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Chapter 12 - Weighing the Infinite CrimeOver dinner that night, Jacky asked me to present the same lecture at the university in Beijing. Steve' face lit. "That's a great idea." "It will be interesting to see what kind of reaction we get there," commented Ross. "Sure, I present the lecture," I said to Jacky, "but shouldn't Steve rather do this, because of the language and all?" "Why don't you both do it, together?" asked Jacky. Steve agreed. I told Jacky that I would like to take this one step further. I told him that I would like to offer a scholarship to three students there, of ten thousand Hong Kong dollars each, to be given to students who are best qualified to repeat our lecture in other universities, and another ten thousand on top of that, for their help in creating a video presentation that can be made available to the public television networks and to other colleges and universities. Jacky shook his head. "I can't fund this," he said sadly, "there is no money for this kind of thing in the budget. The Universities may have some, but not that much, nor would they be willing to spend it on this." "I will fund it myself," I said to Jacky. "There never has been any money available in the public purse for what is most essential to society. I know that. It has been like that for decades in America. It appears that your people too, have been educated by the fondi in the same manner, to disregard what is most essential for your survival as a nation. Of course, the people of the fondi don't want you to survive. They want to destroy you. Why do you think the imperials have surrounded China with a network of air bases? Still, there are a few people in the world, a precious few, who are willing to put their money on the line in order to fund these kinds of emergency projects that can really make a difference; that can wake people up!" "Who will fund this kind of rich project for you?" Jacky remarked, and shook his head again. "Olive will fund it," I replied. "Olive is a very dear lady, with a heart of love as wide as the world. She is a violinist with the Vienna Philharmonics. You probably have never heard of her. She works in Europe, quietly, behind the scene, but she is a real dynamo. She has done some major fund raising for me. I don't know how she did it. But she did it. The money for the project that I propose, already exists. And let me tell you, this is not a rich project, compared to what is at stake for China and its billion people. Compared to that, the cost of the project is nothing." Steve agreed. He told Jacky a story of a small organization in Germany that all by itself, stopped a bitter war between three countries in much of the same fashion. He asked Jacky if he could still remember the war between Serbia, Bosnia, and Croatia. He told him that this was a bitter war, that was getting worse and worse. He said to Jacky, when it seemed that the war would never end, suddenly in the midst of that utter hopelessness one of the people of this organization told him that the war would be over in a month. Steve said that he nearly ridiculed the man who told him that, so hopeless had the situation become. Steve said that he was told by his contact that this organization had intervened, and had convinced the people of Bosnia and Croatia that they were not natural enemies, but were set up against each other for somebody else's objectives. Steve told Jacky that once the people realized that, they stopped fighting each other. They banded together and defeated the Serbs who didn't want to listen to the truth, and within a single month the war was over. || - page index - || - chapter index - || - Exit - ||
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