This is chapter 3 of The Penal Preserve, you may want to go back to Chapter 2 or start at the beginning.

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In the evenings, the prisoners were compelled to hear lengthy propaganda sessions from Ross about the threat posed by the Aliens. He was very impassioned and would speak at some length along the following lines:

‘The time has come—the clock has struck—something must be done immediately by every man and woman on this beautiful planet to escape the certain tragic fate that awaits the future of our children and their children’s children.¹ The time has come to say no to the Aliens.² When they first came, we gave these quaint, exotic strangers a hearty welcome, and we met them with curiosity and good faith.³ But we’ve been deceived. If these Aliens had come not as peaceful traders, but as the invading, hostile army they really are, I assure you public opinion would be very different to what it is.⁴

‘Few people grasp the true dimensions of this invasion.⁵ It is an invasion. Do you think they have to come with guns and bombs instead of things to sell before we can call it an invasion?⁶ They said they came to trade, to sell us their wares. Do you want to know why they really came here? The Aliens came here to weaken and confuse us, to corrupt us, but above all to retard enormously our economic and technological development—in short, everything on which our future depends.⁷ They came to do us harm. I’ve seen it with my own eyes. They’ve already undermined the foundations of our most cherished institutions.⁸ It was a very sure instinct which taught the ancients to fear strangers.⁹

‘Now, it is true that our government has shown a gross and scandalous neglect of this matter. But no longer. This is our true purpose here.¹⁰ Today, the only places we can escape from the Aliens and the stuff they’re hawking are the most remote, isolated corners of the earth.¹¹ We are humanity’s first defense in a war that has already begun. We are here to build a society completely free from Alien influences. We want none of their shiny space shit here. We are going to live as humans have always lived—by our wits and the products of our hands.’

It seems that the prisoners were mostly unmoved by Ross’s harangues—even though they were more reasonable than the sort of things he usually said. Doubtless, Welles had worked with him to refine their message. Indeed, I have often wondered if Jane wasn’t responsible for some of the many speeches Ross delivered. Whatever the case, the prisoners were forced to listen to him every night.

Chapter 4 tomorrow, same time, same place.

The time has arrived—the clock has struck—when something must be done immediately by every by every white man and woman in this great glorious country to stay or to escape the certain tragic fate that awaits the future of our children’s children of generations yet to be born. Theodore G Bilbo, Take Your Choice: Separation or Mongrelization 1947 ↩
The time has come to shut the door. Ellison DuRant Smith, US Senator for South Carolina, 9 April 1924 ↩
At first these quaint, exotic strangers received a hearty welcome. Henry Pratt Fairchild, The Melting-Pot Mistake 1926 ↩
If the million people coming every year came not as peaceful travelers, but as an invading hostile army, public opinion would be very different to what it is. Prescott F Hall, "The Future of American Ideals," The North American Review Vol. 195, No. 674 January, 1912 ↩
Few people grasp the true dimensions of this invasion. H G Wells, The Future in America 1906 ↩
Is it necessary that the invader should come in warships instead of in the steerage hold of steam vessels before the migration can be called an invasion? Frank Juilian Warne, The Immigrant Invasion 1913 ↩
The immigrant comes in to weaken and confuse the counsels of labor, to serve the purpose of corruption, to complicate any economic and social development, above all to retard enormously the development of that national consciousness and will on which the hope of the future depends. H G Wells, The Future in America 1906 ↩
Were not the foundations of our cherished institutions already partially undermined by all these alien ideas, habits, and customs. Henry Pratt Fairchild, The Melting-Pot Mistake 1926 ↩
It was a very sure instinct which taught the ancients the fear of strangers. Gustave LeBon, La Psychologie politique et la defense sociale 1910 ↩
It is true that in the past there has been gross and scandalous neglect of this matter on the part both of government and people, here in the United States. Francis Walker, "Restriction of Immigration," The Atlantic June 1896 ↩
The pure races of to-day are to be found in the remote, isolated corners of the earth. Henry Pratt Fairchild, The Melting-Pot Mistake 1926 ↩

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