The
following is an excerpt from a fictional interview conducted between
a novelist known as Jessie Dalton and Edison Adams, the
protagonist in the upcoming Charles Copeland novel, Malleus
Illuminatus: The Illuminati Hammer.
Please remember that everything you read here is a fictional
account. As well, be advised that all numbers have been spelled out
and many words (such as "without", etc.) have been split into two
words in order to increase the novel's word count prior to editing.
All of the numbers quoted herein will be replaced by actual numbers
in the forthcoming novel ("forty-eight" will be replaced by 48,
etc.) and all words which should be joined will be so after editing.
The
following interview takes place at Boundary Peak Island Federal
Research Facility, 20 miles off the coast of Massachusetts. The
intended time frame is summer of 2010.
Jessie
Dalton: Good morning,
Edison.
It is good to see you.
Edison
Adams: Good morning,
Jessie. It is good to see you as well. I hope the flight to the
island here went well.
Jessie
Dalton: It did. It was
my first time in a helicopter, which felt weird, but it was fun at
the same time. Would it be all right with you if I recorded these
interviews? It would make it so much easier for me to transcribe for
my self later.
Edison
Adams: That would be
fine. Are you nervous?
Jessie
Dalton: I would be
lying if I said I was not just a little bit nervous. But I have
conducted interviews with some pretty high profile criminals in the
past, so I hope this will all go as smoothly as the rest have.
Edison
Adams: As you can see
from my restraints, I will not be able to move from my chair, so let
me assure you that I am no threat to you.
Jessie
Dalton: Right. Well, I
will say I had reservations about doing this interview in a live
setting, but I have to admit that your etiquette is perfect.
Edison
Adams: If I choose to
leave you with a single memory of our time together, it is that I
made you feel at ease. Consider your self my guest, if you will.
Jessie
Dalton: (I turn on the
digital voice recorder then) Well thank you, Edison.
Edison
Adams: Think no thing
about it. Now then, off we go. Interview away, young lady.
Jessie
Dalton: Okay. It is
presently about one thirty in the afternoon. You are scheduled to
fly back to the Hague
early tomorrow morning to stand trial for twenty one new counts of
premeditated murder. What is going through your mind? What thoughts
have you had in the last few days?
Edison
Adams: I have given to
thoughts of how the world got to the place it is in now. All I think
about these days is that, if only people had not become so caught up
in every day trivialities and meaningless fluff, if they had used
their free time more wisely and investigated my claims many years
ago, maybe the world would not be in the chaotic state of affairs it
is in now. But then I realize that all I can do is plant the seeds
of informative fact. They must germinate on their own, and only
after that can the trees of knowledge be harvested. I did what I
did. I often find it difficult to realize it was not up to me to
make the world see the ruling forces for what they are. My job was
to lay my claims and, later, to act on them.
Jessie
Dalton: (I unzip my
brief case then, reaching inside to retrieve a manila file folder
more than three inches thick) For the record, your acting on your
claims led you to be convicted of killing four thousand, two hundred
and fifty six people. All of them were men. Is there a reason why
all of your victims were male, and all members of elite families?
Edison
Adams: For the record,
as you said, I was never convicted of any thing. What ever that
folder shows you, no where in it will you find any record of
conviction. I entered an all encompassing plea of guilty on all
counts against me. But yes, I was adjudicated guilty for the crime
of violations of the laws or customs of war, including murder of
civilians. And yes, the total number stands at four thousand, two
hundred and fifty six. I must correct you on another part of the
record, however. None of my victims were people, at least not in the
dictionary definition. They were all merciless predators who
deserved to suffer the most violent deaths imaginable. And that is
what I gave them. All of them. Yes, they were all male, and they
were all members of elite families. To set the record straight, they
were all members of the Ancient Order of the Bavarian Illuminati.
They were enemies of man kind, vile, pathetic wastes of otherwise
perfectly good carbon, and they were all treated as such.
Jessie
Dalton: How did it all
happen? Take me back. What are the antecedents of the behavior we
have seen from you?
Edison
Adams: Some people are
inherently incapable of standing idle while such injustice rules man
kind.
Jessie
Dalton: You were raised
in what many might consider to be a broken home, in a highly
dysfunctional family. You were violent as a child. Are there
extenuating reasons for all of that?
Edison
Adams: Are there
extenuating reasons for wolf cubs to grow up to become the perfectly
efficient killing machines they were born to be? After all, can an
animal that knows no other law than that of the law of the jungle be
held to higher standards than any other animal that fails its
society and goes rogue, killing for sport instead of self
sustenance? All animals possess the ability to kill. Especially man.
Our species has been the most efficient destroyer since its very
inception. So when one of us becomes exceptionally violent, acting
out in ways that society deems unacceptable, that individual stands
little chance of moving through life in any thing even remotely
resembling ... the right direction. That is not to say that I am
offering excuses for my behavior. In no way will I ever excuse my
self from deserving punishment for my actions. What I am attempting
to offer is simply the account of a single individual pushed to the
point where no thing was left to be lost.
Jessie
Dalton: Can you walk me
through some of the things that were running through your mind when
you were still a child?
Edison
Adams: I never had what
you would call a child hood, at least not in the traditional sense.
I read a lot when I was very young. From my first experience of
being able to read, I found that it was some thing I could not get
enough of. The simple action of opening up a book felt, to me, like
I was uncovering new information which had been hidden from me until
then. And in very many cases, I found that to be true. Much of what
I read had been hidden, from me as well as from every other
individual who has ever lived or ever will. I became fascinated with
the accounts told in nursery rhymes ... not the stories them selves,
mind you ... the accounts of often times quite literal events which
happened long ago and were then passed on through time as legends
and myths, as if they never did happen. Having been born in what was
then Communist East Germany, living under Soviet rule, reading was
all I saw fit to do. I very quickly climbed the ranks of reading at
the level of children my age at the time to reading at a first grade
level and then, with in months, I found myself reading books that
children who were ten and eleven years old should have been reading.
By the time I turned six I had gotten into high school age material,
and that was when I discovered that many, many of the stories told
to us through nursery rhymes were not stories at all, because I had
found out where and how to locate historical accounts of the
information presented in Mother Goose fables. It was not long before
I began discovering the truth behind stories that society as a whole
tells its children in order to entertain them, and worse, to lull
them in to going to sleep. It was at that point when I decided to
question every thing I had ever read by digging much deeper than
what we are shown on the surface of things told to us or taught to
us through books. And then, on my eighth birth day, my uncle
Friedrich gave me a very well worn out book that changed my life. It
involved some thing called the illuminated ones, which I quickly
came to learn were the Illuminati. And from there, I learned as much
about the Illuminati as quickly as I was able. So what ever was
going through my mind as a child was vastly different from the
normal thoughts of every day children I went to school with. And it
fascinated me, even at that young age, to see children go to school
and soak in the pre-planned curriculum fed to them as infallible
truth, never aware that there was at least some one out there
in the world who had to sit down and decide what it was that
children would go to school each day and learn about.
Jessie
Dalton: So it would be
fair to say that the things you read about as a child, about the
Illuminati, fueled your fantasies of becoming an apex predator?
Edison
Adams: At first, no.
When I first began discovering the Illuminati and many other secret
societies, I was enthralled at the level of arcane knowledge they
possessed and I wanted all of it for my self as well. So in a very
real sense, you could say I had stepped right on to the path of
illumination, which would have led eventually to my direct
involvement with the Illuminati. Later in life I was offered the
opportunity to join various secret societies, all of which I turned
down, but I can not say with any honesty whether or not I would have
accepted those opportunities if they had been presented to me when I
was still just a boy. What fueled my fantasies, as you so aptly
phrased it, to become the perfect apex predator, was that when I
found The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion, even
though scholars I talked to claimed the protocols were forgeries, I
compared them to Karl Marx's Manifesto for the Communist Party,
as well as Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf and Confederate General
Albert Pike's Morals and Dogma and found consistencies
relating one to all of the others, so much that I concluded that, in
the end, they were all saying the very same thing. By then my family
and I had emigrated to America,
and American libraries became my home away from home. I rode my bike
into Boston one day in the summer of nineteen sixty four to discuss
my findings with a professor at Boston University and he advised me
that I had found a trail which some one my age should avert at all
cost. When I asked him why, as any boy would, he told me that the
information I would discover would not only change the way I viewed
society and world history, but it would also mark me as some one the
Illuminati would consider to be an enemy. There and then, that very
day, even before my ride all the way home from Boston, having
confirmed my finding that the protocols and Marx's work and Hitler's
ramblings and Pike's revelations were intricately interconnected, I
realized that because so few people ever become privy to the truth I
had found, it became my responsibility to do every thing with in my
power to ensure that the things discussed and very clearly out lined
in those books would never be allowed to take place. So, as a
consequence, you may ask which came first, my episodes of child hood
violence, or the unleashing of an inner monster I had not even known
was with in my self until I began learning about things that are not
meant to be discovered. And if you were to ask me just that, I would
answer would have to be I do not know. I suppose one preexisted, but
which one is a mystery even to me. And before you act on your
obvious desire to ask, yes, I do consider the car crash that killed
both of my parents to be any thing but some freak accident. And
since I was already an emerging monster at that point in my life, it
only stood to reason that my natural order of progression would be
to make the jump from monster to psychopath.
Jessie
Dalton: What about
after that? What I mean is, you had gone just about as far as you
could go in your young adult life when your parents were killed. Was
joining the Army kind of a last resort decision, some thing you
decided to do in order to escape the road you were on at the time?
Edison
Adams: My decision to
join the army was a two pronged attack. First, doing such a thing
would keep me out of trouble and divert me from the direction my
life was headed in at the time. If I had done things any
differently, I am quite sure I would have resorted to a life of
crime, and that was some thing I wanted to avoid. Second, my time in
the army would train me for the very things stated in Pike's dogma,
the protocols, the communist manifesto and Hitler's crap. All of
those "teachings" were clearing the way for a global war the likes
of which has never been witnessed on Earth, and I figured that if
some thing of that magnitude was bound to happen, either by dumb
chance or by any measure of behind the scenes orchestration, I had
damn well better become as polarized to oppose it as I could.
Jessie
Dalton: How long did
you serve before you decided to start killing members of the
Illuminati?
Edison
Adams: I was enlisted
in the army in nineteen sixty eight, when I was seventeen, went to
Officers Candidate School immediately following basic training and
then off to the jungles of Viet Nam shortly there after for five
tours of combat, came home when it was clear that we would never be
allowed to use necessary force in order to win that war, and served
in peace time until nineteen eighty one, which was when I began
killing. So in total, I had served thirteen years before I became
what I am. Call it my incubation period, if you will.
Jessie
Dalton: Do you remember
what pushed you over the edge? Was there a single incident that made
you decide that there was no other way around not killing?
Edison
Adams: There was a
series of events leading up to a single catalyzing event which
showed me what my role would be for the remainder of my life. If you
want me to go into further detail regarding any of these events,
please let me know and I would be more than happy to explain in
greater detail. I met and instantly fell head over heels in love
with Ruth Eisen in the spring of nineteen seventy three while I was
on leave in London,
England.
I remember very vividly telling her that any time she ever wanted me
to visit her, all she had to do was say the word and I would take
what ever time off I could and I would fly to London. This was some
thing that became quite a regular occurrence. It seemed as if I had
a standard period of service in Viet Nam
which was always punctuated by my jaunts to London.
What I was not aware of at the time was that, while visiting Ruth, I
was also making my name well known among certain social circles
through out London
which, later, would prove to offer opportunities I would never have
gotten had I not met Ruth. For example, I mentioned earlier that I
had been offered acceptance in advance if I should ever have chosen
to become a free mason. Those opportunities and many others were
offered because of the people I began meeting when I started dating
Ruth. I thought nothing of it at the time, but the day I asked Ruth
to be my wife, two men at the restaurant where I had proposed who
had over heard my proposal approached me and offered me an envelope
containing what they called a congratulatory wedding gift. When we
got to my hotel room, Ruth told me that the two men were close
friends of her family and asked what was in the envelope. I told her
I did not know, opened it up, and found twenty thousand dollars in
cash inside, along with a note that read, This is the first step
of your journey into an eternal under standing of the Brother hood
of the Order. I had no idea what that meant and, frankly, I did
not care at the time. All that mattered was the fact that I was
about to marry the love of my life. But later, on the day of our
marriage, I got a phone call from one of the men from that day with
the envelope, and he instructed me that after the wedding a
limousine would pick us up, drive us to a honey moon suite that
neither of us knew any thing about, and that during our two week
stay there I would be offered the next step to take in my journey
...
a journey I knew no thing about. We went along with the program and
ended up staying at a castle in Tring,
England,
where we were treated like royalty. A few days later, I was asked to
join a group of men in another wing of the castle and, feeling
obliged, I agreed. At this meeting, I was introduced to some of the
most powerful people in the financial world. I was not asked to do
any favors and I was not offered any thing at that first meeting.
How ever, after Ruth and I went on to our new life as newly weds at
our new home in Massachusetts, as the years passed, the favors
started flooding in. It is at this point where I should tell you
that the favors were so unjust that, having denied performing even a
single one, I would prefer not discussing them. I will tell you, how
ever, that I was repeatedly asked to perform acts of high treason
against the United States of
America,
and I mention that so that you have a barometer by which to measure
the severity of the things I was asked to do. Again, if you would
like to know more, I will oblige. It is, how ever, subject matter I
feel best not discussing. Later, when Ruth gave birth to our twin
daughters on Independence Day of nineteen eighty, another phone call
came in which it was suggested that if I kept refusing to do the
favors asked of me by some of the men I had met in England, I might
live to regret it. And very shortly after that, Ruth was murdered in
our home and ... our daughters were abducted. A suspiciously shortened
investigation stated that a neighbor hood punk had been the one to
carry out the murder but it offered no explanation for the abduction
and absolutely no motive what so ever. A note was found nailed to
Ruth's back which read, "Your daughters will make fine test
subjects. Do not search for them or they will fall to the same fate
as your bitch."¯
(Edison
pauses then, staring out the only window in the interview room, then
adds:)
No neighbor hood punk kid would leave that kind of note.
(He pauses again, remaining silent for nearly five
minutes. I ask him if we should end this particular portion of the
interview process. He answers no, leans for ward against the table,
looks me directly in the eyes, and continues)
It only took me forty eight hours to figure out who
murdered my wife and kidnapped our daughters. Oh, it took me nearly
two years to track down all of the accomplices involved, but once I
did ...
(He pauses yet again, and this time I swear I felt his
stare reaching inside my soul. Then he continues)
I became more than just the protector of my wife and
daughters. I became ... an unrelenting, merciless beast.
Jessie
Dalton: Would it be
accurate to call that calculated vengeance?
Edison
Adams: (Edison
maintains silence for more than a minute, returning his gaze to the
window before continuing) It would be more than fair to call it
that.
Jessie
Dalton: After you
committed your first murder of an Illuminati member, what was the
emotional effect? What happened to you in the days right after that?
Edison
Adams: I will admit
here that I found a feeling of indestructibility that seemed to
envelope me in the immediate days following the first murder. I had
left home any how, and headed straight to England
to begin the hunt for every one involved in the murder of my wife
and the disappearance of my daughters. I had vowed silently to go to
any lengths to track down my little girls, even if doing so led to
my own death. As for those involved in killing my wife, the
exhilaration of having slaughtered an actual Illuminati member made
it that much easier to go ahead with hunting and killing thousands
more.
Jessie
Dalton: You had not
known that you were capable of such savageness before that?
Edison
Adams: Oh, I always
knew it, even from my first memories as a child. I had just never
used it with such ferocity before, so I was a bit unaware of the
totality of what I was capable of.
Jessie
Dalton: Outside these
walls, the new government has decided to allow access to you to more
than one hundred reporters and they all desperately want to talk to
you. Yet you chose me to tell your story, for which I feel honored.
I must tell you that. During our last phone conversation you
mentioned that there were a number of warnings you wanted to issue
to every living person on Earth. Would you like to get into all of
that right now or do you want to cover other subjects first?
Edison
Adams: I think that
would be a line of subject material that would be better suited for
the latter portions of our interviews. What your readers need to
know first, as sort of a prologue, are all the details that lead up
to how the world got to where it is today.
Jessie
Dalton: Okay. What do
you think your life might have been like had your parents not been
killed in the accident and if you had never discovered the
Illuminati plans?
Edison
Adams: As I stated
before, because of some of the choices I had made as an adolescent
and then as a teenager, I am quite sure my life would have taken a
far worse turn than it did. Finding out about the Illuminati did not
have very much effect on that aspect. For me, the damage had already
been done for quite a while before all of that.
Jessie
Dalton: I need to ask
the obvious question here, while I still have the nerve to do it. As
far as the families of your victims are concerned, is there any
thing you would say to the children who you left without fathers?
Edison
Adams: As a matter of
fact, I think this would be an appropriate time to do just that.
From here on out, until the end of this reply, consider what I say
to be a verbatim approach I want to convey to those children.
(The interview room door opens then. An orderly dressed in
United States Air Force olive drab uniform enters, replaces the
empty coffee pot with a fresh one, checks Edison's
restraints and the bars covering the window, and then leaves. Edison
continues. Because of this brief interruption I choose to transcribe
all of Edison's
reply from here on in quotations)
To the children of my four thousand, two hundred and
fifty six victims, I feel no further obligation.
Jessie
Dalton: Do you feel any
remorse for the things you did?
Edison
Adams: Not at all.
Jessie
Dalton: One of the
murders you committed was that of William Winthorpe Weston
Rothschild. Many governmental leaders now consider that to have been
the murder that sparked the Illuminati to increase the pace of their
plans for total global domination. The new Prime Minister of
Australia has said publicly that if the Illuminati had not been
forced to speed things up, they might well have adopted a
"domination by governance" approach to global government. He has
been quoted as saying that your actions are the direct cause for the
Illuminati to alter their plans and start mass incineration of
millions of people. A case could be made for you having caused
global genocide by instigation of the Illuminati. Is there any thing
you would like to say in response to such claims?
Edison
Adams: Yes, there is.
To any one who might think or feel that way, I will tell you right
here, right now, that the mass slaughter of perhaps one billion
people by the Illuminati is no thing compared to what they had
planned. They admit in their own writings that they had every
intention of exterminating more than ninety per cent of the
population of planet Earth. They stated openly that their plan
included exact start and end dates and what was to be accomplished
by a given time in a highly calculated time line. Part of that time
line included building gas chambers in what they planned to call
"emergency centers"¯throughout the world, which they actually began
building in America
as far back as the nineteen seventies. Race specific biological
weapons were devised, cultivated, and stored for use against whole
sections of society, which is to say that their plans included mass
aerial dispersal of biological weapons designed to affect certain
races while leaving others unharmed. This would have made it
possible to exterminate large portions of people considered to be
unfit for life in the coming new age, under the emerging global
government they were erecting. Entire races were targeted for
extinction. The remaining population was then to be forced into
highly dense mega cities that the Illuminati called, in their own
publicly available documents, human habitats. Following the near
total destruction of society, the final stages were to have put into
place ... a global tyranny over the masses, ruled by the very few.
Humanity would have ended, having been replaced by an eternal
serfdom. No savior was to arrive in the nick of time to rescue the
human species. No armada of extraterrestrial craft was to whisk the
survivors to safety. And no return to individual freedom would ever
be tolerated. In short, man kind would have been caged for all
eternity in over crowded mega cities, and any individual found to
have been speaking out against the new global government would have
been executed with out benefit of a trial ... on television ... before a
live audience. All of these claims were published and made available
for the public, so as to identify the point at which those plans
could be put in to operation. The Illuminati had always expected
waves of opposition to their plans ... even revolt ... but they
published their plans none the less, as the means by which to gauge
the point at which an acceptable level of opposition would not
inhibit the execution of those very plans to exterminate nearly
every living person on Earth. So, to say that I am some how
responsible for the Illuminati having sped up their plans for global
genocide is to blame me for having carried out the Illuminati's
plans. That would be both unfair and untrue. My actions,
slaughtering thousands of members of the Illuminati, directly led to
portions of their plans to be executed, but at a much more
diminished rate than that which they, them selves, stated was their
own intent. They wanted more than nine out of every ten living
humans to die. Yet my actions caused their plans to go awry,
guaranteeing failure and ensuring the survival of more than five
billion people. I can do only that. I can not ensure the safety of
any one, including my own self. That much is up to you. And it is
with that statement that I remind you all that, to remain safe and
free, you must carry on where I left off. You must be the sword of
vengeance now. The time for action is now over, for me. You must
stand on your own now, and be your own savior. This is your
time. What ever tomorrow brings, it must be made to ensure the gift
of individual freedom, which is the most precious of all gifts you
can give your selves. From this day forward, mankind's destiny lies
with in his own grasp, not in the iron clutches of tyrants, not in
the ambiguous teachings of religious zealots masquerading as
leaders, not in the scars of history. Your future lies ahead,
awaiting your direction of it. Stand this day and conquer those who
would, if given the chance again, obliterate freedom. For the good
of all man kind, show no mercy in destroying what remains of the
Illuminati. By doing so, you will guarantee the brightest of all
possible futures for your selves as well as for all of those whose
futures are not yet written. It will be a future free of tyranny. It
will be unwritten until you decide how it will be written. And it
will be yours for ever.
Jessie
Dalton: (Now it is me
who pauses. Edison's
reply brings tears to my eyes, and for a long moment I am too choked
up to utter a sound. When I finally do suffocate the overwhelming
charge of emotion, I continue, but not with out a hint of passion in
my tone) Do you think the punishment fits the crime, as the saying
goes, in your case?
Edison
Adams: Yes. In my case,
yes. For every individual who follows after me, how ever, I feel
they should not suffer any punishment at all. The world needs to be
freed from the control of the Illuminati once and for all. And if
that means the savage murder of all remaining Illuminati members by
the people they worked for millennia to enslave ... so be it.
Jessie
Dalton: There is a
tremendous sense of hero worship among the general public all around
the world regarding the things you have done. I am well aware that
you have access to television and the internet, so you must already
know all about that. Do you draw strength from the fact that
billions of people across the globe now consider you to be some
thing of a defender of the human species?
Edison
Adams: What I draw
strength from now is the beautiful fact that, for once, the human
family is able to decide its own fate, free from the global reach of
a scant few thousand who have made all of the decisions for man kind
for the past several thousand years. If the human family should
decide that being controlled by tyrants and return the globe to
Illuminati rule, then that is their choice. But now, for the first
time in human history, it is the free choice of the people to make
on their own. And for that alone ... I will never apologize.
