History Main / OccupiersOutOfOurCountry

Sometimes, when writers feel the need to avert TerroristsWithoutACause, they use this stock motivation, where the members of a guerilla/insurgent/terrorist/freedom fighter/resistance/etc. movement and/or organisation justify their actions by claiming they desire for foreign occupiers to leave their nation. This is both TruthInTelevision and OlderThanFeudalism, dating at least back to the 1st century BC with the Sicarii zealots in Roman-occupied Israel.

* The titular ''FreedomFighters'', who are made up of United States citizens organizing armed resistance against their Soviet occupiers in [[BigApplesauce New York City]]. [[spoiler:Like the Selkath, they had some aid, from [[TheMole Colonel Bulba, disguised as a man named Mr Jones]].]]

* Many, many ''DoctorWho'' stories, starting with "[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin The Dalek Invasion of Earth]]". Notably interesting variations are in "The Mutants", "The Power Of Kroll" and "Planet of the Ood" in which [[HumansAreBastards humans are the occupying force]].

* Used frequently in the works of HarryTurtledove, for example, the Canadians resisting American occupation in Timeline191, or the English resisting the Spanish in RuledBritannia.

** ''Alexander Newski'' features Teutonic Order as invaders.

* Colonel Kurtz describes this in Apocalypse Now. In his haunting speech to Captain Williard he claims that the reason why America is eventually going to lose the war is because to us the war isn't a matter of life and death, the Americans viewed Vietnam as a matter of containing Communism in the larger Cold War while the Vietnamese wanted the Americans out of their country so much that they were willing to do whatever it took to win. Kurtz commends them saying that if he had even so much as 10 divisions (which I think is about 300,00 men) of men like that willing to do whatever it took to win then the Vietnam War could be won with alarming speed.

** And when Brian is ordered to go out and scribe some anti-Roman graffiti on the walls of the governor's palace, and the patrol centurion who captures him ''corrects his grammar'' and tells him to ''copy it out a hundred times''.
*** Although the People's Front of Judea are a bit uncertain about ''which'' Romans they want to go home (they rather like the ones who maintain trade, infrastructure and utilities).

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* Republican RonPaul often states American Military presences is seen as occupational forces to those overseas. He even has a [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UryciFTWTP4&feature=feedf whole video]] about what if some foreign power such as say [[YellowPeril China]] decided to set up a military base on American soil.

* The Bajoran Resistance fighting the Cardassian occupation of Bajor in ''StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' and ''StarTrekDeepSpaceNine''. DS9 also had a Cardassian resistance against the Dominion in later seasons.

* The White Lotus sect mentioned above from ''OnceUponATimeInChina 2'' are singularly nasty KnightTemplar types who want all foreign influence, however beneficial, out of China. These guys are introduced by [[KickTheDog burning a dog because it was a foreign breed]], attack and burn down a foreign language school, forcing Wong to take the displaced students of the school to the British consulate, and at one point, they even ''burn a cross'' in front of the consulate in a scene that may remind American viewers of [[KuKluxKlan another sect known for its racial bigotry]].
** This is more of a HistoricalVillainUpgrade more than anything else: The White Lotus Clan were patriotic warriors driving white ''invaders'' out of a country they had '''no''' morally righteous claim to; the Klansmen are descendants of slave owners who are trying to scare and bully the right to contiune to beat, abuse, murder and rape black people out of a public made too cowardly by the First Ammedment to fight back.

*** Mostly because it was a direct Hitler allegory.

*** Although the People's Front of Judea are a bit undertain about ''which'' Romans they want to go home (they rather like the ones who maintain trade, infrastructure and utilities).

** This is more of a HistoricalVillainUpgrade more than anything else: The White Lotus Clan were patriotic warriors driving white ''invaders'' out of a country they had '''no''' morally righteous claim to; the Klansmen are descendants of slave owners who are trying to scare and bully the right to contiune to beat, abuse, murder and rape black people out of a public to cowardly to fight back.

--> '''Welkin''': Let's drive these Imperials back out of Gallia! Squad 7, move out!\\

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* TheTomorrowSeries from Australia.

* The TomorrowWar Series From Australia.