Michael Malone - Weebly

are heroes to unveil the villain; in Dingley Falls there are
only people like the rest of us.
The secret base is plotting to bring peace in our
time and make the world safe for democracy. It is
plotting to put a stop to the aesthetic absurdity of
military armaments, the technological naiveté of crude
and mostly nuclear missiles. The secret base has known
for a long time how to end wars before they start,
before they waste national resources like time, energy,
money, and the human race.
The secret base is not susceptible to jingoism, is
indifferent to the paranoiac political gobbledygook
about the Communist menace that so worries Ernest
Ransom and the paranoiac political gobbledygook
about the Fascist threat that so worries Sidney
Blossom. The base has always known that it is silly to
spend a great deal of money training and equipping
people like Maynard Henry to travel ten thousand miles
to kill people like Chin Lam. The secret base has gone
beyond neolithic man, who has heaped up mounds of
yellow metal in vaults beneath the earth and called it
power, who has hauled huge, bullying ships across