What Would Randy Kraft Do With
5 Trillion Dollars?
By Ginny Stoner | nworeporter.com
Image by Ed. | nworeporter.com
September 7, 2042
Recently, The NWO Reporter received a worn, paper-bound diary in the mail, wrapped in a brown paper package. An unsigned typed note indicated the diary had been found among the effects of a man named Randy Kraft, who had died in the summer of 2038 at the age of 93.
Much of the diary was devoted to Randy's musings on what he might do if he acquired a huge amount of money -- specifically, 5 trillion dollars. It's a tremendous amount, enough to buy whole industries, cities, and even small countries.
Much of the diary was devoted to Randy's musings on what he might do if he acquired a huge amount of money -- specifically, 5 trillion dollars. It's a tremendous amount, enough to buy whole industries, cities, and even small countries.
As NWO Reporter editor Henry Foster browsed through the diary, he was moved by how much of this vast imaginary fortune Randy had earmarked for humanitarian works.
Randy dreamed of establishing a string of charitable foundations, whose mission would be to help disadvantaged young men and boys. A longtime sufferer of migraine headaches and stomach troubles, Randy dreamed of founding research labs, medical schools and pharmaceutical concerns. He wanted to purchase media outlets and television stations, make generous donations to local law enforcement, and generally to become widely known as one of the greatest philanthropists of all time.
Randy dreamed of establishing a string of charitable foundations, whose mission would be to help disadvantaged young men and boys. A longtime sufferer of migraine headaches and stomach troubles, Randy dreamed of founding research labs, medical schools and pharmaceutical concerns. He wanted to purchase media outlets and television stations, make generous donations to local law enforcement, and generally to become widely known as one of the greatest philanthropists of all time.
So, who was Randy Kraft?
On Sundays, he attended the local Presbyterian church with his mother and 3 doting older sisters.
Randy graduated 10th out his high school class of 390, and went on to college. Within a couple of years, his political views had shifted dramatically to the left. He grew his hair long and wore a goatee. He started protesting the Vietnam War and wearing bell-bottom jeans.
Randy also came out as gay, which was not a very popular thing to be at the time. He was never afraid to be a trendsetter.
Randy also came out as gay, which was not a very popular thing to be at the time. He was never afraid to be a trendsetter.
After graduating with a BA in economics in 1967, Randy joined the air force rather than face the draft. He tested high on all the aptitude tests, and secured a noncombat position. A year later, he informed his commanding officer that he was gay. He was given a general discharge shortly thereafter.
Randy recognized the significance of the emerging computer technology early on. He learned how to program computers, and found his skills much in demand in the newly computerized airline industry. He began steadily moving up the lucrative ladder of white-collar success.
Eventually, Randy met a younger man named Jeff and they fell in love.
Eventually, Randy met a younger man named Jeff and they fell in love.
The couple bought a nice house in the suburbs. Randy enjoyed working in his showpiece garden and walking his beloved little dog Max around the neighborhood. He was a friendly and helpful neighbor.
Randy was liked and admired by his coworkers, never dictatorial with the people he supervised. An older woman he worked with tearfully remembered how Randy had saved her job. She was about to be fired because she just couldn't understand the new computerized system. Randy tutored her for hours until she finally got it.
Randy was known for his gentle kindness to helpless creatures. At the office, he insisted no one squash stray insects that found their way in; instead, he would carefully capture them and release them outside.
Randy and Jeff enjoyed an active social life. They joined a bridge club that met regularly for years. The members took turns hosting the parties, and Randy and Jeff went all-out with the refreshments when it was their turn.
When he wasn't busy with his professional career, social activities, or tending his garden, Randy Kraft enjoyed a hobby: he liked torturing young men to death.
He liked to take all-night drives around the Southern California countryside, where young men from the local military bases often hitchhiked. Randy kept a good stock of cold beer and prescription drugs in his car to incapacitate them.
One of Randy's favorite instruments of torture was his car's cigarette lighter -- he liked branding circles all over the bodies of young men, particularly their eyeballs. He especially enjoyed genital mutilation, and the screams that accompanied it. Sometimes he cut their eyelids off, so they had to watch.
Randy's hobby was discovered by chance, when he was pulled over for a traffic violation on a remote highway in Southern California. There was a dead young man in the passenger seat.
Based on a cryptic list Randy kept, a stack of Polaroid photos, and a collection of mementos belonging to missing or dead young men, prosecutors believe Randy killed at least 67 men between 1971 and 1983. Randy was convicted for a handful of murders and sentenced to death. But it was California, so he died of old age instead.
In spite of his outward appearance of normalcy, Randy was a psychopath, also known as a sociopath. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual prefers the friendlier label of antisocial personality disorder.
Randy Kraft was missing that invisible element that makes people truly human: a conscience. But like all psychopaths, he knew how to simulate a conscience very well, and considered himself superior to the rest of humanity for being unencumbered by one.
Most theorists estimate that between 1% and 5% of the world's population are psychopaths -- 72 million people or more worldwide.
But not to worry -- most psychopaths are not serial killers like Randy. They prefer not to get their hands that dirty.
Instead, they wreak their own particular brand of havoc on humanity, depending on their own individual strengths and proclivities. Unencumbered by a conscience, the more ambitious and intelligent among them often progress to the highest levels of business, industry and government.
But rest assured that very few psychopaths have 5 trillion dollars with which to pull the strings of the world.
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