Chapter 3 pt. 1

                     Chapter Three

The day after the Watcher’s ultimatum found all the delegates found themselves back in the same room as the day before, formulating plans and trying to set them into motion. “The first thing we need to do is dismantle our Nuclear weapons, and any other weapons we have,’ John said looking around at the other men and women sitting in the room with him. “I also think it is best if we all reduce our Armies by at least half. Since America’s Armies are the largest we will reduce ours by at least 3/4^th’s, just to make things fair. I know many of us don’t want to lose those protections, but we have just witnessed how easily they can be turned against us, and I for one do not want a repeat performance of that.”

            “How can we be sure that everyone will get rid of these things?” The Russian President asked.

            “Do you want that woman to have control of your nuclear weapons? Do you think you would be able to hide them from her? Most importantly, do you think she would even hesitate to use them against you and all of us,” The Iranian President asked. “I do not wish to incur her wrath because someone decided to be stupid and keep their weapons. I am pretty sure we are all in agreement when I say we will make it very hard for that country to survive. I don’t think threats will be necessary though, we are humans and self-preservation is a hard instinct to deny.”

            “He is correct, I don’t think any of us are willing to chance the death of every single person on this planet just to keep those weapons. At least I hope none of us are, because we would just be proving her right, which is the last thing we want do.’ As John spoke he saw most of the delegates nod to show they agreed with him. The ones who didn't needed speaking to, he was not risking his life and the lives of everyone on the planet because of some leader’s ego. He honestly didn't think it would take much convincing to change their minds. Many of them would get pressured by their respective citizens.

            “Another thing, try to keep your people calm during the upcoming weeks. Humans are prone to rioting during major changes, and riots would just be playing into her hand,” The Russian President sighed and hung his head, “How are we to change thousands of years of human evolution? Even in our religions, most of our Gods are violent and benevolent, so we can’t turn to those. Do they even matter anymore? We were all just showed undeniable proof that our religions are wrong. How is that going to go over? How are we to control those reactions? The one thing religion was good for was keeping the base instincts of most of us under control? How will we do that now? “

            John looked at the dejected leader and thought about it. “We don’t tell them that their religions aren't right or real. We tell them to interpret her arrival anyway they choose, even if it is to believe their religion is a lie. Let them make their minds up. And who is to say that it was just religion keeping us in check? We have thoughts and free will and we can control ourselves for the most part. We can get through this. We can’t do anything else. We need to prove to her we are more than the savages she called us.

            “The next to do is get as many scientist as possible working on the probes data. I think it might have information on our Watcher. Any information we can get will only help us. We also need to find safe ways of getting rid of the nuclear weapons. I don’t think we want to leave any of it intact for her to use against us. Let’s get scientists and engineers on that as well.” John deflated as the seemingly insurmountable task that they had ahead of them finally clarified. He had no idea how they were going to get through this.

            The Indian Prime Minister while listening to the conversations going on around him had a thought. “We don’t really need to change the current generations thought process. We need to change the younger generations, most people’s ideals set in their late 20’s. Let’s start running propaganda, very subtle propaganda, to influence them to peaceful solutions rather than violent ones. Another though, many of our countries have an abundance of weaponry, especially guns. I’d rather leaves knives and blunt objects in people’s hands than guns, because they will hesitate to use them. We need to gather as many as we can, and encourage people to turn them in.

            “I know that is a tall order, and I know that in America, you have a law that guarantees people to right to own guns. I am not proposing you change that law, but try to convince your people Mr. Carmerie, that the best thing for everyone is to give them up. I am aware that people are stubborn and stuck in their ways, but remind them of the consequences of keeping them.” As the Prime Minister finished speaking a thought occurred to almost everyone in the room.

            “You don’t think Mura – Jie expects us to make every single person on this planet less “savage” do you? There are nearly nine billion people on this planet. That’s nine billion minds we have to change. I don’t even think that would be possible.” Carol Raemos spoke exactly what everyone else was thinking.

            “Another thing,” said British Prime Minister, more to himself than anything, “Most of us will be out of office by the time the fifteen year deadline is up. How are we supposed to make sure people don’t forget and that our predecessors keep with the plans we are currently making. You know we conveniently forget or discount anything we don’t want to deal with, then whine when it comes back to bite us in the ass. We cannot afford a repeat of Climate Change, we all know that nearly destroyed us thirty years ago, and some people still don’t believe it was real.

            “Our changing leaders periodically has been good for our countries and I don’t want to try and change that. We need to find a way to make sure they whatever it is we get planned, otherwise we are screwed.” The British Prime Minister looked out at the delegates. He picked up a dry erase marker and went to the board that was wheeled in especially for that purpose. He wrote the words “Ideas to Keep Humans from Forgetting the Watcher”. He turned back to the crowd, “We need to come up with Ideas and decide before we leave this room, otherwise all our other plans are useless.”