Stage 1 Declassified

Still no promotion; I’ve made sure I won’t be passed up again, though. Also, do we agree that this thing is useless unless we use it? I mean, I understand these classifications exist for a reason, but it sure would be nice to know what’s going on in the other sectors. I hear they finally fingerprinted you boys in the lab, Lamarck. Still hate those needles?

Well it’s just my luck that they lowered the classification level of the first stage in the great “Atypical Subversive Strategy” on the same day I didn’t get my promotion. You might have access to it too now, but just in case, I’ll post it here. (My commentary will be in italics.)

STAGE 1: Introduction via top .1% (5-7 years)

1.0 - Introduction

The ISCP, once it has established itself in the private sector, will begin a revolutionary new service targeted to the highest tax bracket. This service will present genetic fingerprinting and inclusion in the National Genetic Database as a means of assuring the health and continued well-being of one’s self and family. It will present fingerprinting as a painless and risk-free procedure. Inclusion will originally deliver only modest benefits such as:

• A higher line of credit.
• Lower Interest rates.
• Expedited airline security procedure.

1.1 - GID

These will be justified through the creation of the Genetic Identity (GID). The creation of the GID will be supplemented by several events intended to devalue a citizen’s current identity:

• Several high profile cases of identity theft will hit newsstands. [This is being handled by the CIA, I believe]
• Top CEOs will have millions stolen from their bank accounts; the money will not be recovered.
• A terrorist will hijack an airplane by successfully imitating a security officer.
• Authorities will find out, days later, that they have executed the wrong person.
• Several hundred low profile cases around the country, intended to make the message “hit home.”

It will be explained that a GID completely removes the risk of identity theft. Several months after these incidents, national security will be saved thanks to a government official having been fingerprinted earlier that year.

1.2 -

We understand that the general public will, nevertheless, continue to perceive the service as they would a yacht or a passenger trip into outer space – an unnecessary, ostentatious luxury. That is, until certain discoveries are made in federally sponsored laboratories:

• At this time we will unveil our cure for Huntington’s as well as any additional cures we have discovered.

In addition, several independent companies ill begin offering services such as:

• COR (Complete Organ Replacement)
• PBGI (Pre-Birth Genetic Information) [supposedly they can do this currently, but I’m sure there will be some technical or moral setback within the next few months]

Fingerprinting will be a prerequisite for all of the above. After several lives are saved due to these procedures, we will initiate stage two.