Sunday, March 15, 2009

Three Cheers for CBS's The Unit!

Sunday's (March 15) episode of The Unit drives home the readiness of the U.S. Military to meet internal threats, and the need of citizens to be ready for internal attacks on the homeland.

The episode features a Delta Force Unit mixed in with the population and positioned to respond to a sudden chlorine gas attack on a section of town, using the water system.

As members of the Unit and their wives at their jobs, and in their apartment buildings move to tape up the doors and windows, taking life saving steps to preserve the populace, they encounter resistant uninformed citizens: "How come you know all this? Are you some kind of survivalist nut-case?" This character respresents the naive realist, who knows-it-all and places others in danger with his ignorance.

Indeed, one man who is going to make up his mind on his own, leaves the safety of the airtight apartment, and winds up dead, listening to such rubbish.

A mother safe with her children in a refrigeration truck pleads with a member of the Unit, who just saved her life: "Why are they doing this? What did we do to them? My children never did anything to them!"

We need the scales to fall from our eyes. See the dangers around us. Live aware!

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