jamesfeldmancpa
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"The Special One" stands the test of time.
It is also a prophetic episode for the 21st century, with a chilling warning that is ingeniously presented as a captivating science fiction story, featuring terrific acting, direction, and effects (however primitive they may seem by modern standards).
As with all Outer Limits episodes, the moral of the story is provided at the end. "The mold of a man stems from the mind of a child. Educators and emperors have known this from time immemorial. So have tyrants." No less a tyrant than Adolph Hitler expressed the same idea when he said, "He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future."
The episode is prophetic because it warns about the dangers of allowing indoctrinators (with values antithetical and alien to traditional American values) to program the nation's youth, particularly to accomplish the long-term mission of destroying the existing civilization and replacing it with a new world order.
Unfortunately, this warning wasn't heeded and the US educational system has already been infiltrated by Marxist ideology at all levels. The infiltration has been so complete that today there are few genuine "professors," "colleges," or "universities." The colleges and universities have been replaced by what I call "Leftist Indoctrination Entities" (also called "LIEs"). And the professors have been replaced by Marxist demagogues.
Thus, hatred, intolerance, and violence are common amongst today's youth, as that is what is encouraged by today's LIEs. Blind obedience to the Marxist Totalitarian State is what they're after.
The message of "The Special One" is still a hopeful one, however, because good parents can still raise their children to hold strong traditional values, enabling them to resist the influence of enemy "aliens" that seek to destroy those values.
It is also a prophetic episode for the 21st century, with a chilling warning that is ingeniously presented as a captivating science fiction story, featuring terrific acting, direction, and effects (however primitive they may seem by modern standards).
As with all Outer Limits episodes, the moral of the story is provided at the end. "The mold of a man stems from the mind of a child. Educators and emperors have known this from time immemorial. So have tyrants." No less a tyrant than Adolph Hitler expressed the same idea when he said, "He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future."
The episode is prophetic because it warns about the dangers of allowing indoctrinators (with values antithetical and alien to traditional American values) to program the nation's youth, particularly to accomplish the long-term mission of destroying the existing civilization and replacing it with a new world order.
Unfortunately, this warning wasn't heeded and the US educational system has already been infiltrated by Marxist ideology at all levels. The infiltration has been so complete that today there are few genuine "professors," "colleges," or "universities." The colleges and universities have been replaced by what I call "Leftist Indoctrination Entities" (also called "LIEs"). And the professors have been replaced by Marxist demagogues.
Thus, hatred, intolerance, and violence are common amongst today's youth, as that is what is encouraged by today's LIEs. Blind obedience to the Marxist Totalitarian State is what they're after.
The message of "The Special One" is still a hopeful one, however, because good parents can still raise their children to hold strong traditional values, enabling them to resist the influence of enemy "aliens" that seek to destroy those values.
"Parkland" is total BS. It's just another lame attempt to perpetuate the official lie. JFK was murdered by a team of hit men engaged by a CIA-Mafia joint venture with a cover-up controlled by CIA (Allen Dulles leading the cover-up) along with the FBI (J. Edgar Hoover). Lee Oswald was a CIA recruit trained to pose as a Commie, and who was later moved into place to work in the Texas School Book Depository, where he was planted to be the patsy. Jack Ruby was a Mafia operative who was ordered to kill Oswald to silence him. The primary objective of killing JFK was to pave the way for the escalation of the Vietnam War, which wouldn't have happened if JFK had lived. JFK wrote an Executive Order to pull out the small number of troops stationed there. But in the days immediately before November 22, 1963, a new Executive Order was drafted by Deep State (CIA) operatives that would reverse that JFK's EO and would set the stage for the escalation. They had it ready for Lyndon Johnson to sign on the very weekend after JFK's murder. Johnson, following orders, signed the new EO. And thus, the US entered the decade-long Vietnam War, one of the most profitable wars of all time. To this day, the Mainstream Media Presstitutes continue to push the lie that a "lone assassin" killed JFK, under orders from the CIA Deep State criminals. And the documents proving their criminal acts have either been destroyed in violation of law or have been sealed off from public view to this day. Who says that crime doesn't pay?
First off, I must disclose that I'm an expert in the JFK murder and I'm fully conversant in all of the facts, evidence, and theories about what happened. So, if anything is presented that contradicts the facts or is inconsistent with the evidence, it's going to stand out for me. This documentary called "JFK: The Smoking Gun," is loaded with disinformation.
Let's take a simple example. This film purports to show a "demonstration" of expert marksmen "proving" that JFK's murder could be accomplished exactly the way the Warren Commission said it did. But the purported demonstration is no replication at all. The film concludes that three shots could be fired at a moving target within 5.6 seconds and on that basis concluded that the Warren Commission could be right.
But the film totally ignores the Zapruder film which establishes the timeline of at least three shots that were fired, and, critically, the interval between the shots. The undisputed interval between the first and second shot is only 1.6 seconds. But the weapon the Warren Commission says was used, a Mannlicher-Carcano, required a minimum of 2.3 seconds to fire twice, regardless of the accuracy of the shooter. This means that it was physically impossible for the first two shots to have been fired from that rifle.
Further, even putting aside the impossibility of getting off the first two shots in 1.6 seconds, the film's demonstration fails to remotely replicate the physical conditions a shooter would have faced from the 6th floor Depository window on November 22, 1963. During that time, the vision of the shooter's line of sight would have been obstructed by the leaves on the trees. Had the phony demonstration included just that additional point of reality, no marksmen would have been able to get off all three shots in 5.6 seconds, even ignoring the interval issue. The truth is that no marksman has ever remotely replicated the feat that the Warren Commission alleges that Lee Oswald did before he was conveniently silenced on November 24, two days after JFK's murder.
Let's take a simple example. This film purports to show a "demonstration" of expert marksmen "proving" that JFK's murder could be accomplished exactly the way the Warren Commission said it did. But the purported demonstration is no replication at all. The film concludes that three shots could be fired at a moving target within 5.6 seconds and on that basis concluded that the Warren Commission could be right.
But the film totally ignores the Zapruder film which establishes the timeline of at least three shots that were fired, and, critically, the interval between the shots. The undisputed interval between the first and second shot is only 1.6 seconds. But the weapon the Warren Commission says was used, a Mannlicher-Carcano, required a minimum of 2.3 seconds to fire twice, regardless of the accuracy of the shooter. This means that it was physically impossible for the first two shots to have been fired from that rifle.
Further, even putting aside the impossibility of getting off the first two shots in 1.6 seconds, the film's demonstration fails to remotely replicate the physical conditions a shooter would have faced from the 6th floor Depository window on November 22, 1963. During that time, the vision of the shooter's line of sight would have been obstructed by the leaves on the trees. Had the phony demonstration included just that additional point of reality, no marksmen would have been able to get off all three shots in 5.6 seconds, even ignoring the interval issue. The truth is that no marksman has ever remotely replicated the feat that the Warren Commission alleges that Lee Oswald did before he was conveniently silenced on November 24, two days after JFK's murder.