On this day, I’d like to remind you of an episode of TWILIGHT ZONE that really stuck in my memory

and seems germane to the present in the USA.

"He's Alive" is a fourth-season episode of The Twilight Zone. It tells of an American neo-Nazi who is inspired by the ghost of Adolf Hitler

Closing narration

“ Where will he go next, this phantom from another time, this resurrected ghost of a previous nightmare - Chicago; Los Angeles; Miami, Florida; Vincennes, Indiana; Syracuse, New York? Anyplace, everyplace, where there's hate, where there's prejudice, where there's bigotry. He's alive. He's alive so long as these evils exist. Remember that when he comes to your town. Remember it when you hear his voice speaking out through others. Remember it when you hear a name called, a minority attacked, any blind, unreasoning assault on a people or any human being. He's alive because through these things we keep him alive.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/He's_Alive

So I ll leave a message . F**k off and kma.
I always had the feeling that Rod S could 'see' something of the future or had a good handle on the predictive imagination.

FReeper trolls FUCK OFF!

Thank you since right now this thread has 26 Recs and had you not mentioned UnRec trolls I would never have known about it.

I guess that makes sense ...... :shrug:

This is a discussion board, and I recommend posts (and constituent threads) that I feel are worthy of discussion. I don't see the rec/unrec feature in terms of popularity or cheerleading like some people seem to. If it looks to me that the discussion thread isn't worth reading (even if the original post is), I'll unrecommend it because I think that's one of my roles in the community. By someone posting something about "unrec rah rah" as the first reply, they have assured that I won't read any further in the thread. By then unrecommending the entire thread I'm having an influence on what others will read on the front page. Likewise, I recommend posts and threads when I think people should read them.

If you're interested, I have a similar disdain for the "recommend!!one!" replies.

I guess that's better than hit and run and cowardly anonymity, although it is like executing the mother of a murderer for the actions of her son.

I completely disagree with you, but I give you credit for responding.

Serling was sometimes amazingly prescient.

Sure it's a cheap shot. Thought I would get it in before he dies.

my memory gets fuzzy as I grow old.

Trying to pick a favorite Twilight Zone id hard, but this was one of them.

Just this: "Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. Please search for He/'s Alive in Wikipedia to check for alternative titles or spellings."

The ONLY charismatic leader/speaker is Obama and IMO he is the exact opposite of any Hitler.. Who on the Right has such charisma?

billo. rush.

"Remember it when you hear his voice speaking out through others. Remember it when you hear a name called, a minority attacked, any blind, unreasoning assault on a people or any human being."

They will need to have a clean background so as not to arouse suspicion with mainstream America-somewhat. Then they will gradually promote their evil agenda. They will start by making torture seem acceptable and taking away civil rights a little at a time. The Patriot Act is a perfect example.

You simply need an absolute conviction that your ideology trumps reality, and that you are always right, and that anyone who opposes you is an enemy to be crushed.

That pretty much encapsulates every Republican.

it says you may hear his words spoken by others, not any one specific person, and he is alive in this sense.

http://www.whale.to/b/nazi_q.html

"...Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. I works the same in any country." --Hermann Goering

"Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it and eventually they will believe it." --Adolf Hitler

"What luck for the rulers that men don't think." --Adolf Hitler

"The greatness of every mighty organization embodying an idea in this world lies in the religious fanaticism and intolerance with which, fanatically convinced of its own right, it intolerantly imposes its will against all others." --Adolf Hitler

"Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise." --Adolf Hitler

Eerily applicable, every word.

... about how easy it is to manipulate people using fear.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Monsters_Are_Due_on_Maple_Street

Still chilling to watch.

I ordered one from Cafepress, too, that says, "Don't make me wish you into the Cornfield." That was after we ended our boycott of them, natch. Viva the Twilight Zone!

I use that line all the time, except I say, "Just wish them into the cornfield!"

anything about the tea partiers, Republicans and conservatives. They have been convinced by their authority figures that there is something to fear, and seem to be out of control, running wild in the streets with no real direction, but looking for a target that will prove their fears to be real.

who are being praised as "leaders".

nt.

Fantastic!

no television....

thank you

:applause:

:kick:

Serling did many things that had a very distinct "tone" to it. At a time when people were not supposed to "question" standards and more's, Serling was leading the charge into thinking. He was brilliant at it, and his stories are timeless.

Thanks for the memory jolt...:pals:

I've always been a big Rod Serling fan...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_Twilight_Zone_episodes

http://tzone.the-croc.com/original-twilight-zone-episode-guide.html

Amazing to check out the writers and the actors who were involved.

Here's another possible true scenario - The Heat wave episode , catastrophic where the earth turned to over 110 degrees and very dry ? In the end is turned out the earth really was going to freeze or something.
A lot of weird worlds explored with Rod. Lets hope we don't have to live through any of them.
The worst is that thing on the airplane wing episode !

Ruing the day that our mass media became so much more privatized and monopolized and commercialized.

who endorsed Bush, and how ironic is that. Naive idiot.

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