Sabotage Of A Movie

     You wouldn’t think anyone would find it desirable. You’d doubt that a movie, even one based on a true story about a heinous crime, could threaten the powers that be. And perhaps, under the circumstances Americans of a few decades ago enjoyed, you would have been correct. But not today.

     The Sound of Freedom is under siege. Reports of showings of the movie being sabotaged are now in the hundreds. The techniques vary:

• There’s no air conditioning in the theater;
• The movie is played without sound;
• The movie is rotated ninety degrees;
• There’s a narrating voice-over, as if for a blind audience;
• The pre-movie series of commercials lasts for as much as an hour;
• The lights of the theater remain on and bright;
• Music or the radio is played over the movie;
• A foul stench is introduced into the theater;
• A fire drill announced a few minutes into the movie.

     I don’t know what can be done about this. I do know that no one on the client lists of either Jeffrey Epstein or Ghislaine Maxwell has yet been indicted. I also know that at some point, the producers will release the movie to the streaming services and for distribution on DVD. Whether anything can be done to cripple those channels, I cannot predict.

     There must be an investigation, and a reckoning.

     They who lust for power over others frequently bear other lusts as well: for sex, for money, for prestige, for exotic foods…and for helpless victims they can degrade and abuse. The correlation is powerful. I put to you all that we’ve known about it for a long time now.

     If pronouncing anathema upon the 88,000-plus governments we suffer, resolving to abjure and ignore them henceforward, and simply going about our business as best we can, trusting to the prevalence of decency and the ability of an armed people to make justice when and as necessary, hasn’t begun to appeal to you yet, what will it take?

     Apologies, Gentle Reader. This phenomenon exercises me to the limit of my patience.

     But do have a nice day.