Savage Seven Eve

CHAPTER 3

TOO MUCH TO CARRY

After the testosterone contest in the presence of Genie, the two had a few drinks and got down to business, though Manny was having trouble with resilience and focus in light of the event of an hour or so before.

There was much to do. The more they accomplished, the more there was to do. Despite their efforts, the world (and humankind) seemed to lack something that would hold it together. Global warming was now an even greater concern with glaciers melting and breaking apart, waters rising throughout the earth, weather patterns also changing. The increase in incidences could not be explained, naturally. Was someone tampering with weather systems, or was God sending a message? Both explanations were plausible.

Manny and Herbie tried their level best, tending to nearly every situation across the globe. But despite their best efforts, they could not be everywhere. They were men, not God. The earth’s population was very anxious at this point. Illusions and magic could not work here.

There was also another problem, called “chemtrails,” that were manmade, aerial “stripings” across the skies in many regions of America and the world. Some governments were using jet tankers, painted in white that sprayed aluminum and barium aerosols. The aircraft had no other markings, which made their identification with any known private, public, or governmental agency impossible. Their stated purpose: to slow down global warming. Another explanation from some was, this was the start of a more gross and deadly campaign using nanotechnology.

The theory was, it may have been an action carried out by researchers somewhere in the continental United States, and abroad, to reduce the strength and standing of America amongst the nations even further in an effort to get the country ready dependent enough to join the New World Order voluntarily, and out of need. A second reason speculated for its use would be to further subdue, agitate, or even prepare the countries of the world for a campaign of depopulation by getting rid of those targeted for arrest in protests which were brought due to a rising disgust with the government for diminishing their personal wealth and messing up the country’s economy. In the U.S., from the “Bible-belt through the lower northeast, a new plan was taking shape, and whistleblowers were secretly done away with. To reduce the general public, the plan was to begin martial law in conjunction with a redefinition of the word, “terrorist.” Detention sites were secretly set up across the U.S. that were large enough to hold families, and maintain martial law as part of the New World Order.

Civil war broke out in the country as a result of cross-blaming by all sectors of society against one-another on all issues of importance: race, class, economics, poverty, militia “cleansings of the country,” anger by a population feeling betrayed by its government, the 99% vs. the 1% (because the middle class had all but vanished), and religious variance. Every group felt the other was the problem and many were also suspicious of the infiltration of subversive ideologies by our country’s enemies.

In a way, infiltration had taken place in two ways. A mindset was encouraged in all, of an individuality that eventually destroyed a sense of corporate identity. When a person seeks to save self and not care about country enough to seek the good of it, we become a land without a people of ideals, but rather self-survival at any cost. A sort of “globalist” mentality, one might say. The other reason was, quarreling among groups helped the cream of the crop, certain “persons of interest” to be tracked, or shadowed by the government.

Anyone who made statements against government policies and direction, whether public or private, was paid close attention. Powerful computers, tracking and feeding it into centralized information tracking and compilation systems, were gathering massive amounts of information. Even normal conversations were recorded for purposes voice printing. Certain words used in regular talk could trigger government interest. This was a growing problem, at home, and abroad.

Case in point: In former years, rocket launchings from NASA had once been a favorite sight all Americans were invited to watch. Even President Kennedy, his administration, and his family had enjoyed the success of their space program, as all of America watched with pride. But several years since his death, satellites had been launched into space for the purpose of communications, spying on other countries, and now population tracking of its own citizens. These launchings were taking place at night, many times, out of the public eye. The government had even advised Manny to have Genie tracked by her cellphone, but Manny declined, as he said, “Because I want some privacy in my own romantic life.”

That was an interesting statement. Heads of state were being followed regularly in this fashion. Conversations, as intimate as one could get, were being recorded and screened for any useful information for the government and against the individual, without that person’s knowledge. International relationships between countries were being rattled and tested because of such surveillance. No one trusted anyone at this point. But the bottom line was this: the U.S. was now more weakened and unable to defend against outside attack, or even its own leadership. Anyone who spoke subversively against the government, it’s politicians, or made statements that showed they “knew too much,” were followed, tracked, and possibly approached in a number of ways and warned to go silent, or pay the price. “Listeners, computers or human, could listen to a person sleep, or snore, as it were, not knowing they were being listened to, by interested ears. Eyes could watch possible dissenters travel as their cellphone lay on the car seat, tracking the RFID chip in the phone, ones clothing, or as one’s GPS phone “app” or car GPS was followed by the same satellite that was once commissioned to send that signal for the public’s comfort or safety.