They do it to the best of us.
One slip and they’ve got you.
I was given a plane ticket to Brussels.
My key card opened the door to a budget hotel and I found myself staring at a yellow board game like giant pamphlet.
With pictograms and propaganda.
Precise instructions with venues and my actions that I was to perform on each day of my one week mission.
Animal rights seminars.
Business conferences.
Social awareness meetings.
Talks on sustainability and climate change.
It was all meant to come across as innocuous and as an alternative way of thinking.
Things I was to say and do to turn the tide in their favour.
The banality of evil.
I decided I would not do it.
I would not allow myself to be compromised.
I could not be pressured,persuaded or paid off.
I took out my phone and began taking pictures of the giant board.
And then I noticed the camera pinned to the top of it.
They had been watching me ever since I opened the package.
I quickly covered my face with my black bandana,
But it was too late.
A video automatically played on my phone and
I saw the victims who refused.
And what was done to them.
All those lives ruined;
Important people reduced to homelessness.
Their disease ridden bodies slowly decaying from the inside.
I was already 3 days behind.
I found the days mission on the board and resigned myself to my fate.
At least the money was good.
