Sunday, January 17, 2021

O.B.I.T. Overlord


Frederick R Smith has moved to Frederick R. Smith Speaks (substack.com)
There is nothing wrong with your television set. Do not attempt to adjust the picture. We are controlling transmission. If we wish to make it louder, we will bring up the volume. If we wish to make it softer, we will tune it to a whisper. We will control the horizontal. We will control the vertical. We can roll the image, make it flutter. We can change the focus to a soft blur, or sharpen it to crystal clarity. For the next hour, sit quietly and we will control all that you see and hear. We repeat: There is nothing wrong with your television set. You are about to participate in a great adventure. You are about to experience the awe and mystery which reaches from the inner mind to... The Outer Limits.

The original The Outer Limits is a classic black and white science fiction TV series broadcast on ABC. Scheduled for the 7:30 PM prime time-slot, the first episode aired on September 16, 1963. The first season included 32 episodes and the second season started on September 19, 1964, and encompassed 17 segments. Unlike the Twilight Zone with its emphasis on fantasy or supernatural themes, The Outer Limits captured its audience with science fiction.

To this day, your author has a vivid memory of the episode called “The Zanti Misfits.” On a cold December 30, 1963, as a youngster of seven (now you know my age), my grandmother (EH), along with yours truly in our “TV den” sat on the sofa to watch the weekly installment of The Outer Limits. As a nifty historical reference, Grandma (aka Mom-Mom) called the sofa a “Davenport.” Watching the Zanti, we twitched about with the sight of the huge ant-like creatures with human-like faces. It was tough that night to turn off the lights and go to bed. TV Guide ranked “The Zanti Misfits” as No. 98 on their Guide’s “100 Greatest Episodes of All Time.”

The Outer Limits had a revival in 1995, until its cancellation in 2002. Like most other TV series remakes, this revival never caught my fancy. My one exception to otherwise not-so-hot sequels: Star Trek The Next Generation. That, Captain Picard, was a great revival (IMHO). Speaking of Star Trek, some of The Outer Limits monsters (called “Bears” by the producers) and effects reappeared in Star Trek The Original Series later in the 1960s:

  • The moving microbe beast in “The Probe” found its way into the Star Trek episode “Horta” in “The Devil in the Dark.” Operated by Janos Prohaska in The Probe, he makes another appearance in The Outer Limits segment “The Architects Of Fear.” He wore and manipulated the bulky and frightening costume that portrayed the re-engineered monster-like body of Robert Culp (great actor!) in The Architects Of Fear. This episode is analogous to the media today regarding Covid-1984!
  • The “ion storm” (a container with glitter in liquid suspension and a projector beam) in “The Mutant” became the transporter effect in Star Trek.
  • “The Duplicate Man” had a black mask that later found its way for use by the character Dr. Leighton in Stark Trek “The Conscience of the King.”
  • An Empyrean from “Second Chance” and the Megasoid from “The Duplicate Man” made an appearance in the Star Trek pilot “The Cage.”

Added episodes (and main actors) of The Outer Limits that your author has fond of memories include:

  • “Please Stand By” (the Pilot) aka “The Galaxy Being, Cliff Robertson. Okay non-woke folk; shall we start our own radio station with high power to teleport an alien to wokeland to give us a helping hand?
  • “The Man With The Power, ”Donald Pleasance. As one of my favorite actors, Mr. Pleasance appears in several of my favored motion pictures to include The Great Escape, You Only Live Twice (James Bond), and Escape From New York. Reminds me of the mind explosion that occurs when trying to figure out wokeland.
  • “A Feasibility Study,” Sam Wanamaker. The plot seems to mirror our Coronadoom overlords.
  • “The Sixth Finger,” David McCallum. A preview of the post-modern man!
  • “The Man Who Was Never Born,” Martin Landau. The poor man is treated like a conservative (non-woke) in wokeland.
  • “Nightmare, Martin Sheen. Just like the gaslighting we live under. 
  • “Corpus Earthling,” Robert Culp. The mind-body invading rock-like creatures in this episode are debased and woke-like.
  • “It Crawled Out Of The Woodwork,” Scott Marlowe. The crapola shot out of the TV by the alphabet broadcasters. 
  • “The Mice,” Henry Silva. Woke-like creatures eating up the resources!
  • “The Children Of Spider County,” Lee Kinsolving. Maybe these are the extraterrestrial aliens Qanon talks about!
  • “The Mutant,” Larry Pennell. The mind-reading capability of the fried egg eye man perhaps is a citizen of the post-woke world.
  • “Second Chance,” Don Gordon. A pretend spaceship is real (maybe this is the Qanon vehicle to the stars).
  • “Fun And Games,” Nick Adams and Laura Hanley. The Illuminati doing their thing. 
  • “Cold Hands, Warm Heart,” William Shatner.  A visit to Venus and a return to not love but woke-like horrors.
  • “Soldier,” Michael Ansara. The woke fighters with hope that they can be changed.
  • “The Invisible Enemy,” Adam West. The Coronavirus not seen doing the killing vs the visible means to abortion.
  • “Behold, Eck!,” Peter Lind Hayes. A two-dimensional creature like the woke who are missing a dimension.
  • “Keeper of the Purpure Twiglet,” Warren Stephens and Robert Webber. Fred Smith’s all-time favorite. The alien monsters look like ANTIFA fighters (but much smarter).
  • “Cry Of Silence,” Eddie Albert and Karen Thome. The ultimate woke monsters.
  • “I Robot,” Howard Da Silva and Leonard Nimoy. Maybe the robots that will feed us in Newtopia.

The Outer Limits episode that comes to mind because of the events unfolding during our lifetime is “O.B.I.T.” Originally aired on November 4, 1963, O.B.I.T. was about the Outer Bank Individuated Teletracer machine installed at the top-secret “Cypress Hills Research Center.” The scientists at the center were under “watch” through the O.B.I.T. This machine was an electronic device that picked up the various wavelengths of the human body and it focused this information into an Orwellian television-like monitor. By knowing the wavelength of a person or their location, an O.B.I.T operator could see and hear a specific person far away. The director of the center became institutionalized because he had claimed to see the image of a monster on the O.B.I.T. After branding the director as a lunatic, one of the scientists ended up dead at the sinister machine. As a result of the scientist’s death, and letters written by the center’s employees to a U.S. senator, a formal investigation occurred. The director of the center did indeed see a monster — the scientist in charge of the O.B.I.T. 


The climax of this episode occurs during the senator’s hearing as the inquiry panel directs the (unknown) alien to run the O.B.I.T. As a result, the true alien form of the scientist appears on the machine’s screen. With the identity of the alien now known to all the participants at the hearing, “it” proclaims that there are many O.B.I.T. machines around the world to enable widespread spying among the people thereby conquering the human race “without a shot fired.” Thereafter, the aliens would inhabit the earth. In the end, the alien simply sheds its human appearance then disappeared. What a plot! Seems like the debased-woke-commie plot of today.

While the internet holds a decent amount of information about the Outer Limits, the book “The Outer limits, The Official Companion” is a wonderful compendium. Your author’s very own copy was an invaluable resource to help write this blog. Looking up the link to reference this book a big holy cow Batman jumped out at me — this puppy sells for $169.00! The original $12.25 price sticker is still on my printed copy from 1986.

Fast forward from the 1960s to 2003. We all know about the 2003 “Homeland Security” bill that created another Federal leviathan, the United States Department of Homeland Security. Surely, we all feel much better as the government now protects us wherever we go. It really did a splendid job of protecting all the cities burnt up during the fiery but mostly peaceful protests throughout 2020 (your author digresses).

The Homeland Security bill also enabled the Department of Defense (DOD) to start funding the development of new security technology enhancements. Ultramodern technologies to check the citizens include the database and analysis of many types of information from phone calls, e-mails, credit card purchases, etc. etc. The specific unit of the DOD that would have conducted this ‘benign’ research is the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) under the direction of John Poindexter. As you may recall, Poindexter was the former Navy Admiral/National Security Adviser, the scapegoat of the Iran-Contra affair. The DARPA plans to set up a Security Advanced Research Projects Agency (SARPA) to administer this information and conduct the analysis. Poindexter called the specific database/analysis effort under the SARPA the Total Information Awareness (TIA) office.

Initially, the TIA’s logo (and motto — knowledge is power) was in place on the office’s web site. If you do not believe me, a visit to the site back in 2003 displayed the logo, as shown to the left. However, due to exposure by the alternate media, the TIA dropped the logo toot sweet. The TIA super database would hold information about our travel patterns, web sites visited, banking records, credit card receipts, and much more. The above aside, should the government work to protect the citizens? Certainly. However, the more power now in the hands of a few, or worse a “one-party” system, the more likely abuse will occur. Just look up all the dirt found by Edward Snowden.

As a prediction, people who genuinely care about the country will now face targeting as “persons of interest.” Sad to say because of the events of January 2021, all those with conservative and/or traditional values will face the Woke Cancel Commission or worse. Those who take an interest in the U.S. Constitution need to worry that they might face gaslighting for too many visits to a web site about our founding documents.

The TIA ran under this title from February to May 2003. Based on the concept of predictive policing, TIA was meant to develop and analyze information about people to predict and prevent incidents. The program worked to hunt for terrorists around the globe. Admiral John Poindexter called it a “Manhattan Project for counter-terrorism.” Congress defunded the Information Awareness Office in late 2003 after media reports criticized the government for trying to have “Total Information Awareness” over all citizens. While formally suspended, other government agencies adopted some of its algorithms with superficial changes.

Does the TIA remind you of O.B.I.T.? It sure does for your author, and thus the fear of this program for use in nefarious purposes. With a debased and woke trifecta in 2021, be incredibly careful. The Leviathan partners such as Facebook, Twitter, Google, and Amazon do a splendid job for the hidden TIA. Just like The Outer Limits O.B.I.T. image at the top of this blog; Total Information Awareness.

We now return control of your television set to you, until next week at this same time, when the Control Voice will take you to... The Outer Limits.

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Postscript: January 23, 2021: Rights Advocates Alarmed by US Spy Agency’s Purchase of Warrantless Phone Location Data

Cogent Author and Publisher, Frederick R. Smith
Cogent Editor, Sean Tinney

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