Barett's Digital Gods

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Digital Gods Barett lives in a nice house, considering the fact that he steals his income. His wife and children live with him, not knowing about who he truly is. They always knew that he was good with computers but they never could comprehend how good. He lives in this house. The house with the circular door and the televators that responded to voice commands. The nuclear-powered watt-wave, oven, and other kitchen appliances. The house that little children envied as they walked home from school to their apartments. Barett likes to refer to himself as a digital god. He’s the best hacker in the world, seeing as no one has directly challenged him yet. There have been attempts to hack his bank accounts and such. These attempts were thwarted as they appeared, for …show more content…
I’ll be fine,” said Barett, “ I would be more worried about what is going to happen to your government!” Oh lord... thought Joe. Barett had always been into computers. Ever since they were children. Even as Joe thought of what the government would do to Barett, he thought of how terribly Barett could destroy the government. “Maybe you shouldn’t --” “I am,” Barett interjected, “ I don’t think you will understand. They took my mother from me! This will not keep happening. I can’t keep hiring people like Osama Bin Laden. Look where that one got me, besides with my mother.” “Alright.” Joe accepted the fact that the next couple of weeks could be the last of the government that he works so hard to protect. Joe also understood that the government shouldn’t be taking people because they are scared of someone else. They should not be trying to confine someone who is ultimately a person of the greatest talent in his field. For this Joe restrained from arresting Barett. Because in the end, Joe wanted the government to go down as much as Barett, even if he didn’t see

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