you can't defeat men who want to be free

There was a cartoon some years ago that had this group of maybe five ragged men surrounded by Roman Legions, Roman Legion after Roman Legion down in the valleys and up in the mountains, and one of the ragged men is saying to the other ragged men.  "Follow me men, they can't defeat men who want to be free."  I'm sure it came from the movie Spartacus which I have never seen, but was written by Dalton Trumbo who was blacklisted by HUAC at the time.  See there was a man who was ill-treated by the authorities yet continued to write those upbeat stories where the little guy, with right on his side, fights the evil authority and wins, or else goes off to stirring music, which is used to make you think dying for a just cause is a good thing because in the end the human spirit will triumph because you can't defeat men who want to be free.

I don't know who this Cortana is, but it sounds like she is some sister of this Alexa, and what's the name of the other one, Siri?  I've never met any of them and have no plans to,  And this Cortana, who Beagles feels so close to, is giving him a bad steer.  Cervantes was never burnt at the stake.  I googled Cervantes burned at the stake and came up with Servetus burned at the stake.  He was some old timey humanist who the inquisition did not like so he fled to Switzerland where he discovered the Calvinists didn't like him either (something about the trinity natch) and they burnt him at the stake.

And what Beagles says about Biden's part in Ukraine-Gate is incorrect.  The first part is correct, but for the second what Joe Biden did was pressure the Ukrainian government to get rid of a prosecutor who never prosecuted any of the corrupt characters in the government, in favor of someone who did some prosecuting.  So if his son was under investigation this guy would have been harder on him, but the fact is the son never did anything worth being prosecuted for https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/9/23/20879611/joe-biden-hunter-biden-ukraine-corruption-prosecutor-burisma-donald-trump-whistleblower-complaint  I wonder if Cortana gave Beagles the wrong steer on this also.  I wonder if that silver-tongued Hannity is whispering into her shell-shaped ear.

But what is interesting to me is how Holywood continues to crank out those stories about the little guy fighting the powers for a just cause and usually winning, if not going out to that inspiring music.  Hollywood itself is full of money-grubbing tyrants, so it's not like something they believe in, but they know their public does so give them what sells,  In fact while I was still in the throes of my struggle with the board I watched such a movie and the battle of the hero against the odds ran loud with me.  I knew it was odd, it was a stupid movie, but it resonated strongly with me.  I guess it is in our genes.