Accepted Murder

Chapter 4

Television lost its popularity during the war, which, inevitably, resulted in people missing out on important newscasts. Sometimes, depending on the situation, this could be a good thing, as much of the worlds new revolved around pointless wars between small countries, or the latest victim of the Law. Though, in other situations, it can be a very big mistake, like, for example, missing out on a major broadcast that could save multiple peoples’ lives.

Amazingly, and to nobody’s surprise, the government added a new clause to the Law. Though, many unfortunate people missed this addition because very few people owned a television set anymore, as anything and everything they could, or felt they could, need could be found on their compacts. (Small hand held devices that could reach internet, or television shows that they felt the need to catch up with. Somewhat what people called "smart phones" in the first and second decade of the 2000's. Though much more high tech, with batteries that lasted much longer.) though the compacts are incredibly handy, they contained one fatal flaw. They did not receive new information until two days after it’s released to the public. (This was done on purpose, however, as the computer companies did not want to be completely pushed out of business.)

The compacts' flaw could be potentially deadly to the right, or wrong, people. Especially when the clause that was added, was a special way to save more lives. Yes, the government wanted to reduce the population rates, but they also wanted to save their own asses. See, some government officials were stupid enough to have their bodyguards buy their protection rights. (Their egos wouldn't allow them to suffer buying their own paperwork.) what made this decision remarkably stupid, was the fact that the body guard who bought the Protection Papers did not have their own papers. (It wasn't covered in their insurance.) so, people would buy killing rights for said body guards, thus leaving the President or leader free from protection.

It took recent events with the Canadian leader for the worlds governments to realize this fact. And when they found out what these terrorist groups, as the government had come to call them, were up to, they called an emergency meeting to add some changes to the Law. They were in the meeting less than six hours before they'd come up with an agreement. It'd been the fastest agreement that the world had been able to come to in history. Sadly, this did make them feel much, much more powerful.

"A person who has bought Protection Papers may sell the Papers to the person who they are for, under certain circumstances. I.E. Kill rights have been placed on the holder of the papers. There is only one way to have them changed over, so that kill rights may not be placed. The legal holder of the Protection Papers must take his or her paperwork to the nearest Office. Then, once it has been confirmed that these are dire circumstances, the person may pass over ownership of the Protection Papers over to the person they are protecting.

“In the case of more than one person listed on the protection papers, the original keeper of them will choose a single person from the names on the paperwork, and that one person will become the new, legal, owner of the Protection Papers."

The US president spent hours planning the speech that he would release to the public, sadly, the public didn't even know he'd released it. Aside from those who couldn't afford new technology, of course. And even those who still had a television couldn't care less. Much of the world’s population would rather forget about the Law, that us, until they themselves needed it. On the Brightside to the news, much of the world was pleased to find that Paris Hilton and Joe Jonas had met their deaths, as they had had their body guards buy their protection papers. (Sadly, nobody knew how this was possible.)

"Where are we going to hide her?" Tom questioned his brother as they drove to the airport.

"Yeah, where are we going to hide her?" Gustav repeated.