John Batchelor writes on his blog:
Another of the compelling Twilight Zone political dramas, Season One, Episode 22, “The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street,” from Spring, 1960, and it stands the test of time for how political paranoia works on a neighborhood of the like-minded.
The commonplace people of Maple Street see a meteor flash overhead; all the electricity goes out; a small boy tells the story of how the monsters landed just like this; and soon everyone suspects everyone else as being the invaders. Glorious. “I know who the monster is!” shouts the accused. And then the leap of faith into total hysteria and the twist.
The question is, how does this not carefully describe the wireless national security state we live in with an affection for gold, survivalism, scapegoating, alien-mongering and fear of Dick Cheney.
More political posturing by Obama and his thugs is behind all this more recent “get Cheney.”
Everytime Obama is shown to be the failure that he is, the lackeys start back on the “get Bush, get Cheney” mantra.
The public should be focusing on how many anti-American communists now have access to this country’s most sensitive intelligence data, let alone private citizen information.
The Monsters already reside at Pennsylvania Avenue.
Joe: “The public should be focusing on how many anti-American communists now have access to this country’s most sensitive intelligence data, let alone private citizen information.”
you ain’t kidding.