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.