Thursday, December 25, 2014
Thursday, December 11, 2014
Another Step Back - Part 5
Thursday September 18, 1975
Minneapolis, Minnesota
At the end of the working day Dronning entered the teacher’s lounge for one last break before going home. There he found the boy’s gym teacher, Mr Riker, in a state of almost blind rage.
“What happened?” Said Dronning.
“That new student in the ninth grade--Boatman!”
“What did he do?”
The gym and music classes were held at the same time on alternate days and the students of each grade level were split into two groups depending on which music class they were in. The school choir and band members of the would take their music class one day and then gym class on the next. The students in the general music course would be in their gym and music classes on the opposite days.
Boatman had opted for the general music course.
The boys gym teacher was a middle aged man who was built like a linebacker for an American Rules football team. His office was decorated with memorabilia from the Philadelphia Eagles team of the National Footfall League. And his face, especially the nose, appeared as if it had been rearranged several times on the field.
Boatman was not affirmatively impressed with the man.
“I think I will pass on this nonsense.” He said with his clearly adult voice.
Riker was surprised.
“What?”
“It’s basically a waste of time and motion.”
Riker now tried to argue his position.
“Look, the gym class is a basic part of this school!”
“No,” Boatman replied, “public education in the United States was designed by the closet communists of the so-called Progressive Movement to indoctrinate Young Americans into becoming drones in their future communist collective. And Physical Education is an essential part of collectivist indoctrination. If the bloody red banner of Communism is ever raised over this great nation its because you had a part in making it happen.”
Riker stared at him before responding in anger. Before he spoke he grabbed Boatman’s shirt with his right hand.
“Listen punk...”
As his right hand came down on the left side on shirt Boatman brought his own right hand down on top of Riker’s. With his left hand he seized Riker’s elbow and pushed forward on the elbow.
Boatman now spoke with the voice of adult political authority.
“Riker, I can break your arm now, which will be bureaucratically inconvenient for me, and very painful for you.”
Riker was shocked. This shouldn’t be happening.
Boatman continued to speak with authority.
“Where I come from students are taught to kill with their bare hands.”
Rifle and pistol marksmanship were also part of citizenship education on Eden and Zion in the Alpha Centauri system.
“But I won’t do that,” Boatman continued, “You have crossed a line and committed the act of assault, that means I will not attend any more classes in this gym ever again. And you can let go now.”
Boatman’s stare was that of an experienced executioner. Riker simply let go of the shirt and backed off.
Boatman then departed the gym.
The subsequent meeting in the Vice Principal’s office was very short.
“You intimidated Riker?” Said Marchuk. “How”
“There’s a book that was published a few years ago, Winning Through Intimidation by Robert J. Ringer, which was actually an inaccurate title. In it he shows how to win by being confident and not being intimidated by the people you interact with. The thing is that I never read the book until the transit to Alpha Centauri aboard the Eagle.”
“Okay.” Marchuk said. “You know that taking you out of the gym class will be a major pain in the ass?”
“Yes, but it has to be done.”
Dronning had another encounter with Boatman on that day. The subject of the class session was the Prohibition Period in the United States.
Dronning made what in retrospect was the mistake on calling on Boatman again.
“Although there was an longstanding effort to outlaw the sale and consumption of alcohol by those acting on religious grounds, the actual ban was brought about by members of the so-called Progressive Movement during the Wilson Administration. Prohibition was an opportunity to reverse the essential relationship between the People and the Government. Prior to Prohibition the People held primacy over the State. This was established in the first three words of the United States Constitution, ‘We The People.’ But the long term program of the so-called Progressives required the establishment of the Primacy of the State over the People. In this condition the Progressive rulers could impose their will upon the People without constitutional restraint.”
Dronning was struck speechless where he stood. This was nothing like the course material.
Boatman continued.
“Under the Primacy of the State the Federal Government was turned from the main defender of the Rights of the People to the primary violator of those rights. Although Prohibition was perpetrated by the Progressives under Wilson it was enforced by the Republicans under Harding, Coolidge and Hoover, without the understanding of the true purpose. With establishment of the soft socialism under the New Deal of Franklin Roosevelt the prohibition of alcohol was no longer necessary as a part of the progressive program and was subsequently repealed.”
Dronning could only look at Boatman in stunned silence. The other students in the class began to applaud Boatman as he sat down.
Both Allen Keller and Victoria Grant were firmly impressed by Boatman and each had decided to try to speak to him privately after school was out.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
At the end of the working day Dronning entered the teacher’s lounge for one last break before going home. There he found the boy’s gym teacher, Mr Riker, in a state of almost blind rage.
“What happened?” Said Dronning.
“That new student in the ninth grade--Boatman!”
“What did he do?”
The gym and music classes were held at the same time on alternate days and the students of each grade level were split into two groups depending on which music class they were in. The school choir and band members of the would take their music class one day and then gym class on the next. The students in the general music course would be in their gym and music classes on the opposite days.
Boatman had opted for the general music course.
The boys gym teacher was a middle aged man who was built like a linebacker for an American Rules football team. His office was decorated with memorabilia from the Philadelphia Eagles team of the National Footfall League. And his face, especially the nose, appeared as if it had been rearranged several times on the field.
Boatman was not affirmatively impressed with the man.
“I think I will pass on this nonsense.” He said with his clearly adult voice.
Riker was surprised.
“What?”
“It’s basically a waste of time and motion.”
Riker now tried to argue his position.
“Look, the gym class is a basic part of this school!”
“No,” Boatman replied, “public education in the United States was designed by the closet communists of the so-called Progressive Movement to indoctrinate Young Americans into becoming drones in their future communist collective. And Physical Education is an essential part of collectivist indoctrination. If the bloody red banner of Communism is ever raised over this great nation its because you had a part in making it happen.”
Riker stared at him before responding in anger. Before he spoke he grabbed Boatman’s shirt with his right hand.
“Listen punk...”
As his right hand came down on the left side on shirt Boatman brought his own right hand down on top of Riker’s. With his left hand he seized Riker’s elbow and pushed forward on the elbow.
Boatman now spoke with the voice of adult political authority.
“Riker, I can break your arm now, which will be bureaucratically inconvenient for me, and very painful for you.”
Riker was shocked. This shouldn’t be happening.
Boatman continued to speak with authority.
“Where I come from students are taught to kill with their bare hands.”
Rifle and pistol marksmanship were also part of citizenship education on Eden and Zion in the Alpha Centauri system.
“But I won’t do that,” Boatman continued, “You have crossed a line and committed the act of assault, that means I will not attend any more classes in this gym ever again. And you can let go now.”
Boatman’s stare was that of an experienced executioner. Riker simply let go of the shirt and backed off.
Boatman then departed the gym.
The subsequent meeting in the Vice Principal’s office was very short.
“You intimidated Riker?” Said Marchuk. “How”
“There’s a book that was published a few years ago, Winning Through Intimidation by Robert J. Ringer, which was actually an inaccurate title. In it he shows how to win by being confident and not being intimidated by the people you interact with. The thing is that I never read the book until the transit to Alpha Centauri aboard the Eagle.”
“Okay.” Marchuk said. “You know that taking you out of the gym class will be a major pain in the ass?”
“Yes, but it has to be done.”
Dronning had another encounter with Boatman on that day. The subject of the class session was the Prohibition Period in the United States.
Dronning made what in retrospect was the mistake on calling on Boatman again.
“Although there was an longstanding effort to outlaw the sale and consumption of alcohol by those acting on religious grounds, the actual ban was brought about by members of the so-called Progressive Movement during the Wilson Administration. Prohibition was an opportunity to reverse the essential relationship between the People and the Government. Prior to Prohibition the People held primacy over the State. This was established in the first three words of the United States Constitution, ‘We The People.’ But the long term program of the so-called Progressives required the establishment of the Primacy of the State over the People. In this condition the Progressive rulers could impose their will upon the People without constitutional restraint.”
Dronning was struck speechless where he stood. This was nothing like the course material.
Boatman continued.
“Under the Primacy of the State the Federal Government was turned from the main defender of the Rights of the People to the primary violator of those rights. Although Prohibition was perpetrated by the Progressives under Wilson it was enforced by the Republicans under Harding, Coolidge and Hoover, without the understanding of the true purpose. With establishment of the soft socialism under the New Deal of Franklin Roosevelt the prohibition of alcohol was no longer necessary as a part of the progressive program and was subsequently repealed.”
Dronning could only look at Boatman in stunned silence. The other students in the class began to applaud Boatman as he sat down.
Both Allen Keller and Victoria Grant were firmly impressed by Boatman and each had decided to try to speak to him privately after school was out.
Wednesday, December 10, 2014
Another Step Back - Part 4
Wednesday September 17, 1975
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Continued
Upon returning to the family residence in the Northeast section of Minneapolis Boatman fired up the computer workstation in the combined office/den and updated the mission log with his discovery of Stephanie Cook and the initiation of contact with her. He didn’t mention any of the kisses or other aspects of the contact.
How the Hell am I going to explain this to Alice? He thought.
Alice had been born aboard the Integral, the last sublight starship to be launched from the Solar System to Alpha Centauri. She was twelve standard years old when the vessel arrived in the system. At the time of arrival the ship had degenerated into a virtual gulag and Alice, under the alphanumeric designation that was tattooed onto her left forearm at birth had been assigned to sexually gratify the leader of the collective. But the leader would eventually be arrested and put to death for his crimes.
Alice would eventually be adopted by the third incarnation of Evelyn Boatman and his wife Doctor Cheryl Boatman. She would grow up to become a surgeon and as an adult she would strongly resemble the pre-reformation actress Halle Berry.
Any form of deception was clearly adversarial behavior and therefore was not an option in their relationship.
Just tell her the truth–all of it.
He did.
Upon returning to the residence from her teaching position at the University of Minnesota Medical School Alice sat down and listened calmly as her adoptive father described the events of the day. She thought for a moment before calmly responding.
“Dad,” she said, “you’re certainly a mensch but are clearly not a knight in shining armor, and you are certainly not a paladin class character from Dungeons And Dragons.”
He nodded, she continued.
“And your habit of virtually screaming and leaping at problems like a Kzinti may work for technical problems but it can and will lead to serious failures on the Human level.”
“So what should I do?” He asked.
Again she responded calmly.
“You should continue to do what you have normally done, once you become involved with a problem you rationally work on it to the full solution. The thing is that this version of Stephanie will not grow up to be the same person she was on the original timeline. And she certainly won’t shtup the boy who impregnated her on the first timeline either.”
“Of course not.”
“We will show her the better way to live--we have to.”
Boatman blinked.
“We will?” He said.
Alice replied.
“She’s practically a member of the family now, assuming of course that she doesn’t scream and run away when you tell her the truth. Practically all the two of you have to do now is set the wedding date. And if Stephanie is going to become a member of our family then I certainly will do everything I can to see that she properly learns to live as a fully rational person.”
“Of course.” He replied.
He now asked his own question to her.
“So how was your day?”
The answer had a clearly sarcastic tone.
“It was fun.”
“In what way?”
“I had an encounter with a campus commie in the faculty lounge. It was Thomas Archer of the English Department and he apparently believed that I was an actual native American Black woman and would seriously fall for his Progressive dreck.”
“Of course not.” Evelyn replied.
“So after the idiot had generated his noise about the wonderful things he was doing for the black people I replied to him: ‘So what, we’re all human.’”
“That had to have twisted his knickers.” He said.
“Oh yes, it certainly did.” Said Alice. “There was even applause from some of the other faculty members present.”
Evelyn now mentioned the next event of the school day.
“So I also got sent to the office, apparently I severely annoyed an indoctrinator when I explained the actual difference between Democracy and the American concept of a Constitutional Republic.”
“Well it was part of basic citizenship education back home on Zion and Eden.” Said Alice.
“And back on Ganymede and the rest of the Outer System when I was growing up.”
Then there were his own general efforts at self education. The twenty five year transit between the Solar System and Alpha Centauri also provided a very clear and very firm meaning to the concept of boredom. Boatman had not actually performed a complete read through of the shipboard library aboard the Eagle but he came very close to it.
“So you twisted his knickers?” She said.
“Yes, absolutely.” He replied.
Of course there was no point in mentioning that the Social Studies teacher was an obvious flaming queer.
There was tomorrow to prepare for.
At the family home Stephanie and her close friend Vicky Grant were doing some of their homework together. They were also discussing the events of the day.
Vicky had roughly the same height as Stephanie and was at the same level of physical growth as well. She had long dark brown hair and wore a large pair of eyeglasses.
“So you now have a new boyfriend?” Said Vicky.
“Oh yes!” Stephanie replied. “Evelyn is unbelievable! He’s a real gentleman and he’s so mature!”
“I heard about what happened in the lunch room.”
“Yes,” said Stephanie, “I was talking to Evelyn and Joey came up and made a scene. But Evelyn just was a real man through the whole thing and Joey just walked away.”
“And he kissed you.” Said Vicky.
“Oh yes!” Stephanie exclaimed. “He...he...I don’t know how to describe it...he’s so mature!”
Then Vicky spoke again.
“He was in Mr. Dronning’s class today, and he made Dronning scream at him.”
“No...”
Dronning had a reputation as an easygoing teacher.
Vicky continued.
“Evelyn said something I never heard before, that the United States was a Constitutional Republic and not a Democracy. And that Democracy was not a form of government. And then he told Mr. Dronning that he was ignorant.”
Stephanie could only stare at this point.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Continued
Upon returning to the family residence in the Northeast section of Minneapolis Boatman fired up the computer workstation in the combined office/den and updated the mission log with his discovery of Stephanie Cook and the initiation of contact with her. He didn’t mention any of the kisses or other aspects of the contact.
How the Hell am I going to explain this to Alice? He thought.
Alice had been born aboard the Integral, the last sublight starship to be launched from the Solar System to Alpha Centauri. She was twelve standard years old when the vessel arrived in the system. At the time of arrival the ship had degenerated into a virtual gulag and Alice, under the alphanumeric designation that was tattooed onto her left forearm at birth had been assigned to sexually gratify the leader of the collective. But the leader would eventually be arrested and put to death for his crimes.
Alice would eventually be adopted by the third incarnation of Evelyn Boatman and his wife Doctor Cheryl Boatman. She would grow up to become a surgeon and as an adult she would strongly resemble the pre-reformation actress Halle Berry.
Any form of deception was clearly adversarial behavior and therefore was not an option in their relationship.
Just tell her the truth–all of it.
He did.
Upon returning to the residence from her teaching position at the University of Minnesota Medical School Alice sat down and listened calmly as her adoptive father described the events of the day. She thought for a moment before calmly responding.
“Dad,” she said, “you’re certainly a mensch but are clearly not a knight in shining armor, and you are certainly not a paladin class character from Dungeons And Dragons.”
He nodded, she continued.
“And your habit of virtually screaming and leaping at problems like a Kzinti may work for technical problems but it can and will lead to serious failures on the Human level.”
“So what should I do?” He asked.
Again she responded calmly.
“You should continue to do what you have normally done, once you become involved with a problem you rationally work on it to the full solution. The thing is that this version of Stephanie will not grow up to be the same person she was on the original timeline. And she certainly won’t shtup the boy who impregnated her on the first timeline either.”
“Of course not.”
“We will show her the better way to live--we have to.”
Boatman blinked.
“We will?” He said.
Alice replied.
“She’s practically a member of the family now, assuming of course that she doesn’t scream and run away when you tell her the truth. Practically all the two of you have to do now is set the wedding date. And if Stephanie is going to become a member of our family then I certainly will do everything I can to see that she properly learns to live as a fully rational person.”
“Of course.” He replied.
He now asked his own question to her.
“So how was your day?”
The answer had a clearly sarcastic tone.
“It was fun.”
“In what way?”
“I had an encounter with a campus commie in the faculty lounge. It was Thomas Archer of the English Department and he apparently believed that I was an actual native American Black woman and would seriously fall for his Progressive dreck.”
“Of course not.” Evelyn replied.
“So after the idiot had generated his noise about the wonderful things he was doing for the black people I replied to him: ‘So what, we’re all human.’”
“That had to have twisted his knickers.” He said.
“Oh yes, it certainly did.” Said Alice. “There was even applause from some of the other faculty members present.”
Evelyn now mentioned the next event of the school day.
“So I also got sent to the office, apparently I severely annoyed an indoctrinator when I explained the actual difference between Democracy and the American concept of a Constitutional Republic.”
“Well it was part of basic citizenship education back home on Zion and Eden.” Said Alice.
“And back on Ganymede and the rest of the Outer System when I was growing up.”
Then there were his own general efforts at self education. The twenty five year transit between the Solar System and Alpha Centauri also provided a very clear and very firm meaning to the concept of boredom. Boatman had not actually performed a complete read through of the shipboard library aboard the Eagle but he came very close to it.
“So you twisted his knickers?” She said.
“Yes, absolutely.” He replied.
Of course there was no point in mentioning that the Social Studies teacher was an obvious flaming queer.
There was tomorrow to prepare for.
At the family home Stephanie and her close friend Vicky Grant were doing some of their homework together. They were also discussing the events of the day.
Vicky had roughly the same height as Stephanie and was at the same level of physical growth as well. She had long dark brown hair and wore a large pair of eyeglasses.
“So you now have a new boyfriend?” Said Vicky.
“Oh yes!” Stephanie replied. “Evelyn is unbelievable! He’s a real gentleman and he’s so mature!”
“I heard about what happened in the lunch room.”
“Yes,” said Stephanie, “I was talking to Evelyn and Joey came up and made a scene. But Evelyn just was a real man through the whole thing and Joey just walked away.”
“And he kissed you.” Said Vicky.
“Oh yes!” Stephanie exclaimed. “He...he...I don’t know how to describe it...he’s so mature!”
Then Vicky spoke again.
“He was in Mr. Dronning’s class today, and he made Dronning scream at him.”
“No...”
Dronning had a reputation as an easygoing teacher.
Vicky continued.
“Evelyn said something I never heard before, that the United States was a Constitutional Republic and not a Democracy. And that Democracy was not a form of government. And then he told Mr. Dronning that he was ignorant.”
Stephanie could only stare at this point.
Sunday, December 07, 2014
Another Step back - Part 3
Wednesday September 17, 1975
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Continued
There was still the Ninth Grade Social Studies class in the afternoon. Historically the term “social studies” was a euphemism for the indoctrination in numerous falsehoods concerning history and society. Boatman had fully expected to fail the course as a result of consistently speaking the truth. What he at all didn’t expect was that the indoctrinator was himself an open full blown homosexual.
An actual real live flaming queer.
Mr. Dronning began by calling on Boatman, as his newest victim of the indoctrination process, to define Democratic Government.
“Democratic Government is a contradiction in terms.” Boatman replied.
Dronning blinked. He then quickly responded.
“You apparently don’t understand what a Democratic Government is. In case you haven’t noticed we actually live under one.”
“Actually we don’t.”said Boatman, “The United States of America was established as a Constitutional Republic. This was an actual form of government that was limited to the exercise of explicitly specified powers. A Democracy, on the other hand, is an unlimited state which claims the authority to act on the popular will. The murder of Socrates by a majority vote in the city-state of Athens is a clear case in point. Also the various Communist states are currently claiming to be democracies in order to exercise unrestrained power over their subjects.”
Dronning was clearly angry.
“Do you want to pass this class?”
Boatman stood up to clearly and calmly respond.
“Reality is real and your red pencil will not change any fact of it. Should you actually issue adverse grades to those refuse to submit to the nonsense that you are putting out you will only have demonstrated that you are absolutely unfit to teach any subject in a classroom at all.”
Other victims of the indoctrination process in the classroom sat up and in some cases openly smiled. The counterparts of two of these students in the original timeline would go on to make history. Allen Keller and Victoria Grant would both play a role in The Reformation in the United States and the subsequent Final War on Earth.
Boatman continued.
“But then this shouldn’t be a surprise at all. John Dewey, who laid out the public school system in the United States, was a closet socialist who was working towards the indoctrination of subsequent generations of Americans into accepting the doctrine of Socialism over the rational and free nation that was originally founded and they were born in.”
Dronning shouted at Boatman.
“You are refusing to accept my authority!”
Boatman calmly replied.
“Authority in founded on knowledge, tovarish. As you are demonstrating the absolute opposite, all of the rational minds in this room have no choice but to ignore you and your mouth droppings.”
For Dronning, especially being addressed as a comrade in Russian, this was too much. He ordered Boatman to leave the class and go to the Vice Principal’s office.
Steven Marchuk, the Vice Principal of Sheridan Junior High School, had been read in on Boatman and his mission.
“You are already making enemies here.” Said Marchuk.
“These are clearly irrational times.” Boatman replied. “It’s not surprising that some folks would be outraged at a statement of fact.”
“Dronning also said that you threatened him.”
“Nonsense.” Boatman replied.
Boatman then retrieved a small device from the internal breast pocket of his suit. He pressed a series of virtual buttons on the dynamic display and showed the screen of the device to Marchuk. The device then played a video file of the incident as recorded by the tiny camera on the front of the suit jacket.
“So he lied.” Said Marchuk.
“Yes.” Boatman replied.
With classes for him practically ended for the day Boatman waited for Stephanie at the University Avenue entrance of the school. Stephanie was smiling as she walked up to him. He fully embraced her and gave her another adult kiss.
“So we’re a couple?” She asked.
“Yes.” He replied.
“Um,” she said, “maybe this is too early, but...”
“Sex?” He said.
“Yes.”
He replied to her as an adult speaking to an adult..
“Stephanie, are you ready to become a mother?”
She was shocked at the question.
“No!” She replied.
He nodded and spoke again.
“Some problems take time and thought to solve, this is no exception.”
Of course one of the issues he would face was his relationship to his daughter and the crew of the Falcon. There was absolutely no way that they would follow a man that sexually used a teenage girl.
As he walked with Stephanie to her family home Boatman noticed that Joey was distantly following them.
Something may have to be done about him. He thought.
Later in the evening at his current residence L. Ron Hubbard--the founder of the Church of Scientology--was opening a large manila envelope that was addressed to him.
The contents of the envelope were pages containing text and photographs. Hubbard then read the cover letter.
As a practitioner of Ayn Rand’s philosophy of Objectivism I would not normally care about any aspect of Scientology or Dianetics. However, as a result of our accidental journey backwards in time we have information that does concern you and the COS. After your death on the original timeline in 1986 a young man, David Miscavige, had in a fashion contrary to your instructions taken control of the COS. As the head of COS Miscavige had practiced Black Dianetics and brought the church to the edge of extinction. Normally I would not be concerned about this but his actions would ultimately result in the inflicting of needless suffering on members of the Sea Org and at least one senseless and preventable death. As an Objectivist I cannot in good conscience allow this to happen without an intervention. I fully recommend that Miscavige be permanently disconnected from the COS. As to the question of if process R2-45 should be carried out on him I will leave this to you.
Evelyn Boatman, Mission Commander of Starship Falcon
Scientology process R2-45 was the termination of a life with a M1911A1 pistol. Hubbard himself had personally described it as, “an enormously effective process for exteriorization but its use is frowned upon by this society at this time.”
Some people in the audience at the time had found this statement humorous.
Hubbard now sat back in his chair to examine and contemplate the contents of the package.
The next day in the United Kingdom a girl attending a boarding school for the upper classes opened a parcel that was addressed to her. Diana Spencer read a brief history of what had been her life on the original timeline. The document included a series of photographs that concluded with her adult counterpart laying in the wreckage of a luxury car in Paris.
Diana simply didn’t know what to do.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Continued
There was still the Ninth Grade Social Studies class in the afternoon. Historically the term “social studies” was a euphemism for the indoctrination in numerous falsehoods concerning history and society. Boatman had fully expected to fail the course as a result of consistently speaking the truth. What he at all didn’t expect was that the indoctrinator was himself an open full blown homosexual.
An actual real live flaming queer.
Mr. Dronning began by calling on Boatman, as his newest victim of the indoctrination process, to define Democratic Government.
“Democratic Government is a contradiction in terms.” Boatman replied.
Dronning blinked. He then quickly responded.
“You apparently don’t understand what a Democratic Government is. In case you haven’t noticed we actually live under one.”
“Actually we don’t.”said Boatman, “The United States of America was established as a Constitutional Republic. This was an actual form of government that was limited to the exercise of explicitly specified powers. A Democracy, on the other hand, is an unlimited state which claims the authority to act on the popular will. The murder of Socrates by a majority vote in the city-state of Athens is a clear case in point. Also the various Communist states are currently claiming to be democracies in order to exercise unrestrained power over their subjects.”
Dronning was clearly angry.
“Do you want to pass this class?”
Boatman stood up to clearly and calmly respond.
“Reality is real and your red pencil will not change any fact of it. Should you actually issue adverse grades to those refuse to submit to the nonsense that you are putting out you will only have demonstrated that you are absolutely unfit to teach any subject in a classroom at all.”
Other victims of the indoctrination process in the classroom sat up and in some cases openly smiled. The counterparts of two of these students in the original timeline would go on to make history. Allen Keller and Victoria Grant would both play a role in The Reformation in the United States and the subsequent Final War on Earth.
Boatman continued.
“But then this shouldn’t be a surprise at all. John Dewey, who laid out the public school system in the United States, was a closet socialist who was working towards the indoctrination of subsequent generations of Americans into accepting the doctrine of Socialism over the rational and free nation that was originally founded and they were born in.”
Dronning shouted at Boatman.
“You are refusing to accept my authority!”
Boatman calmly replied.
“Authority in founded on knowledge, tovarish. As you are demonstrating the absolute opposite, all of the rational minds in this room have no choice but to ignore you and your mouth droppings.”
For Dronning, especially being addressed as a comrade in Russian, this was too much. He ordered Boatman to leave the class and go to the Vice Principal’s office.
Steven Marchuk, the Vice Principal of Sheridan Junior High School, had been read in on Boatman and his mission.
“You are already making enemies here.” Said Marchuk.
“These are clearly irrational times.” Boatman replied. “It’s not surprising that some folks would be outraged at a statement of fact.”
“Dronning also said that you threatened him.”
“Nonsense.” Boatman replied.
Boatman then retrieved a small device from the internal breast pocket of his suit. He pressed a series of virtual buttons on the dynamic display and showed the screen of the device to Marchuk. The device then played a video file of the incident as recorded by the tiny camera on the front of the suit jacket.
“So he lied.” Said Marchuk.
“Yes.” Boatman replied.
With classes for him practically ended for the day Boatman waited for Stephanie at the University Avenue entrance of the school. Stephanie was smiling as she walked up to him. He fully embraced her and gave her another adult kiss.
“So we’re a couple?” She asked.
“Yes.” He replied.
“Um,” she said, “maybe this is too early, but...”
“Sex?” He said.
“Yes.”
He replied to her as an adult speaking to an adult..
“Stephanie, are you ready to become a mother?”
She was shocked at the question.
“No!” She replied.
He nodded and spoke again.
“Some problems take time and thought to solve, this is no exception.”
Of course one of the issues he would face was his relationship to his daughter and the crew of the Falcon. There was absolutely no way that they would follow a man that sexually used a teenage girl.
As he walked with Stephanie to her family home Boatman noticed that Joey was distantly following them.
Something may have to be done about him. He thought.
Later in the evening at his current residence L. Ron Hubbard--the founder of the Church of Scientology--was opening a large manila envelope that was addressed to him.
The contents of the envelope were pages containing text and photographs. Hubbard then read the cover letter.
As a practitioner of Ayn Rand’s philosophy of Objectivism I would not normally care about any aspect of Scientology or Dianetics. However, as a result of our accidental journey backwards in time we have information that does concern you and the COS. After your death on the original timeline in 1986 a young man, David Miscavige, had in a fashion contrary to your instructions taken control of the COS. As the head of COS Miscavige had practiced Black Dianetics and brought the church to the edge of extinction. Normally I would not be concerned about this but his actions would ultimately result in the inflicting of needless suffering on members of the Sea Org and at least one senseless and preventable death. As an Objectivist I cannot in good conscience allow this to happen without an intervention. I fully recommend that Miscavige be permanently disconnected from the COS. As to the question of if process R2-45 should be carried out on him I will leave this to you.
Evelyn Boatman, Mission Commander of Starship Falcon
Scientology process R2-45 was the termination of a life with a M1911A1 pistol. Hubbard himself had personally described it as, “an enormously effective process for exteriorization but its use is frowned upon by this society at this time.”
Some people in the audience at the time had found this statement humorous.
Hubbard now sat back in his chair to examine and contemplate the contents of the package.
The next day in the United Kingdom a girl attending a boarding school for the upper classes opened a parcel that was addressed to her. Diana Spencer read a brief history of what had been her life on the original timeline. The document included a series of photographs that concluded with her adult counterpart laying in the wreckage of a luxury car in Paris.
Diana simply didn’t know what to do.
Wednesday, December 03, 2014
Another Step Back - Part 2
Wednesday
September 17, 1975
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Continued
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Continued
Evelyn
Boatman was a very old man in a young body. Because of this he was
not actually required to attend any American public school in the
Standard Year of 1975. But there were two students at Sheridan
Junior High School in Minneapolis that would have a positive impact
on the American Nation in about four decades and he clearly wanted to
meet with them. And now there was another student, a girl whose
actions would also have a positive impact on the
whole of humanity in the future.
Earlier
in the morning he told Stephanie Cook that she could be naturally
beautiful if she allowed herself to be so.
And
she was.
The
school lunch, which normally featured an institutional substitute for
edible matter, was served in the basement lunchroom. Being fully
aware of the nature and history of the school lunch, and of the
American public education system in general, Evelyn had packed two
self-made peanut butter sandwiches for his own lunch. He was about
to wolf them down with whole milk when Stephanie stepped into the
lunchroom.
The
slut-wear was gone along with the heavy makeup and cheap costume
jewelry. Even her hair had been washed and the style had been
moderated to a degree. In the place of the slut-wear she was wearing
a large long-sleeved white blouse and a long denim skirt.
This
was likely what she wore when leaving home this morning, it certainly
would have hid the slut-wear from her Mother and the gym class would
have been the perfect opportunity to make the change back to it.
He thought.
In
both his direct and peripheral vision Boatman saw that the attention
of most of the other students had turned to her as she walked by.
And Stephanie had turned her attention to him. He watched as she
went through the lunch line and then directly approached his position
in the lunchroom. Stephanie actually smiled as she walked up to the
table where he was seated.
As
an ancient and proper gentleman Boatman stood up and pulled out a
chair for Stephanie to sit upon. Once she was properly seated he
resumed his own seat next to her.
“Miss
Cook,” he said in his clearly mature voice, “your presence here
is clearly welcome.”
Stephanie
smiled.
“Thank
you.” She replied.
Stephanie
looked around the lunchroom and spoke again.
“It's
like everyone is staring at me.”
Boatman
replied.
“Stephanie,
natural beauty is far superior to an artificially made made up
appearance. You're now setting a positive example for everyone.”
Stephanie
smiled again.
The
fact was that if it weren't for the issues with age Boatman would
actually be willing to initiate a closer relationship with Stephanie.
A very close relationship. The woman that was her counterpart on the
original timeline was someone he clearly could have married. If this
version of Stephanie could grow up to be a fully rational woman she
certainly would be his first choice for a marriage.
And
as there was no way for the Falcon
and its company to return to the time and place of origin there
simply was no other alternative but to live here and now on the
Earth.
“Now,”
Boatman said to her, “isn't this far more comfortable than what you
were wearing before?”
“Yes.”
She replied.
“Good.”
He said.
Stephanie
spoke again.
“I
was trying to be more mature.”
Boatman
nodded before his reply.
“That
is good,
but the thing is that maturity is essentially a state of mind and
therefore cannot be faked. If there is an actual shortcut to
maturity it is to be rational, which is to see things and people as
they are and treat them correctly.”
Stephanie
stared at him in amazement.
Boatman
spoke again.
“Seriously,”
he said, “the schools are much better where I come from.”
The
original incarnation of Evelyn Boatman had earned a Masters in
Aerospace Engineering at Cal Tech in the 22nd Century. And he never
bothered to count the number of times he turned down an honorary
Doctorate before leaving the Solar System in
the last of the starships that he built at
the start of his second life.
Boatman
then asked her a question.
“If
I may be so forward, did you want to start a relationship?”
Stephanie
blinked.
Boatman
spoke again.
“You
know, to go on dates, and such?”
“Yes.”
She gently replied.
Then
the conversation was rudely interrupted.
“Hey
you!”
This
was shouted at Boatman by a boy of obvious Mediterranean ancestry
with uncut dark hair and who was wearing a fedora type hat.
“Joey...”
said Stephanie under her breath.
Boatman
stood up, he was clearly taller that the interloper and stared down
at him.
“Is
there a problem?” He said calmly.
“Yes
there is, Asshole!” Joey shouted. “Stephanie is my girl!”
Boatman
continued to stare down at him and thought for a moment.
This
jerk couldn't possibly be the father of John Cook? If so, it's no
wonder that he wouldn't be mentioned in any biography.
Boatman
calmly replied.
“Joey,
is it? The absolute fact
of reality
is that Miss Cook is not your possession. Miss Cook can speak to
anyone she wishes to. And given your public behavior it's no
surprise
that she isn't speaking to you.”
Or
seeking an alternative. He thought.
“So
what are you gonna do about it?” Joey shouted back.
Evelyn
looked at Stephanie and spoke.
“Stephanie,
could you stand for a moment?”
Stephanie
stood up and Evelyn fully embraced and gave her a full adult kiss
upon the mouth. Stephanie felt as if she were melting and
desperately embraced Evelyn for dear life. Even with their eyes
closed Evelyn and Stephanie could hear the cheering of many of the
other students in the lunchroom as they held on to each other.
When
they finally opened their eyes and looked around it was clear that
Joey had departed the scene.
“That
was ahead of the schedule.” He said.
“Yes.”
She replied.
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