Cosmic Justice
The particular Evil which the space turtle sensed came from one Dr. Quincey P. Mandra, who after a long life of being victimized (at least as he saw it) through one means or another, decided that the time had arrived for him to become a Mad Scientist and wreak his revenge on humanity and creation in general by taking over the world and making it his plaything. (As can be seen, Dr. Mandra was rather narrow of vision, as any self-respecting Mad Scientist these days would have planned to take over the universe, or at least our particular galaxy. Perhaps this was why the elder space turtle seemed unconcerned.)
He had already constructed his Evil Headquarters, which he had named The Citadel of Doom (Insert lightning and thunder here). He thought that it was a name that rolled rather nicely off the tongue. It had all that an Evil Mad Scientist could need: attractive art deco living quarters for himself, barracks for his troops, dank dungeons, torture chambers, mutated guard-beasts, booby traps, and lots and lots of insidious machinery that bleeped and buzzed and crackled and made other science fictiony noises.
He still needed one thing however...Hordes.
Every Evil Mad Scientist needs hordes of mindless drones to do his Evil Bidding.
³Where will I find Hordes?² he mused. ³Where can I find great masses of mindless individuals ready to be indoctrinated and follow a charismatic leader with little or no regard for consequences or even common sense?²
He rejected Congress immediately. ³I do need some degree of intelligence in my hordes. Overly stupid hordes have been the downfall of many a Mad Scientist. Besides I do want some combat ability. Some, hell! I want soulless killing machines!²
This naturally brought the armed forces to mind, but he rejected them as too fanatical even for him.
³Frat boys! Hmm...maybe frat pledges. By the time they reach full frat boy status they¹ve consumed way too much alcohol to be worth anything.
that their power was being taken away slowly he gave them positions in the army
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...hermore, going to war was an act of cowardice. He had to put aside his morals and principles and fight a war he did not believe in.
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...cience?? He believed that conscience should tell a person what to do not just a majority vote. To follow a government blindly ruins people they should only trust what they believe is right.
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