The Trump Distraction Is Working — Here’s What It’s Hiding

The Trump Distraction Is Working — 

Here’s What It’s Hiding - David Icke

Those groups that scream "Hate!" at people, 

do it with Hate in their  face...!! 

Hate in their eyes! 

You see, I I the another

great irony is that these groups, I'm not talking people in general. I'm talking these particular groups, what I call hate groups, and they are hate

groups because their modus operandi is to get people like me hated by the public. Thus, they're hate groups. But

um what um what they're doing is

pointing at me and saying racist and I'm saying race is a hoax. Race is an illusion. Race is just an experience.

And uh in the greater scheme of things and absolutely relevance. But those that are screaming that are obsessed with race.

They completely self-identify with it.

It totally consumes them. And and once you see self-identify yourself with being a race, suddenly other races are

there to be in conflict with you. It's all it's all an illusion. And it's it's it's extraordinary that um someone who

is has the philosophy that I have uh can can be painted by these tiny hate

groups um in the way that I am. But this is what happens. You see, again, we come back to the postage stamp consensus. We come back to giving your mind away.

Um, they go to venues and they say, "This guy's going to say it's the Jews. He's going to deny the Holocaust."

I never have.

And when people have said said to these groups, "Show where he's ever done that." Silence. And the other thing they won't do is debate with me. I've asked

them. I've said, "I'll I'll take you all on in debate. all you against little me and we'll have a chat and we'll have a debate. No, they won't go there. Why?

Because throwing mud and running is the way is is the way it's done. Always has been done by groups like this. But um

what happens is they go to the venues and the venues they start to virtue signal. Well, part of it is virtue

signaling and part of it is fear of also being called racist by having having me use their venue. And they they they

pull. Not all of them. No, but they pull and and do you know not only don't the

venues come to me and say actually um they're saying you're saying this are you going to say that and the answer would be no they don't not only that

they don't even tell you we we had a this is the crazy this is the crazy world we're going into Brian is this political correctness

yeah political correctness and fear people are frozen in fear of saying the wrong thing. It's destroying human

discourse, thus destroying um the interaction and sharing of information.

: minutes, secondIt's being done on purpose. Um we um we had well had a launch for the book at Old Trafford, Manchester United's

ground. And the reason we went there um supposed to be a couple of weeks ago,

three weeks ago, was because um they uh to to the the Lowry Hotel in Manchester had pulled the event where it was first

on the very basis of what I've just said. Um uh we we read about the fact that um it had been cancelled in the

media and that's the other thing the media play extraordinarily important part in this. I'm looking on the

internet when um the um the Lowry Hotel in Manchester uh pulled that book launch. I'm seeing a headline in various

newspapers um on websites including the Manchester Evening News, Coventry Telegraph, ITV uh uh television,

hate preacher David Ike's event cancelled by hotel.

: minutes, secondThey had taken a press release from the hate groups completely lying about me and my views

and repeated it and I contacted them and I said before I call my lawyer will you just send me all the evidence you have

that headlines true gone in minutes two three minutes gone taken it down because they have no evidence it's repeating

repeating repeating but you see even journalists are terrified of of of of of saying what they should be saying as journalists, which is, "Hold on a

minute. What do you mean you you you want to stop this man having having a public platform?" Well, whatever

happened to freedom of speech? He doesn't agree with what you're saying,

but he's not trying to stop you speaking. He would never try to get a venue to stop you speaking because he believes in in in freedom of speech and free discourse. Why are you trying to stop him? What's your agenda? No, no,

it's they just take their press release and repeat it. Um and and and what happened with Manchester United, it was

bizarre is they eventually they started trying to get Manchester United to pull.

Um and I don't think they would have managed it because Man Manchester United said to us when when we booked it and

they knew about the background, they said, "Oh no, we're too big. We we don't bow to that pressure now. We're too big when Yeah. Okay. And I don't think at

that point it would have done on the morning." It was a Friday recently. On the morning after the previous day, my

son Jamie and the team that's been working on it were in we're communicating with Manchester United staff and all the preparations going ahead. On the morning um the local MP, a

Labor MP called Kate Green um starts on social media because she's she's she's um approached by these hate groups

and she says, "Yes, yes, I'm not having this." basically, I'm going to call Manchester United. And she calls Manchester United and and they pull it.

: minutes, secondAnd another group involved was uh Kick It Out, which is an anti-racist group within football. But this is the point.

Kate Green had no idea what I'm saying.

She's never read a book. She's never heard me speak. She nothing. She The hate groups say, "I'm going to say this,

and I and I believe this, all of which is nonsense." And so she just takes it as read and repeats it to Manchester United. She she contacts Kick It Out.

Kick it out, an anti-racist group. Never read a book of mine. Don't know anything about me, but oh, it's Oh, yeah. Racism.

And and this is the other thing, you know, anti-racist groups need need to be very very careful that they don't see racism everywhere where it's not because

it suits their it suits their reason for being. So Manchester United then cancel.

We find out on social media, my son, who's been talking to them for months,

goes out to Old Trafford to say, "What's going on, not only will they not speak to him, they got the security to to escort him off the premises,

this this is what you're dealing with.

People have no idea what you're dealing with just to literally have a platform to talk about the need to love each other, the nature of reality. It's

absolute madness." But this is this this is the crazy world we're in. Is this the grand plan of of the Illuminati or is this just now the sheep acting like the sheep?

No. No. This what? It's both. Do you want to hear something crazy, David?

I believe and agree with % of what you're saying. And I've over the past six years, I've had of what I believe some of the greatest minds in

the world sit in that chair. And many of the most advanced ones, including Dorian Yates, six time Mr. Olympia, Dennis McKenna was a brother of Terrence

McKenna and the psychedelic movement all come down to this conclusion. We are all one. Yeah.

And when we can get away from these senses and contact our higher power and go to the love of each other, that's how

we can advance as a you know entity that we are human. The only part I'm not yet connected with your reality is that I

think that the enemy is in ourselves and it's not necessarily external that's making us do this. But once you get past your headlines, which are, you know,

you're in the hate groups or, you know, for me, the shape-shifting reptilians, the what's underneath,

you are very London real, David. You are very much congruent in the things that I believe. And it is about love, I believe, and about empowerment is what you're talking about.

Yeah. It's it's about remembering what we've been manipulated to forget. This this is this is the point that that I would make in that that area, Brian,

that you say you're not you're not going with yet. Um there is a reason why humanity has forgotten its true self.

You you described in uh in what you've just said how to

empower ourselves, right? This force does not want humanity to empower

: minutes, seconditself. It wants um humanity in a state of bewildered,

confused, chaotic subservience.

This is why um the true nature of reality is so systematically suppressed because once we remember it's over. It's over there.

Therefore, the force which which wants to enslave us for its own purposes has to keep us in ignorance of true self

because without that it it's got no power over us. It's it's a classic example of in the kingdom of the blind,

the oneeyed man is king. This force is the oneeyed man. To control humanity, it has to keep us in a state of blindness.

When we become the two-eyed, thirdeyed consciousness that we are, it's over.

: minutesThat's why the control and the nature of our true self are connected because one

must stop us remembering that. This is what religion's about. Religion religion says you're your your little me and and

and big me uh is out there. And by the way, me with me me collar and me hat and me frock. I know what big me wants.

Therefore, listen to me. Do what I say and then you'll be fine. And if you if you if you look at religions, it's a

program. It's it's a software program. I would describe it as you you you say to

um you say to a Muslim person, you're a Muslim. What does that mean? Oh, well, I I go to the mosque and and a man tells me what God wants me to do. Okay. Um,

and what will happen if I don't do what he says? And you? Well, well, I'm a Christian. What does that mean? Well, I go to the church and the man tells me

what God wants and what will happen if I don't. You, oh, I'm Jewish. What does that mean? Well, I go to the synagogue and this man tells me what God wants and

what will happen if if I don't. It's a program. It's pseudo randomness. I see this all across the world. pseudo randomness. Uh I also call them opposes.

These are things with different labels that if you break them down, they all operate the same way. And religions are like that. They they are a program. They

have their same modus operandi. And it is you little me. Um you subordinate to

big me and you are a blasphemer. If you could dare suggest that you are an expression of big me. This is how it works. It's if you break it all down,

it's all about holding us in a a a narrow limited little me state of

selfperception and it's being done systematically.

You mentioned the third eye earlier and I want to ask you about psychedelics.

omething we talked about about six years ago, psychedelics like DMT and Iawasa and I found because I experienced them and I talked about that publicly is

that it's a way of connecting me into something, removing language, trying to remove a lot of my cultural programming and it feels like I'm plugged into an

information source that is either not tainted or less tainted by my download.

Um, do you have any opinions or experiences with psychedelics and do you disagree or agree with me? Well, I um

I've done psychedelics once uh again very synchronistically. Uh I've reached the point I I' I'd written a book called um Alice in Wonderland, the World Trade Center disaster, which came out in 

Um I say demolishing the official story of And and as as I was completing that, I said said to people I knew, you

know, if if I'm going to go further into this and understand more, I've got to get out there and I've got to see this world from another level. Not in some

: minutesdream, you know, was that real or wasn't it, but where I can consciously experience it. very short time afterwards, I got invited to go to the

rainforest of Brazil near Manouse and um speak and be with a group that was going to take Iawaska, this

rainforest plan. And um and I went and I could have taken it four times, took it twice, and and I've never done it before or since again. I've never felt the

need, but the experience I had was absolutely transformative and it, you know, it basically was the

key to opening up uh the the reality that I've gone into

in so many ways because I took it on the first night and I had a two-hour experience that was was

extraordinary. A lot of paranormal things going on like lights, strip lights coming on um with no one touching the light, you know, and um I did that

on my own with one other person who just oversaw it. Um but the second night got a bigger dose and um tastes like

licorice. Um and and and let me say you know some people have bad experiences on this stuff. I had an incredible experience. On the second night this

voice as loud as mine is now took a female form started to to to describe to me the illusory nature of reality.

And it went on for five hours. And the worst thing about it was my belly hurt from laughing because this voice was was

was describing the world as we perceive it and then explaining what it really was. And it was so funny. But the thing

is that when the voice started out and came out of nowhere,

um it said, "We're going to take you to where you come from and to where you will return." And so you better understand where you are. What? And then

it said, and I just repeated it about three or four times, all you really need to know is infinite love is the only truth. Everything else is illusion.

And then it went through explaining the illusory nature of reality, how there was no physical. I mean, there was one one line I had instant recall of it uh

afterwards. Wrote it all down. Um um one one one question that this um this voice said was why do you fly in an airplane

from A to B when you are A and you are B and everything in between.

Um and it went on like this for hours and and what I did I came back and um I I I started looking at science and quantum physics and I realized that if

you put the dots together they've already realized it's a it's an illusion. Um and because it's energy, information, consciousness,

um and not solid physical this reality.

It means that things like shape-shifting become explainable because when I talk about these hybrid bloodlines, they're

actually hybrid information fields. And when I'm looking at you now, I am

decoding your waveform field. And you as I'm seeing in the form that I'm seeing exist here. Right

now, if you were a hybrid uh one of these bloodlines, um

you could shift that other part of the hybrid field so that becomes the dominant one. Now as

the observer I'm decoding that one. So here you would be something that's not human. To my experience you have

physically solidly uh in in in um solidity move from one body to another.

But no the only place the shift goes on physically illusory physically is in the decoding processes of the observer. Um,

and you know, one of the things that they've talked about for years, some scientists have, but now is becoming

more and more accepted, is that this world as we perceive it only exists when we look at it, when it's observed.

Because what they found is interestingly that when something is observed then you

that you have the wave form collapse into a particle form.

Now I would go one step further and say it's not it's not this world doesn't exist as we see it when it's observed

but when it's decoded and the act of observation the act of focus triggers that decoding that world.

So um this world as we perceive it literally only exists in the form that we perceive it when we decode it. And so

you you get um it's one of the things I talk about in in the book. Um there was a book came out in the s

um called the holographic universe written by a guy called uh Michael Tolbert. Very interesting book. what he'd done. He went to to mainstream

scientists who were convinced that this world was holographic. And we hear a lot about this now. I was writing about it a

long time ago. A lot about this. Oh, the world world's holographic. But so we live in a holographic universe. No, no,

no, we don't. We live in a waveform information universe. The hologram is

what we decode the world into from that like a computer decodes Wi-Fi onto what we see to what we see on the screen.

Anyway, what um uh one story in this book that Michael

Tolbert tells was when his father um had a had a stage hypnotist along for

a um a party at his house. And he describes how this hypnotist had this

this man sitting in a chair like you um and he's I think his name was Tom and he put him through the party tricks um by

manipulating what? Manipulating his perceptions and therefore his reality changed. But anyway, at one point he said to this guy

Tom, he says, "When I bring back bring you back to a waking state, you're not going to be able to see your daughter in the room." So then he leads the daughter to stand right in front of her father.

So he's looking into her belly, right?

So he then brings him back apparently to a waking state and he says, "Uh, can you see your daughter in the room, Tom?" Tom's looking around. He said, "No,

she's here. Can't see her." The hypnotist goes behind the back of the daughter, uh, puts his his hand in the small of her back and said, "I'm holding

something, Tom. What am I holding?" And Tom's going, "What are you holding a watch?" It's obvious to him. His daughter's between him and the watch.

He said, "There's an inscription on the watch, Tom. Can you read it?" He peered forward. He read the inscription. His daughter's between him and the watch. You say that to a mainstream scientist.

Load of rubbish. You know, a Richard Dawkins or whatever. Load of rubbish.

Load of rubbish. But it's it's it's so easy to explain.

Everything in its base form is waveform. um and we decode that into this reality.

So his daughter is in wave form,

not in his five sense reality in waveform. If he doesn't decode that waveform field into a holographic uh

expression of it, reflection of it, then he won't be able to see her because she's not operating in his five sense reality.

What the hypnotist has done with the hypnotic suggestion is he has in effect

firewalled Tom's brain from decoding that field. Everyone else in the room is laughing,

shaking their heads cuz they've not been through that that um that uh that that cut off that um

that uh blocking of of that of her field being uh decoded. So to them, she's standing there in front of him in solid form, holographic form either,

but he hasn't decoded that into holographic form. So in his five sense holographic reality, she doesn't exist.

And if she doesn't exist, he can see what's behind her. Um, and this is, you see, when you when you get to to looking at the world like this,

and then you think that all the institutions that run the world and dictate human perception, education,

academia, politics, journalism, on and on it goes, medicine, medicine, science,

apart from the cutting edge of it, they're all making decisions.

And they're all communicating how things are postage stamp consensus from the perspective of a reality that does not exist.

This is why mainstream scientists like Professor Richard Dawkins, the kind of anti- alternative anything uh professor

at Oxford University, that's why he waves away the any alternative explanation of reality. That's

impossible. Yes, Richard, mate, it's impossible if the world is solid. It ain't.

It ain't. But because he's bought the illusion um and most of science has bought the illusion, then um then things

become impossible. I remember the um the British government um medical advisor, I

think her name is Dame Sally Davis or something like that. She still I think she still is. She came out and said

homeopathy was um a nonsense you know fakery basically because she has no idea about reality.

Um like I say the the the the the base form of everything in this reality is

waveform waveform information. Um and what they say about um

uh homeopathy is it's impossible to work because the potions are dil diluted and diluted and diluted until there's none

of the original substance left. And because five senses say can I see it,

hear it, touch it, taste it. Exactly. Uh it exists or it doesn't exist. The substance is everything. the substance

you can see physical um there's a an organization in Germany called the um

aerospace institute in sgard Germany um which has developed a way of

photographing information in water fascinating you can see uh videos of it on the internet um and what they uh did

was they got this big tank of water and they put a flower in it and then took the flower out and then photographed the droplets of water and they found

information from the flower in every droplet. And one of the things about holographic reality is every part of a hologram is a smaller version of the

hole as though it's going to be in every droplet. Um, and then they um got people

from the local community to come up and they got another tank of water and they got little dishes with their names on

and they got each of the people to take uh four droplets from the tank and put it in a dish with their name on and then

they photographed the droplets. What they found was that each four droplets were different from the other four

droplets of everyone else, but the four droplets from each person were virtually identical.

In other words, just taking a droplet of water and putting it in the dish had impregnated that person's energetic uh

influence upon the water in terms of frequency, vibration, uh information.

So what homeopathy is when they dilute

um the substance until there's none of the substance left. What is left in the water is the waveform

information of the substance. [snorts]

Just like the waveform information of the flower was in the water droplets in the tank after the flower had been taken

out. And it's the waveform of that substance which interacts with

the waveform field of the body and if it's done properly can balance it out

and bring about what we call harmony. Um the opposite of disease, the opposite of

illness. But because you see this chief medical officer who is making decisions about what people should have and

vaccines and all this stuff is absolutely clueless about the nature of

reality itself and thus um waves away homeopathy on the basis of she doesn't understand how it operates, therefore

how it can work. And you find this with mainstream science everywhere. If they can't explain it, it can't be happening.

Right?

But um when you when you um you look at complimentary

ways of treating the body, they're invariably waveform level treaters.

Because if the waveform uh information field is in a balanced harmonious state, then that which is

decoded from it, which is just a reflection of that, the holographic reality we decode this waveform world

into must also be in a balanced healthy state because that's no more than than that. That's a movie screen of that projector.

Um, and so people say about modern medicine and mainstream medicine, they never treat the cause. They always treat

the symptom. But how can they treat the cause when the cause is in the waveform level of the body and they don't even accept that exists? All they're left

with is treating the symptom, which is the projection of an imbalance in the waveform level in the holographic decoded uh uh uh version of of reality.

And and so what humanity has been manipulated to do is look at the world, see how it wants

to would like to change it, but running around

just the same as standing on the the stage in a movie theater and screaming at the screen demanding that it changes.

This is waving your banner in a protest.

uh screaming at the screen, demanding the movie changes, never going to change. It's hit the screen, it's a done deal. You want to change the movie,

you've got to change where the movie is coming from, then you can change the movie. So what what um people have been

manipulated into is even trying to change what they would like to change.

The Needle tears a hole;

The old, Familiar sting --

The Road is Long,

We carry on,

Familiar by My Side —

Charlie :

....are YOU so afraid,

Are You So Afraid; of THAT,

That that's got Your MIND locked-up...?

Dianne Sawyer :

No, I'm so -- I don't 

understand

Charlie :

Go over to The Morgue, 

Look at all them Dead People.

Dianne Sawyer :

....just EXPLAIN to Me, 

though -- (I'm not dumb.)

EXPLAIN to Me, simply : 

Why THAT House, 

THAT Night?

Charlie :

WHICH House, 

WHICH Night...?

Dianne Sawyer :

The House on Ceillo Drive, 

The Tate House,

WHY Did They Go THERE...?

Charlie :

....because Tex 

had been there before --

and he went to 

a familiar place.

Dianne Sawyer :

But What Did They Think 

They were Doing for You....?

Charlie :

....they weren't 

doin' anything for Me...!

Dianne Sawyer :

What Did They THINK 

They were Doing for You...?

Charlie :

Now, wait a minute -- 

Criminal Behaviour is... 

It's The SAME, 

it's mundane, in most minds -- 

Criminal'll always go to a familiar place;

Tex had been to that house; 

Tex went back to that house.

Here's The Conversation : Indian Mesa.

We had a big Problem 

that came up --

I had to shoot 

somebody for Tex;

Bobby's in The Prison -- 

MY Brother's in Jail.

Now, understand MY Mind :

All My Life, I've 

been in Jail because 

I didn't have nobody 

to get Me OUT of Jail --

I didn't have no 

brother on The Outside --

So I spent years and years and 

years and years just because -- 

nobody would come and 

Sign Their Name 

to get Me out of Jail, 

and The Jail couldn't let Me out,

'coz I didn't have 

no Money, had no 

place to GO....!

So I spent 

22 Years in Jail because 

I didn't have nobody 

on The Outside --

I can't let somebody 

who's with Me 

stay in JAIL..!!

It's just NOT 

in My MAKE-UP!;

I gotta get MY Brother 

out of JAIL, Man!!

IF ---

(...and that's a big Word, 

because I don't hardly-ever 

use those kinda Words, 

like "If", or "Maybe"; 

I'm not insecure about anything -- )

BUT, IF -- 

You have A Thought, 

in Your Mind, 

about what I'm Thinking -- 

is that 

What I'm Thinking; or, 

What You're Thinking 

I'm Thinking...?

Everyone Says,

(Booming Anti-Dad Voice) 

"WE KNOW WHAT YOU 

WERE DOING WITH ALL 

THOSE WOMEN."

I Said, "No -- 

You Know What YOU 

Would Have Been Doing 

with All Those Women, 

and You Think 

That's What I Was Doing 

with All Those Women, because 

‘That's What I NEED to Think’.", Now --  

How it's Done

 

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Executive Director of The Society, James Monroe, said 

The Reason for The Study was to gain 

Fundamenal knowledge of Human Beings.

 

Segment 3 (The Children and The CIA) 

NBC Evening News for Tuesday, Oct 11, 1977

(Studio) Recent revelations with regard to clandestine operations of CIA noted. Special report on the interest of the organization in children.

REPORTER: John Chancellor

(No location given) (Home movie film of children at European camp of Children's International Summer Village, taken in 1950's, is shown.) These camps were to bring together children from around world for better understanding of one another. Has been learned that CIA was studying children in camps at Hammerfest, Norway and Vienna, Austria, for possible future recruits. Accding. to documents examined by reporter, this was part of CIA's MKUltra project. 

Details of CIA documents with regard to camps cited; 

no one running camps had knowledge of CIA's interest, according to documents. 

American Director for camps was Dr. Doris Twichallelan, who now lives in Trenton, ME. [TWICHALLELAN - is stunned to find out about this; was being used.] Has also been learned CIA paid for study of adolescents in San Antonio, Austin, and El Paso, Texas; details noted. 

Again, no one running program knew of CIA involvement. 

Prof. Carolyn Sharrif was one of authors of study; didn't know of CIA funding, until told by reporter [SHARRIF - feels she's been lied to by own government Cites concerns as researcher and as taxpayer.] 

Both studies were financed through The Society for Investigation of Human Ecology, a CIA front organization until mid-1960's. 

Executive Director of The Society, James Monroe, 

says The Reason for The Study was to gain 

Fundamenal knowledge of Human Beings.

REPORTER: Paul Altmeyer

The Prologue

Prologue  

     As swiftly and as silently as a shadow, Doctor Who’s Space and Time ship, Tardis, appeared on a succession of planets each as different as the pebbles on a beach, stayed awhile and then vanished, as mysteriously as it had come. And whatever alien world it was that received him and his fellow travellers, and however well or badly they were treated, the Doctor always set things to rights, put down injustice, encouraged dignity, fair treatment and respect. 

     But there had been changes inside the ship. Susan had gone, left behind in an England all but destroyed in the twenty-first century when the Daleks had attempted the conquest of Earth, an invasion only just foiled by the Doctor. No decision was more difficult for Susan or easier for her grandfather, who knew in his heart that she must share her future with David Cambell, a young man she had met and fallen in love with during that terrible struggle between the Doctor and his arch-enemies. 

     Only Ian and Barbara, kidnapped by the Doctor from their lives in the England of the 1960s and now his close friends, knew the real aching sadness the loss of Susan meant to the old man, and it was they who persuaded him to take a passenger a young girl named Vicki whom they on as rescued from the planet Dido. And, as the Doctor grew interested in the little, fair-haired orphan and devoted more himself to care and well-being (which Vicki repaid with a totally single-minded love and respect) his friends were secretly overjoyed to see a new and vigorous spring in the Doctor’s step, a happy gleam in his eye and a fresh interest in the unknown adventures that lay ahead. 

     Ian and Barbara had changed too. Ian was now a deeply tanned bronze, his body trained to the last minute, n single trace remaining of the ordinary Londoner he had once been. But the alteration wasn’t confined to muscle and sinew alone. Ian had encountered situations beyond the concept of any young man of his age. He had faced dangers and been forced to make decisions a countless number of times, where not only his own life, but the lives of others, stood in peril. Experience had proved to him that strength and fitness alone weren’t enough in the sort of emergencies he had to handle, and so he had turned his new life to advantage, learned from it and improved by it, until his brain was sharp and active, tuned to deal with whatever problems might present themselves. 

     The change in Barbara was entirely different; harder, perhaps, to find; a much more subtle thing. For unlike Ian, she could have been put back in London in the old life she had known, among friends and acquaintances and not one of them would have found any major alterations to puzzle or bewilder them. The golden tan on her skin might have come from a long holiday in the West Indies. Her superb physical condition could be explained away by regular visits to a gymnasium. For what was totally new in Barbara grew and fostered inside the girl. She had always had that sense of mystery about her, even on Earth in her own time; she had always been very beautiful, her mind had always reached ahead for answers and conclusions while others struggled to grasp the situation. Now, life inside the Tardis had given full reign to her air of mystery, and the adventures outside it had deepened her love for life in all its various forms, maturing her sense of values, giving her the ability to taste the joys and sorrows of existence to the absolute last drop. Where her face and form had conjured up beauty in the eye of any beholder, now beauty radiated from within and trebled her physical attractions, making her the admiration and desire of all who met her. But always her eyes turned to Ian and their hands were ready to reach out and touch, for, whatever world of the future enmeshed them, they knew their destinies were bound up in each other - the one sure thing, fixed and unalterable, in the ever-changing life with the Doctor. 

     The question of change itself became the subject of a conversation one evening in the Tardis, between Ian and the Doctor. Barbara and Vicki were playing a game of Martian chess – a complicated affair with seventy–two pieces – while the two men rested on a Victorian chaise-longue facing the centre-control column of the ship, for the Doctor’s eyes were never far away from his precious dials and instruments. Behind them lay the adventure of the talking stones of the tiny planet of Tyron, in the seventeenth galaxy. Around them, the ship shivered faintly as it hurled itself through Space and Time. A dozen minute tape-recorder spools whirled frantically on one side, while hundreds of little bulbs on the central control column glowed intermittently, in a never-ending sequence. The a stately Ormolu clock ticked its needless way through a time pattern which had no meaning, kept in the ship purely for decoration. On the other side of it, some twenty feet away on a tall marble column, stood the magnificent bust of Napoleon Bonaparte. The pale gold of the interior lighting of the Tardis shone down on the travellers like warm after-noon sunshine. 

     The Doctor shifted his feet impatiently and then leaned towards the Martian chess-board, darting out a rigid finger. 

     ‘You’re forgetting the one important rule, Vicki, my dear,’ he said testily. ‘To marry your Princess to an opposing Lord, you must bring up your Priest.’ He smiled apologetically at Barbara, as Vicki nodded excitedly, moved up one of her pieces and captured an enemy Lord. 

     ‘I’m sorry, Barbara, but you did leave yourself open.’ 

     Barbara looked at him indignantly. 

     ‘I was planning to marry my Captain to her Duchess. 

     Now you’ve made me lose a dowry.’ 

     The two girls started to bargain over the forfeit as the Doctor sat back. 

     ‘I’d better keep myself to myself,’ he muttered to Ian. 

     He wriggled himself into, a more comfortable position, crossing one leg over the other and folding his arms. The polish on his elastic-sided boots gleamed beneath the immaculate spats. The perfectly tied cravat sat comfortably beneath the stiff, white wing-collar, enhanced by a pearl stick-pin. No speck of dust or tiny crease were anywhere in evidence on his tapered black jacket, with its edges bound in black silk, on the narrow trousers, patterned in black-and-white check. The long, silver hair hung down from the proudly held head, obscuring the back of his coat collar. 

     Gold pince-nez, attached around the neck by a thin, black satin tape, completed the picture Ian and Barbara had always known. For the Doctor’s favourite costume was that of the Edwardian, English gentleman of the early nineteen hundreds. Ian had always thought the Doctor might have stepped straight out of the drawings of the famous magazines of the period, The Strand or Vanity Fair. And as Ian marvelled (for about the thousandth time!) at the Doctor’s obsession with that one, short period of life on Earth, when he had all space from which to choose, it brought a question to his lips he had often wished to have answered. 

     ‘It’s often puzzled me how it is, Doctor, that we can visit all these different worlds and affect the course of life. You most confess we have interfered, often in quite a major kind of way.’ 

     ‘Always for the best intentions, and generally we’ve succeeded,’ murmured the old man. Ian nodded. 

     ‘That really isn’t my point, though. Why is it that when we land on earth, with all the pre-knowledge of history at our disposal, we can’t right one single wrong, make good the bad or change one tiny evil? Why are we able to do these things on other planets and not on Earth?’ 

     Barbara and Vicki forgot their game and stared at the Doctor, who pressed the fingers of his hands together and thought for a moment before replying. 

     ‘You see, Chesterton,’ he said eventually, ‘the fascination your planet has for me is that its Time pattern, that is, past, present and future, is all one – like a long, winding mountain path. When the four of us land at any given point on that path, we are still only climbers. Time is our guide. As climbers we may observe the scenery. We may know a little of what is around a coming corner. But we cannot stop the landslides, for we are roped completely to Time and must be led by it. All we can do is observe.’ 

     ‘What would happen if we cut those ropes and tried to change something?’ asked Vicki. 

     ‘Warn Napoleon he would lose at Waterloo?’ smiled the Doctor. ‘It wouldn’t have any effect. Bonaparte would still believe he could win and ignore the warning.’ 

     ‘Suppose one were to assassinate Adolf Hitler in 1930, then?’ suggested Barbara. 

     The Doctor shook his head. ‘But Hitler wasn’t assassinated in 1930, was he? No, Barbara, it would be impossible. Once we are on Earth, we become a part of the history that is being created and we are subject to its laws as the people who are living in that period.’ 

     ‘Then we can never die on Earth,’ said Ian. 

     The Doctor said, ‘We do not have everlasting lives, my friend. Of course we can die on Earth or anywhere else, just as we can catch colds or suffer burns. Try and understand.’ 

     The Doctor leaned forward and, as he did so, a part of his face slipped into a shadow. 

     ‘Often our escape clause on Earth has been that we have pre-knowledge that some awful catastrophe is going to happen. We would know when to leave Pompeii. We would not go fishing on the Somme river in the summer of 1916. 

     We would not disguise ourselves as Phoenicians and live in Carthage in A.D. 648 and let ourselves be destroyed with the city by the Arabs. Or go for a sea-voyage in the Titanic.’ 

     ‘Then we can do nothing for suffering,’ murmured Barbara sadly. ‘We can never help anyone on Earth or avert horrible wars.’ 

     She looked up at the Doctor and was surprised to see a slight smile on his lips. 

     ‘There is a story about Clive of India,’ the old man remarked casually, ‘which tells how he attempted to commit suicide as a young man by putting a pistol to his head. Three times he pulled the trigger and each time the gun failed to explode. Yet whenever he turned it away, the pistol fired perfectly. As you know, Robert Clive did eventually take his own life in 1774. The point is that Time, that great regulator, refused to let the man die before things were done that had to be done.’ 

     The Doctor held up a hand as all three of his friends started to speak. 

     ‘I know exactly what you’re all about to say. Why do men like Lincoln and Kennedy, those two outstanding American Presidents, have their lives cut off short when everything lay before them, and they had shown themselves capable of doing good for their fellow men? 

     How can I, or any person, answer that? It is too easy to say that the sharp, shocking manner of their deaths underlined heavily the contributions they made. Life, death, the pattern of Time, are eternal mysteries to us. Here you find one man squandering his talents on wholesale slaughter, evil and terrible acts of indignity. There, another makes every effort for peace, goodwill and happiness. Inventors of medicines and advantages for others are laughed into insane asylums. Discoverers of murder weapons die in old age as millionaires. True love is set aside, hatred seems to flower.’ 

     ‘But that’s appalling!’ said Ian vehemently. ‘That’s,the gloomiest view I’ve ever heard in my life.’ 

     ‘My friend,’ said the Doctor softly, ‘it is only one small part of what I am saying. Time is constant. Look at history. 

     You’ll find the brave have their share of successes. You’ll see that honesty, unselfishness and good works overflow in every generation. All I am saying is that what is going to happen on Earth must happen. If Rasputin is to die, no will to survive by that extraordinary man, no black arts, no personal power, can save him. Remember that they drugged Rasputin, shot him and then drowned him. No, don’t try to understand why a fine man is cut off in his prime and an evil one prospers. Try to understand what benefit there is in observing history as it actually happens.’ 

     ‘I don’t see that there’s any benefit in it at all,’ muttered Ian, ‘except for the fascination.’ His eyes turned to the Doctor’s. ‘And, frankly,’ he went on, with a more definite note in his voice, ‘that isn’t enough. We ought to be... to be doing things. Not just watching them happen.’ 

     The Doctor stood up and walked over to the central control column. He stared down at the dials and switches for a few seconds and then turned to face them. 

     ‘We are doing something. We are learning. Why do people kill each other, steal from each other; rob, slander, hurt and destroy? Why do thousands upon thousands of young men hurl themselves at one another on a field of battle, each side sure in the justness of its cause? Until we know, until control greed, destructive ambition, hatred and the we can dozen and one other flaws that plague us, we are not worthy to breathe.’ 

     The Doctor looked up at the ceiling of the Ship, his eyes strangely alight. 

     ‘The next time we visit Earth,’ he said, ‘I hope we encounter a situation where two men are opposed to each other, each for the best reasons.’ 

     He suddenly looked down, turning his eyes from one to the other, with a directness that riveted their attentions. 

     ‘That is the only way to understand the folly, the stupidity and the horror of war. When both sides, in their own way, are totally right.’ 

     He turned back to his controls, adjusting some, switching off others, until the Tardis began to shiver quite noticeably, responding now to a hundred thousand impulses of power, and a dozen different orders. The little Time and Space machine began to wheel in its path through the limitless pattern of the cosmos, describing a huge arc. Suns, satellites, stars and planets appeared and faded, all ignored, as the ship headed towards its objective 

     – Earth!

Hostage

BRET: 

Look, he can't kill her or 

he hasn't A Hostage.

(Steven turns the talkback back on and shouts)

STEVEN: 

You animal!

KIRKSEN: 

Now that's just 

for starters. 

Do as I say!

DOCTOR: 

Change course!

KIRKSEN: 

Now, that's more like it!

DOCTOR: (heard enough)

Take him back to Kembel. 

Take him back to Kembel! 

Let the Daleks deal with him.

STEVEN: 

Yes, and us.

DOCTOR: 

Don't worry, dear boy, 

We'll find a way out.

(Katarina has been screaming almost all the time.)

KIRKSEN: 

Stop that or 

You're dead!

BRET: 

I can't sacrifice everything 

for the sake of that one girl.

STEVEN: 

Listen! Without us you wouldn't 

have got off Kembel at all, 

and nothing would be 

worth bothering about!

BRET: 

All right, so we all go back together. 

But without me, I doubt that you 

would have got this far either.

STEVEN: 

Yes, all right, but 

I won't let you 

Hurt Katarina. 

We'll head back for Kembel 

as the Doctor says. 

On the way we may find a way 

to get her out of there.

(Katarina pulls free of Kirksen, 

clawing at his face with one hand 

and reaching for The Door-controls 

with the other.)

KIRKSEN: 

You won't.

STEVEN: 

No, not that one! KATARINA!

(The outer doors open, and Katarina and Kirksen 

are sucked out to die in the vacuum of space.)

STEVEN:

KATARINA..!!! 

— Too late.

(There's a stunned silence aboard the Spar 

as the crew try to comprehend what has happened.)

STEVEN: 

She pressed The Wrong Button, Doctor.

DOCTOR: 

She may have wanted to, dear boy. 

She wanted to Save Our Lives.

BRET: 

It must have been quick.

DOCTOR: 

I hope she's reached 

her Place of Perfection.

STEVEN: 

Yes, but not that way.

DOCTOR: 

She didn't understand. 

She couldn't understand. 

She wanted to save 

our lives and perhaps 

the lives of all the other 

beings of The Solar System. 

I hope she's found Her Perfection. 

Oh, how I shall always remember her 

as one of The Daughters of The Gods. 

Yes, as one of The Daughters of The Gods.