Still true

Over at Daily Kos, Darksyde reminds us that Rod Serling’s words are as true today as they were when they were first aired on a clear March day forty-six years ago…

This is Maple Street on a late Saturday afternoon. Maple Street, in the last calm and reflective moment before the monsters came… The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosions and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts… attitudes… prejudices. To be found only in the minds of men. For the record, prejudices can kill, and suspicion can destroy, and the thoughtless, frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all of its own for the children, and the children yet unborn. And the pity of it is that these things cannot be confined to The Twilight Zone.