An oppressive society can still thrive without handicapping technologies and prison if the authority figure rules with fear. In "Harrison Bergeron", the general of the handicapped, Diana Moon Glampers, personally shoots and kills Harrison and his empress on live television. Vonnegut writes: “It was then that Diana Moon Glampers, the general of the handicapped, entered the study with a double-barreled ten-gauge shotgun. He shot twice and the Emperor and Empress were dead before they hit the floor" (374). It is not the fact that he kills them that makes this method of enforcement the strongest, but the fact that he kills them on live television for all to see. The mindless television that everyone watches may influence them unconsciously, but this action sends a direct message. Without even the slightest hesitation, if anyone tries to start a rebellion, they will