Dossiers A Better Life The Psionic Predator, by Charles Cosimano | Page 6

IV
When I was a boy, probably about 11 or 12, our teacher ran the old movie version, from
the 1930s, of Les Miserables, which is a story that I immediately came to despise. In
that version, the climax has the holy fool, Jean Valjean, actually get the drop on
Inspector Javert in the sewers of Paris, a more appropriate place for either of them I
cannot imagine. And what does the moron do? He lets him LIVE!!
I could not bear it. With all the horror of the utter stupidity of the moment rising in my
young heart I shouted, "KILL HIM YOU FOOL!" The rest of the class laughed in
agreement and my poor teacher, I fear, was never the same after that. And, of course, I
was right. Given the state of forensics in 19th century France, by the time Javert was
missed and they even started to look for him, the sewer rats would have eliminated all
the evidence except for the gnawed bones. Javert would have been eliminated and
Valjean would have walked away a free man.
We live in a world where we are hemmed in by those whose entire purpose for
existence is to control us. The list of petty dictators is endless and they do not end with
the police and the politician and the bureaucrat. We do not have to put up with them.
We do not have to obey their rules. We can break their rules. And if they try to enforce
the rules, we can break them!
Think about that for a minute. Is this madness? To speak of a level of power that can
make one that invulnerable?
Well, yes it is madness. But it is madness that works. Psionics works!
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