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...by James Mason
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Whether racially alien or spiritually alien, we have generally assumed that the agents and representatives of Big Brother were at least mortal. Maybe that assumption was too easy. We've witnessed it dramatically recently with the shooting of a System "President" and a System "Press Secretary". We saw it earlier with a Black– Vernon Jordan– plus other instances on and off. Jordan was hit with a heavy caliber rifle, critically wounded, yet lived to recover and go on fulfilling the commands of his Master. It was safely afterward that the media admitted that the System "President" had a close call due to loss of blood. Yet he too lived. But the story that the bureaucratic "Press Secretary" had his brains blown out and yet is making a "miraculous recovery" took the cake!
Maybe you just don't need brains to be a government bureaucrat.
Science fiction fans will well remember a film classic from the 1950's entitled "The Thing From Outer Space", starring James Arness in the title role. The "Thing" had a humanoid appearance but the constitution of a vegetable which meant it had no vital spots. The men under actor Kenneth Tobey's film-command used everything from Very pistols to .45 machine guns to high explosives but could not kill the "Thing". Point being that each brave man who tried these ineffectual weapons was sacrificed and lost. In the case of Hinckley 's bullets, a line from the screen play might read like this, "But sir, I fired 'Devastators' into the son-of-a bitch and he just kept coming!"
In the end they killed the "Thing" by rigging a high-voltage trap which vaporized the monster. In the setting of a military base with all sorts of equipment and technicians handy, such a method as electrocution can be possible. But not so in a desperate, hand-to-mouth struggle against the most horrible and inhuman of all monsters: Big Brother. Certainly body shots, even with high-powered rifles, are never too dependable. And I've been informed that, because of today's advances in medicine, had he been shot today, Bobby Kennedy probably would have survived.
But not if he'd had his head blown OFF, I'll wager.
[Vol. X #6, – June 1981]
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