GOP film festival

I am going to make a bold prediction here: Somebody in the GOP will introduce the idea of charging terrorists for their detention and any intelligence subcontractors used to catch or interrogate them.

Mark my words.

Doesn’t it make sense that these oil-rich Saudis who are trying to kill us should pay for part of the war? Wouldn’t it be only fair if the American tax-payer was freed of some of the cost of The War Against Terror by charging the actual terrorists?

Wasn’t Saddam’s oil bonanza supposed to pay for the invasion of Iraq and the reconstruction?

Wouldn't it be great to confiscate every penny from the family of Johnny Walker Lindhe to defray our nation's costs?

Isn’t this the ultimate in the ownership society?

I wish I could take credit for such a horrible idea, but it actually comes from the 1985 film “Brazil.”

The movie is a futuristic comedy/tragedy about a bureaucratic society that is fighting a brutal, never ending war on terrorism. It is a very dark film starring Jonathon Pryce and Robert DiNero, directed by Terry Gilliam (of Monty Python and “The Fisher King” fame) and co-written by Tom Stoppard.

If you haven’t seen this movie, I urge you to do so while it is still satire. The clock is running out on that.