TeacherScribe

This is disturbing.

This reminds me of a scene from District 9. The protagonist of the film is a man who is leading the removal of the Prawns by a large multi national defense contractor. He comes in to contact with some alien matter that causes his body to change . . . into that of an alien.

Now the aliens are far advanced in terms of technology. Their weapons are far superior, but humans cannot operate them. Apparently, the Prawns have developed a weapons system that only becomes operational when a Prawn is using them. There is a reaction between the weapon and the Prawn's DNA that allows the weapon to work.

Well, when the protagonist begins to change, he is quickly taken back to the multi national defense contractor's headquarters where he is forced to test the Prawn's weapons. At first they have him destroy pig carcasses with the weapons (mainly by wrapping his mutant hand around the trigger and then using a cattle prod to cause his muscles to contract).

In the final sequence of weapons testing, the scientists march out an unsuspecting Prawn to be used for target practice (maybe the weapons won't work on the Prawns??). Again, the man is forced to operate the weapon, though he is begging for another pig carcass rather than an innocent being.

This scene shocked me. I was thinking that there can't be a huge agency like this that does such despicable things. Well, there is. Even if they just threaten to do terrible things, it is still despicable.

Isn't this America? Or at least it used to be. If anyone wants to toss around the term "Nazi," well, this is a far better claim than our supposed move toward socialized health care.