Submitted by Lachlan Plain on Thu, 04/05/2006 - 19:53.
Protagonist:
· Sixty-seven-year old fisherman.
· Carried out a small-scale trawling operation off the south coast of Australia until the fuel crisis of 2007.
· Lived off government benefits with his wife and disabled son until the Acquiescent Labour Bill - passed by the upper house and implemented by Centrelink in 2010 – when both he and his son were forced to leave their wife/mother in their coastal home and work in the Ranger uranium mine, South Australia.
· The Bill was introduced by the Liberal Party Inc in the face of the spiralling fuel price and a constituency – the majority of whom were still gainfully employed – crying for the abolition of the Welfare State.
· More cheap labour was required at the mine, as it was in most industry, as what was once a mechanical process was partially manual since the fuel crisis.
· They only remained underground for several months where his son was ostracised. The last straw was when he was beaten unconscious in the lavatory by a Warden and several of the welfare ‘Recipients’.
· On returning home they scrounged up enough fabric from a disused canvas factory to rig a sail to their trawler that was still sitting in a state of disrepair in a cove near their coastal home.
· When they returned to the waters they once fished they discovered nothing left to catch. The fish species surviving overfishing had been wiped out by a South American parasite.
· They had to move their operation into deeper, more dangerous waters to make a basic living.
His son:
· Disabled from birth by the accumulative effects – through generations – of dioxins in the fish population since the 1960s.
· Big brute of a man.
· Speaks little, except to his father when they’re away at sea for long periods.
The scenario
· Approached by a stranger in a pub with an offer he can’t refuse…if he drops this hessian bundle in the ocean as far south as possible, then he will be paid a large sum.
· Whilst at sea curiosity gets the better of him and he looks inside the bundle to discover six defrosted brains.
· Remembers the raid of a government scientific facility by a resistance group reported on the evening news.
· Dreams about the brains in bodies. His son is strangely silent so he begins talking to the brains. They are a group of Indigenous Landrights Activists. One of their main causes was the returning of Aboriginal skulls from England for a traditional burial.
· His son is killed in a raid by a pirate resistance group for alcohol. The unruly group is led by a Captain Kurtz like character and is more pirate than resistance…a thin veil of political ideology to justify looting and pillaging. They celebrate when they find the brains – fetch a lot on the black market. The captain has a computer and the necessary connections to hook them up. They put a series of foot heaters on them and boot them up. The fisherman’s dreams were accurate. These brains were the brains of an Indigenous group.
· The pirate ship is raided by the coastguard and all the pirates are slaughtered in the battle.
· Whilst he is being held in a small cabin the guard explains to him that it was all orchestrated by an American PR company employed by the Liberals Inc…right down to the pirate raid. It was all staged to show the state triumphing over the resistance. The fisherman refuses to believe, he quite liked the pirate captain – for some streange reason - despite killing his only son.
· The fisherman is taken back to land and paraded in front of the media as the mastermind of a devilish resistance plot. His brain is put on ice.
· His wife spearheads a class action and is shot by a mysterious gunman at the foot of her hillshoist whilst hanging out the washing
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Protagonist:
· Sixty-seven-year old fisherman.
· Carried out a small-scale trawling operation off the south coast of Australia until the fuel crisis of 2007.
· Lived off government benefits with his wife and disabled son until the Acquiescent Labour Bill - passed by the upper house and implemented by Centrelink in 2010 – when both he and his son were forced to leave their wife/mother in their coastal home and work in the Ranger uranium mine, South Australia.
· The Bill was introduced by the Liberal Party Inc in the face of the spiralling fuel price and a constituency – the majority of whom were still gainfully employed – crying for the abolition of the Welfare State.
· More cheap labour was required at the mine, as it was in most industry, as what was once a mechanical process was partially manual since the fuel crisis.
· They only remained underground for several months where his son was ostracised. The last straw was when he was beaten unconscious in the lavatory by a Warden and several of the welfare ‘Recipients’.
· On returning home they scrounged up enough fabric from a disused canvas factory to rig a sail to their trawler that was still sitting in a state of disrepair in a cove near their coastal home.
· When they returned to the waters they once fished they discovered nothing left to catch. The fish species surviving overfishing had been wiped out by a South American parasite.
· They had to move their operation into deeper, more dangerous waters to make a basic living.
His son:
· Disabled from birth by the accumulative effects – through generations – of dioxins in the fish population since the 1960s.
· Big brute of a man.
· Speaks little, except to his father when they’re away at sea for long periods.
The scenario
· Approached by a stranger in a pub with an offer he can’t refuse…if he drops this hessian bundle in the ocean as far south as possible, then he will be paid a large sum.
· Whilst at sea curiosity gets the better of him and he looks inside the bundle to discover six defrosted brains.
· Remembers the raid of a government scientific facility by a resistance group reported on the evening news.
· Dreams about the brains in bodies. His son is strangely silent so he begins talking to the brains. They are a group of Indigenous Landrights Activists. One of their main causes was the returning of Aboriginal skulls from England for a traditional burial.
· His son is killed in a raid by a pirate resistance group for alcohol. The unruly group is led by a Captain Kurtz like character and is more pirate than resistance…a thin veil of political ideology to justify looting and pillaging. They celebrate when they find the brains – fetch a lot on the black market. The captain has a computer and the necessary connections to hook them up. They put a series of foot heaters on them and boot them up. The fisherman’s dreams were accurate. These brains were the brains of an Indigenous group.
· The pirate ship is raided by the coastguard and all the pirates are slaughtered in the battle.
· Whilst he is being held in a small cabin the guard explains to him that it was all orchestrated by an American PR company employed by the Liberals Inc…right down to the pirate raid. It was all staged to show the state triumphing over the resistance. The fisherman refuses to believe, he quite liked the pirate captain – for some streange reason - despite killing his only son.
· The fisherman is taken back to land and paraded in front of the media as the mastermind of a devilish resistance plot. His brain is put on ice.
· His wife spearheads a class action and is shot by a mysterious gunman at the foot of her hillshoist whilst hanging out the washing