"::Pay attention to what happened with the cattle and goods. 

 ::It's the night of the Oscars and whoever's the current president makes some kind of military move that's especially repugnant to a large contingent of the Oscar nominees, who decide to stage an impomptu protest rally right outside the venue for the Oscars. Oh, and they've stored all the diamonds they're to wear to the events in a big strong box during the rally.  
 ::I'm somebody' personal assistant so I'm there at the rally and you, Blue Tie, are in the California National Guard. You can switch roles with me if you want. And then you get secret, extra-legal orders from some conniving superiors......to shoot all male marchers and watch while local barios-and-ghettos hirelings - along with some middle-class hoodlums, too - have been bribed by the promise of a share of these jewels into doing a killing fields thing with all the rally's women and older children, the plan being to get rid of all witnesses and blame this pre-planned massacre on local gangs. And, indeed, afterwards, a percentage of the diamonds are turned over to the gangs while the Guard commanders pocket a share and turn over a large portion of the remainder to the likes of the Police Benevolent Fund. Or, if you'd prefer something from real life, there's the true story that the movie GoodFellas is based on. Before these out-and-out brigands - ""slash"" freelance soldiers/ men of honor - divy up the loot from a big heist, they off one of their accomplices and his wife, ostenibly only because they've got worries that he tells his wife stuff and she might talk. Nathan paid attention to what happens with a particularly beautiful and sophisticated Canaanite and native Jerusalemite woman named Bathsheba, after David had had her husband, Uriah the Hittite, sent to the front of the line in battle; did Nathan say ""What sleight of hand?"" or did he confront David these kingly cupidities?   

  
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