Dedicated to: Julian Assange

A great Australian and great fighter for the truth.

[Nothing in this story came from WikiLeaks, which does not seem to be accessible from Australia]

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REPORT BY SERGEANT OTIS P. WAUGH:

“One short!”   Those were the two words that caused a nation-wide manhunt across the continental U.S.A. in late 2184 AD, for a super killer whose existence DARPA has never dared reveal to the American public.

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The day had started like any other day in the death camp.   Actually that is only what the human staff calls them.   The official name is induction and control enclosures.

“Sergeant Waugh!” snapped Murray Williams, a tall, anaemic looking youth at my approach across the gravel-covered compound.

At his words fifty-two human troopers wearing backpacks snapped to attention.   And in a metal cage behind them fifty-one never-dying monster soldiers also snapped to attention.

Looking more like gorillas than the human beings that they had been genetically mutated from, the monster soldiers lived and died for the army.   They were bred for absolute obedience so, despite their greatly reduced I.Q., they knew more about military protocol than most of the human soldiers under my command would ever do.

“Stand easy,” I said and both human and monster soldiers did so.

“Otis,” said another sergeant at my approach.   Sergeant Lesley Phelps was a long-time friend of mine.   He was also the sergeant of the monster soldiers who (unbeknown to them) had been brought to the camp to be liquidated.

Having reached the end of their long military life, we could not risk unleashing them upon the unsuspecting American public.   After all, look what had happed two centuries earlier after the Vietnam War.   Dozens of veterans had gone mad after their return to normal society and had gone upon killing sprees.   And the Vietnam vets had not been genetically modified to take away all human emotions, all respect for human life, all sense of right and wrong, all hesitancy to kill.