a new 3D license to kill. the sky falls on Humanity's Rights

The beauty of the 007 myth  is that it set the stage, in the public mind, for  "good guys killing bad guys" story. Killing  that is complete  with a "licence to kill."  

The brainwashing continues, in 3D this time, well after the the death of the original  creator  - Ian Fleming.

 The story of  the latest Bond film, "Skyfall", is not a Fleming original.  It doesn't have to be. Bond is just a franchise now. A franchise that serves the so called Free World Good Guys, very well.  It serves to justify their self given License to Kill, any one.  Anywhere. Anytime. Without any legal questions asked.

  The sky falls on Humanity's Rights to  Life itself.

By a strange but fitting coincidence, US President Barack Obama and his Republican challenger, Mitt Romney, held their final debate – which focused on foreign policy – just as the new James Bond film, Skyfall, had its world premiere in London. Although 007, who turned 50 this year, is a British-born global brand, his influence on the American political psyche – and that psyche’s influence on Bond – is obvious.

Illustration by Margaret Scott

Indeed, the latest production is a British-American partnership, and the violent special-operations action hero that Bond has come to embody reflects US assumptions about foreign policy and the rule of law. The presidential debate merely reinforced the dominant real-time plotline: Assassinating people (including US citizens) solely on the president’s orders, once considered a war crime, has become an applause line.

Like the Navy SEALs and other special-ops teams now roaming the planet in secrecy, Bond is an extrajudicial killer, whether for personal revenge, as in Quantum of Solace; geopolitical reasons, as in Die Another Day; or simply because someone is in his way. His bosses, too, identify targets from afar and order their annihilation, without revealing any awareness of ambiguity concerning who is a “bad guy” or acknowledging the possibility of poor intelligence or mistaken identity. His innocent victims, meanwhile, are invisible. Fabulous military technology is part of the spectacle and becomes its own justification – a character in the hero’s story line.

For 50 years, James Bond and his “license to kill” have stood for imperial justice beyond the limits of law. But he is imaginary, as are his victims. America’s violation of domestic and international law – and the bodies of innocents mown down by drones or operatives – are all too real.

http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/james-bond-at-50-by-naomi-wolf

                        007 . built into the public mind.  Perth, Australia