Someone doesn't want the kids competing and is trying to keep them out. I'm on the state board. I'll demand a meeting with the national people. We'll ...et to the bottom of this."The next morning, dad got his meeting, but not much satisfaction from it. That we had enemies became clear. Dad was repeatedly interrupted and summarily cut off when he would try to make an argument.Mad clear through, mom and dad called mom's family lawyer, who headed a large practice right there in Richmond. A day. I was so shocked that I had her do it again, and learned that she could see or otherwise sense what the streams of a person's mind were supposed be in their natural unaltered state.Actually, she later clarified it to be more like smoothing out the streams to a more natural appearance, admitting she couldn't really know for sure what their original minds had been like and just made the streams of symbols flow in an order that seemed as natural as her own, knowing that she had never been altered. If the Federation is the biggest trading partner of the colony, it is a simple matter to have an influence on the group. For planets that are unsuitable to be an industrial or agricultural base, the Federation has found that the best way to have an influence on the planet is to provide a service to the planet that the group cannot provide on their own. Security service is the best service the Federation can provide as troops and police can protect the groups from native threats and the criminal. So as I tiptoed into her room, evidence of the good time were all over the place, but of course quietly entering rooms of sleeping people to get the job done was among many of my expertise. However, this time I think it was just bad timing, but my mother had awoken, she quietly whispered, ?Off the work sweetie???Yes mom, have to be there 5 am sharp.? I replied quietly grabbing the clean set of uniform.?My hard working son, Steven? or Jiffy?? She said in a sleepy tone.?Well I just cleaned up.