Battlestar Galactica producers are pinko-commies

We have been watching the new Battlestar Galactica series lately. In the season 2 finale, the Chief, as Union President, gives this workers unite-type speech about throwing yourself on gears and such. I thought, that sounds awfully familiar. Turns out it was paraphrased from a famous speech by Mario Savio, a ’60s political activist. I’m most familar with it though from the Utah Phillips/Ani DiFranco versions.

There’s a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can’t take part—you can’t even passively take part. And you’ve got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you’ve got to make it stop. And you’ve got to indicate to the people who run it and the people who own it that unless you are free, the machine will be prevented from working at all.