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End of Chapter #31
That's it gentlemen, please take Jesse down to the 'War Room' now." he said, rather exhausted and collapsed into his leather chair and looked out at the White House lawn. "Anyone who wants this job, has to be crazy," he sighed...
Chapter #32
Down they went to the "Recreation-Room" where they spent the next four or so hours discussing how to proceed. It was hard to come up with anything positive. The President's Chief of Staff, used to controlling everything, wanted to run the entire operation and insisted that Jesse disregard the President and go through him. He did not want Jesse calling the President directly. At first both Jesse and Phillip Green tried to point out that that was not the way the President had directed the operation be set up.
"You heard him as well as I did," shouted Phillip. "He wanted Jesse to call him directly, anytime he felt that the President needed an update."
"Do you think that I'm trying to hide something from the President? The President trusts me to keep him informed and to sort out the unimportant things. I would not last long here if he thought I was doing that."
"Well someone must be doing it," Jesse shouted. "He sure as hell did not know what's going on. And I blame that on the fact that he is cut-off by well meaning people who are trying to 'protect' him. Well, someone has to inform him directly and he has chosen me."
"Jesse is right, in fact he even cut me out of the loop," Phillip said.
At times the discussion got a bit more animated. One word led to another and Jesse almost lost his cool. Disgusted, after a particularly obnoxious segment, he got up and said he was walking out.
"That's it. I've had enough! But before I leave I'm going to tell you one more time. I will try to use words of one syllable so listen carefully."
"I happen to be a university graduate and I will not be spoken to as if I was retarded," he answered back.
"Look, you idiot, I don't care about your education, who you are or who you think you are, we are talking about my life here! Neither you nor the President has to live 24/7 with these people. I can't afford to let down my guard for one second. There is no relaxing for me. I don't have time to play golf at the national golf course nor do I have a personal, private vacation home where I can get away from it all. As for the lake cabin, I'm sure Yethro has me being followed and has the cabin bugged. I may be getting a bit paranoid, but in this business that is not a bad thing. Some of the most successful agents we have are. I'm beginning to think all those right wing talk show hosts are right. Either both the President and you are part of this conspiracy or the both of you are just stupid and have no idea what you are doing. And what's worse is, I don't know where the truth lies. How many times do you have to be told! These people are not peaceful. They could not and do not yearn for peace in any form. They are out to take over the civilized world," an angry Jesse almost shouted. "They are convinced that it is not only their God given duty to do so, but it is their destiny. They are waging Jihad and they don't take prisoners. There is no place for Christians, Jews or infidels in this utopia they are espousing. They kill those that oppose them. They have no problem or respect for our laws, regulations or the lives of others when something or someone gets in the way of their so-called destiny. They glorify in bloodletting. They would rather slit your throat then reason with you. Public executions are the norm. Prisons are for holding the unconverted until they either convert, are enslaved or... The 8th century is the highlight of their dreams and fantasies and they will do anything to drag the entire world back there. There is no reasoning with them and if your boss thinks he can reason with them, he is more dangerous than they are. You can tell him that he can go to hell, but make sure you also tell him that I have no intention of joining him there."
"Well, 'Mr. know-it-all', what are you proposing to do?"
"I'm not proposing to do anything. What I am going to do is just continue to watch the situation and wait. If I were to propose something to them I would become a part of this treason. They would then declare that the Government had encouraged them and entrapped them. There is no need to give them any ideas. They have enough of their own. They will soon decide how and when to move and I must be in a position to learn of the plan and either report it to you or perhaps take action myself." Jesse said, rather annoyed and tired of the whole thing. "Sooner or later they will try to overreach themselves and they will violate our laws. At that point we will be able to act. As far as I know, until now they have not. The only thing that might be a bit 'off kilter' is this clandestine shipment of convicted prisoners overseas to serve out their life sentences as indentured slaves. What I suspect is that there is something else going on. We know there have been agents within the prisons that have been working for years to convert these people to Islam. There is nothing illegal about it. While other religions have been doing this for years with the hope of reforming the prison population, Yethro has just improved upon the concept. He has taken the process one step higher and made sure the system not only pays for itself but also shows a nice profit. In addition to conversions, I think perhaps he has found a source of additional violent Jihadists. These condemned criminals will grab at any opportunity to get out of jail. As far as their slavery is concerned, I have heard rumors that once they have converted to Islam and come under Shariah Law, they can not be held as slaves and thereby gain their freedom, but not before they have been radicalized and trained to become Jihadists.
"But do they know that they could, and most likely will be, used as sex slaves until that time?"
"Do you think that makes any difference to them? What the hell do you think they are being used for in our prisons? Most of them, and especially the healthy younger good-looking ones, are lucky if they make it past the first night in prison without being sexually violated and becoming the playthings of either some convicted ruthless killer or the guards. They will do anything to get out and they hope this is a way out. What happens to them after they leave the United States has not been our problem as they give up their citizenship and rights to due process to live outside of the U.S.A.," Jesse said, and then added, "Look, the only thing we can do now is to let me play their game with them and let them think that I'm going along with them. Only by getting deeply embedded into their confidence and being like a fly on the wall can I hope to perhaps get into the inner-circle and find out if there is some really treasonable crap going on here."