Chapter 56
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President Odonnell submitted a proposed peace treaty between the United States of America, and Hell. The basics of the treaty were peace, and that americans would be allowed to immigrate to Hell if they so chose. Whether or not immigrants from Hell could immigrate to America, that would be negotiated later. Most of Congress felt this was acceptable. This included speaker Ford and other moderate members of the SBA. The more extreme factions however, they were particularly vocal on the subject. They feared this left the door open to alien immigration. As Congress debated this, the SBA held protests against ratification. The freshman who had spit in the president's face had been released pending trial, but he was still a member of Congress and loudly voiced his opposition to this bill. The bill was offically passed by both houses on January 26th. On Monday January 29th Carpathia arrived to offically sign the treaty. The alien ambassador also attended. President Odonnell offered his services as a mediator between Hell and Antarctica. For now, anyone who got out of Hell would de facto have to settle in Antarctica. Carpathia brought some of his people, those who apparently served in the army of Hell. They included Overgirl, a nazi version of Supergirl. Apocalypse, the first mutant of his world who had tried to dominate his universe. And a villain known as Darkseid, a ruler of a world called Apokalypse who psychically fed off of the suffeing of others. These beings were silent muscle, Carpathia clearly wanted all sides to know that if they attacked his world, they'd have to fight these people. This worried more than a few people, they feared that president Odonnell was dragging them into a conflict with disastorous consequences. The SBA used this for their propoganda. On Saturday Febuary 3rd they held a rally, John Smith was their primary speaker. Even those who didn't neccessarily agree with the SBA's platform wanted to hear this american hero speak.
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John Smith: My friends, I have said repeatedly that we cannot blame alien refugees for doing what is in the best interests of their own peoples. If there are roaches in your home, can you blame them for trying to survive and reproduce? Ofcourse not. But does that mean you're going to just let them have free run of your house? I'm guessing you wouldn't. And yet our president seems to have opened the flood gates to allow exactly that. Now I cannot say for certain which side was right in this conflict. I can tell you that Carpathia just brought three very powerful beings, capable of destroying entire worlds. Our world if they so choose. Now before you start feeling too sorry for those in Antarctica, let me remind you that they have some pretty powerful beings on their side. Superman, Magneto, Silver Surfer, Lucifer. It seems impossible to say who would win if these two sides were to go to war. But I have seen the devestation brought by war, in Korea, in Vietnam. And those were fairly conventional wars, nuclear weapons were avoided. Call me selfish if you want, but I don't want my country involved in this type of war because I don't want to go though that. And any sane person here probably would prefer to avoid this war. Yet our president continues to make blunder after blunder, dragging us into a conflict that we cannot fully understand. And for what, to protect these aliens. Let them look after their own people, we'll look after our own people. The SBA thought we could stop this by getting some of our own people elected to Congress. After all this is still a democracy, not a dictatorship. But it seems that we made a few wrong choices on that front, helped elect people who didn't know what they were doing. I remember what my dearly departed mother used to say. "If you want something done right, you have to do it yourself." Therefore, I am using this opportunity, to officially announce my candidacy for president of the United States of America.
