Invasion of The Body Snatchers

Art Imitating Life or Vice Versa

I had the opportunity to watch the original “Invasion of the Body Snatchers” a few months ago. I remembered that of all the Sci-Fi movies I’ve watched that one scared me the most when I first saw it in the 1960’s.

For those who haven’t seen the movie, it’s about aliens who came to earth to take over the human race. They try to do it by placing pods, kind of like big seed pods, in people’s homes or in close proximity to them so that when a person falls asleep the pods would assimilate their body and become an unfeeling creature devoid of emotion or creativity. Creating a world where all are the same and equal. Sound familiar?

All the people who were taken over appeared to be exactly the same as they were before they became “pod people”. They sounded the same and looked the same but were not.

While watching the movie, I realized that this seems to be what has happened to this country. The conservatives fell asleep and woke up to a country infested with liberal progressives. To a country that has taken freedoms citizens in other countries envied and perverted them to the point where the people that used to envy us now laugh at us. To a country that honors the very people who seek to destroy the values this country was founded on.

This country’s initials, U.S.A., now stand for United Suckers of America.

Where you used to have a sponsor, promise of employment, and a physical exam to enter this country, now all you have to do is show up. You’ll be given housing, money, and medical all on the backs of working American suckers. And if you bring kids with you, even better, move right to the front of the line.

I just loved standing in line at the grocery store, after work, with my package of chopped meat and bag of potatoes looking at the person in front of me, in the express lane I might add, with a basket full of food I couldn’t afford, and paying for it with a government card, and not having to work a day to get it. The list goes on and on.

• Men allowed in the ladies room.

• Not teaching our children to write.

• Defacing and removing statues of prominent people of our nation’s history.

• Omitting parts of our history that do not fit into liberal progressive views, even though it happened and is part of our culture.

• Infringing on our right to free speech in the name of “political correctness”.

The old argument, does art imitate life or life imitate art, has been around a long time. I think it’s a little of both.

Joe Bayona