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- Story Listed as: Fiction For Adults
- Theme: Mystery
- Subject: Adventure
- Published: 06/16/2018
AMANDA AND THE MASS HYPNOSIS
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"When you go to the polling stations next month, you will vote for Frederick Fuss to be President. You will be happy during the entire expected outcry, and will joyfully wish a good time to all voters -- even those who voted for Randall Rage and Martha Levin, his opponents!" The emotionless relaxing voice whispered to the viewers. Even those in the observation room felt sleepy and obedient!
This was one of a series of unusual television transmissions that were picked up in the last few weeks before the Presidential Elections. These transmissions had caused a lot of concern for political analysts, as well as for the other political parties – to say nothing of the international offices, which would have to deal with Frederick Fuss if he were to win the elections!
Actually the story was much more involved than it appeared beneath the first layer of mass manipulation. Frederick Fuss was not a major political candidate at all. He was not the representative from either main political party. He was a minor candidate – not loved by many, but not hated by any! He was not a bad candidate – just an unknown one, from a very small political party – the Orange Groundhogs. It was also unknown who was backing this little known candidate for the biggest job in the nation.
“That is the last television transmission we were able to intercept from the Frederick Fuss supporters,” reported Amanda Spike to the International Crisis Team (ICT) meeting. The ICT's twelve members had all flown in quickly after being summoned to the Headquarters.
“What do we know about the message?” asked Sir James Mace, Head of the ICT.
“May I answer that?” asked Jeremy Bard of Sir James, who nodded his agreement.
“The strange thing is that the message is exactly the same style as the transmissions on behalf of Randall Rage who represents the Red Elephant party. Simply stated, the supporters of Frederick Fuss have just inverted the names and party affiliations to make the message seem like theirs. It seems to be transmitted from the same source as the original, which makes the story even more unusual. The transmission source is across the border, which makes the whole story more sinister. On the incoming video link Claire Sight is waiting to give us her report, Sir James!” finalized Jeremy Bard.
“Excellent,” noted Sir James, and continued,” I have sent Claire Sight with her team to what we thought could be the transmission location across the border.
The video screen flickered as Claire Sight appeared on one screen while other screens showed the views from her teams cameras. Two buildings, dimly lit, were the focus of attention. Claire whispered, “We are ready to enter both buildings. The infrared scans do not indicate any living creatures hereabouts!”
In no time at all, her teams had secured the area -- confirming no people or guard animals. Their camera images on the screens at Headquarters showed only banks of active computers and other electronic equipment.
Hal Bard asked Sir James if he could ask the teams to conduct examinations at the site. Sir James agreed, “Of course!” because he knew that Hal Bard was his best electronic security expert.
“Hi Claire, this is Hal. Could I ask your team to show me the two screens to your left”. Their cameras immediately transmitted the images to Headquarters. Hal continued, “Please type some commands into the keyboard terminals on the desk in front of you, these commands are appearing on your wrist terminals right now!” Hal could send diagnostic routines to the foreign computers, which first needed to be accessed by Claire’s typed commands, before remote access was achieved. After a very short time, Hal reported he had enough data to give a preliminary report and suggest some next steps.
“Even though across the border, the installation secured by Claire Sight and team is indeed the transmission site for the political broadcasts. It will take some more time to find out the sequence of events, and look for evidence of ultimate source and structure of the transmissions. I can make suggestions to Claire’s team on the ground, what to collect from the machines. There is no evidence of human habitation, so this site could be completely remote being steered from somewhere even further away,” reported Hal Bard.
“Thanks, Mr. Bard,” said Sir James, adding his usual joke, “the other Mr. Bard!” The Team were used to Sir James’s style in respecting the valuable contributions of the brothers Jeremy and Hal Bard. “Does the other Mr. Bard have a contribution?” asked Sir James of Jeremy.
“Well yes, Thanks,” responded Jeremy, “In view of the fact that the Presidential Elections are next month, there are clearly some security issues that we must follow now. There are also several relevant questions related to this incursion from across the border. I would like us all to consider what we should undertake to combat this massive threat of mass hypnosis”.
Sir James thanked Jeremy and remarked, “Some of you might be wondering why an international team has been assembled to address the Presidential elections, which is clearly a national issue. Indeed some of you are no doubt asking what right I have, as a foreign national, to act on this countries national business. Well I was asked by your Congress some four years ago to ensure that the Internet Interference in the previous Presidential elections, when Randall Rage was elected, did not appear at the next ones”.
At this point both the Secretary of State, Roy Robertson, and the National Chief Security Officer, Archie Flint, who had remained completely silent though 100 percent attentive in the proceedings so far, stood up to address the ICT, “Colleagues, we would just like to make sure that you all realize that we, representing the Highest Offices of our Nation, fully endorse Sir James Mace and his International Team of Operators. They all have highest security clearance from us, and we guarantee full and immediate cooperation of all of our security and armed forces.”
“Many thanks Mr. Secretary,” thanked Sir James who was also clearly waiting for this moment to ask for a contribution from Dr. Algernon Aitcheson, a specialist of the Crisis Team for Human and Animal Behavior. “Please give us your view on Mass Hypnosis, Dr. Aitcheson, without us all falling into a trance of course! Ha! Ha! Ha!” joked Sir James.
“Thanks Sir James, I will try to be brief, although not as short as you of course,” replied Dr. Aitcheson playing cruelly with an allusion to Sir James’ height and brevity of speech. “As you may remember, Jeremy Bard just mentioned that the Fuss broadcast was derived from a Rage broadcast of a few days ago. The significant thing about both is that they represent very advanced stage hypnotic transmissions. The interesting aspect is that the re-election committee of Randall Rage say they know nothing about the transmission asking hypnotized voters to choose the candidate from the Red Elephant Party. I would bet that the election committee of Frederick Fuss say they know nothing about the transmission asking hypnotized voters to choose the candidate from the Orange Groundhog Party! So if these political parties know nothing about these transmissions, who is arranging it all? -- in the strange way of backing both sides – or at least two out of three Parties simultaneously? The fact that hypnotic transmissions were used, hints at a sinister level of action -- way above the usual political party bickering and cheap point scoring. In my opinion I think we will also find out that Martha Levin’s supporters from the Blue Donkey Party, also have nothing to do with these hypnotic transmissions. By the way, the political parties right now are clarifying their own political descriptions, so I have simply called the parties by their publicity symbols rather than trying to define their political preferences!”
“Thank you indeed Dr. Aitcheson for your precise overview of the situation. I propose we make a short break and then decide on our plan of action,” proposed Sir James.
After the break, Sir James asked Secretary of State, Roy Robertson, to brief the ICT about the aftermath of the Internet Interference at the time of the Presidential elections four years ago. Roy Robertson continued, ”You may remember that after those events, the Blue Donkey Party blamed Randall Rage and the Red Elephant Party for hacking and manipulating news on the internet. At that time it was mostly untrue invented stories that were collectively called ‘fake news’. The effect of these and several defamatory bulletins was to heavily bias not-yet-decided-voters to abandon candidates of the Blue Donkey Party in favor of candidates of the Red Elephant Party. In the end we suspected that there were several national and international groups involved in the dissemination of negative news. The exact details of their intention are still not known, but the result was clear -- absolute uncertainty and anger among the voters. The chaos caused was enough to upset the usual events at election time. Our National Chief Security Officer, Archie Flint, has some further relevant comments to make here.”
Flint commented, “Many individuals at the time four years ago were upset by the details of the accusations flying about. Many of these were grave but more upsetting to my Office was the motivation behind the whole ‘smear campaign’. Because with just a few chosen and aimed words the whole procedure of our democratic elections was upset. Unfortunately most politicians did not help the country because they wallowed in their own Party’s mess -- rather than trying to rise above it all, and inform the voters that the whole country was being threatened. This time the internet interference is evident but at the moment the perpetrators and their intent is not known. It is clearly hostile, but it is foolish for us to blame one or another foreign nation, not sympathetic to our political mantra, without looking first at internal sources for this insurrection.”
The two Government Officials had set a somber note for the proceedings. Sir James knew that a quick and overarching solution needed to be found.
“Ladies and Gentlemen, perhaps we can list our recommendations and then prioritize them!” suggested Sir James. “Ms. Spike would you please be kind enough to act as mediator?” requested Sir James to Amanda.
“During the break several of us made some suggestions among ourselves that we would like to share with whole ICT", began Amanda. “I will use the word ‘our’ to mean those persons under our alliance, not a particular nationality. This is our first list for discussion:
1. Whatever we undertake must also be democratic and cannot favor one Party over another.
2. Even if we suspect another particular foreign country of interference, we must separate out passionate patriotism and perhaps blind suspicion, from hard evidence that points to our supposed enemy.
3. We cannot assume that some of our own citizens are above such electional interference. We know of several groups who already pursue lobbying activities and are not interested in the accepted view of democracy, rather they have their own prejudiced definition of it.
4. We must find a way to counteract any future attempts at mass hypnosis with a nonpolitical, fair countermeasure. We will need to interfere with any future attempts at mass hypnosis.
5. We must assume this is an International Crisis, for what is happening here today could well happen in another nation tomorrow. Thus the national issues will be dealt with by the correct and official national teams – we will here develop overarching strategies than can be applied in any nation so affected!”
“Thank you Ms. Spike,” Sir James thanked Amanda, “Before we go on, do our Government Colleagues have any cautionary comments?”
National Chief Security Officer, Archie Flint raised his hand to make a comment, “We spent a lot of time after the last election about four years ago, following scenarios for Interference. All the hard evidence ended up being ambiguous. Unlike court cases there was no one person owning up to misdoings. So in the end we had suspects among the trolls but we had no clear wrong doer. After hours of committees and cross-examinations, we had lots of confessions for small to larger crimes, but no obvious mastermind – except one. This one we could not prosecute because there was no direct evidence, and the one person certainly did not confess to anything! So this time we do not want to go around in never decreasing circles, we think it wiser to limit the amount of damage as the first priority, rather than spending our energy right now to punish the unknown perpetrator!”
Secretary of State, Roy Robertson also added some further comments, “Whatever one’s political preferences, our plan must be free of party interest. So we must devise a plan that considers all candidates as equals. This will indeed provide challenges to suggestions to overwrite hypno-broadcasts with one particular candidate name or another. To achieve political unbias is one reason why we have invited so many foreign nationals to our team. We have large groups of nationals ready to enforce any recommendations that we make to lessen the threat to our Presidential Elections.
“Thank you gentlemen,” Sir James thanked the Government Colleagues. “Perhaps Jeremy Bard can assist Ms. Spike in establishing our proposed line of approach here.”
Jeremy stood up and addressed the ICT, “To add to Amanda’s list from just before, I assume that the Government Investigators will keep their eyes on any of the ‘Usual Suspects’ of the nations that are under scrutiny in this business. Therefore we need to discuss two main things. The first, is what exactly to do about future hypno-transmissions? The second, is to open the international scanning network to see which other nations, or nationals, might be involved in the hypno-business!”
Amanda continued, “A few years ago there was an international investigation into hypno-terrorism among nonpolitically aligned individuals. That did not exclude however, that some of those individuals were approached afterwards by selected governments to research further into such themes. We might note here that some private organizations in this country were also interested in the application of such work to enhance their own profits.”
National Chief Security Officer, Archie Flint also added a comment, “I think you might like to know here that foreign governments were not the only suspected ones in the last Election Interference. Several large private organizations in this country were also active to some degree or other in the events of four years ago.”
Amanda picked up from Jeremy, “I think we can probably quite quickly propose methods of investigation outside the country using the international forces that are already aligned with us. As we know Claire Sight’s Team is already active. I understand that Hal Bard has already developed a strategy to follow up the trail of the last hypno-transmissions to earlier sources. I understand also that Colin Constable from Interpol has already started organizing the investigation.”
Colin Constable nodded from the other side of the table. Constable indicated agreement with his hand, and that Amanda should continue.
Amanda went on “We here probably need to develop something very quickly to overlay the transmissions that have been made so far.”
“Thank you Ms. Spike,” finished Sir James, “That’s exactly where I wanted to get to. We actually have here two of the instigators of the ‘international investigation into hypno-terrorism among nonpolitically aligned individuals’ that Ms. Spike referred to earlier.” Sir James indicated Dame Daphne Delvine, and Professor Wallace Wells.
Dame Delvine reported, “I was at the international investigation into hypno-terrorism, because of my background in social behavior of humans under stress. One of my conclusions from the investigation was that relaxed people are subconsciously even willing to be hypnotized given the right approach. Many people actually want to cooperate with a sympathetic seducer!”
Professor Wells continued, “I have investigated some of the connections between psychological effects of unusual chemical substances on the health of individuals. I learned at the investigation than even relatively harmless substances can relax most people sufficiently such that they can be easily hypnotized. For example, sugar, fat, and chocolate are great seducers!”
“Well that should set us up nicely to try to find an antidote to seduction!” quipped Sir James. There was some polite laughter to his special joke. “Please continue Ms. Spike,” invited Sir James.
“The voice used in the hyno-broadcast so far was male. I wondered if a female voice would be more efficient?” suggested Amanda.
Dame Daphne responded, “I must say that I just about went under my self when I heard the hypno-recording from the transmission. I am not an easy person, and certainly not an easy person to seduce. I think that if we are going to make a transmission of our own we should make two, one male one female.”
Dr. Algernon Aitcheson indicated a contribution, “I think Dame Daphne is spot on with an assault on both sexes. From my observations on both animal and human behavior, the sexes do not respond always to stimulation from the opposite sex. The two voice approach covers all possible permutations!”
Amanda continued, “Now we must consider the text of the message and the method of transmission. Could I ask Hal Bard if he has some ideas?” asked Amanda of Hal via a nod-of-the-head from Sir James.
Hal went on, “As you know the transmissions so far were made through the internet. Innocent internet users were quietly sitting at their screens when the message appeared in a box, slowly flashing, and with the message ‘Please turn up your sound to win a million in cash!’ I propose that we prepare a broadcast intended for simultaneous transmission on internet, television, and the intranet -- which connects supermarkets, sports stadiums, train stations, airports, and other public facilities.”
National Chief Security Officer, Archie Flint commented, “But we know that television broadcasts and the intranet are continually monitored for quality by observers in the broadcasting stations. How do you propose to get it past them?”
Hal Bard responded, “I propose we transmit our hypno-broadcast during commercials - because then observers in the broadcasting stations take their breaks.”
There was a round of laughter at the table. Then Hal continued, ”After that the observers themselves might well by hypnotized, and they are happy to watch anything!”
Sir James showed his summarizing stance and spoke to the table, “This all sounds very good. Now we just need to talk about the content of the message! Jeremy Bard and Ms Spike, any suggestions?”
Jeremy started, “It seemed to me that the format of the recent transmission had all the right ingredients – so we should perhaps follow the same tone: word spacings, emphasis, text and length.”
Amanda went on “I have a simple suggestion as to how we can make the announcement equal and not particular to one party.”
Amanda outlined her idea. There was a round of hearty laughter, and smiles on all faces. Everyone seemed convinced that this plan would work!
Closer to the Presidential elections. Colin Constable’s forces in Interpol intercepted three simultaneous attempted transmissions. One was outside the borders, and two were inside the borders of our country. With the use of Hal Bard’s software, the transmissions were channeled into a digital garbage can. In their place our new personalized transmissions were sent out simultaneously over internet, television, and intranet.
For those who did not succumb to hypnosis on the first round the message in the key part sounded like ‘… and vote for Martha Levin and Randal Rage and Frederick Fuss….’, and in the second round as “….. and vote for Frederick Fuss and Martha Levin and Randal Rage ….’, and in the third round as “….. and vote for Randal Rage and Frederick Fuss and Martha Levin and ….’, and so it went on until the whole nation had fallen asleep.
At the Presidential Elections, the votes were clearly unprejudiced with 33% to Martha Levin, 33% to Frederick Fuss, and 33% to Randal Rage, with 1% to zzzzzzzzzzz!
Sounds unlikely?
Well, we have a recording of the ICT meeting room during these broadcasts and not one of the Team would believe this, but they all fell asleep during the hypnosis.
Still don’t believe it?
Why are you scratching yourself on the left arm?
Hypnotic suggestions can last a lifetime.
Enjoy it Scratcher!
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