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Ichingcarpenter

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18. Yeah........ those were Sterling's words too
Fri Nov 20, 2015, 04:26 PM
Nov 2015

at the end of Nightmare on Maple Street.

I had just watched 'he lives' and of course it made me think as Sterling usually does and I saw that Trump meme plus knowing his other statements on Mexican rapists etc thought it was worth the message.

I really don't buy into Godwin's law because the reality of history and my research. Its normally not applied correctly anyway to most discourses.

The Bush family history should point one into the direction on NAZI and Fascist underpinnings within our national character..

To quote Serling again he might have well said it last spring because it still addresses our times as it did back then


“It's simply a national acknowledgement that in any kind of priority, the needs of human beings must come first. Poverty is here and now. Hunger is here and now. Racial tension is here and now. Pollution is here and now. These are the things that scream for a response. And if we don't listen to that scream - and if we don't respond to it - we may well wind up sitting amidst our own rubble, looking for the truck that hit us - or the bomb that pulverized us. Get the license number of whatever it was that destroyed the dream. And I think we will find that the vehicle was registered in our own name.''


from a Commencement Address at the University of Southern California; March 17, 1970”

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This message was self-deleted by its author marym625 Nov 2015 #1
Stuff like that doesn't get on tee vee anymore. Octafish Nov 2015 #2
Serling's moral view, I think, was shaped by his combat experience during WWII deutsey Nov 2015 #4
I binge watched...... suston96 Nov 2015 #5
a lot of the sci fi writers couched their liberal politics in allegory. Doctor_J Nov 2015 #22
This message was self-deleted by its author yuiyoshida Nov 2015 #3
You inspired me to go find that episode online and watch it. Tommy_Carcetti Nov 2015 #6
Rod Serling's script on Hitler telling Hopper's character what he needs to do Ichingcarpenter Nov 2015 #7
hard to believe it came out in 1963. AlbertCat Nov 2015 #11
Here's the IMDB link Fritz Walter Nov 2015 #8
Bigoted idiots should shut their mouth! n/t RoccoR5955 Nov 2015 #9
Something else that struck me about the episode: Tommy_Carcetti Nov 2015 #10
You know what's REALLY fscked up? markbark Nov 2015 #12
The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street sarge43 Nov 2015 #13
I agree with you sarge43 Doc_Technical Nov 2015 #14
Beautifully summed, Doc. sarge43 Nov 2015 #16
Yeah........ those were Sterling's words too Ichingcarpenter Nov 2015 #18
Like Carl Sagan, a good man who left us far too soon. n/t sarge43 Nov 2015 #21
... FlatBaroque Nov 2015 #23
K&R from Gauleiter WALKER'S Wisconsin-he's alive here big time bobthedrummer Nov 2015 #15
It's available for free at Hulu.... Spitfire of ATJ Nov 2015 #17
All his scripts are available on line too Ichingcarpenter Nov 2015 #19
Netflix is also streaming it n/t sarge43 Nov 2015 #20
I had to go watch it, and man was that creepy! loyalsister Nov 2015 #24
Not to hijack the thread Omaha Steve Nov 2015 #25
I support this pseudo highjack. longship Nov 2015 #26
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