The Straw Men 3-Book Thriller Collection: The Straw Men, The Lonely Dead, Blood of Angels. Michael Marshall
time we saw one of mankind’s not endearing but most real tendencies, something that makes us different to all other natural species: that of ALTERING THE LAND. Up until then we had lived as part of nature: Since we started farming we have been RAPING the earth and changing it to our own ends.
And yet farming people were actually LESS HEALTHY than foragers. Growing food brought SMALLER returns for the same effort. Hunter-gatherers had MORE LEISURE and WORKED LESS than farmers. They had a better balanced diet than farmers, who relied too much upon root or cereal crops. Farmers were more likely to get infections and epidemics – because everyone was living close together. People did not live as long, and got SICK more.
SO WHY DID THIS WAY OF LIFE SWEEP THROUGH THE WORLD, IN A MERE FEW THOUSAND YEARS? Why, across virtually the entire planet, did our whole Species change its way of living after Millions of years – especially when at first they were WORSE OFF?
THE INHUMAN GENOME
Viruses are very small, but when they are in you they take your body over so it behaves in the way that the Disease wants. Many Viruses make you sick, like colds. Some will kill you, like AIDS. But the cleverest Viruses do not make you sick or kill you – because they want you to be their HOME.
20,000 years ago WE WERE INFECTED. Homo Sapiens brought the virus from Africa, which is why all the Neanderthals died out. They were better adapted to cope with conditions, and with an Ice Age – and yet, within just a few thousand years, they died out.
This Virus made us start living in groups and towns precisely because it would be easier for it to SPREAD AMONGST US. We did not do this because it was better for us. We did it because we were trapped. By the time the Virus had taken hold and we had become its home, our nature had changed and we could not go back.
The Virus has become so much a part of us that the Scientific Establishment will never see it, no matter how clever they think they are.
This is why a Homeland is very important to many people, including the JEWS: If we move then the Virus thinks we are returning to our real way of life and causes trouble for us.
This is why we don’t care about people from other countries: They mean nothing to us.
This is why Terrorists and Murderers kill innocent Americans: We mean nothing to them.
This is why our cities are full of Violence: We are forced to live in other people’s filth like rats in boxes, which is anathema to us.
This is why things like the Nazi holocaust and Bosnia and Rwanda take place: Different tribes are our Enemies, and if you push us together we will fight.
This is why our leaders are Liars and Fools. Government means stopping us from having our FREEDOM, for the sake of the so-called rights of people we do not know.
This is why people Murder and Kill: Because the only thing that stops us is Morality, which was invented by the Virus.
They are always trying to make us feel like we’re the same, and say that we all bleed the same colour, but even that is not true: There are different blood types – because of genetics.
Even at this basic level we are incompatible with each other. Even our blood is not the same.
WHAT CAN WE DO?
We must start the action in the cities, amongst the Blacks. We may not like you – because you are not our type, and we are only brought together because of the Disease – but you are Victims too. You have been brought from your proper Home and penned into places where there is no hope for Your Kind. You must be the first to rise up. The world will follow.
We are not supposed to live in huge groups. We are not designed to care about people we don’t know. We are supposed to be free, not penned in cities and lorded over by people who do not care about us but are only in it for the MONEY. The only way to stop this from destroying us is to KILL the carriers. Politicians will not help, because they thrive in this Evil environment. Like the virus, without ‘civilization’ they have no host. It is up to us.
Those who Kill will be Free:
Those who do not Kill are Infected.
Cleanse the planet.
Kill the virus.
Guns will make you strong.
I finished reading it a few seconds before Bobby.
‘Save it to disk,’ I said. ‘That’s not going to be there tomorrow.’
When Bobby had saved the page, I scrolled back to the top and read through it carefully again. It reminded me of a hundred manias, badly photocopied screeds thrust at passers-by on street corners and skimmed on the way home out of sheer boredom; rants half-overheard in the shadows of bars late at night, voices smudged with alcohol and ignorance and anger. But there was something different about it. I sat back in my chair, and worked out what it was.
‘Give him credit,’ Bobby said, when he had finished reading it a second time. ‘He’s been to the library and looked at some books. But it’s basically an insanity thing. Right?’
‘Yes and no,’ I said. ‘Terms like “supplanted” don’t fit. Or “anathema”.’
‘Couple clever words don’t make it a work of genius. They could have been copied straight out of something.’
‘Every single apostrophe is in the right place, Bobby. Plenty of people out there who’d take this as the word of God. Militia guys, for a start. Could even be them behind it.’
He laughed. ‘I doubt that. You know what they’re like. Grey-haired vets and kids who’ve seen so many straight-to-videos about ’Nam they half-believe they were there, too. They build a camp in the woods and polish their hardware and fight over the womenfolk.’
‘Not all of these people are cavemen. Or stupid.’
‘Of course not. But we’re talking guys who devour Soldier of Fortune cover to cover and buy books telling you how to cook napalm and build man-traps in your backyard. People who took a bath over hoarding supplies for the millennium – and were actually disappointed when it all came to nothing and civilization shambled on. They put on fatigues and yack up how the world’s gone to shit and the Jews and the Hispanics are to blame, not to mention Capitol Hill and Saddam Hussein. You’d be better off worrying about the blacks in the inner cities, like the guy says. The homeboys are really pissed, and some of those fly motherfuckers have whacked someone before they’ve been laid.’
‘It’s the same thing. People who’ve never felt part of any community except the one that’s small enough that they know everybody by name.’
‘You’re making me weep, Ward.’
‘Fuck you. You put your trust in a country, love it as much as it tells you to, and then you find out it was just a stroke to keep you quiet and what it really meant was “Anyone can have everything, apart from you guys. When it comes to you, we didn’t mean it.” It’s cultural abuse. How are you going to react to that?’
‘Okay, Ward. There’s genuine sentiment there and the overall IQ probably isn’t much lower than in the House of fucking Representatives, and I’ll admit that some of them have sometimes got a point. What I sure as hell don’t believe is that they coordinate. Most of these outfits have trouble keeping thirty people pointed in the same direction, never mind agreeing aims and objectives with some other group – much less groups – living hundreds or thousands of miles away. Maybe out there in the big bad world. But not here.’
‘Before the Internet,’ I said.
‘There’s stuff there,’ he admitted. ‘Enough manifested psychosis to blow the mind of every therapist in the country. Hate groups, end-of-the-worlders, the illuminati burning effigies of owls in Bohemia Grove – and the face on Mars is a missile base for social control and the nukes are all pointing right at you. But I spend my entire time looking at that shit and trust me – any worldwide movement