Chapter 105: Stryker's Death
The Pentagon Special Military Tribunal in Washington, this place is practically rarely used. Although this is also a military court, the military generally does not use this military court in the Pentagon.www.biquge.info Because this military tribunal is actually only for high-ranking generals within the military.
It has been a long time since the United States has disposed of generals with the rank of brigadier general and above. After all, this is not a war year. During the war years, generals sometimes had to stand in court and accept sanctions for their arbitrariness or some misconduct.
But in times of peace, many things have been relaxed. As long as there are not some irreparable mistakes, the general will not be sent to a military court. Because this is too ugly for the military.
Admiral Roth, who presided over the military trial, remembers that it had been almost a decade since a high-ranking official above the brigadier general had been brought before a military tribunal.
This time, however, the U.S. government and military convened a review team of several generals with sufficient authority within the military. And the military tribunal in the Pentagon was used. Because there is an individual who makes a mistake that the entire government and the military do not allow to appear.
It can even be said that in any dynasty, the mistakes made by this man were enough to send him to the guillotine. Because he mobilized a group of troops without authorization from Congress and the military's top brass.
Nearly 300 heavily armed troops armed with weapons of mass destruction were sent to New York on a mission. Their goal is to destroy the mutant school. And the person who sent this unit was none other than Major General Stryker.
One thing that everyone is thankful for is that Charles disbanded Xavier School for the Gifted and Talented early. This leaves Stryker in the air, and when he arrives, he is confronted with an empty school. Everything inside has been emptied, and all materials have been destroyed.
Stryker couldn't even find any information about the students enrolled at the school, which made him furious.
But others were very happy. If the mutant school had been operating normally, it is conceivable that Stryker would have clashed with the X-Men.
And no one can predict the consequences and aftermath of this conflict. Think of 300 elite soldiers who are well-armed and armed with weapons of mass destruction meet equally well-trained X-Men.
It is almost conceivable that a violent conflict will break out between the two gangs. The intensity of the conflict will probably be equivalent to a low-intensity war!
A low-intensity war broke out in New York?! The populace won't care about the whole thing, they'll just know. There was a general with a group of soldiers who attacked a certain mutant school.
What a violent political storm this will cause? How will Congress and the White House explain all this to the people? Will it be directly told that some military man did it privately?
If you really say that, the whole of America will be in a panic. I'm afraid everyone will think that Congress and the White House can no longer control the military. Being caught is enough to force the entire Congress to reshuffle the president.
And the reason for the general's attack on the mutant school cannot be disclosed. Because his mutant experimental base was destroyed, he came to take revenge. If this bullshit is made public, I am afraid that the situation facing the military and the government will be even worse.
So, if the mutant school hadn't been disbanded at that time, Charles and the others would still be inside the school. In the end, a war broke out between the two gangs. Then the U.S. government and the military, which are responsible for the end, have only one way to go.
It's about doing everything you can to cover up what Stryker has done, and to keep him! It's not about right or wrong, maybe you like it or not. Maybe the government will settle accounts later, but there is no other choice at the moment, and this is the complexity of politics. It was with this in mind that Stryker dared to deploy troops without fear.
It's a pity that he didn't calculate Charles's decisiveness. Professor X thinks more deeply than he does, and he wants to avoid the conflict between mutants and ordinary people from escalating. Once Magneto's plan begins, the mutant school is a target.
Without joining Magneto's team, Charles really has only one way to go. That is to give up everything he had done before and to waste his years of hard work.
And all this is also in the calculations of Magneto Eric. The first thing he needs to do to get rid of Professor X's influence among mutants is to get rid of the school!
It can be said that the whole incident can be said to be linked one after another, in the scheming of this complex event. Stryker may be excellent as an American general, but he is nowhere near as good as Magneto and Professor X.
So all his plans failed, everything, everything. Whether it's a bill push or a follow-up want to attack mutant schools. He lost both, and now he has to stand in this military tribunal to stand trial.
"The defendant, Major General Stryker, is accused of moving troops without authorization on the night of May 10. Is the defendant pleading guilty?" General Ross read out the crime briefly.
It is a felony to transfer troops without permission, Congress, the White House, the Pentagon. All three sides are determined to completely kill Stryker, and it is useless for anyone to intercede. This is an event that concerns the fundamental rights and dominance of this country.
So this trial is just a formality, for the other generals to see. It's telling them what to do and what not to do.
Stryker's head hung down, and he didn't answer, he didn't retort. He knew that everything he said was useless, and I was afraid that his guilt had already been convicted internally.
Sure enough, General Ross didn't care about Stryker's silence, he said to himself: "Since the defendant has acquiesced in the crime, then on behalf of the Pentagon and Congress, I will sentence Stryker to the following sentences. ”
"Defendant Stryker, guilty of treason, terrorism, abetment and inhumane experimentation......" General Ross read from the script, and Stryker didn't care what he was talking about, because it didn't matter anymore.
"I am here to pronounce the verdict that former US Major General Stryker is guilty. Stryker will be sentenced to death. The death penalty is set for 3 p.m. today at the Pentagon Military Court!
General Ross finished reading this passage and glanced at his watch, and it was 2:45 p.m. There were only fifteen minutes left to prepare for the death penalty. For Stryker's mistake this time, the White House and the military did not talk about any affection at all, what they wanted was to be quick and strict.
With a wave of his hand, he motioned for the already ready personnel to begin their preparations.
"Is that so?" Stryker muttered, this in itself the worst he had prepared. As a soldier, Stryker is not afraid of death, but he does not want to die like a prisoner.
When he was tied to the injection bed, his former colleagues watched quietly not far away. Watch as the executioner takes out the syringe from his suitcase.
Prepare everything until the injection is injected into Stryker's vein. Then watch as he stops his heartbeat. Everything went very well. That is, until the person in charge of transporting the body pulls Stryker's body away. General Ross looked at Stryker's body being pulled away before shaking his head with a sigh, not knowing what he was sighing about.
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Death by injection is not a painful thing, it is like giving you a tranquilizer. You will soon fall into a stupor, and then your heartbeat and breathing will stop. You won't feel any pain in the process.
Like Stryker, he didn't feel any pain of death at all. He felt like he had just fallen asleep, and then he woke up! Stryker's eyes snapped open, and a man in a white lab coat who looked like a professor or a doctor stood in front of him.
The doctor smiled and said, "You woke up earlier than I expected." The doctor held out his hand as he spoke, looking like he wanted to shake Stryker's hand.
Stryker looked at the doctor with a frown and said, "Who are you? I should be dead!"
"Ahh There was still a smile on his lips: "General Stryker, don't panic too much. My father and you are old friends. If you haven't forgotten your old superior, the like-minded Professor Trisco!"