“Who are you?” he asked in a calm voice? That was surprising after what he went through.679Please respect copyright.PENANABECPzuEabT
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“That is not important,” I said. “Now before we start let me say that I am not going to torture you. I do not have to. We already know what you tried to do.”679Please respect copyright.PENANAvqE7ybprUV
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With that, I opened the small leather carrying case I had with me and grabbed my Spencer Dart gun. In one smooth motion I brought the gun up and fired a 5mm drug-filled dart into his left arm. He glared back at me with wide dark eyes. I could see it in his face; he was wondering if I just poisoned him.679Please respect copyright.PENANAMqmySWRhNV
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“No, that is not a lethal drug,” I answered him in a passive voice. “I didn’t come seven thousand kilometres to this forsaken rock in the middle of nowhere to kill you. I could have made a phone call to do that. That drug will work on your brain to make my job easier and faster. My superiors want answers to their questions, and you will give them to me.”679Please respect copyright.PENANALULczgGcSd
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The drug was similar to Pentothal. It relaxes the victim and suppresses the judgment centers of the brain, making the prisoner more open to questioning. At the same time, it maintains intact the memory retrieval and knowledge centers of the brain so he wouldn’t become a gibbering idiot in the process.679Please respect copyright.PENANAx8Y6HqxpW3
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“Why?” he pleaded, “I already told Investigations everything I know?”679Please respect copyright.PENANA7qHUIXQBXB
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“True, you told them a good deal as my file says. Doctor Oliver Jenkins Limner. You have multiple PhDs in Programming Languages, Boolean mathematics, and Resource Allocation Theory. You were a world-class leader in the computer modelling of resource supply estimates and supply allocations. You were also a trusted member of Program Planning and Procedures Agency; working with the ‘government’. Two weeks ago you took highly classified information and tried to release it to the WorldNet News Service via an anonymous FTP client. I know from your interrogation notes you felt some moral imperative that overrode the oath you took never to reveal any of the information you learned in coalition to anyone outside senior staff. From your interrogation, Investigations concluded that for some delusional reason you felt compelled to tell the people in Sub Saharan Africa, South America, and the Indian Subcontinent of PPP’s decision to deprioritize those areas for resource allocation once Stage Two of the reorganization began.”679Please respect copyright.PENANAyRnBYVa9zA
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“Reorganization!” he spat out. “Socioeconomic and political collapse you mean.” His face went flush with a tinge of red. I had struck a nerve. “Once the Collapse started we in the European, North American, Russian and Australian countries would cut them off from all agricultural supplies. Left alone on just their own resources they would slowly starve to death over time because they don’t have the native resources to feed their current populations, and climatic shift would destroy most of their food growing areas. Social disorder would take care of the rest.”679Please respect copyright.PENANADhE1N3jn9B
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“Yes,” I told him, “but you already knew that. In fact, you’ve known that for the last seven years.