Gate Haven - Hall of Obscurity - Episode Trivia - California Reich As posted by Blinker (3/15/01) From the September 1998 edition of "All the Way," the Nationalist Movement's official newspaper: SLIDERS TAKES UP FROM WHERE PELICAN LEFT OFF: Film-makers switch from ignoring to fighting rightists HOLLYWOOD - First they ignore you. Then they fight you. Tim Maxey believes that Nationalism is now in Stage Two. He points to a recent episode of Sliders, which he says was a parody on The Nationalist Movement. "We must be aiming in the right direction for them to put this kind of mockery on the television. And at prime time, no less," he declared. The plot unfolds with the "heroes" "sliding" into a new world ruled by a para-military organization called "Stompers," a clear reference to Nationalist Skinheads, who wear boots and have been known to "stomp" communists in self-defense. Repatriation Deemed Evil The job of the Stompers is to enforce "racial repatriation," a direct takeoff of the Nationalists' repatriation program which will return Mexicans to Mexico and Japanese to Japan and evacuate all incompatible minorities. The leader is Governor Schick, who mimics Governors Ross Barnett or George Wallace, a cryptic reference to growing pro-majority power in such states as New Hampshire, California and Idaho. All "people of color" are being rounded up and shipped off to detention camps. Looking closely, says Maxey, one can see nationalist-type insignias on the characters and around the set. "Rembrandt" remains the only "person of color" left in Los Angeles and the Sliders' mission is to save him from the "evil" grasp of Schick. The vaunted Pelican Brief, a box office flop, was based on a plot that the Nationalists were deviously trying to take over the country. The producers even ordered authentic Crosstar T-shirts, pins and caps for actors to wear in the opening scene. The script was changed, at the last minute, to delete Nationalists, when Hollywood decided that the Nationalists would receive too much free publicity. The Nationalists fail to mention that Governor Schick doesn't settle for "repatriating" "people of colour," but in fact "mutilates them into mindless slave labourers." But then they couldn't portray their analogues as the true "heroes" of the story and leave "evil" in those omnipresent quotation marks, now could they?  Gate Haven - Hall of Obscurity - Episode Trivia - California Reich