- While my brother and sister loved the Three Stooges,
Abbott and Costello, and cowboy shows on TV; I only remember liking one
show and that was The Twilight Zone. I thought Rod Sterling a genius. Though
he only lived until age 50 he left a legacy of creative shows that will
never be seen again.
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- Why do I bring up Rod Sterling? Because I was watching
President Bush today when he came out from his "conversation"
with the 9-11 Commission. Cheney, the Puppet Master" must have been
just out of camera range. All I could think of was Rod Sterlings movie,
"It's a Good Life". In this movie six year old Anthony can control
the town he lives in by disfiguring people (wishing them into the cornfield)
who don't think happy good thoughts. Everyday is a living hell for the
people in Peaksville, Ohio.
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- On a given morning not too long ago, the rest of the
world disappeared and Peaksville was left all alone. Its inhabitants were
never sure whether the world was destroyed and only Peaksville left untouched
or whether the village had somehow been taken away. They were, on the other
hand, sure of one thing: the cause. A monster had arrived in the village.
Just by using his mind, he took away the automobiles, the electricity,
the machines-because they displeased him-and he moved an entire community
back into the dark ages.
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- Anthony lives with at the Fremont farm. One day Aunt
Amy began to sing aloud. Now, the monster doesn't like singing, so his
mind snapped at her, turned her into a smiling vacant thing. She sings
no more. The people in Peaksville have to smile and they have to think
happy thoughts and say happy things because once displeased the monster
can wish them into a cornfield or change them into a grotesque walking
horror. When Anthony looks at you you'd better be thinking happy thoughts.
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- That was Anthony. Now we have George and his happy thought
friends, who are writing up all kinds of laws about what you can do, say,
and think. Johnny doesn't like breasts, so all the breasts of nude statues
have to be covered in drapes. Donald likes killing. The lead soldiers
he had as a kid are now flesh and blood. He can order thousands, why millions,
away from their jobs, kids, and homes; to fight his forever and forever
wars. Our husbands, kids and grand kids. Not theirs.
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- Colin and Condi aren't sure who they are. Their job is
to tell everyone what George really means when he talks. It displeases
George to talk in public. It displeases him very much. Mr.Powell knows,
that if he doesn't say the things that George tells him to, he'll end up
in the cornfield. And so Colin told this ridiculous story in front of the
UN people about aluminum pipes, traveling biological vans, and scary stuff
about vials of powdered poison. Nobody laughed when Colin told these made
up stories because they'd all end up in the cornfield with Colin.
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- People are pretty careful about what they say today.
Mostly they've just stopped talking to each other. What's OK today might
be against the law tomorrow? George has already told everyone, "Those
not with us are against us". So everybody started to think happy thoughts.
Better yet, no thoughts.
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- George says that God talks to him. George says that he's
the War President. George says that it's a big country and that the terrorists
are everywhere. And now everybody is scared every day. Airports are evacuated
if a shopping bag is left behind. Some days it's chemical factories, and
other days it's nuclear facilities. Today it's malls we need to be vigilant
about. George and his very good friends have bunkers built all over the
country, in case the rest of the world gets sick and tired and really decides
to come and get us. George says that plastic sheeting and duct tape should
see us through any crisis. And if not? Well--that's the sacrifices of war.
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- Everyone wonders deep inside themselves if maybe it's
not really God talking to George? But, yikes, you wouldn't dare say this
out loud. So all the pretend ministers march into George's house and pray
with him. Then George tells them who God wants to kill next. And they say,
"Amen and Amen!" Well, God doesn't say "kill", He uses
words like pre-emptive, regime change, liberation, etc. God only kills
people in lands with oil or other good stuff. But you can't talk about
this because God is supposed to know what He's doing.
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- George says that God wants terrorism wiped off the face
of the Earth. Now nobody is sure how this will happen? Nobody asks, "When
will we know that the very last terrorist is dead?" Will God tell
George? It's kind of like telling people they should go out and catch all
the fog of the earth in bottles.
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- Millions and millions of jobs have been lost since George
was selected. But, George says we've turned the corner, and the economy
is looking good. Now all the people who live in towns with boarded mills
and factories don't believe this. None of the farmers who've lost their
land believe. The computer people, whose jobs are in India don't think
we've turned the corner. Everybody knows it's a joke and a lie but the
robot people smiling--always smiling on TV, just tell us what George thinks.
That's all that matters.
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- George likes happy thoughts. He likes flags, and people
standing behind him, smiling like nitwits when he talks about the tax breaks
for the rich being such a boon for the economy. He likes lots of cheering
soldiers, yellow ribbons, his ranch and baseball. He doesn't like dissent
of any kind. TV never shows people with signs of protest. Only happy people
in happy land saying "Yes George it's good. It's very, very good that
millions don't have jobs. It's good George that God chose you to tell us
which way to go. Yes George war is very, very good."
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- Donald tells everybody that all the outrage over in Iraq
is not about people wanting to protect their nation. He says it's just
a few gangsters and thugs. Malcontents, that are jealous of America. Yes,
jealous of our malls, theme parks, mega-stores, factory farms, rusted mill
towns, designer clothes, Trophy homes, and golf courses. Donald likes
bombs and more bombs. Donald thinks that force will win the day. Donald
is nuts.
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- And now all kinds of people are dying. The young soldiers
who were cruising the malls a few months back, the mechanic, farmer and
teacher. The Iraqi people don't feel too liberated. They watch as their
services are all being privatized and foreign workers being brought in
for cheap labor. They see their families torn to shreds and kids killed
on the way to school.
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- Rejan Mohammed Hassen stands in front of the rubble that
was her house. Before the Americans came their little village a hour's
drive north of Baghdad was quiet with grazing cattle beside the mighty
Tigris. No more. The military men (Americans) came early in the morning.
They beat the women. After that, two tanks started shooting. They took
away 73 of the village men, several trucks and all the cash they could
find. No they didn't find any weapons. Rejan doesn't know what has happened
to her four sons? This is liberation?
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- Recent TV coverage has shown that our soldiers are turning
into the monsters that they claim to have saved the Iraqi people from.
Terrible pictures of men and women soldiers having Iraqi soldiers performing
lewd acts. Pictures of naked Iraqi men piled in the form of a pyramid.
Terrible pictures. This is sickening beyond belief. These crazed people
(no not soldiers) have, by these acts, put every soldier and "contractor"
in the entire region in grave jeopardy . Vengeance is a terrible thing.
And by these despicable acts they have ended any chance of peace in this
land.
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- But let us not say anything. Let us keep up the mantra
of Republican vs. Democrat. Let us put up with the insane arguments of
ribbons and medals. Let's continue the blame game and the pretense of
an election. As for the 9-11 Commission? Let's just dust off the Warren
Report. Anyone with a fifth grade education could write the thing now.
"Intelligence was lacking, blah blah blah. A disconnect was found
between agencies and the sharing of information. George was not at fault.
It is regrettable that George had to inherit the ineptness of past administrations.
George wants lots more money to form a new Super Improved Secret Agency.
George says this is important. He wants to protect everyone. The end."
Now let us all think good thoughts. If not, George may wish us all into
the cornfield.
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