There is a scene from one of the old episodes of Monty Python’s Flying Circus. It seems even more topical today than it did when it was first aired.

I reproduce it here, and follow with something more humorous: Reality Itself!



Cut to a well-guarded American government building, with the letters 'FEAR' on a board outside.


Voice Over

Meanwhile in Washington, at the headquarters of 'FEAR' - the Federal Egg Answering Room - in reality a front name for 'FEEBLE' - the Free World Extra-Earthly Bodies Location and Extermination Centre... all was not well.



A high-security operations room - maps, charts. monitor screens. A message comes chattering over the teleprinter. A teleprinter operator rips it out and takes it over to Captain Carpenter who sits at a control desk.


Captain Carpenter

Good God! (he grabs a red flashing phone) Get me the Supreme Commander Land, Sea and Air Forces, immediately!



Cut to a large room, empty apart from a very large desk with a large American eagle emblem above it. We hear American military music. There is nothing on the desk, except for a very futuristic, dynamic-looking intercom. Behind the desk the supreme commander sits. . . . the intercom buzzes loudly and a light flashes. The music stops. He jumps, and quickly takes his shoe off the desk. He presses a switch on the intercom.


Commander

Hello?


Carpenter

This is Captain Carpenter sir, from FEAR.


Commander

You mean FEEBLE?


Carpenter

Yes, sir ...


Commander

What is it?


Carpenter

Mr Neutron is missing, sir!


Commander

Mr Neutron! Oh my God! OK - Surround the entire city! Send in four waves of armed paratroopers with full ground-to-air missile support! Alert all air bases! Destroy all roads! We'll bomb the town flat if we have to!


Carpenter

Sir! Sir! He's not in Washington, sir.


Commander

OK! Hold everything! Hold everything! Hold it! Lay off! Lay off... Where is he?


Carpenter

We don't know, sir ... all we know is he checked out of his hotel and took a bus to the airport.


Commander

All right! I want a full-scale Red Alert throughout the world! Surround everyone with everything we've got! Mobilize every fighting unit and every weapon we can lay our hands on! I want... I want three full-scale global nuclear alerts with every army, navy and air force unit on eternal standby!


Carpenter

Right, sir!


Commander

And introduce conscription!


Carpenter

Yes, sir!


Commander

Right!





= = = end of scene = = =

Take these words from the above scene:

“I want a full-scale Red Alert throughout the world! Surround everyone with everything we've got!”

Compare these words with an actual statement by Mr. Feith, one of the architects of the neo-conservative agenda. He was speaking about the future of our troop deployments, and the locations of our military bases.

I had to write it down, as soon as I heard it.

He ACTUALLY said THIS -- I am not making it up.

“Everything will be moved everywhere.”

Don’t think about it too hard.