Who Will Defend Us From the Body Snatchers?
The Pod People Are Back. This Time, Our Overworked Local Officials Are Even Less Prepared to Protect Us
Maybe I’ve been watching too many old movies.
Or maybe the body snatchers are back.
We’ve seen them twice before in my home state of California. Both invasions—of pod aliens, who secretly arrive from outer space to make our bodies their own—may have been interstellar, but they showed up first as attacks on local communities, forcing local governments to handle the response.
Neither our institutions nor our officials were up to the challenges back then. Today, with the body snatchers back, and not just in the Golden State, local governments seem less prepared …
