The virgin & the bad boy (Gravity)

Chapter 16/In to the Rally of death

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Earth/North America/Salam Nothing-to-do-with-witch-burning-hall and community center ( no naked lights or pitchforks allowed inside ) 

We walked up the steps to an imposing columned entrance to a large public hall set in a red brick building.

"This is stupid. Dante if you get caught they will throw you back in jail." George pleaded as Dante sprang up the stone steps.

Dante turned round and looked at everyone.

"London rules" he said earnestly and walked away.

"London rules?" I said to George.

"You don't know him. He doesn't know you. Don't look at him. Pretend you're a stranger. If you see the police send a message and run we meet at the car" said George.

I was simultaneously excited and terrified... It seemed like old times again.

We walked into a luscious entrance hall with large black wooden door ways leading to the main theatre beyond.As we walked in a number of robots  offered leaflets.

I took one and scanned it 'During the great planetary exodus all the smart dynamic go getting people left planet earth to explore the universe leaving the dross of humanity, the tired, the poor, the huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched and the stupid behind'. I skimmed ahead 'this is why people's votes should be in proportion to an intelligence test they take before they vote' OK extreme but might be a good idea I thought. 'Sample questions When is Ronald Bentham's birthday?, Who did Ronald Bentham say really shot Kennedy....' ow guwd.

There was another one from a group called the austin flee convention. It would be hard to summarise their leaflet simply but lets just say their solution of the current economic crisis involved complex changes to the regulatory process, an immediate annexation of the moon - to restore Earthian pride, everyone on earth to be issued with a shovel and four paper bags and  finally something very unpleasant done with a goat. I didn't do fringe politics and now I knew why.

We walked in to hear the end of Don Kipperbatche's speech rebroadcast on speakers and robots in the entrance hall.

"We must enshrine the right to be an individual in the planet's constitution. We must not be under any circumstances copied. Now you do get some namely pamby bleeding hearts saying. 'oh what about identical twins' and I say DEATH TO IDENTICAL TWINS..."

Kipperbatche's speech was drowned out by a thunder of applause, eventually, it died down. Kipperbatche continued.

"I would say to these dumb ass idiots, that in the case of identical twins we just need to figure out which is the original and then delete the needless duplicate. If we can get a man on pluto this shouldn't be hard to figure out right? I'm just saying just like school home work there should be no copying, -and it's just as true with people as it is with school work. You see what people like Mallery can't quite figure out is that if you have too many clones on a planet they are going to take all the food and women from the real original people like you and me."

Now if he had said' like school homework, the plot of Lord of the rings and the speeches of Michelle Obama*, no copying' I might have agreed with him. 

I touched my earring 'This is like super crazy' I texted everyone speaking into my hand. Twins were the result of an early split there is no 'original' the whole thing didn't make any biological sense.