Just When We Thought Uncle Sam Had Our Backs

Moving about these days you always feel as if some giant eyes are on you, and you have nowhere to hide. Cameras are rolling everywhere, on our streets, in public places, and even in our own homes. Up in the heavens, there are satellites; and, there are the drones. When an insect flies over you in your living room, you can never be sure that it is a real one – at least you should not. We are being watch! This manifested clearly through the voice of former President Jimmy Carter recently when he complained that he believed the government had been monitoring his conversations, and to communicate with other leaders he has had to use the traditional mailing system.

That was the general perception before the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 on March 8, 2014. However, many people have since reconsidered their positions. They are telling themselves that they probably were fooled by all the propaganda of electronic surveillance. If a giant machine such as that Boeing 777 with 239 individuals on board could vanish up in thin air like that, and no country, no government, and nobody could discover what happened; the godly eye of Uncle Sam appears to really have existed solely in our minds.

They are scouring the oceans over there in the Far East; they are searching all isolated land terrains; nothing, no clue has been revealed as to what has become of the airliner. We have heard of airplanes flying “under the radar.” This was one particular perception advanced in this case. Yet, we should think that it would sound reasonable for the past, but in this age of electronic surveillance we should place a question mark on it. We would think if some cameras did not catch it, some satellites would have done the job. There is a space station up the heaven for Christ sake monitoring everything!

The search must have covered millions of square miles from the China Seas to the South Indian Ocean. Every now and then some search groups have spotted something only to lament later that it does not belong to the ill-fated airliner. Now, since Uncle has failed us, we are going to concoct our own answer. The Boeing was hijacked. With that, we could add two possibly reasonable scenarios. (1) Aliens came down from the heavens; they closed off all the human surveillance capacity, including “The International Space Station;” they took the plane up to the “black hole.” Then again, many of us do not believe in Santa Clause. We thus have another explanation. (2) The Big Uncles did it.

In the past, we were mostly worried about our Uncle Sam here in the United States. Today, we must watch for many Uncles – Russia, China, the European Union, and even Brazil and India. There was a story in the past about some country building some type of underwater facility that we could simply term “underwater caves.” Now, with our great human advancement in electronic, we have no idea with what those big “Uncles” are experimenting. Could they have hijacked the airliner and taken it to some hidden location? Could it have been them doing what we thought the aliens did? So far, we don’t know anything other than to presume that Uncle Sam is not as watchful as we had previously believed.    

By E.C. GRANMOUN

E.C. Granmoun is the author of "Bully: A Novel" ebook on amazon.com
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