Dossiers A Better Life The Psionic Predator, by Charles Cosimano | Page 85

So I sat down and thought and read the newspapers and magazines and came up with
an idea. What if Saddam Hussein in Iraq could be induced to start a war? I got a
photo of him and some super-eight footage of combat (vcrs were in their infancy then
and cost a fortune!) and transmitted that footage at him every night, or rather what was
night for him. Then I got a map of the Middle East and laid on a table. I took a bunch of
toy soldiers and, while hooked into the machine broadcasting to Hussein, moved them
across the border of Iran.
It took about two months of this but it worked. Hussein launched the Iran-Iraq war and
created an Islamic killing field.
I miss Saddam. He was an excellent test subject.
Ok, enough of such merry nostalgia.
The first thing you need to do is determine who is likely to go to war. Let us be honest,
China and Japan are really not likely to start shooting at each other again. You need a
couple of countries that border each other, or in reasonable proximity unless one of
them has a really good navy and air force, unstable heads of state (dictatorships are
best because they don't have to deal with the messy problems of keeping legislators
happy), and armies that are getting bored, restless and need something to keep them
occupied. Of course this means that you will concentrate on either the Middle East,
where killing each other is the national pastime and pleasing to Allah, God of Pigs, or
sub-Saharan Africa, where they have to kill each other in order to prevent the spread of
disease.
Once you have your target area and the bloodthirsty dictators or petty tribal chieftains
picked out and the witness samples acquired, you need video of warfare, easily
obtained from the Military Channel and any dvd store, a map of the border where the
fighting is to start and toy soldiers.
Once you have that, you just do like I did in my story.
Now, if you want to do something a little more general, acquire an outer-space photo of
a given region, (go to google maps, set to satellite and use a screen capture) then and
a first-person shooter video game. I've written about this before and the method is the
same. You use the photo as the target witness, hook yourself into the radionic box and
play the video game.
You can also substitute strategy games where you create armies and fight wars for the
first person shooter but they do not have the emotional intensity.
What you are trying to create in the minds of the targets is not the idea of anger and
bloodlust so much as, "This is going to be fun!" You want to convey to the target the
joy of destruction for its own sake, the pleasure that can only come from the death of
enemies, or anyone else that gets in the way. And, since the targeted heads of state
are not going to be anywhere near the battlefield unless they really screw up, they will