An oppressive society can still thrive without disabled technologies and without prison time if the authoritarian figure rules with fear. In "Harrison Bergeron", the disabled general, Diana Moon Glampers, personally shoots and kills Harrison and his empress on live television. Vonnegut writes: “It was at this point that Diana Moon Glampers, the Handicapper General, entered the studio with a double-barreled ten-gauge shotgun. She fired twice, and the Emperor and Empress were dead before they hit the ground” (374). It is not the fact that she kills them that makes this method of repression the most effective, but the fact that she kills them live on television, in full view of everyone. The stupid TV everyone watches may unconsciously influence them, but this action sends a direct message. Without even the slightest hesitation, if anyone attempts to start a rebellion, he or she will be