by Angela White
The slyest of presidential defenders since Nixon’s well-used man - Pat Michaels, former Press Secretary - was useless, forgotten in the chaos, and not even sure he should be here. His family had been in New Jersey... Someone had been with him when he got the news, had brought him along when they had evacuated from the Las Vegas convention-hall, although he wasn’t sure who it had been. Amanda, the kids! How would he go on? How would anyone?
Panic was rampant. Voices barked orders, people scrambled to get information, papers floated through the humid air, and satellite phones rang continuously, annoyingly. Thanks to an EMP and a lucky shot from a disgruntled citizen with a grenade launcher, the Vice President was dead. The Speaker of the House was now the legal recipient of the highest seat in the land, but she wasn’t here and neither was the new Secretary of State. No one had discovered where they had been evacuated to, or even if they were still alive. Those jobs were no longer in demand, and the result was chaos, fear in control. Maybe that would change later… if they survived the missile headed for Montana.
Deep and sturdy, this complex had been built secretly during the 1990’s and was not only untested, it was less than one hundred miles from what was about to be a direct hit. Pat shuddered. They would probably feel it.
Lurking near the back wall of air vents and panels, the Press Secretary broke out into a light sweat as one of the remaining clocks on the cold, sterile walls around him neared, and then passed, the five minute mark.
Washington, New York, and most of the East Coast had already been destroyed. Of the seven warheads that the long-denied Star Wars program hadn’t been able to shoot down, three were definitely going to find more U.S. targets and maybe two others that they had lost radar on as well. Their own warheads had decimated countries around the globe. Now, America would pay the price.
The huge, multi-picture screen in the front of the crowded room changed when the next clock hit four minutes, flashing to a satellite view of the incoming missile careening towards the Sunshine State, and Pat found he couldn’t look away.
Why, in God’s name, had the former President done this? And who had given the technology-challenged man the disk that would allow him such unforgiving control? Surely this was a bad dream? If not, millions more were going to die in only:
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The computer went to full alert, alarms all over the vast compound warning of the impending arrival. The Press Secretary’s stomach churned as the ceiling lights began to flicker a hazy red.
America was in the same panicky state as this room, thanks to the convoys of soldiers taking all males, ages 10-60. Told to get a full truck of warm bodies any way they had to and be back within eight hours, gunfire was filling town after town. They had reports of it in nearly every major city across the country, soldiers and civilian wars over their sons and husbands and over remaining food and weapons. The end was close… and everyone felt it.
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Would mankind survive? Had they really blown themselves up? How much of this new hell was he personally responsible for? Millions of lives were already gone… so many cultures, and their history!
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Pat cringed at a freshly braying siren from the front of the loud, crowded, tactical room. They'd destroyed the world. Was that the red stain on his hands that refused to wash off?
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When was my last orgasm? he wondered suddenly, too scared to recall what it had felt like or what the intern’s name had been. Greg? Gary?
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When was my last confession? Pat struggled to remember, heart thumping wildly, stomach lurching. Did I mean it? Is it too late?
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He closed his eyes and began the comforting, useless litany from his seat, still unable to make himself get on his knees even though the true hour of judgment had come.
“Please forgive me, Father, for I have sinned…”
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“I did it for my country...”
DOC Article
NY & USA Today News
December 22, 2012
Betrayal and Lies are the Foundation of American Politics!
The Gospel of Mary was discovered in Southern France last month and has now been proven genuine by experts secretly asked to test the parchments. In them, is a tale of murder, extortion, kidnapping, and forced reproduction that scientists claim have kept secret the descendants of Jesus Christ. The list of powerful families around the globe being accused is staggering…
This story began more than a thousand years ago, with a huge secret that millions have now died to keep. If proven true, it is a deception so big, it might have changed the world.
The Knights Templar was officially sanctioned in 1190 by the Roman Catholic Church… but what if they existed long before that? What if they escorted Mary Magdalene out of Gaul, and settled her somewhere safe? We’ve heard the speculation that her offspring became Kings through the Merovingian line, but what if they were also the descendants of Christ? Reports tell of a young girl named Sarah that traveled with Mary after the crucifixion. The daughter of Jesus?
The Gospel of Mary implies the wealthy intentionally repressed all such knowledge, creating a secret sect to help hide the truth. Most of these men, according to the new parchment, believed they were protecting these special females. They took them to the Cathars, a religious order in Southern France that was also under control of the Catholic Church, content to leave them there. The Church certainly didn’t expect trouble from one woman, but within a few years, the Cathars turned against the Church and created a new religion based on love of God without control or wealth. Terrified of the world finding out, of having to give up all their power and decadent ways of living, the church began the Albigensian crusade and eradicated them.
So, what happened to the descendants that the Cathars died to protect? According to the Gospel of Mary, many escaped and walk among us, even now, in the form of their offspring. Most of the Knights were for the truth coming out, were beginning to turn against the Church, as well. They were wiped out the same way the Cathars were, but stories abound of a few brave souls being able to save the precious remaining descendants, ensuring the bloodline of Jesus Christ. With the church hunting them down, these groups of saviors went into hiding with their wards. When they finally emerged, they called themselves the Freemasons… and they were powerful.
If this new Gospel is to be believed, none of them exposed the truth. Various groups of Templar’s, in unnamed places around the world, and the secret held - because of power and greed. Mary Magdalene’s offspring were now Merovingian rulers and the temptation was too much to resist. Instead of being the defenders, they had become the attackers. According to the Gospel of Mary, found during an archeological dig at an unnamed location, these descendants of Christ were forced to reproduce with the Knights throughout history. Only the special offspring were kept, and the parchment even suggests that inbreeding was one of the common experiments in hopes of making the kids more gifted.
Skeptics are coming out of the woodwork since the parchment went public yesterday, but so far, no one has disproven the new allegations of a corrupt political system that traces back to this nation’s very founding. If the Gospel is proven genuine, it could possibly mean that every President America has ever had, was a descendant of Christ, and bred, not raised, but bred, for that very purpose. The same would be true of many other governments across the globe.
Here is a quote from a very outspoken civil rights leader, who didn’t want to be named due to his personal safety.
“Imagine how different our lives would have been, if the existence of Jesus Christ and all he suffered were fact, proven by science. Consider
how much control the legitimate churches would have had over the masses. Laws, education, politics, work, art, music, literature lifestyles - it all would have been effected. Ask yourself if the governments, and yes, all of them. No one group of people hides a conspiracy this size – ask yourself if the leaders you’ve been listening to, would still be in charge right now, if it was a documented fact that our Lord and savior really walked this very earth. Wouldn’t that government have been the first ones fed to those hungry lions? Yes, and isn’t there anything they would have done, to stop it from happening?”
What if these few remaining children of Mary and Christ have been betrayed over and over, killed in every generation, to hide the truth? When we could have been basking in their light… (Return to text.)
Footnotes
1 Read the entire article in the Extras section.
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2 DOC is an abbreviation for Descendants of Christ.
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3 Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicle.
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4 Gat is Marine slang for a 9mm.
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5 Hardback can mean a cargo truck or MRAP vehicle; slang.
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Slang - meaning any coffee that isn’t Starbucks.
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7 The Essex is a fictional government bunker set in the Granite Mountains of Wyoming. This came from NORAD no longer being the preferred Presidential and Joint Chief evacuation site as of 9/11. That new location has not been revealed.
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8 Boot - Junior Marine fresh from basic training. Also, an unforgivable insult when used seriously.
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9 FUBAR – stands for f’’’’d up beyond all repair.
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Calling a jarhead ‘soldier’ will cause frowns, mutters, and sometimes, a fight. They go through very demanding training to earn the title of Marine, and are very quick to defend it.
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11 During research, I was informed that a Hum-vee is what a badass grunt used to roll around in. A Hummer, on the other hand, is something received from a generous girlfriend…
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12 “M9s are often issued to those who don't take care of them. They get used as hammers, and generally by the time they get to the pistol range, jam, fail, and generally suck like a Hoover.” – ZS Quote.
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13 Pogue bait is slang for candy. In the derogatory sense, it can also mean a woman intent on grabbing a successful man.
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14 You’ll notice this has been singular throughout the book. That’s because the other tag is laced into a Marine’s left boot, for identification if they are killed. It is SOP and ingrained.
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Adrian Mitchell is a lifelong Marine with a huge secret, one that might have prevented the War. Full of guilt he can never be free of, Adrian is driven, obsessed with gathering enough survivors to restart his broken country.
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