The Death of the West by Patrick J. Buchanan

Author:Patrick J. Buchanan
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2011-02-15T05:00:00+00:00

In his enraged epistle, Lee confessed that he had to hold himself back from shouting at the screen. He attacked screenwriter Robert Rodat for not making the Gibson character a slave owner and not putting at least some Indians into the Revolutionary War film: “Where were they? Did the two Johns—Ford and Wayne—wipe them out already?” Incensed by the final scene in which Benjamin Martin holds aloft a thirteen-star American flag and heroically charges the British lines, Lee castigated it as “laughable.”

What comes out of Lee’s letter is virulent anti-Americanism—i.e., our country was built on “genocide” and “enslavement”—and his settled conviction that anyone who rejects this view of U.S. history is “criminal.” Only a sick or criminal mind, Lee is saying, could paint the American Revolution as heroic, honorable, and moral, and not deal with slaughtered Indians. And to portray any blacks in America as free, happy, or loyal is “propaganda,” an outrage; it cannot be true.

In Salon.com, Jonathan Foreman explores for the roots of this evil film and finds them where you might expect: “The savage soldiers in ‘The Patriot’ act more like the Waffen SS than actual English troops. Does The Patriot’ have an ulterior motive?”25

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