18

Marsh arrived in an unmarked van with two young people, a camera girl and a sound guy. They were fraternal twins, yet oddly enough didn’t share the same birth day, they were both born around midnight, one on either side.
Marsh had told Adam they were coming, over the phone, “Okay, so,” he said, “here’s what I want to do: I want to film you. I want to film a documentary film about you and what you’ve been through. To get the message out there to the people.”
“Yes,” Adam had said, pounding his fist into his thigh, “Yes! I will bring the message to the people!”
So Adam, Justin, Leah, Thomas, Marsh and the twins, Peter and Eunice, set up at Adam’s place, and got filming right away.
“This is the perfect situation,” Adam had told Leah, before anybody had arrived but Justin, who hadn’t left Adam’s side. “The theatre is the new temple, and the TV is the household shrine and Hollywood is the Vatican. Film is the new religion.”
Leah had her doubts. She didn’t trust Marsh and wasn’t sure about all this, besides.
“The theatre is the temple and the man on screen is the preacher. I will be the man on screen.”
Adam took the chip out of his pocket, as he always carried with him everywhere he went, almost instinctively, and showed it to Marsh and the camera.
“How did you know about this?” Adam asked.
“It fits with the M.O. I’ve been talking about these things since my show began. Let me see that.”
Marsh studied the chip carefully, reverently.
“Soon,” he said, “everybody will be chipped, if we don’t stand up to them.”
“Who?” Adam said, “who, exactly is them?”
“The New World Order. Nearly every world leader is a part of it, and if they’re not, they’re a rogue state, a terrorist state, get it? Their plan is to set up a one world government, and once that’s in place, they’ll use these things to keep us in line.”
“How,” Adam said, “tell me how.”
“Well, right now it’s just used as a tracking device, and it’ll continue to be used that way, but soon, if we’re not careful, the NWO proposed one world government will go to a single world currency, a moneyless system. All transactions will be tallied in credits. Credits that are kept entirely on these chips. And if people like you and me want to step up and protest what they’re doing, they’ll just turn off your chip so you can’t buy food or anything.”
“Yeah,” Thomas piped up, “I’ve heard of that.”
Adam thought about it a moment and said, “what if your family or neighbors just fed you. I mean, sure, you’d be a burden on the community, but--”
“They’d just turn off their chips, too,” Marsh answered.
“Well,” Adam continued, “what if everybody got together and didn’t want to feel threatened anymore and said, ’you can’t turn off all our chips,’ because if they did they’d be powerless.”
“Never happen,” Thomas said.
“If the people don’t accept it the chips will have no power, the government will have no power,” Adam said, “the power always resides with the people.”
“You’re right,” Marsh said, “the power lies with the people. But if you look in a law dictionary, the definition of people is very different from what you think it is. We are not the people, by law definition. By law definition the people are the executive, the judicial and the legislative. And by the time their one world government is voted into power, we really will be powerless.”
“What do you mean, voted in?” Adam said.
“Right now,” Marsh said, “we do have some power. That’s why they don’t just set up their system of government now, it would be too messy. It’s an experiment, to see if they can carry out their plans without having to kill off all the rabble. Consider it a fair rule of engagement. They will give us fair warning. They will tell us their plans and package them in a way that the voters won’t just accept their plans, they’ll demand them, just to prove they can get away with it. To prove that we are cattle and they are smarter and better than us. It’s a sick game.
“And once their plans are voted into place, if we were to revolt, they could just kill us all, anyway.”
“But we can fight back,” Adam said.
“We’ve got guns, they’ve got bombs and tanks.”
Adam smiled, “they’ve got the bombs, but we’ve got the … Justin, take it away…”
“Minds,” Justin said, “we got the minds, yo.”
It was all there on film.