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In my morning paper...
"Obama's power reminds him of an old episode from the 'Twilight Zone'
To the Editor:
Everything I need to know in life I learned from Twilight Zone episodes. TZ fans and aficionados will remember the episode entitled "It's A Good Life" starring a very young, pre-"Lost in Space" Billy Mumy. Here's an excerpt of an online synopsis: "Six-year-old Anthony Fremont looks like any other little boy, but looks are deceiving. He is a monster, a mutant with godlike mental powers. Early on, he isolated the small hamlet of Peaksville, Ohio. In fact, the handful of inhabitants does not even know if he destroyed the rest of the world or if it still exists. Anthony has also eliminated electricity, automobiles, and television signals. He controls the weather and what supplies can be found in the grocery store. Anthony creates and destroys as he pleases, and controls when the residents can watch the TV and what they can watch on it. The adults tiptoe nervously around him, constantly telling him how everything he does is 'good', since displeasing him can get them wished away 'to the cornfield', where they are presumably met by a less-than-happy ending."
Imagine a 6-year-old child who mentally controls every aspect of your life: the car you drive and if you're allowed to have one; your ability to watch TV without his approval; what and if you can eat; what you may own and what you must live without. And anything that the child disapproves of is consigned to the cornfield, totally eliminated, and gone from the face of the earth never to be seen again. Imagine if you will a child with that power " a child with no real (or real-world) experience, a child that will always be indulged by the everyone around him who depend upon him for their very existence, a child who does not know discipline but understands only his wants, his desires, his dislikes and his manipulation of everyone around him a child who cannot be stopped. Imagine a child like that.
And then imagine that child as the president of the United States. A president who can banish car companies to the cornfield, a president who can threaten entire financial institutions to bend to his will, a president who can seize the income of millions of people with the wave of his pen and force an entire nation to submit to his will and his whims, a president who "creates and destroys as he pleases." And imagine you are not in Peaksville, Ohio; you're not in the Twilight Zone. Imagine you're reading this letter right now, in your home or at your office or at a diner or bus stop. Imagine it's all happening to you, right now, right where you are, and you are powerless to stop it.
Rick Venema
Colonial Heights
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