New trailer out for Battle Los Angeles . . . looks pretty hairy.

Way back in high school before I ever heard of Watchmen or the like, I thought one way for the UN to take over the world and create an artificial sense of world peace and unity would be to stage a fake alien invasion set on world domination and human extermination . . . nothing makes folks forget their differences than a scary common enemy . . . real or manufactured . . . see Nazi Germany and their use of Jews, Intellectuals, Gypsies, and Socialists as powerful unifying boogie men or the US with McCarthy and his blank sheets of paper with supposed hidden Communist agents working within the government, entertainment, and key industries or the much more recent War On Terror in the United States or on the flip side how the US had been portrayed as a big old nasty threat evil cultural threat by some folks within the world Islamic community (just prior to those assertions becoming genuine reflections of a patch of reality vis a viz the War On Terror).

Watching the trailer for Battle Los Angeles and one can see how a clever hidden cabal of really powerful folks with tentacles within major governments, media, and the like could manufacture news footage of some island overrun by the initial strike force of an alien invasion . . . with lots of explosions and images of broken bodies, especially women and children . . . and some strange technological artificats (a stick with lights that glow) to show that the enemy is superior to us and that they mean our extermination to eliminate a lot of the bickering . . . at least publically. Sure, I suppose, the loss of a medium sized or even major city would really do the trick . . . dress up a bomber in costume and send it on its way would likely be enough with the right editing and planted survivor’s stories.

Yep, wag the dog . . . but . . . with aliens.

No, I am NOT suggesting anyone do it . . . but I’m sure it would likely work . . . after all, it’s worked before.

– Brian