"It wasn't as easy as it sounds. They took everything from us. We were hungry and suffering from disease. Every time we stood up, they knocked us down. There was a time when they used teargas to control crowds, but in this new world, they opened fire on us. Thousands were killed. After everything that happened, we lost the will to fight. You see, when you have nothing, you’re usually too busy trying to survive to focus on anything else. And, that was their plan all along. Even though there were more common people than elitist, any hope of rebellion or uprising to overthrow them was quashed before it started because the military and police were in their pockets. With traffic cams everywhere, they could spot a rebellion before it got started. They had eyes everywhere.
There were too many politicians, government officials, and world leaders who though that they were infallible. Hell, even doctors, lawyers, and law enforcement thought that they couldn't do anything wrong. When you have that many people believing they are God, believing that every decision they make is righteous, then no one is innocent, except maybe young children.
The richest and most influential snobs were protected behind walls of security. No one could get to them. Their spokespeople made the news and were always in the spotlight making promises that they never kept, never intended to keep, in an effort to calm and control the public. But the true elitist, those who really ran the world, were behind closed doors and protected.
Government and city officials were paid off and guaranteed fat bonuses to arrest anyone among the commoners with leadership ability, anyone who might have a message of truth and gain a following. Even though there were a few rebellions, they were soon smashed to bits. Oh, it seemed as if it worked for a few days, even a few months, but it never lasted. Those who started the revolution were quickly rounded up and jailed or murdered while the spokesman for the filthy rich pranced and preened for the public. They made dirty deals to handicap and take advantage of their communities, their sectors, and their world.
The scales of justice were always tipped in their favor because they owned the weights. We learned that Lady Justice was more than blind; she was also deaf and mute when it came to the needs of the many."
11| History
Serena's diaries had documented all that Henry could remember from the time the world had begun to fall apart. Those recorded recollections had begun when Henry was a boy. Serena has also recorded her own recollections. Believing that Henry had nothing to gain by doctoring the truth, Serena had trusted that Henry's account was unbiased and the most accurate testimony available to her. It was worth safe-guarding.
After Miki was born, Serena desired to preserve Henry's statements for the benefit of her own family. She never wanted anyone she knew and loved to be left in the dark as she had once been. She urged Henry to leave a spoken record as well as the written account.
With that understanding, Serena had personally overseen her grandson's education. She had insisted that Salazar acquire the knowledge of those records and commit them to memory. His bedtime stories began each night with the sound of Henry's voice recalling the many events that had led the world to its current state of affairs.
The second half of his training was to learn every combat technique Henry had once taught Serena as well as all the FBI training that her husband, Tom Lang, could pass along. Salazar's ancestors had taken great pains to care for him and make him the man he was today.
Now, as Salazar recalled the spacecraft launches and, as the world burned around him, he remembered a particularly significant section of Henry's message:
"Back when I was a boy in 2018 there was a lot of civil unrest. It was as if the country tore itself apart from the inside. It’s my belief that’s exactly what those in power wanted. It certainly kept everyone distracted from what they were really up to... It was a ‘divide and conquer’ strategy where the entire world was ruled by a secretive and powerful few.
There were several groups believed to be behind this elitist movement: the Illuminati, the New World Order, the Club of Rome, the Bohemian Club, Skull and Bones, the Bilderberg Group, and a few others. The government leaders and the most powerful families in the world pushed a discriminatory and exclusive agenda. The greedy bastards could never get enough of anything. Profit was the only thing that mattered and none of them ever asked if it was right or wrong because they didn't care.
Everything was for sale if the price was right – including Presidential elections. If they controlled the world leaders, they controlled everything. We had a president at the time who declared that he would build a wall in the southern sector between our country and Mexico. He insisted that we needed such a barrier to keep brown people out, to keep them from stealing our jobs. He insisted that they were murderers and rapist. Now, imagine that all the attention of the world was drawn to that one comment. People argued and debated the issue among themselves. They were so wrapped up in that notion that no one noticed that he sold off bits and pieces of our country to Russian and China.
He was a smart bastard even if he was a bully and a crook. He knew how to distract the people. He did it with a comment about some damn wall that would never be built. Well, it was started but he never had any intention of finishing it. It was propaganda only to distract us from what was really going on.
He convinced many that we had to fight for our jobs and homes. He insisted that we had to make sure that illegal aliens didn't get the benefits of our great country. He stirred up a dog-eat-dog mentality to distract us while he grew richer. That left everyone else to suffer and starve from their gluttony. We began to fight among ourselves even more. Separating us by political, social, and religious views is what the elite have always done. They have always kept us busy fighting each other. If we were fighting among ourselves, we didn't notice what they were doing. They believed they deserved their riches and status. They believed they were untouchable. Their sole desire was to amass more wealth, gold, commodities, and properties.
The common people realized you can only wear one pair of shoes at a time, but the rich folks wanted all the shoes, all the money, all the properties and homes, all the tax-breaks. Their hunger and greed for power and wealth was insatiable and they helped each other get those things. They were like ravenous beasts and they didn't care who or what they ripped apart to satisfy their ends.
And, knowing they would eventually destroy the planet in their quest, we were never sure what their endgame was after they had succeeded. Some could only assume that they would either live underground or escape to another planet. If anyone had the resources to do such a thing, they did.
At first, they built an entire city underground designed especially for them. But, after a while, even that didn't satisfy them and they began to look at space as a new frontier to rape, pillage, and conquer. That's what they do."
12| Energetic Forces
Salazar wished he could have a long chat with Henry. Even though Henry had died long before he was born, Salazar had a framed photograph of his grandfather and he had listened to his voice every night. He recalled his grandfather as if he had known him personally. Salazar didn't actually believe in ghosts, however he did believe in energy, especially the energy left behind by a strong presence.