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Chapter 13 - Lord of the RingsWe went by bus to Rome. From Rome an Air Force 747 troop carrier, took us to Paris and from there to Miami. The flight going home, away from the sudden 'darkness' of Venice, brought on a feeling as though we were flying first class, even without the fancy meals, music, and champagne. Being in this airplane represented the bright side of our humanity. Also, it seemed ideal to me that we were not in a public place anymore, considering what I had to reveal from the night before. I handed the tape recorder to Steve without comment. He listened to it for a while, smiled at times, nodded at times, and shook his head now and then. Eventually he gave it back to me. "This contains nothing more," he said, "than what someone else from the Fondi Empire had already told me some years earlier at the depopulation conference in Bucharest. I had been warned there by a group of the empire's people, a group similar to what these fondi are, who made it plain that their empire was determined to break up all the other empires in the world, whereby they would achieve total control, and with it, an effective population reduction in order to maintain this control. What they really meant to say to me then, was that they wanted to isolate and separate people from one-another as a means for gaining control over them and over the whole world. Breaking up empires, meant breaking up the big nation-states, thereby stripping the people of the power to determine their own destiny. This meant destroying all opposing states by whatever means possible." "That's like saying, if you're not with us you're against us and we'll get you for it," I said to Steve. "That's essentially what Palmerston said, without actually saying it." Steve held his hand out to congratulate me, "Your fellow," said Steve, "was more honest about the empire's intentions than the people I had talked to. He had dropped all the excuses and gave it to you straight. Their goal is still the same: to isolate, to divide, and to rule the world. Nothing has changed and nothing will. This will go on for as long as humanity remains as stupid as it is, and for as long as it allows this to go on. Eventually, there will be nobody left with any real power except them; no state, no country, no civilization. Then they will own the whole world, so they think. In order to achieve this they need big wars all over the world, and they will have them unless we can cure humanity of its complacent mentality, which is really fascism under a new name. Still, it is incredible that the man allowed you to tape the entire interview." "He provided the tape recorder himself, Steve," I interjected. Steve's face went blank. I think Steve understood something, suddenly. He remained silent. Eventually he responded, saying that he had thought the empire's group had revealed their goals to him in Bucharest, because nobody listens to mathematicians and scientists anyway. "But now we have this! This means they really want us to sit up and pay attention. They call themselves 'The Empire' now. That's new. They are also getting more arrogant and sure of themselves. Letting you record this session, even providing the recorder for it, is gross arrogance. They are suggesting that they already own the world so that this tape can never be used to oppose them with." I gave the tape player to Ross after that. Ross shook his head now and then. "They allowed you to record this, because nobody will ever believe what's on this tape," said Ross after he had listened to some of it. "They seem to have assumed that. Maybe that's why the man was so bold. This Palmerston is playing a game with us." || - page index - || - chapter index - || - Exit - ||
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