54. THE HUMUNGUS VEHICLE. DAY.



Maintaining his vizious hold on WEZ, the HUMUNGU.S

hisses soothingly in his ear.



HUMUNGUS

Be still my dog of war. I

understand your pain. We've

all lost someone we love ...

But, we do it my way.

Fear is our ally.

After, you can have your

revenge.



WEZ tries to break free, but still he cannot move.

The HUMUNGUS reaches over and flicks on the P.A. System.



HUMUNGUS

There has been too much violence ... too


much pain. None here is without sin.

But, I have an honourable

compromise.

Give me the gasolene and I'll

spare your lives. Just walk

away. I will give you safe

passage in the wasteland ...

Walk away and there will

be an end to the horror ...



He hits the ignition, eases WEZ aside and turns the

vehicle around ...



HUMUNGUS

You have one full day to decide!!

When Democracy Failed: The Warnings of History

by Thom Hartmann



"The 70th anniversary wasn't noticed in the United States, and was barely reported in the corporate media. But the Germans remembered well that fateful day seventy years ago - February 27, 1933. They commemorated the anniversary by joining in demonstrations for peace that mobilized citizens all across the world."



"He was a simpleton, some said, a cartoon character of a man who saw things in black-and-white terms and didn't have the intellect to understand the subtleties of running a nation in a complex and internationalist world. His coarse use of language - reflecting his political roots in a southernmost state - and his simplistic and often-inflammatory nationalistic rhetoric offended the aristocrats, foreign leaders, and the well-educated elite in the government and media. And, as a young man, he'd joined a secret society with an occult-sounding name and bizarre initiation rituals that involved skulls and human bones."

"Nonetheless, he knew the terrorist was going to strike (although he didn't know where or when), and he had already considered his response. When an aide brought him word that the nation's most prestigious building was ablaze, he verified it was the terrorist who had struck and then rushed to the scene and called a press conference.

"...You are now witnessing the beginning of a great epoch in history," he proclaimed, standing in front of the burned-out building, surrounded by national media. "This fire," he said, his voice trembling with emotion, "is the beginning." He used the occasion - "a sign from God," he called it - to declare an all-out war on terrorism and its ideological sponsors, a people, he said, who traced their origins to the Middle East and found motivation for their evil deeds in their religion.

Two weeks later, the first detention center for terrorists was built in Oranianberg to hold the first suspected allies of the infamous terrorist. In a national outburst of patriotism, the leader's flag was everywhere, even printed large in newspapers suitable for window display.

Within four weeks of the terrorist attack, the nation's now-popular leader had pushed through legislation - in the name of combating terrorism and fighting the philosophy he said spawned it -"

"... Reflecting on that time, The American Heritage Dictionary (Houghton Mifflin Company, 1983) left us this definition of the form of government the German democracy had become through Hitler's close alliance with the largest German corporations and his policy of using war as a tool to keep power: "fas-cism (fbsh'iz'em) n. A system of government that exercises a dictatorship of the extreme right, typically through the merging of state and business leadership, together with belligerent nationalism."



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complete text at,

http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0316-08.htm