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                         Darth Vader is the good guy …
                                        
> STAR WARS RETURNS today with its fifth installment, “Attack of the Clones.”
> There will be talk of the Force and the Dark Side and the epic morality of
> George Lucas's series. But the truth is that from the beginning, Lucas
> confused the good guys with the bad. The deep lesson of Star Wars is that
> the Empire is good. 
> 
> It's a difficult leap to make—embracing Darth Vader and the Emperor over
> the plucky and attractive Luke Skywalker and Princess Leia—but a careful
> examination of the facts, sorted apart from Lucas's off-the-shelf moral
> cues, makes a quite convincing case. 
> 

Via my dog wants to be on the radio, [1] The Case for The Empire [2] 

Given this article, and some scenes from Star Wars: The Phantom Menace [3]
(one where two Jedi Knights take custody of a small child and leave his
enslaved mother because “that's not our job” and another one where said two
Jedi Knights gang up on one Sith Lord) that yes, a convincing case could be
made that the Empire was an attempt to keep the Republic together. 

[1] http://gweezlebur.com/~ivey/weblog/archive/archive-20020517.shtml
[2] http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/001/248ipzbt.asp
[3] http://us.imdb.com/Title?0120915

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