguish
human resistance. Is this how Ah-nold plans to run for Gov?

DP