Burn The Heretic

"Search the building." the captain said. Around a Sentries surrounded the doorway of the abandoned apartment. Three of them took a battering ram and smashed the door down. The men stormed the four storey structure guns blazing. Floor by floor they cleared the building of the rebels, leaving none alive. One of the resistance members dropped his gun and stood up arms raised in a gesture of surrender. A Sentry leap and tackled the man to the ground. He drew his knife and ripped the man's mask off. It was a young man. Without hesitation, the Sentry slit the throat of the unfortunate soul. The Sentry stood up and left the boy to choke on his own blood.

"Scum who dared oppose the All-Father deserved no less to die like dogs." Thought the Sentry to himself as he joined his comrades to search the upper floors. The higher they went, the higher the heaps of bodies became. When they reached the top floor, they encountered an old man standing in front of an ancient holo transmitter. "Fools." the man said. "You know not the truth. You are blind and deaf to the reality of this world. Your almighty Father will fall prey to his children soon enough." The man drew his pistol.

"Shoot him!" The captain yelled. Screams and curses flew from the old man's mouth as bolts tore his body. As he lay dying, he whispered with a smile, "It is already too late for you. The footage has been sent." The captain walked up to the dying man and drew his government issue Hellblazer. "Oh shut up you." said the captain. He cocked the gun and blew the older man's head off. Wiping the grim and blood from the barrel of this weapon, he ordered his men, "Burn it all." His men rushed to incinerate the building. One of his officers asked him who the old man was. The captain replied, "He was a deceiver. Planting seeds of dissent into the hearts of the good people. His words were poison. He was a threat to the rule of the Almighty, so he had to be...bumped off. As they say in the old country."



In comm class, we discussed Counter Hegemony. Sir Beaver talked about how some media is produced to challenge the ideas and morals of "the Man" or they system. The story above is based in a dystopia, and there are members in the society who disagree greatly with how their country is being run. So they decide to smear the name of the "Almighty Father" and expose the dirty secrets of the government by transmitting viral videos through the global system (holo transmitter). The government however, does not with for such secrets to be spread though the population and orders the deaths of the members of the opposition.