Incident Report: Targeted Individual

Russell Shakespeare. Varanasi. 

"I don't think I could look him in the eye."

Strangler fig.
Morons battered him with climate change propaganda. It just left him shaking his head, how venal these people truly were, how dishonest, incompetent, corrupt.
Bullies to a man. And woman.
The psychotic bashings he had received as an adolescent ballooned through into the repeated harassment of the authorities.
He misunderstands us. We're the friendlies. 
Right, he thought. Right. 
A gentleman and a scholar. 
So the serial abuse was just a coincidence. Or an accident. 
Like reading entrails in the sky. 
These savages. 
It all read large, that long ago abuse. Because of his father's death. Because of his mother's sadness. Because of the contempt with which his first family had been treated. 
He must have known.
He knew --- you dolts.
A widening gap between rich and poor.
Ever bodgy: this rotten to the core government. 
As Malcolm Turnbull continues to betray the Liberal Party which provided him with so many financial opportunities. 
Robber barons plundering the country. 
Disturbed sleep. The insanity of dreams.
A camera on him the whole time.
All their grotty little tricks failed.
Tricks of the trade. They defended. He went deep, hovering above their houses, drilling into their brains. 
Security breach. 
The left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing. 
The security agencies are at war. 
Can you keep a secret? 
Depends on what it is and who it serves.
But that's no secret. It's patently obvious. 
The country continued to deteriorate into the coming maelstrom. 
Betrayed by their own government. Betrayed by their own people. A country divided cannot stand. 
He would see it through. 
All these prophecies came true, quicker than he could ever have imagined. 
Far out to sea, the spring storms receded. 
You would make a mockery of me? 
The operatives squirmed inside their own diseased consciousness.
You make a mockery of yourselves.

THE BIGGER STORY:

The late physicist and author Prof Stephen Hawking has caused controversy by suggesting a new race of superhumans could develop from wealthy people choosing to edit their and their children’s DNA.

Hawking, the author of A Brief History of Time, who died in March, made the predictions in a collection of articles and essays.

The scientist presented the possibility that genetic engineering could create a new species of superhuman that could destroy the rest of humanity. The essays, published in the Sunday Times, were written in preparation for a book that will be published on Tuesday.

“I am sure that during this century, people will discover how to modify both intelligence and instincts such as aggression,” he wrote.

 The late physicist and author Prof Stephen Hawking has caused controversy by suggesting a new race of superhumans could develop from wealthy people choosing to edit their and their children’s DNA.

Hawking, the author of A Brief History of Time, who died in March, made the predictions in a collection of articles and essays.

The scientist presented the possibility that genetic engineering could create a new species of superhuman that could destroy the rest of humanity. The essays, published in the Sunday Times, were written in preparation for a book that will be published on Tuesday.

“I am sure that during this century, people will discover how to modify both intelligence and instincts such as aggression,” he wrote.

In Brief Answers to the Big Questions, Hawking’s final thoughts on the universe, the physicist suggested wealthy people would soon be able to choose to edit genetic makeup to create superhumans with enhanced memory, disease resistance, intelligence and longevity.