ture, and dust. Bingo.
That
was a few years ago. First thing, I removed that room from the design
plans for the building. Child's play, if you know how. Eventually,
I even got the original vellums at the contracting firm replaced with very
good fakes. Room doesn't show on them, either. Now, nobody
but me even knows it's there. Facilities guys? Contractors?
Hell. Dozens of them worked on moving things out, building things,
installing things. No problem. They never remember anything
anyway. All they ever think about is football and, well, you know.
Anyway, little by little, I made some purchase orders and some work orders.
Child's play, if you know how. I had all of the junk and boxes moved
out. Had the room redecorated. Nice walls, nice floor, new
furniture, really beefy air conditioning system because I had plans for
a lot of really beefy equipment. Got a security door but I went low
tech. Just a padlock. From the outside, it looks like a janitor's
closet. Even says that on the door. As I was getting it all
done, I kept deleting the work orders and the purchase orders. Deleted
all the records that anything had ever been done there. All the records
are gone and nobody ever came here but facilities people and contractors.
Nobody remembers the place.
Gotta
go.![10x5 Page Background GIF Image](../../Images/10x5_Page_Background.gif)
The Bit
Left from The Big Lift
Sam Aurelius Milam III
Some
time ago, I watched an old movie called The Big Lift. It was
released in 1950 and told a story that was set in Berlin, during the Berlin
Airlift of 1948-1949. So far as I could tell, the movie was accurate,
historically. It was an interesting story and worth watching once
but maybe not worth watching twice, except for one redeeming feature.
A
Ground-Control Approach operator, Master Sgt. Hank Kowalski, played by
Paul Douglas, was one of the main characters in the story. He had
a local German girlfriend named Gerda. During much of the movie,
the Master Sgt. made a concerted effort to convince Gerda that the United
States was better than the Soviet Union. From her point of view,
there wasn't much difference. Nevertheless, she was a very bright
young lady. She did a lot of research, a lot of reading, and learned
a lot about both the United States and the Soviet Union. A conversation
between Kowalski and Gerda near the end of the movie was, in my opinion,
the high point of the story.
Gerda,
in a fit of exasperation with Kowalski's efforts to convert her, recited
to him a laundry list of things that were wrong with the United States.
It seemed to me to be a credible and accurate list for the time.
He demanded to know where she'd obtained her information. She told
him that she'd read it in a book, written by an American author.
Kowalski then demanded to know where she'd obtained the book. She
told him that she'd bought it at the PX. So, he told her, she read
bad things about the United States in a book written in the United States,
published in the United States, and delivered by the U.S. Army to be sold
to American servicemen in the PX. He challenged
her to go into the Soviet District of Berlin and find a book written
by a Russian, published in the Soviet Union, and delivered by the Soviet
army to be sold in Berlin to Soviet soldiers.
It
was the dawning of a great light for Gerda. Suddenly she realized
the difference. Even though she considered the United States to be
every bit as flawed as the Soviet Union, the difference was that, in the
United States, it was acceptable to say so.
As
long as it's still acceptable to openly condemn the U.S. government, and
to demand its termination, then there will still be at least that difference,
if no other. If we can still call those filthy pigs the rat bastards
that they are, and get away with it, then we can still hope. You
can test it for yourself. Start getting vocal in public. Speak
loudly enough to be hard at the next table in restaurants and libraries.
Say seditious things over the telephone. Fill your email messages
with opinions of what you think should be done to the people in government.
If you get away with it, then we can still hope.![10x5 Page Background GIF Image](../../Images/10x5_Page_Background.gif)
Stray Thoughts
Sam Aurelius Milam III
• Most
of the efforts to improve "human rights" in recent centuries have resulted
only in stronger government.
• Equality
that's imposed by legislation is the equality of slaves. You don't
receive equality as a gift or as an entitlement. You earn it.
By doing so, you might even achieve superiority.
• Equal
rights is a contradiction in terms. Gender equality is another.![10x5 Page Background GIF Image](../../Images/10x5_Page_Background.gif)
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