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Delusion: Lucy's Breath
Paperback
Publisher Price: $9.99
ISBN13: 9781988647654
Publisher: Mrpwebmedia
Published: Dec 4 2019
Pages: 142
Weight: 0.44
Height: 0.30 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
On a chilly November New York City morning in 1953, a scientist working for the CIA on psychotropic mind-control experiments walked off the tenth-floor balcony of the Statler Hotel. He had become increasingly disenchanted with the bizarre and incredibly dangerous work he had been doing in service to national security.
Despite the patriotic rationale, the scientist felt his life's work was immoral and most certainly illegal. He wanted out, unfortunately, he knew too much, and knowing too much is a very precarious position to be in if you work for a clandestine operation run by America's very own version of Josef Mengele, the Angel of Death.
The scientist insisted on getting out, and out he got, through the window and off the balcony of the Statler Hotel on that brisk Fall morning in Manhattan. Was suicide his solution for terminating his deal with the devil or did the devil do him in? It's impossible to say. The evidence although in plain sight is murky and blurred by time and the self-preservation of those responsible.
I know what you're thinking, not in my America, not in my beloved United States, not in the home of the brave and the land of the free. Unfortunately, it did happen; it's the kind of thing that happens when governments feel an existential threat.
America has a fundamental flaw, an Achilles heel of perspective and attitude; it fails to understand history and its place in it. In the words of philosopher, George Santayana, Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
If you believe it can't happen here, I urge you to take a look at The Wall Street Putsch of 1933, and the name of one of the participants. You might find it informative. It could happen again. America is under siege by a series of existential threats. It's not some crackpot conspiracy theory; it's history. The question I have is: which is more dangerous, the external threat or the internal threat?
For those who cling to Senator Barry Goldwater's Cold War aphorism, Extremism in defence of liberty is no vice. I urge you to remember the past because if you don't, you will be condemned to a future you did not expect and an existence you will be forced to endure.
What follows could happen, and maybe will happen if you allow extremism to take hold of the levers of power.
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