Lex Cardinalis BORUSA

BORUSA: 

No.

TOM : 

No what, Cardinal?

BORUSA: 

The Story is not acceptable. 

This is a very difficult, very delicate position. 

We must adjust The Truth.

ENGIN: 

In what way, Cardinal?

BORUSA: 

In a way that will maintain 

Public Confidence in 

The Time Lords and 

their Leadership. 

How many people have seen 

this ‘Master’ since His Death?

SPANDRELL: 

Apart from ourselves, Hildred 

and the two guards who took 

The Body to the Panopticon vault.

BORUSA: 

Then we shall rely on their Silence.* 

We shall change the appearance 

of The Corpse, Castellan. 

We all know the posthumous 

effect of a staser bolt. 

Within the hour, 

The Body will be charred 

beyond recognition. 

Our Story is going to be : 

That The Master arrived in Gallifrey to assassinate The President, secretly. 

Before he could escape, Chancellor Goth tracked him down and killed him, unfortunately perishing himself in the exchange of fire. 

Now that's much better. 

I can believe that.

ENGIN: 

You're making Goth 

into A Hero!?

BORUSA: 

If Heroes don't exist, 

it is necessary to invent them. 

Good for Public Morale.

ENGIN: 

And The Doctor's 

part in all this?

BORUSA: 

Best forgotten. 

Of course, Doctor, the charge against you will be dropped.

TOM : 

How kind.

BORUSA: 

Conditional on your leaving Gallifrey tonight.

TOM : 

Somehow, Cardinal, I don't want to stay.

BORUSA: 

Good. I believe you know something of The Master's past.

TOM : 

We've bumped into each other from time to time.

BORUSA: 

Then before you leave, you can assist Coordinator Engin to compile a new biog of him. 

It doesn't have to be entirely accurate.

TOM: 

Like Time Lord History.

BORUSA: 

A few facts, Coordinator, will lend it verisimilitude. 

We cannot make The Master 

into a Public Enemy 

if there is no data on him.

ENGIN: 

I can have an authentic seeming data extract ready by morning, Cardinal.
 

BORUSA: 

I'll leave that to you then. 

Later, Castellan, we must take another look at Data Security. 

We cannot have Time Lord DEs simply vanishing from the records.
 

SPANDRELL: 

I agree, sir.

BORUSA: 

Well, I think that's all. 

You'll attend immediately to the 'cosmetic treatment'?

SPANDRELL: 

Sorry?

BORUSA: 

The Body, Castellan.

(Borusa leaves.)
 

TOM : 

'Only in Mathematics 

will we find Truth.'
 

ENGIN: 

What?
 

TOM : 

Borusa used to say that during my time at the Academy, 

and now he's setting out to prove it.

[*  Well, that's 10th-Level STUPID to begin with --

You don't even know who these two men ARE, outside of their profession, so you are in no position (yet) to be able to estimate with any degree of confidence, reinforced with sheer blind faith, buttressed with a heroic dose of Sheer Dumb Luck  (i.e., Hazard a Guess.) as to whether they will even be inclined to keep their Silence as to what they saw, what they think they 

 and what they know ]

Jim Callaghan, MI5 and the Police View of History

"Oh, Harold's just a Walter Mitty..." 

- Prime Minister Jim Callaghan, 

as quoted by Tony Benn on SIS malfeasance

"It can be shown that both Wilson and Heath are under Soviet control through Dick Vagaukas(?) and Lord Rothchild... 

Callaghan could be a good choice because of his role as Police Federation representative, but he also has 'financial skeletons' relating to Welsh banking matters in his cupboard. Roy Jenkins is the unknown quantity but his 'liberal' policies at the Home Officer have not helped his cause with the establishment - he is also very close to Wilson and could therefore be discredited with him"

The 'Clockwork Orange' Documents,

British Army Intelligence & MI5,

January 1974

GABEL: THE POLICE CONCEPT OF HISTORY 

Gabel elaborates a lengthy definition of the political world view which is correlated with alienated and manipulated political life under the rule of schizophrenic/autistic ideologies which exhibit a low degree of fidelity to reality. Gabel called this the “police concept of history;” if he were writing today, he might well have called it the intelligence community or CIA theory of history. 

Gabel writes: “The police concept of history is the negation of the historical dialectic, in other words the negation of history. . . . History’s driving force is not the ensemble of objective forces but good or evil individual action . . . since the ‘event’ is no longer understood as the normal substratum of the course of History, but as miracle or catastrophe; it is no longer dependent on scientific explanation but on black or white magic. In the Manichean diptych of this view, the hero (leader) and the traitor represent two poles of the same principle of reificational negation of the autonomy of history. It is therefore a pseudo-history, a non-dialectical result either of success due to the genius of the leader or failure explicable through treason; an authentic ‘syndrome of external action’ permits the privileged system to evade eventual responsibility. 

The police concept of history represents the extreme form of political alienation; it is both a sociocentrism which dichotomizes the world into a privileged system [the US] and a non-privileged remainder [the Arab and Islamic world], and a phenomenon of consciousness of a Islamic world], and a phenomenon of consciousness of a schizophrenic nature. Since the privileged system is considered as perfect, extra-temporal and extra-dialectical, the event–particularly the unfavorable event–can only be explained by means of external action; it is experienced as an unexpected, ‘undeserved’ catastrophe, which is no longer integrated into the normal course of events whose succession constitutes the threat of concrete, dialectical temporality. One can compare this ensemble with the two specific elements in the clinical picture of schizophrenia, the syndrome of external action and the deranged experience of the end of the world (Weltuntergangserlebnis, abbreviated as WUE by German authors), the clinical translation of the appearance of the dialectic in a reified world which can accept the event only as a catastrophe.” (Gabel 115–116, with my interpolations)