Yeah, I agreed to the implant. Sure. How could I not? They said I couldn't have the job without it. Bastards! After all I'd been through, running constantly, risking my life with shady people just to get here. You bet I agreed, and gladly.
It's not like it was forever, anyway. Just for how long the job lasted they said. Course if I did right, said the right things, convinced the right people, I could have another go Ôround. The implants would stay with me then. But just for how long the job lasted.
They stressed that. It wasn't forever, and it was necessary. Something about the tax payers getting what they paid for. Or something. The taxpayers deserved to keep track of my whereabouts. Or something.
They don't trust me. Or my kind. They say we've been known to cause trouble. We're deceitful. We waste the taxpayers' money, so they don't trust us. As if we were terrorists and not just little guys trying to earn an honest pay for an honest day's work. Just like them. Yeah. That's all we are in reality: little guys just like them.
And who are they to have an issue with trust? Don't I have to trust them? Doesn't it take a leap just to come here to this place? I have no guarantees that they'll keep up their end of the bargain. Stick with me when the going gets rough. And it will get rough. It always does in this line of work. There's no guarantee that they won't pull out their support and leave me stranded. What will happen to me then? Without their support I might as well be stuck in Gitmo, for all the help I'll get. Yeah, they don't know about trust. I'm the one taking the chance.
They trusted me to give me the job, saying I could do this type of labor. But they only trust me as far as they can see me. Heh. Heh. Some joke. This is my life hereÑmy life's dreamÑand they're gonna make jokes at my expense. Well let them laugh. I'll have the last laugh yet. This thing, this implant, will prove that I'm above board. Beyond reproach. Trustworthy. Why, I'll go down in history! I'll be the best damn President of the United States they've ever seen.