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Space Aliens Come A Culling
Thinning the herd
All communications were down, all weaponry were rendered useless throughout the entire planet Earth. A solitary UFO hovered over the U.N. building in New York City. The entire membership of nations in the General Assembly Chamber was focused on the speaker's lectern as a beam of light coalesced into a space alien from the UFO. He began to address the assemblage of humanity.
“I am Zenar and I will speak to you of the reason why my brethren and I are here on your planet. My planet is running out of resources, brought on by constant war and unwise management of our planetary environment. We no longer have enough protein to sustain our lives. We needed to restock.”
“I will use some of your colloquialism to help you understand. We have created you, Humans, two million years ago for our purposes. You are the protein fast food that we need and your planet is our Walmart. We are here for the great culling, or as you call it, to shop. Every 100,000 years we come for that purpose.”
“Fifty of your years ago, we began culling your people from this part of your world as food. We have discovered that you are no longer suitable as food and we have developed an incurable disease that will cause us to become extinct. We have been inflicted with what your people call Type II Diabetes that has proven to be fatal to us…
