The Patron Saint of the “Leave Us the Hell Alone” Caucus: Charlie Anderson (James Stewart), the Individualist hero of the film Shenandoah. "Virginia needs all of her sons, Mr. Anderson.” "That might be so. But these are my sons! Mine! They don’t belong to the state! When they were babies, I never saw the state coming around here with a spare tit. We never asked anything of the state, and never expected anything. We do our own living, and thanks to no man for the right.” Charlie Anderson, a widowed father of six sons, deflects the demands Lt. Johnson, leader … Continue reading The Enslavers