NationStates Jolt Archive


Forget terrorism! Erickson lives!

Lunatic Retard Robots
15-09-2003, 01:14
Today, in a bizarre turn of events in the city morgue, what some would call a miracle occured. Surrounded by mourners, at the center of the front lobby rested a bed, on which lay the corpse of the recently assassinated Forigen Minister Lief Erickson. It was surrounded by throngs of mourners and medical students. Out of the blue, trumpets sounded, mortifying the mourners. Soon after, a voice, accompained by various musical instruments started singing a familiar tune:

Stand up, all victims of oppression
For the tyrants fear your might
Don't cling so hard to your possessions
For you have nothing, if you have no rights
Let racist ignorance be ended
For respect makes the empires fall
Freedom is merely privilege extended
Unless enjoyed by one and all.

CHORUS:
So come brothers and sisters
For the struggle carries on
The Internationale
Unites the world in song
So comrades come rally
For this is the time and place
The international ideal
Unites the human race

Let no one build walls to divide us
Walls of hatred nor walls of stone
Come greet the dawn and stand beside us
We'll live together or we'll die alone
In our world poisoned by exploitation
Those who have taken, now they must give
And end the vanity of nations
We've one but one Earth on which to live

And so begins the final drama
In the streets and in the fields
We stand unbowed before their armour
We defy their guns and shields
When we fight, provoked by their aggression
Let us be inspired by life and love
For though they offer us concessions
Change will not come from above.

What nobody noticed, in the clamour that was the lobby, was that the eyes of the corpse had opened.

"Woah. What a dream. Wait....what the!?!"

In a body, the occupants of the morgue turned twoards the bed, to see the figure of Erickson, the scar about his neck still fresh, sitting up on the bed, humming along to the song. He then stands up, looks around, shrugs, and walks to work.

As you can guess, no plausible explanation has been formulated for this phenomena. Some of the wilder thinkers in LRR think that it has something to do with the dissappearance of the two crewmembers of the LRRSV Holzfeller, but there is not one shread of proof for anything.......

on the edge of the sol system, if anyone had been there to witness it, they would have seen sunlight glint off of pluto's frozen surface in a most unnatural manner. It formed a peace sign in the icy crust. In the void around pluto, a creature, more bizarre than anything anyone has ever even imagined, so bizarre it defies description, sits, chucling to itself.

"I think I'll enjoy my new walk of life."