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If the reader cannot feel for the Earth, or even for humanity, perhaps they can feel for their own particular ancestors, their own lineage, those grandfathers and grandmothers who sweated and perished like animals in the fields and factories, in battles and wars, from poverty and disease, and who in their agonies looked up to the creator asking why? why? why? And lest one should forget the utter tyranny that our ancestors knew and endured, here are the words of Plantagenet King Richard II, who after the Peas- ant’s Revolt of 1381, admonished his underlings thusly: God omnipotent, is mustering in his clouds on our behalf, armies of pestilence and they shall strike your children yet unborn and unbegot, that lift your vassal hands against my head and threat the glory of my precious crown...You wretches, detestable on land or sea, you will seek equality with lords and are unworthy to live. Give this message to your colleagues - rustics you were and rustics you are still. You will remain in bondage, not as before, but incomparably harsher. For as long as we live we will strive to suppress you and your misery will be an example for posterity. However, we will spare your lives if you remain faithful, choose now which course you want to follow. The terminology of the king is fascinating in regards to this present thesis. But to this kind of mentality, we reply with the exhortation of one of the greatest humanitarians this planet has ever known, Percy Bysshe Shelley: Rise up! like lions after slumber In unvanquishable number Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in your sleep had fallen on you Ye are many — and they are few Why, we muse, would such an embodiment of gentility and love say, that freedom comes to man when, in his own words, the last monarch is strangled with the guts of the last priest. Why? Because, unlike so many, he was in no doubt at all about the leg- acy of terror and crime which has been perpetrated by the enemies of all humanity. He had not forgotten the plight of his forefathers, or of yours, nor was he blind to the atrocities of his own times. Our forefathers have fought the good fight in ages now for- gotten and laid down their lives and liberties to eradicate the enemy. They have endured terrestrial paroxysms of unimaginable proportions, famines, plagues, massa- cres, and inquisitions, imposed upon them by tyrants. Each and every event is etched in the racial memories, in the DNA, of every person living today. 126 Our Future in the Stars Atlantis, Alien Visitation, and Genetic Manipulation