CSI: American Carnage (Wednesday, September 4, 2019)
IN THE CYBER – Little Timmy, pup reporter, and the small strike force headed by the Professor, retreat from the opening of the cave deep in The Cyber. Rolling barrel tweets, the “Big Bertha Tweets,” continue to arc in and explode, smothering the landscape with toxic fumes. Mohammed, Timmy’s friend, says, I thought the Geneva Convention outlawed the use of poison gas. The Professor removes his spectacles and wipes them with a handkerchief. He takes his pipe from his pocket, taps it against a stone and fusses with it for several minutes. He says, Well, Mohammed, you raise a very good point. The professor puts his glasses back on, and says, How many of you agree with Mohammed? Sarah raises her hand. She says, First off, the autocrat cares nothing of the Geneva Convention. He claims he’s never gotten anything out of it despite paying hundreds of billions of dollars. The autocrat does not even know what the Geneva Convention is, just as he does not know what Poland is or why the Poles should not celebrate September 1, 1939. He does not know that it marks expiration of a low dishonest decade. He does not find the odor of death unmentionable. He does not know what all school children learn, he just does what needs to be done, or not. He cannot spell Thucydides, knows nothing about who he was, and cares less about what he said. He knows that the wood is haunted. He knows that his people will embrace whatever he wishes them to embrace. He knows they are alone. He knows he needs them to be alone, even when they are together. They must be alone. There is nothing beyond alone, which is under attack, which is under assault, which must be maintained at all cost. The Professor says, Well Sarah. We are actually speaking of the Hague Declaration Concerning Asphyxiating Gases and the 1907 Hague Convention on Land Warfare, both of which barred use of chemical weapons. And subsequently, the Geneva Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or other Gases, and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare. Sarah looks at the Professor and says, And what does the Geneva Protocol say of love? The autocrat knows nothing of love. He understands a prohibition, but not what is behind it. He understands a command, but not the reasons for the command. The autocrat is the ultimate materialist. All is the biology of power, the biology of the fittest, not real biology. For the autocrat, love and death do not exist, only sex and decay, which can be used to advance the agenda. –– Wednesday, September 4, 2019