 Why was the Amnesty created?
So when the Chief of World Security told him that he had been selected as the answer to the Solar System's greatest mystery, Jery assumed that it was because of his mental agility. But when he got to Mars to find out why fifteen boys had vanished from a spaceship in mid-space, he found out that even his quick mind needed time to pierce the maze of out-of-this-world double-dealing. After a two-year Army hitch, and a year in advertising "sublimating my urge to write things for cash," Jack moved to New York, determined to make a career of full-time fiction-writing. He says, "I'd like to say I do this for fulfillment, or for cash, or because it's my destiny; however, the real reason (same as that expressed by Jean Kerr) is that this kind of stay-at-home self-employment lets me sleep late in the morning." Mostly, I ran back over all the ads I'd created and/or okayed for Solar Sales, Inc. during my five years with the firm, trying to see just where I'd gone and shaken the security of the government. I couldn't find anything really incriminating, unless maybe it was that hair dye that unexpectedly turned bright green after six weeks in the hair, but that was the lab's fault, not mine. Security men were not hired for their loquaciousness. Because the speaker was Philip Baxter, Chief of Interplanetary Security, second only to the World President in power, and not even that in matters of security. Honest, sober, civic-minded, slightly antisocial...." I couldn't have been more surprised had he announced my incipient maternity, but I was able to ask, "Me? "You were chosen, from all the inhabitants of this planet, and all the inhabitants of the Earth Colonies, by the Brain." "All it gives is my description, governmental status, and address!" I let this sink in, then asked, "What made you ask for a man in the first place, sir? You, son, are the solution." Chief of Security or not, I was getting a little burned up at his highhanded treatment of my emotions. "Inter-nation harmony! If these mere boys can get together and travel the voids of space, then so can everyone else! Why should there be tensions between the various nations comprising the World Government, when there's none between these fine lads, one from every civilized nation on Earth?"
 To circumvent bureaucracy that may otherwise get in the way of solving problem
 To solve the issue of any one person having too much power  To avoid the need of consulting another person on an emergency  To circumvent bureaucracy that may otherwise get in the way of solving problem  To allow a person to be able to make decisions without questions asked in an emergency