Ghost-busters
(2020); Scene 4A - (Revised 5/2019)
– First Published by Stephen Salgaller on 2/16/2017
9 AM -
Thursday Morning… United States Federal Court; Eastern District; New York City
Actual street address: 225 Cadman Plaza E, Brooklyn, NY 11201
Bailiff:
"All rise; The United States Federal Court for the Eastern District is now
in session; the Honorable [Dr.] Raymond Stantz, presiding."
Judge Stantz:
bangs
his gavel... "You may be
seated. We have before us case # 110669; the People versus ELEANOR TWITTY;
please bring in the defendant."
Permanent Detainee #
S-179, an elderly ghost librarian, is lead into the courtroom.
You will
remember her as the librarian from the opening scene in the 1984 original
Ghost-busters. Per the actual movie's back-story, her name is Eleanor
Twitty, and she holds a PhD...
Dr. Eleanor Twitty was the head librarian of the New York City
Public Library and overseer of its collection of ancient artifacts, stone
tablets, and otherwise forgotten parchments.
In March, 1924, Dr. Twitty went missing. The New York Police
Department made every effort to find her, including repeated room-to-room
searches of the underground library stacks where she was last seen - but she
was never found —alive, that is.
Now she wanders the stacks of the New York City Public Library
still organizing books and keeping louder library patrons shushed with a bony
finger to the lips. By most reports she is still the same quaint and
genteel-looking woman she was in life. Aggravate her, however, and she will
transform into a rage-filled horror, and heaven help you if you have any
overdue books.
She is played
by an old Caucasian woman - someone like actress Lily Tomlin or Jane Fonda…
Wearing very heavy chains, she struggles to reach her
seat.
Think of Jacob Marley in “The Christmas Carol” - Yes, as in that
story, her chains do make noise!
She is
followed by two MP’s - both carrying their own Raytheon brand-name backpack
super-weapons - which look similar to the proton / plasma guns the Ghostbusters
use, BUT more modern - and much more
ominous.
Lynne
Stewart, the NYC ACLU defense lawyer, [played by a British (or Australian)
blonde, someone like actress Rebel Wilson or Alice Eve] jumps to her feet…
ACLU Lawyer: “Your Honor, I object! My client is being humiliated! It’s not necessary
to force her to wear heavy
inter-dimensional security chains. She’s an elderly, ‘living impaired’ woman,
and not a threat to anyone.
[Pointing] I ALSO object to the pair of Military Police Officers; the men --- and their phase-disruptor back-pack super-weapons --- have no place in a civilian courtroom!”
The
Government lawyer, Walter Peck, the same man who cut the power to the ghost
containment field in the 1984 movie, stands up; since the EPA was effectively dismantled
back in 2018, he now works for DHS…
IF possible, he is again played by actor William Atherton (CMU
Drama School, class of 1971)
Peck: “Your Honor,
detainee S-179 is a clear & present danger - and an imminent threat - to
our National Security. You CANNOT remove her chains…
More
importantly, under our President’s Executive Order # 9066, US DoD, AG and DHS
decisions regarding the “administrative” detention of dead people are
un-reviewable, and cannot be
challenged in any court…
Finally, the detainee is an admitted lesbian. Under DOMA 2, we CAN hold her in custody - pending mandatory conversion therapy.”
Finally, the detainee is an admitted lesbian. Under DOMA 2, we CAN hold her in custody - pending mandatory conversion therapy.”
ACLU Lawyer:
“Your Honor, the Government knows that the portion of DOMA 2 dealing with
gender issues was suspended by the 9th Circuit, pending a SCOTUS challenge of
their stay later this year…
More importantly,
our Supreme Court did rule that all detainees in our so-called "war on
terror" CAN have their day in court - to challenge conditions of their
confinement...
Your Honor,
again, my client is NOT a threat to anyone! She has never even been accused of
any crime… She’s only being held now because a few bad ghosts did cause
troubles back in 1984 & 1989.”
Peck: “Your Honor,
speaking of past troubles, you will recall that, back in 1984, Zuul, Gozer -
the Gozerian, and The Stay Puft Marshmallow Man - DID cause mayhem and destruction here in New York
City…”
ACLU: “You’re
Honor, while the Government’s statements ARE true, Zuul and Gozer were “gods”, not ghosts – and Mr. Puft was just a big ‘bag’ of “puffed
up” corn syrup…
Your Honor, I
must also point out that, back in 1984, Mr. Peck himself objected to holding ghosts in detention...
He even ordered that electric power to the ghost‘s confinement force field be
turned off.”
Peck: “Your Honor,
while I DID order Con
Ed to turn the power off, it was
because restraining ghosts is VERY dangerous! My concern was that the Ghostbusters’
makeshift ‘jail’ just wasn’t safe to be in our great city… This is why our
Government set up the current ‘prison’ facility – outside of New York State
entirely…
*I* must now point
out that it was the Ghostbusters *themselves* who created the technology to
capture and confine ghosts, .and. it was their interaction with Dr. Twitty – back
in 1984 - while she was working at the New York Public Library – that gave them
the information needed to perfect their ‘buster’ system.”
ACLU: “Your Honor,
the Ghostbusters admit that they ARE, indirectly, responsible
for the court case you are deciding today. They did not think about how their
innovative electro-magnetic control hardware could eventually be used…
While this is NO excuse, I point out that any technology can be used for good – or for bad… and, it was our Government, NOT the Ghostbusters, that gave the orders to unconstitutionally jail all ghosts…
While this is NO excuse, I point out that any technology can be used for good – or for bad… and, it was our Government, NOT the Ghostbusters, that gave the orders to unconstitutionally jail all ghosts…
[Thinking –
Quickly catches herself]
Please
understand that I 'm here today to petition the Court to allow Dr. Twitty to be
released… not to argue the much larger question of public safety versus individual
civil rights in a free society.”
FYI: If possible, Dan Aykroyd should play the judge.
Federal Judge
Raymond Stantz: “Thank you both for your comments…
[To the ACLU
Attorney for the ghost] Counselor Lynne Stewart, you were not in New York City
back in the 1980’s, but I WAS! There WERE indeed some pretty bad ghosts,
goblins and specters around, which we had to fight - since they DID cause harm
to humans.”
ACLU: “Your Honor,
I did watch both movie DVD’s
in the box set showing what happened here in ‘84 & ’89…
Weren’t most
of the ghosts back then - men? … Your Honor, isn’t the Government painting with
too broad a brush? By insinuation, they conflate my client with SOME bad
ghosts… Isn’t that sort of like women who blame ALL men for real injustice
carried out by a few bad guys?
You are a now
a respected male judge; you once were a respected & admired male
Ghostbuster… You ARE a GOOD man… I‘m NOT saying
that all ghosts are good, but the Government IS saying that
all ghosts are bad…
This is
simply NOT the way America is supposed to work – even in
war-time…”
Peck: “Your Honor,
the Government concedes that Dr. Twitty has not committed any crime – yet, BUT there is no ‘legal’ way to have her released…
Say she was
an enemy alien; she COULD be deported back to her home nation, or home planet,
but she was born here in America, so where can we send her?”
ACLU: Your Honor,
it sounds like the Government IS now admitting that, *if* I could find a
‘legal’ way to have Eleanor released, they would not object (?)”
Peck: “Yes,
your Honor.”
ACLU: …
[Thinking] … “Your Honor, the Ghost-busters team at Hook & Ladder #8 is now a duly deputized part of FDNY… As such, they CAN
“care” for sick, injured, or disabled citizens – even so-called ‘criminals’...
Your Honor, I petition this court to grant a temporary waiver to allow my client to work with the Ghostbusters on a matter vital to our safety & security…
You know that
we are being threatened by some bad & mysterious ‘beings’ - who are
creating pain & suffering in our fair City… Making a *LONG* story short,
one clue to who they are - and what their motives for mayhem may be - exist in
scrolls - written in ancient language of Atlantis...
[Quietly &
briefly confers with her client] Your Honor,
to explain further, please permit my client to speak on her own behalf… as an
expert witness in these matters.”
Judge: “An
unusual request, but I grant your motion; Proceed…”
[Dr. Twitty
is sworn in]
ACLU: “Dr.
Twitty, please address the Judge & Court in your own words – about your
ability to help us…”
Dr. Eleanor
Twitty, PhD: [Said slowly and clearly] “Your Honor, I have studied languages,
their origin, meaning, purpose and use, and I hold a PhD in this field
(philology)… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philology
As the
[former – and still should be] head of the NYC Public Library System, part of
my job is to help people better understand other societies and belief systems -
with the objective of showing that we all have common goals, and a congruent
purpose for our efforts to improve our lives, and the lives of others around us…
I understand
that a woman named Mary - who is from a distant land - washed up on shore here
in New York City a few days ago… Apparently, this is the SAME person who
visited us here back in the 1980's…
I was also
told that New York has just been subjected to some supernatural activities… The
theory is that these two events are somehow interrelated… The Ghostbusters are
trying to figure out why something strange – that “don’t look good” - is happening
here in ‘our neighborhood’ – and how to return things to ‘normal’...
They also
want to know what happened to Mary – to her homeland --- and, if possible, how
to send her back where she belongs… wherever that might be…
Additionally,
the Ghostbusters surmise that current events are eerily similar to the “Theory
of Atlantis”…
This concept is NOT just about where Atlantis was located, but, much more importantly - as a ‘lessons
learned’ for us humans – as the question: WHY
did Atlantis ‘die’???
You see, Atlantis
was an extremely advanced
civilization, yet it vanished, almost overnight. The fear is that we will also soon ‘disappear ‘- from
the same sort of calamity that befell them.
Clearly, the
'lost' sacred text writings from the people of Atlantis hold a key to solving
all of these puzzles…
Sadly, no one else
on Earth knows how to read Atlantian… Even computers cannot help…
This is
because Atlantian is a living language
--- The true meaning cannot
be understood by a machine...
Alive – [points to the Judge] -- or dead [points
to herself] - you must have an immortal
soul to 'see' what’s really written….
I can
provide the translation that they need -
if you allow me to do so."
Judge: “Dr.
Twitty, I actually DID study so-called “occult science” in college; so I am aware of how language itself can be
a ‘living’ ‘being’… Also, my PhD thesis WAS on the subject of locating ‘lost’
civilizations – like the one on the continent of Atlantis – in the Atlantic – and
Lemuria – in the Pacific.
[Thinking] OK; I've heard enough… But, Mr.
Peck - do you want to cross-examine
the witness?”
Peck: “No
need, your Honor. The Government concedes that Dr. Twitty – the witness – is an expert in ancient & extinct
languages, but that ability does not change
the fact that ELENOR TWITTY – the Defendant – is a potentially dangerous ghost.”
Judge: “Thank
you, for your testimony, Dr. Twitty… You may step down and be seated..."
Peck:
"Your Honor; before you rule, I need to disclose that I pushed to present
this case in your Court because I expect you to decide in favor of the
Government... You ARE, after all, a former Ghost-buster, so you’ve had to deal
with those 'beings' * [points to the defendant] several times before..." ß possible
conflict of interest here
Judge: [ignores the * clear insult to Dr. Twitty]
A valid point… Council for the defendant; any objections?"
ACLU:
"None your Honor. I agreed to have you hear this case because you’re the
only Judge who would even consider my appeal... I trust you to be honest - in
rendering an independent - and impartial decision - on whether or not to free
my Client."
… … … The Judge reaches his decision … … …
Judge: “Mr.
Peck, given that the defendant IS needed in this new fight against a threat to
our National security, I am granting ‘bail’ to allow Dr. Twitty to help the Ghost-busters
keep our City, State and Homeland safe.”
End
Scene
Now, my story
would only make sense IF:
EPA was,
indeed, [effectively] dismantled, back in 2018...
America now
‘accuses’ people based on where they – or their ancestors - were born, or who
they are, and even locks them up until the so-called war on ‘terror’ is over
--- which means *never* ! (?)
FYI: This
ALSO happened to 120,000 Americans by POTUS EO # 9066, back in 1942…
A mermaid
[earth] named “Mary” (AKA 'Madison') did visit NYC back in 1984 - the same year
as the first Ghost-busters movie came out.
Lily Tomlin
admitted to be a lesbian…
Dan Aykroyd
DID study occult science.
Actress Amy
Schumer's Uncle *is* US Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY).
Actress and
comedian Wanda Sykes DOES work for the USA National Security Agency.
The line
between civilian police and military occupation has been blurred…So the
military-industrial complex would develop super-weapons similar to the ones the
Ghostbusters have.
The GOP
intentionally passed DOMA 2 to try to win votes to sweep the upcoming 2020
elections… They KNOW that most of the law WILL be stuck down – eventually.
