Chapter 392 The Death of Stryker
Washington Pentagon Special Court Martial, this place is actually rarely used. Although this is also a military court, the military generally does not use this military court in the Pentagon. Because this court-martial is actually only for high-level generals within the military.
It has been a long time since the United States has dealt with generals with the rank of brigadier general or above. After all, this is not a time of war. During the war years, generals sometimes need to stand in court to accept sanctions for their own arbitrariness or certain misconduct.
But in peaceful times, many things have been relaxed. As long as there are no irreparable mistakes, the general senior generals will not be sent to military courts. Because this is too ugly for the military.
Admiral Ross, who presided over the military trial, still remembered that it had been almost ten years, and no high-ranking official above the brigadier general had been sent to a military court.
But this time, the U.S. government and the military summoned several generals with sufficient prestige within the army to form a review team. And the military court in the Pentagon was used. Because one individual made a mistake that the entire government and military would not allow.
It can even be said that in any dynasty, the mistakes made by this person are enough to send him to the guillotine. Because he mobilized a group of troops without authorization from Congress and the top military officials.
Nearly three hundred troops armed with weapons of mass destruction were sent to New York by this person to perform tasks. Their goal is to destroy the mutant school. And the person who sent this unit was Major General Stryker.
One thing everyone is thankful for is that Charles disbanded the Xavier Gifted School early. This made Stryker come to nothing, and when he arrived, he faced an empty school. Everything inside has been evacuated, and all materials have been destroyed.
Stryker couldn't even find a single record of any students enrolled at the school, which made him furious.
Others, however, felt immensely grateful. If the mutant school was still operating normally at that time, it is conceivable that Stryker would inevitably have a fierce conflict with the X-Men.
And no one can predict what kind of consequences and aftermath this conflict will cause. Think about it, three hundred well-equipped elite soldiers with big killers met the equally well-trained X-Men.
It was almost conceivable that a violent conflict would inevitably break out between the two gangs. The intensity of the conflict may be equivalent to a low-intensity war!
A low-level war in New York? ! Just thinking about it can be scary. People don't care about the ins and outs of the whole thing, they just know. A general led a group of soldiers to attack a mutant school.
What kind of violent political storm will this cause? How do Congress and the White House need to explain all this to the public? Do you want to tell everyone directly that this was done by a certain soldier privately!
Ha ha! If you really said that, the whole of the United States would panic. I am afraid that everyone will feel that Congress and the White House can no longer control the military. Getting caught is enough to force the entire Congress to reshuffle the president.
And the reason why the general attacked the mutant school cannot be made public. Because his mutant experiment base was destroyed, he came to take revenge. How can such an excuse come out? If the reason for this bullshit is made public, I am afraid 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, the two gangs broke out in war. Then the U.S. government and military, which are responsible for the end, have only one way to choose.
That is to do everything possible 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 now, and this is the complexity of politics. Stryker took this into consideration, so he dared to deploy troops without fear.
It's a pity that he didn't count Charles' decisiveness. Professor X thinks more deeply than him, and he wants to avoid the expansion of the conflict between mutants and ordinary people. Once Magneto's plan starts, the mutant school is a target.
Without joining Magneto's ranks, there's really only one way Charles can go. That is to give up everything he has done before, and to put his years of hard work in vain.
And all this is also in the calculation of Magneto King 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 together, in terms of the scheming of this complicated incident. As an American general, Stryker may be excellent, but he is far inferior to Magneto and Professor X.
So all his plans failed, everything. It doesn't matter whether it's the promotion of the bill, or the subsequent attempt to attack the mutant school. He lost, and now he has to stand in this military court for trial.
"The defendant, Major General Stryker, is accused of mobilizing troops without authorization on the night of May 10. Does the defendant plead guilty?" General Ross briefly read the crime.
It is a felony to transfer troops without permission, Congress, the White House, and the Pentagon. All three parties are determined to kill Stryker completely, and it is useless to ask for mercy. This is an event that concerns the fundamental rights and dominance of this country.
So this trial was just a formality, for other generals to see. This is telling them what to do and what not to do.
Stryker lowered his head, and he didn't answer or refute. He knew that everything he said was useless, and I am afraid that his crime had already been determined internally.
Sure enough, General Ross didn't care about Stryker's silence. He continued on his own: "Since the defendant has acquiesced in the crime, then on behalf of the Pentagon and Congress, I sentence Stryker to the following sentence."
"Defendant Stryker, committed treason, terrorism, instigation and inhumane experimentation..." General Ross read the script, and Stryker didn't care what he was talking about, because everything didn't matter now.
"I am here to pronounce that the former U.S. Army major general Stryker is guilty. You will be sentenced to death for several crimes. The death penalty is limited to 3 pm today, and you will be in the Pentagon Court Martial! Death by injection!"
After reading this passage, General Ross glanced at his watch. It was now two forty-five in the afternoon. Only fifteen minutes to prepare for the execution. Regarding Stryker's mistake this time, the Congress, the White House and the military have no sympathy at all, and what they want is to be quick and severe.
He waved his hand and signaled the already ready personnel to start making preparations.
"Is that really the case?" Stryker thought to himself, this in itself was the worst plan he had prepared. As a soldier, Stryker wasn't afraid of death, but he didn't want to die like a prisoner.
When he was tied to the injection bed, his former colleagues watched quietly not far away. Watch as executioners take injections from suitcases.
Everything was ready, right down to the injection into Stryker's vein. Then watch him stop his heartbeat. Everything went very smoothly. Until the person in charge of transporting the corpse pulled Stryker's corpse away. General Ross sighed and shook his head after watching Stryker's body being taken away, not knowing what he was sighing for.
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Death by injection is not a painful thing, it's like giving you a tranquilizer. You quickly fall into a coma, and then your heartbeat and breathing stop. You will not feel pain during this process.
Like Stryker, he felt no death pain at all. He felt like he just fell asleep, and then he woke up! Stryker suddenly opened his eyes, and a man in a white 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 and seemed to want to shake Stryker's hand.
Stryker frowned and looked at the doctor and said, "Who are you? Where is this place. I should be dead!"
"Ah!" The doctor suddenly realized something, as if he just realized that he didn't introduce himself. There was still a smile on the corner of his mouth: "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 Tresco!"