From a leaked script of
The Jade Helm Invaders Are Due On Maple Street:
STEVE: Doesn’t make sense! Why should Walmart close all of a sudden?
DON: Maybe some kind of an electrical storm or something.
CHARLIE: That don’t seem likely. Sky’s just as blue as anything. Not a cloud. No lightning. No thunder. No nothing. How could it be a storm?
STEVE: I’ll run downtown. We’ll get this all straightened out
TOMMY: Mr. Brand—you’d better not!
STEVE: Why not?
TOMMY: They don’t want you to.
STEVE: Who doesn’t want us to?
TOMMY: ( jerks his head in the general direction of the distant horizon). Them!
STEVE: Them?
CHARLIE: Who are them?
TOMMY: (intently). Jade Helm.
STEVE: What do you mean? What are you talking about?
TOMMY: They don’t want us to leave. That’s why they shut down Walmart. You might not even be able to get to town. It was that way in the Alex Jones story. Nobody could leave. Nobody except—
STEVE: Except who?
TOMMY: Except the people they sent down ahead of them. They looked just like humans. And it wasn’t until Obama landed that—
SALLY: (in a whisper, sensing the antagonism of the crowd ). Tommy, please son . . . honey, don’t talk that way—
STEVE: Go ahead, Tommy. What kind of story was this? What about the people they sent out ahead?
TOMMY: That was the way they prepared things for the takeover. Obama sent 1200 people who looked just like humans . . . but they weren’t.
MAN ONE: Les got to Walmart somehow! (The people continue to stare, caught up by this revelation and wildly frightened.)
WOMAN: How come he was able to go to Walmart like that?
DON: And he never did come out to look at that thing that flew overhead. He wasn’t even interested. Why? Why didn’t he come out with the rest of us to look?
CHARLIE: He always was an oddball. Him and his whole family. Real oddball.
DON: What do you say we ask him?
(The group starts toward the house. In this brief fraction of a moment, it takes the first step toward changing from a group into a mob.)
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 a 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..