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So, how many people thought that the opening scene in Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End was a dig at current administration in office? I was stunned listening to the cryer at the hangings that open the film listing off rights that had been suspended: habeas corpus, trial of one's peers, peaceful assembly. Stunned mostly because the idea that a Disney flick might actually criticize a sitting president was almost beyond the pale.

I'm sure that some would argue, "But that's what the villian would have done!" Yes, but why put it into the film that way? I'm quite sure there are any number of scripts that could have been played aloud at that moment. One that makes the villian seem to mirror our current government's obsessions is pushing the issue, don't you think?
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