GOSPEL OF JOHN OF THE SECOND COMING

GOSPEL OF JOHN OF THE SECOND COMING

The Gospels

Etymology

The word gospel derives from the Old English god-spell (rarely godspel), meaning "good tidings" or "good news". The Greek word "euangelion" is also the source of the term "evangelist" in English. The authors of the four canonical Christian gospels are known as the four evangelists.

ULRICH AND THE LEGEND OF "LADY KILLER"

Most of you know about the coming of Ulrich the masculist anti-hero, a legendary figure both good and bad who is often called the vampire/feminist slayer, but who hard-core anti-feminists and misogynists dare simply call: "the feminist slayer". You all know about his betrayal as a child, how he was abandoned by his mother, searched all his life for his father and, when he found him and had a chance for atonement, how his mother savagely killed him, robbing him thereby of any chance of a fraction of a normal life.

This "evangelion" is about the beginning of his lifelong quest for revenge, how Ulrich wanting to avenge his father and punish his mother found himself first simply incapable of doing so, and had to enlist the help of "Lady Killer" to do it for him. It is about familiarizing you with the legend of "Lady Killer" and knowing more about this rare brand of man, the misogynist with morals and with a conscience: the one who knows his nature, motivation and limitations.

So, here we are with Ulrich, now seventeen, trying to avenge his father but incapable to do so. As we recall, it is a common motif in Greek tragedy to have the son killing his mother to avenge his father, but Ulrich found himself incapable to do it at the crucial moment. He had planned to torture her, have her admit her guilt, and then kill her. The first part of the plan went well: her abduction and confinement to a room, but he could go no further than that.

It is useful here to know that Ulrich, although an Oriental by birth, was no different than any Western normal boy or grown man. He could hit another man but would hesitate to strike a woman, just as any normal man, due to this century old male programming of the "code de chevalerie" stating that the function of a man is to protect women, not hurt them, even with a rose. So, a man confronting a woman will always have this second of hesitation before acting, and if the woman is sexy and adopt a seductive pose, he will have several seconds of this hesitation or more that might prove fatal to him. Most women will capitalize on that in real life.

So, here we are with Ulrich hesitating, trying to come to term with this chivalry code that says never to hurt a woman (particularly his mother), even if she deserves it, and not able to bring himself to act. What a pity! No, not really, then he realizes immediately that he needs help and does not fall into the trap of false pride. The maximum efficacy principle commands him that he gets help, and he does not hesitate and does just that. Contrary to what certain quick judgers may think, this shows character! An honest evaluation: he cannot do it, a prudent search for help (he knows the man by reputation), and he places the call. "Lady Killer" answers.

"Lady Killer" is a misleading name, then the man, George, never killed a woman in his whole life (except in self-defense). He interrogated them though and tortured them to extract information. He freelanced for several intelligence- and security agencies for years as an adviser, and even worked for the American Army, always in the same field: the extraction of information and torture. What normal soldiers could not do to women, he did, and what the most callous of CIA interrogators could never even unofficially sanction, he performed for them with cold detachment and an exquisite skill. Some of them could not even bear to watch the videos after. Let us note that all his four masterpieces performed over a period of ten years for the American Army and intelligence community were duly taped, and that a deputy director insisted to have two copies of a DVD de luxe edition engraved for his private collection.

To sum it up about "Lady Killer" George, let's say that:

1- his interrogation methods always left permanent scars (he didn't believe in interrogation methods that leave no trace),

2- torture for him serves two purposes (gathering information and punishing the person), therefore there must always be pain,

3- he had to be convinced of the guilt of a person beyond any doubt, before accepting to perform an interrogation and torture

4- he refused dozens of assignments, because the proof against these women was not substantial enough, sometimes circumstantial at best,

5- he personally performed only four interrogations in the ten years he was active for the Army and the intelligence community, all of which were masterpieces and much talked about,

6- he broke all four women and they talked. They wore permanent scars of the interrogation that wouldn't heal even more than ten years after it was done. All four survived, but were diminished.

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Lady Killer George was threatened by a woman once, holding a gun at
him. He just told her: <<if you shoot that gun, be sure not to
miss>>. <<Or what!>> she replied in squeezing the trigger. The
distance between them being right (less than three meters) he
sidestepped the line of fire and hit her at the base of the neck.
She fell.

They said later that he was so fast he could dodge a bullet. This is
of course an exaggeration. Nobody is faster than a bullet! He just
was faster than her pulling that trigger, that's what, and could get on time out
of her line of fire, giving him ample opportunity to come closer and
overpower her.

He repeated that feat several times in his remaining years. Once, he
told the person not to miss, otherwise he would kill her. It didn't
dissuade her however. So, the same thing happened: he side stepped
her, grabbed the gun and hit her as hard he could. She was gasping for
air before she died. Her face was blue.

Now is time for the depiction of Lady killer's first interrogation of a criminal woman for the CIA. This was his first mandate for a torture/interrogation session to be performed for the intelligence community ever. Being a freelance and having refused several times to be on the payroll of any agency, he negotiated thereafter each job separately and carefully: mandates, he called them.
Over the years he built quite a reputation as an adviser in the field of extraction of information and torture. The four masterpieces he performed for the American intelligence community have become classics and are now required reading and viewing for all would be interrogators in several intelligence agencies all over the world.

These four interrogations, we will examine closer now. The first one may be called "The Jar", it was the interrogation of a famous traitor, murderer and assassin, an ex-CIA agent called Nina Meyers.

INTERROGATION #1

NINA MEYERS, CODE NAME OF OPERATION: THE JAR

As we said, his interrogation methods always left permanent scars. For him, torture served two purposes: gathering information and punishing the person. To perform adequately, he believed the interrogator had to be convinced of the guilt of the person beyond any doubt before accepting to torture, otherwise he should refuse the assignment. He may need an assistant but should always do the dirty part himself.

The Nina Meyers' case was his first interrogation of a criminal woman for the CIA and one where he had absolutely no scruple hurting or destroying the person in the process. He broke her, she talked and wore permanent scars of this interrogation that wouldn't heal even ten years after, when specialists examined her again shortly before her death. She had survived the interrogation, but was permanently diminished.

When he first met Nina, nobody at the agency knew what to do about her. She was responsible for the death of at least 12 field agents, had killed the wives, children and relatives of some analysts and field agents. Some men in the agency had lost their partner, their best friends, wife or children. She had produced an incredible amount of damage, being a deep mole and triple agent (seemingly working for all sides at once), she had sold secrets that were bound to cost the lives of dozen others overseas. Not being enough, she escaped twice from custody, killing one warden and two security guards the first time when she was moved from one prison to another detention facility. The second time she managed to kill a nurse, two security guards and severely wounded the female doctor who was operating on her, when she damaged an artery in a failed suicide attempt. To sum it up: a highly trained, very dangerous woman. She even managed to slit the throat of her attorney with a plastic card she had smuggled in, the poor man barely survived the attempt.

So, no one could interrogate her because, no one in the agency could remain objective in view of what she had done. Some wanted to kill her, there was an incredible amount of hatred directed against her by her former coworkers, and to make matters worse: she was a woman. If she had been a man, nobody would have had a problem to rough him up, even kill him in his prison cell disguising it as an accident, but she was a woman, and it was the first time that something like that happened in an American agency, ever! So they had to call someone from outside to deal with this, someone special, someone who could deal with women in a certain way, without scruple. Someone who could torture and extract information, but who could also be dumped if anything went wrong. Someone with no official ties with them, that allowed them deniability and that they could sacrifice at the first sign of trouble: Lady Killer!

When he first met Nina, he was well prepared, had read the file several times. What stroke him at first is that, after all she had done, she wore no marks of bad treatment, no scars, she was whole, didn't missed a body part. The only visible scars she wore were on her back, where traces of some whip lashes (five maybe six by the looks of them) were still visible. Apart from that she was unharmed, with no marks of any visible injury. She could walk, run, and was otherwise very physically fit. He told her so and added that in view of what she had done, it was hardly fair. She laughed.

<<So, you think it's not fair that they have not harmed me that much yet and tortured me!>>

<<Yes, I do, and I'm here to remedy that.>>

He then proceeded to explain what he would do.

<<You will not leave here intact>>, he told her. <<You will be missing some body parts. But I am no thief, I am an honest man. So, everything I will take from you , I will put it in that jar filled with alcohol. When I am finished with your interrogation, I will give you the jar with all your body parts. Everything I take, I will give back to you. You will not miss a thing, this is my pledge!>>.

The first day, he asked some routine questions. She refused to answer. He then proceeded to explain the rules: <<every time you refuse to answer, I cut something>>. He then turned to his assistant <<Sedate her!>>. While she was out, he cut both index fingers of both hands and put them in the jar. So, the next time they met, she was missing two fingers. He had not picked the index fingers at random, then she had killed some of her victims with a gun. He just made sure that she could never pull a trigger again. He told her that, she flew into a rage!

When he was finished with the interrogation two weeks later and gave her the "Jar" that belonged to her, there were two fingers in it, the two big toes of both feet, one ear, the left eye surgically removed, four canine teeth and all her hair that had been put in a plastic bag. When they were about to cut her nose, she broke and told them everything. She was broken, but still full of hate. She told him:

<<Curses on you! I will find you and kill you!>>. But she never made good on her threat, he never heard about her again until the agency notified him years later that she was dead.

INTERROGATION #2

The legend continues.

MANDY PATTERSON, CODE NAME OF OPERATION: DESTROY THE BEAUTY

The interrogation of Mandy Patterson, the Lady hitman, or better hitwoman that killed her boyfriend in cold blood and four others the night they captured her is the second of the legendary Lady Killer George torture/interrogations sessions performed for the intelligence community. She and Nina Meyers appeared as fictional protagonists in the American television series 24, the spy series starring Kiefer Sutherland with names slightly changed and basic characteristics modified. But both women really existed, like so many out of the ordinary individuals in the intelligence community that were turned into fictional characters for the entertainment industry over the years, because reality overtakes fiction most of the time.

An interesting thing, the fictional agency of the TV show, CTU (counter-terrorist Unit) that brags to have so efficient interrogation methods never came close in efficiency and atrocity to the real interrogation sessions of Lady Killer performed for the CIA and the NSA at the beginning of the years 2000. The American public would never have accepted the depiction of the kind of torture that was actually performed at one NSA facility one night (because the CIA bluntly refused to have it done at Langley or any CIA compound, although they were just as involved as the NSA in the Mandy case). Compared to this, waterboarding is a piece of cake! So, the American public has no idea of the extreme to which an interrogator can go to punish a subject and make her talk. Mandy had had liaisons with foreign terrorists abroad (which made her subject to CIA's scrutiny and jurisdiction) and performed assassination missions and planned terrorist attacks on American soil (which made her a legitimate target of the NSA).

Her capture presented special circumstances, so they had to call Lady Killer in all haste to perform the preliminary interrogation that was to be kept of course "off the record". Lady Killer's presence on the compound was even put off the manifest: deniability! There was first this conflict of jurisdiction and the fact that she had killed a federal agent in a hostage situation that night. So, no interrogator on the CIA or NSA payroll could remain objective and handle the case properly in such circumstances.

Let's say that first, when they located her and were about to move on her, she was tipped off somehow. She shot her boyfriend in the back to prepare an hasty escape plan that failed. Then she went to her neighbours, took them hostage and tried something else to secure an escape route, but it failed again. In the process, she succeeded in capturing a federal agent, but when her plan crumbled like a house of cards, she shot him in the head out of frustration. The result was five dead: the boyfriend, a family of three and the SWAT team policeman (more precisely a federal agent that had been lent as a consultant to this SWAT unit and was at the wrong place at the wrong time). Of course nobody knew what to do about her, because she was a woman, no interrogator was ready for a preliminary meeting with the prisoner, they needed someone outside: Lady Killer.

Upon arrival on the scene, George saw that the young lady on holding was athletic. She was sexy with sexy clothes, short skirt and all. He noted this coldly. Apart from her nose that was still bleeding slightly (she was hit on the face during her capture) he noted that she had a cute face with beautiful features. <<Ha, ha, her weapon, beauty>> he nodded silently. He turned to agent Jet Storm who had been attached to him as liaison officer: <<turn off the cameras and listening devices>>.

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<<You killed five people tonight>> he began to say to her, <<and you know what makes me sick? You killed your boyfriend just after having made love to him>>.

She lift her head only slightly, she was barely looking at him. <<Go to hell!>>, she replied!

<<Oh, you'll have to do much better than that! Do you know why I'm here?>>. He raised his voice <<Do you know why I'm here? I am here to punish you. This is no routine interrogation, you can believe that! By the way, my name is George>>.

She looked at him intensely, with much hatred it seemed, but she managed to smile: <<So, you're the sicko who mutilated Nina Meyers! You call that interrogation? They didn't know what to do with me, so they called you, right?>>. She was jubilant now, she had seen through him and thought she had reversed the situation, but her triumph was short lived.

<<You may be right in this instance Miss Patterson, but you just revealed two things to me and made a big mistake.>>

<<And what is that, Mr. Smartass?>>

<<You just confirmed our suspicion that you had an inside source somewhere in the federal building, either NSA or CIA. You were tipped off of our coming to your apartment building tonight and you know about Nina Meyers. Don't worry, we will find your source.>>

<<Is that all?>>

<<That is enough. Never give freely any information to an interrogator, however irrelevant! You made a big mistake>>.

She was defiant now: <<you will never get anything out of me! You can stick a knife in my vagina, cut my belly open, I will never talk!>>.

That cold smile of his told her she had made another mistake: <<we'll see, but thanks for the suggestion!>>. He sat on the edge of the chair now, hands held together, looking at the floor... <<You know miss Patterson, you got a cute face, and a nice body of course, and nice legs by the way! The more I think about it, it is that angel face that is your most dangerous weapon. So, obviously, we will have to do something about that!>>

<<So, you will rearrange my face you bastard, you will do to me what you've done to Nina Meyers! With a butcher knife? Hey, sicko, answer me! With a butcher knife is it?>>

<<Calm down! Nothing of the sort miss Patterson! What I will do to you will be minimal, just the right amount of cuts to take away that beauty in your face, nothing more! Probably less than nine cuts if can help it, and as little as four if I can produce the right effect with minimal enough damage.>>

<<So, you will cut away only four of my body parts, instead of fifty plus like you did with Nina?>>

<<You are exaggerating. As I did with Nina, I will tell you exactly what I am going to do beforehand. It is my pledge, you will know what to expect!. First, I will not touch the rest of your body, just your face. Second, there is an exception of course because you killed your boyfriend and all the others with a gun. I have to make sure you will never pull a trigger again for the rest of your life. So, both index fingers of both hands will be cut and put in a Jar. Contrary to Nina, it will be a very small Jar this time because of the fewer and smaller parts involved. After all is finished, I will give you the jar of course, just as I did with Nina. It is my pledge>>.

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Several hours later, they met again.

<<Are you ready to talk or do I have to cut?>>

<>, she said stubbornly. <>.

<<You are dreaming Lady, or you just watched too much TV!>>. He was amused. <<The only deal there is, is that you talk, or I'll cut; and it won't be with a butcher knife but with that fine assortment of precision surgical tools>>.

<>. She was all emotion now, screaming, shaking the chair she sat on, pulling violently at her restraints.

<<There will be no pardon and no offer, where do you think you are? You are in a secret detention facility for prisoners that do not exit! What happens here will never come out, so you better start to talk now. Do you know that if they decide to kill you, your body could be disposed of and completely disappear without a trace... within minutes. It's not only a detention facility, it's a processing plant as well... to make the enemy disappear. It's amazing the equipment they got on site! They are even in league with an environment firm, and it may comfort you that your nice body will be recycled and be useful to us all. You bones and tissues will help grow things in the earth: plants, flowers, even vegetable. I may eat part of you in my next sandwich, you know I put some salad, red onions, tomato slices, salted pork in that sandwich, and as a fertilizer powder, you might help grow some of the food I'll eat in the future>>.

<<Stop it, you are insane! I don't believe anything you say, sicko! I want a Presidential pardon and I want it now, I will never talk otherwise.>>

<<You don't get it, do you? I am duty bound to try to make you talk, that is my pledge and my oath, but if you don't, it will suit me perfectly; then I will get free reign to exact vengeance and make you pay: and that's the part I like! By the way, I read your file, do you know I never take an assignment without being convinced 100% of the guilt of the person? In your case it was easy, you're guilty as hell Mandy, and you will pay!>>.

<<And what if I'll talk?>>

<<Then, sadly enough, I cannot touch you! Our conversation will be recorded, a secretary will come in and write down everything you say, and you can cut a deal... afterwards. They will then decide what to do with you: prison time, relocation, you can even write to the President, but after you'ved talked, not before>>.

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<<I can't, even if I want to! I am an outside consultant, I don't fit anywhere in the chain of command: I am no police, I am not officially employed by any agency, and I'm not DOD either. I'm a freelance with limited influence and some access, that's all. It is true I got a reputation in the milieu, but my access is still limited: I'm quite low in the food chain you know!! I never talked to the President or to the big ones on top, so I can't help you there. I repeat, you watch too much TV>>.

<>

<<Enough of this! I will not lose anymore of my time trying to explain things to you. I'm through being nice! Now here is how it will go down: I will not destroy your face, as I told you before, I will merely remove the cuteness out of it. You will never be attractive again, your beauty will be gone permanently as a weapon. Also, I will leave your body quite functional, you will only lose both index fingers of both hands to make you pay for the murders. As I said, you'll be quite functional, you'll still have full use of four of your five senses, and you'll be able to work and live a somewhat normal life. Not so great a punishment, if you'll ask me!>>

<<Agent Jet storm, we will have to sedate her, could you check her restraints, please!>>.

<<Now Mandy, as I promised, I will tell you in advance exactly what I'm going to do, before I do it. Just like I did with Nina Meyers! It will be a three steps approach this time. To destroy your beauty, I had to make some research last night and think about what really makes a woman's face attractive. And I came with this: your hair, the nice lips, the cute nose, beautiful eyes: the impression of beauty, the physical attraction is created by the combination of all these elements. So, to destroy this beauty, I will have to remove a few of these elements, maybe just one, and your beauty will be gone forever! But there is plastic surgery nowadays, and they could eventually repair what I destroy. So, just to be on the safe side and be sure that they will never be able to make you whole again, I will have to remove three things instead of one.

Three elements among others make you beautiful, and those gone would destroy your beauty: your teeth, your nose and your lips. Without your fore teeth, that beautiful smile of yours would be gone, your nose cut would leave an ugly hole in the middle of your face, and with your lips gone: no more tender kisses! So, I will take out the four fore teeth: the two upper- and the two lower. Your nose will be cut at such an angle that will make any re-attachment through surgical replacement impossible and your lips: well, they will be removed surgically with a special scalpel of mine, a rare antiquity, Solingen steel, you know!>>

<<Agent Storm, let the nurse in and the medical team that accompanies her. We got an operation to perform>>

The scalpel had cut only slightly on the edge of her mouth as she managed to scream:

<<Stop, stop it, I will talk! I'll do anything, but please stop...>>. She was sobbing and shaking all over, tears running abundantly.

Lady killer never knew if it was his persuasive talk earlier or the fact that he showed her those photos of Nina Meyers just before beginning the first cut, but she was broken now. She talked, told them everything! One of those in charge of the project met with him and told him he could have talked to the President and have negotiated the Presidential pardon if he would have asked them. He told him that his opinion carried much more weight than he thought, but he didn't allow George to cut Mandy's index fingers. That was the end of it: mission accomplished!

Mission accomplished perhaps, but it did leave a trace of dissatisfaction. Then this was a mere psychological victory without permanent physical scars, and he would have liked so much to cut these index fingers personally! This was perhaps breaking the tradition, but the victory was so overwhelming and the fact that she was broken for life helped him accept to leave it at that!

INTERROGATION # 3

The case of Lina Lubianka

CODE NAME OF OPERATION: 200 FRIENDS

<<Well, if you persist in refusing to talk, I will have to let my friends in>>

<<That suits me perfectly, I always wanted to know your friends darling!>> She was still defiant and making fun of him. She had made a mockery of the interrogation so far, and wrongly believed that she was scoring points. The reason for her carelessness is that all her life she had succeeded in manipulating men, effortlessly: it was so easy, and she had never met before someone like him, with such a serious intent. She simply didn't believe he would make good on his threats.

He had been nice as always and thorough. He patiently explained for two hours was he was going to do and why. He couldn't fail but notice that she was not at all impressed, she looked bored and her pose suggested amusement and contempt. <<The merrier>>, he thought by himself, she will start to panic when she realizes that I really meant what I said, and sees it actually happen!

<<OK, I'll let my 200 friends in>>

<<Two hundred>>. The warden next to him was incredulous: <<But Sir, the cell is only five meters long, you can't let so many people in>>

<<Who's talking about people? Bailiff, let the cages in!>>

And they brought three big boxes that were revealed as cages:

<<Gentlemen>>, he said to the attendants <>.

As soon as he opnened the first cage, they rushed at her.

<<Take these things off me! Aaagh....!>>

The subsequent medical examination revealed that most attacks took place around the waist, the trunk part of the body. There were numerous bite marks on the hips, the belly and especially the buttock. Those two large fleshy masses were a mess, and when the rats had been done with it (some had to be removed by force, they were still biting and wouldn't let go), what remained was like a large unappetizing steak. Rotten flesh rather!

Lina was in a state of shock, but they rescued her on time and she didn't turn cataleptic. She talked, and that's what matter! The post-traumatic manifestations don't concern us: loss of sleep, nightmares, uncontrolled shaking sessions or fits. One of the benefit of it all is that she completely lost that arrogant countenance.

INTERROGATION # 4

The case of Susan Mordente

CODE NAME OF OPERATION: MESS WITH THE MIND

She was a very sexy item, although not anymore in her prime. This very hot Italian woman of 35 emanated such a volutuous quality about herself that one can talk about a paradisiac aura that could entice any man. Any man but Lady Killer!

In fact, this <<object of desire>> was just another case for him. He was very aware of the emanations, but also of other emanations of DANGER. Upon first meeting with her and after a minimal introduction, he immediately explained what he wanted, the cost of her silence, how far he was prepared to go and, after he made the necessary threats, waited for her answer.

Silence fell. He was comfortable in silence, waiting, assuming nothing, not for hoping anything, quiet, listening to the silence, relaxed, opened in all sides, like a master swordsman in happo biraki. She was bound to make her move, he was in no hurry. Who would brake this silence? She did not give in, so he closed the session. The next meeting would be decisive, then he still didn't have figured out how he would break her. Every interrogation is different, and he didn't want to do the same things he had done in the first three. He wanted something entirely new, a psycholgical approach this time.

She had been sitting in the room for quite some time. Upon entering, he walked directly to her and gagged her with a piece of masking tape. She struggled violently in her restraints.

<<I'll do the talking this time>>, and he proceeded to explain in length that to get her confession, he was ready to hurt or destroy everything she loved: her lover, husband, child, brothers and sisters, friends, her parents, even her pet animals (cats and dog). If she loved things better than people, it was just as well. He would destroy her career and all her possessions: house, money, car, and personal belongings. He was ready to destroy everything to make her talk and, if she was like other women and liked herself more than anything else, he was ready to hurt her. Being totally selfish like most women, she cracked at the mention of permanent damage inflicted to herself and he didn't even have to use the blow torch.

All is well that ends well, and after completing such legendary missions, Lady Killer well deserves his place in the Hall of Fame of interrogators.