Tuesday, January 31, 2012

(738) The Manchurian Candidate

It is a plausible story. We all know that most of the wealth of our world is concentrated in the hands of less than twenty families. With wealth, folks acquired power. Elections take a lot of money to run. Air time on TV are particularly expensive.

An entire platoon of army were kidnapped in Kuwait and things happened in the empty dessert. Two privates died and the son of a well known senator was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor. Later he was well placed to become the Vice President candidate. Strange things happened to every member of the platoon. One died naturally(disease). Another in an accident. Yet a third killed himself... One common after effect was that they all have dreams, dreams that seemed more real than what they consciously remembered.

As I watched, it was insidious to have mind altering implants in men's brains against their will. Good men were programmed to kill and to lie with no remorse. Then they no longer remember what they did. Some how, the two member most involved were able to foil the evil plan to put a sleeper or robot in the white house. The show ended with the charismatic young Vice President elect and his power hungry mother assassinated. The crime was pinned on a former assassin, thus freeing the other member to be rehabilitated. The moneyed group was known as the Manchuria Global, hence we have this rather unrelated name.

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