Maybe
Sam Aurelius Milam III
The
NCIS
episode SWAK provided an important lesson for people who seek such
things. The background for the episode began with a young woman named
Sarah Lowell. A hotel maid found Sarah tied naked to a bed in the
Admiral's Bay Hotel, in Annapolis. Sarah claimed to have been abducted
and raped. A dozen Naval Academy seniors, who were at the hotel the
night of the assault, became suspects. They were cleared by NCIS
and the perpetrator was never caught. Sarah's mother, Hannah Lowell,
believed that the investigation had been a cover-up, intended to protect
the Naval Academy from embarrassment.
That
background was revealed piecemeal during the episode, which began in the
squad room when Anthony DiNozzo opened an envelope that emitted a small
puff of white powder. The powder turned out to be Y. pestis.
Anthony DiNozzo and Caitlin Todd were both in the near vicinity of the
release and were placed in isolation. Testing revealed that Kate
hadn't been exposed, but that Tony had pneumonic plague. The episode
ended with Tony near to death. It was a real cliff hanger.
Investigation
revealed that the envelope had been sent by Hannah Lowell. In addition
to being Sarah's mother, Hannah was the CEO of Lowell Pharmaceuticals,
a bioresearch firm that developed defenses against bioweapons. Thus,
she'd been able to steal the sample of Y. pestis and send it to
NCIS.
It was a genetically modified strain that was immune to standard antimicrobials.
She'd left enough clues to insure that she'd be caught. Her plan
was to provide an allegedly effective vaccine in return for NCIS
admitting to the cover-up.
Hannah's
attack on NCIS had been motivated by her outrage over Sarah's rape,
and the cover-up. Actually, Sarah hadn't been raped at all.
She and her paramour had been enjoying a tryst in the hotel room.
As a sort of joke, he left her tied to the bed while he went for hamburgers
and shakes. Sarah thought, at the time, that it was funny.
He was killed in a hit-and-run accident while crossing the street, and
didn't return. Sarah remained tied to the bed, naked, for two days
before the maid discovered her. Near the end of the episode, when
Sarah learned what her mother had done, she was (as they say) smitten with
remorse. When she was questioned by Cassie Yates and Gibbs, the team
leader, she told
the truth. Cassie asked, "Why did you say you were raped?"
Sarah answered, "I was tied naked to a bed. What else could I tell
my mother?"
Sarah's
lie set into motion the whole series of consequences. Sarah's mother
was tormented by Sarah's alleged abuse, and an imagined cover-up.
Several midshipmen were falsely accused and subjected to criminal investigations.
The integrity of Lowell Pharmaceuticals, a high-security research firm,
was compromised. Several NCIS agents were put at risk of exposure
to pneumonic plague and were subjected to a lot of emotional stress.
Tony was infected and suffered horribly. Sarah was tormented by guilt
and continued to fabricate false claims of traumatic amnesia, to cover
her lie.
From
time immemorial, real people have behaved very much as did Sarah and her
paramour, in SWAK. In our real society, neither a mother nor
a daughter would be capable of acknowledging, to the other, such behavior.
The reason is that the sin mongers have infected us with their ugly doctrines
of sin and guilt. They've imposed on us their filthy notions of obscenity,
transforming human sexuality into something obscene. They've even
invented Hell, an imagined place of punishment for people who dare to disagree
with them. As I noted in Let
No Man Put Asunder, in the December 2009 Frontiersman, their
own Bible tells them that sexuality is God's image. Even so, they
cling to their filthy-minded notions. It takes a long time to change
such ideas but, if we start now, each of us trying to change his own attitudes
then, maybe eventually, our descendants will be able to see themselves
as good and beautiful. Maybe they'll be able to enjoy their sexuality
without shame or guilt.
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