Justification For Killing (4 page)

“
What the... ANHUR! Is it
you? Is it actually you?”

“
Yes, Captain Scarburg my
old comrade, it is me, Anhur indeed,” the diminutive fellow
replied.

Anhur and the Captain had
known each other over forty years since their chance meeting at a
place named Pac Toul in the jungles of Cambodia in 1967 during the
U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. By his appearance he obviously
was not an American – Anhur was a foreigner. He was not even a
European, in fact, he was not even human - he was an
extraterrestrial!!

Yes, a spaceman, a space
being, a visitor from another planet, a planet by the name of
Sunev, located in the Constellation of Orion. Yes, he was indeed a
foreigner, a real foreigner.

Anhur was one of the ‘good
guys’. Although Pac Toul was the first place the Scarburgs were
introduced to him, he has since befriended most all the members of
their family at one time or another. He was instrumental in
preventing the crash of an airplane carrying a SCAR team that
included brothers Bud and Forrest and their sister Olive Marie as
they were on their way to an archeological site in Mexico. And he
was there to give support to Lou and Gabby when SCAR had an
eventful expedition in Egypt.

“
Anhur, I never got to
thank you for saving that planeload of passengers bound for Mexico
back in 2005. Especially I thank you for my grandchildren Bud,
Forrest and Olive Marie who were on that flight.”

Grandpa Scarburg had a
total of five grandchildren. They all worked for SCAR. Forrest was
the oldest. Born July 14, 1984, a year before brothers Lou and Bud
and sister Gabrielle. They were all born July 25, 1985, triplets,
yeah, - triplets. Olive Marie, five years younger, was born July 8,
1990. July was a fantastic birthday month for those youngsters.
Their Mom Krista and Dad Robert, with all the children’s birthday’s
hitting them at the same time, did not quite see it that
way.

Robert Edward Scarburg,
III, also know as ‘Trey’ and his wife Krista took advantage of it
though and lumped all their children’s birthday celebrations into
one large to-do. The children felt like Papa Scarburg (the
Captain’s father) sometimes - his birthday was the 29th of
December. He would insist his family not combine his birthday with
Christmas, and they didn’t. Papa Scarburg always had a cake, and of
course, more presents for him on ‘his day’. Bud, Lou, Olive Marie
and Forrest had no such clout. They always had a collective
birthday party.

Anhur continuing with his
story to the Captain explained that after the airplane incident,
his Sunev leaders thought long and hard about his, as the Captain
said, involvement with that plane. Its destiny was to crash and,
yes as it is now known, Anhur intervened and prevented the
disaster. He detailed how the leaders on Sunev believe when fate is
preordained in an event on Earth, all leaders and workers alike are
specifically ordered not to intercede. There were no orders given
for Anhur to interfere, and he knew the rules, but he interjected
himself into the fate of the Mexico flight anyway. Disobedience to
the rules by workers was punishable by death.

Anhur continued to explain
in more detail. He said on Sunev they have two classes of beings:
leaders and workers. The workers have only one duty, and that duty
is to take orders from the leaders and obey these orders without
questioning why. He said on Sunev they do not even have the word
‘why’ in their vocabulary. Orders are to be followed by the
workers. Anhur was a worker. He knew the aircraft’s ultimate fate
was to plunge into the murky depths of the churning sea below. He
was not personally ordered to do so, and was not at... at...
struggling for the right word said, liberty, yes the word he used
was ‘liberty’, to change the Mexican bound airplane’s
fate.

Anhur explained to the
Captain it was a mistake he appeared on the Mexican flight, and in
doing so referred to Captain Scarburg as his dear friend. He
explained further that ‘Friend’ was another word that was not known
on Sunev; there the leaders are leaders and workers are, well, what
he called them - simply workers. Anhur noted to the Captain that he
had learned to appreciate and honor that word since he had met the
Captain and his family.

“
Friend’, my dear Captain
is such a beautiful word. A word you Earthlings should love and
cherish.”

Trying to explain himself
Anhur told Captain Scarburg he simply could not allow the Captain’s
family members to die such a horrific death, and he did not. But
after the plane was safely on the ground, he was ‘arrested’ by
Sunev ‘police’, returned to Sunev and subjected to a trial. He was
knocking on Death’s door when the Supreme Council had mercy and
spared his life. He had always wondered why. Today, Anhur said he
had found out their reason - they had another mission for
him.

After his exchange with
the Captain Anhur talked about the Zapruder film that Papa
Scarburg, the Captain, Spook and Tinker watched at Pac Toul. The
Zapruder film was a 26.6 second eight-millimeter home movie a man
by the name of Abraham Zapruder filmed in Dealey Plaza, Dallas,
Texas. He shot this film the day the attempt was made to
assassinate President Kennedy on November 22, 1963.

Dr. Spurgeon Loo Kim was a
CIA operative by the name of Spook. Using the Sp from Spurgeon; the
oo from Loo; and the K from Kim; Captain Scarburg’s Special Forces
A-team in Vietnam had given Dr. Kim the nickname “SPOOK.” It had
been suggested Papa Scarburg had a fetish: ‘to make a nickname of
everyone and everything!!’ It doesn’t stretch the imagination much
to see Papa Scarburg had a hand in selecting Spook’s name too. His
fingerprints are all over that one, but it has stuck to this day -
he is still known as ‘Spook’.

Tinker was Dr. Spurgeon
Kim’s wife and a former Taiwanese university student. Her given
name was Ling Lu – Papa Scarburg at work again.

A couple of other relevant
fact worth mentioning - Dr. Spurgeon Loo Kim had been one of the
Captain’s closest friends all those years and was also Sam Lin and
Si Lei’s older brother.

Continuing Anhur said to
the Captain, “As you watched the film of the attempted
assassination of your President John Kennedy you and the rest of
your group were totally amazed you had heard four weapons fired
instead of the three shots your history books have always reported
as facts. It was I Anhur who caused your President Kennedy’s life
to be spared.”

Shocked the Captain asked
Anhur to explain.

“
Notice I am carrying a
large black umbrella,” Anhur said snapping the device into an open
position.

“
Anhur, no! It is unlucky
to open an umbrella inside.”

“
What? Surely Captain you
make a funny statement?”

“
Just a silly superstition
Anhur... sorry, please continue.”

Anhur began by stating he
stood on the curb in Dealy Plaza in the city Dallas, Texas on that,
November 22, 1963, morning on the north side of Elm Street as
President Kennedy’s automobile drove by. A man, whom he later
identified as Abraham Zapruder, was standing on a concrete pedestal
behind and to his right taking moving camera pictures. He explained
how he opened this devilish same umbrella and held it high above
his head causing Mr. Kennedy to turn his head and look directly at
him. At that exact moment in time, the shooter on the roof of a
building fired a powerful weapon. The projectile missed.

Anhur continued, “This
weapon’s violent noise caused the government agent guarding your
man Kennedy to jump on the rear of the black motor vehicle just as
the assassin fired his weapon again. This second projectile struck
the government man in the back and wounded the President and your
state of Texas’s man Mr. Connally.

“
Almost at the same time,
another person located on the grassy area back behind the sidewalk
where I stood fired a large hand weapon. This projectile smashed
into the side of the President’s head, causing considerable injury,
but was not fatal. The shooter in the building fired once again,
but it was too far a distance, and the aim of the old military
weapon was faulty, he hit nothing. Again, that was my first attempt
at interfering in your world’s destiny and, obviously, I was not
particularly adept at it.”

“
Okay Anhur, let me see if
I understand... you opened your umbrella causing President John
Kennedy to turn his head to his right and look at you; next the
turning of his head caused the first shooter to miss. After that,
the gunman on the sixth floor fired the second shot and wounded the
Secret Service agent, the President and Governor Connally. Then a
shooter with a handgun fired from the Grassy Knoll a third shot,
which hit the side of President Kennedy’s head. Finally, the
assassin on the sixth floor fired the forth shot, missing his
target entirely. Is this the way it happened?”

“
Yes, that is the way I
believe the firing of your world’s primitive weapons at your
president happened, and the opening of my umbrella did cause your
President to turn his head, but the turning of his head was not
what caused the first shot to miss.”

“
Okay, I just have one
question - the first shot - what did it hit?”

“
It was the key to the
whole shooting attempt - when the assassin fired, the noise of the
first explosion caused the government man, who was guarding your
President, to jump on the back of the black vehicle, which put him
in the direct line of the projectile of the second man in
window.”

“
I’m following all this,
but what happened to the first gunman’s bullet?”

“
It hit a
pigeon!”

“
What? Did I hear you
correctly Anhur – the bullet hit a PIGEON?”

“
You are correct - I
cannot lie, we are not allowed to make these things up. Lying is
forbidden also!”

“
Okay... okay... all
right,” said the Captain. “If he shot a pigeon what happened to the
pigeon, it should have fallen from the sky onto the
street.”

“
It fell, not in the
street, but into the grassy park like area south of Elm Street. The
place you refer to as Dealy Plaza.”

“
You mean to tell me no
one saw a dead pigeon just suddenly fall out of the
sky?”

“
Oh yes, many people saw
the pigeon falling to the ground but the pigeon was not killed -
only wounded. Witnesses thought the pigeon just landed in the
grass.”

“
Okay, so the actual
turning of the President’s head did not cause the shot to miss,
right? You’re thinking your umbrella dance resulted in President
Kennedy to only receive wounds, right?”

“
Yes you are correct
Captain. Head turning did not cause the first shot to miss. The
first shot hit the pigeon. Whether this was due to my action, is
still not clear. At least at my trial, on Sunev, leaders were not
sure either, but they believed, and so do I that the President
turning his head caused the shooter in the bushes to hit only a
glancing shot to his head.

“
Remember my friend we
have the ability to travel back in time but are not allowed to
interfere with events taking place on your planet that would result
in one of your Earthling remaining alive that should have been
killed. Nor are we allowed to influence actions that result in dead
Earthlings being brought back to life. Either of these two events
can cause catastrophic results to your planet. My interference kept
one of your Earthlings alive who should have been killed - your
President, the one known as John F. Kennedy.

“
I knew my interference in
the crash of the airplane was prohibited. Our leaders knew I
prevented the plane from crashing, but it was learned Sunev had a
rogue leader that had determined to crash your family’s plane.
Sunev’s Supreme Command knew the plane was not destined to crash,
so I was not charged with saving lives in that action.

“
I admit, at the time, I
thought my actions in Dallas would result in the best outcome for
your country and the whole world. I was extremely selfish. I tried
to impose my own will on the shooting of your President Kennedy - I
was wrong - terribly, terribly wrong. The result is you now live in
the wrong Parallel Universe.”

“
What...Parallel
Universes? What in the devil are you talking about
Anhur?”

Anhur began to explain
that this world of Captain Scarburg had thousands, if not millions
of Universes running simultaneous and parallel to the one the
Captain currently lived in; however, this one may change within the
next few minutes, it is never known. He said Earthlings sometimes
know what causes the space/time continuum to shift, but most times
it just changes unnoticed - the Supreme Council had a name for
Captain Scarburg’s present universe, but that name was unimportant.
What was notable was the fact Anhur caused Earth to shift
Universes!! He knew exactly when the shift occurred – it was
precisely at 12:30 p.m. November 22, 1963, on the north side of a
place known as Dealy Plaza, in Dallas, Texas.

The Captain knew since
that fateful day in November 1963 the United States became involved
in a war, in Vietnam. This became bigger and bigger until it
mushroomed into a horrific war with the countries of Russia and
China. Back then it was referred to as the Viruchi War. A name
derived using Vi from Viet Nam, ru from Russia and the chi from
China. During the remainder of the 1960s and all of the 1970s, this
terrible war continued with massive loss of life to all the
participants. The dead and wounded were in the millions.