Day Dreaming at the Keyboard

They didn’t know I was here. I came two nights ago, crawling on all fours until my elbows bled cradling the weapon that I would need. It was a sniper rifle with an invisible laser with bullets that could change course just a little if needed. They could shift their weight to home in on the laser dot that was invisible to the human eye.

I looked down at the enemy camp, their soldiers were everywhere. They called themselves the Army of the People but everyone with a half a mind knows that communism is slavery and communism kills millions. Now they were trying to take over my country, a country formerly one of the most free on Earth.

We would not let them do it. We were fighting all over and we were pushing them back. We hit them as hard if not harder than they could hit us. The war was destructive and this land of plenty had become a wasteland of ruins and mass graves. I have personally witnessed the Army of the People use heavy artillery bombardments against small towns of innocent people. They are barbarians.

I lowered my eye to the scope and zoom in on one man in particular. He was their military leader in this region, one of their top guys anywhere. He was wearing a dress uniform full of badges and awards standing there talking to a woman I recognized. She worked for the New American News Service, a commie outfit controlled by their political bosses.

I chambered one of the big rounds, eleven inches long. I might even be able to take them both out. Top General and Star reporterette with a single shot, I might get a ribbon for that. The probability of me surviving was slim to none, of course, after taking out this guy.

Two miles was a long range for a sniper but this shell and this gun is what made it possible and this was perfect weather. The brackets I saw appear over the General were flashing, telling me that it was a good time to fire. I tightened my grip and exhaled, then I pressed down on the trigger. The sound was suppressed but it sounded very loud to me as I watched the image on my scope and the round in the air attempted to follow the laser.

The back of the General’s head opened up like a rose blossoming in a high speed film, he collapsed. The reporter was covered in blood but it wasn’t hers, she was frozen in shock, an easy mark. Too bad for me though, I had to attempt to get away. I had the gun strap over my shoulder and then the little bag I had brought with me and I began my escape and evasion routine.

I climbed down from the rocky area on the hill and into the tree line nearby. I could imagine that helicopters were already airborne from the other side of the base, which was once a small town. The helicopters were parked at what use to be a high school, now a military headquarters and their big tarmac had once been part of a parking lot.

They called us the rebels! We were the insurgents, the enemy of the state. The gall of these people knew no bounds. They had gotten themselves elected by lying to the people and the lazy, left-wing media fell for it happily and uncritically. It didn’t dawn on those media idiots until too late that something might not be on the up and up.

The President was one hateful commie and he was not a patient man. One of the first things he did upon taking office was to change Solicitor-Generals and try to argue, in a free speech case, that the government had the right and duty to regulate political speech. Whether in books, pamphlets, radio, TV, online or anything else, the Supreme Court majority was aghast by this and rejected it.

Amazingly three of those five justices had fallen sick in the first year and half and he nominated extreme leftists to replace them. All three branches were then under his complete control, or at least his puppet master. You see the President, while he did have a lot of power, was also the tool and plaything of one of the wealthiest men on Earth.

George Stark had been born in Poland as a Jew and was adopted by a NAZI leader after the invasion. He toured the concentrated camps with his new father and came to hate his own people and blamed them for everything. After the war he got into finance and used every tool to amass more and more wealth. He used that wealth for his own political ends as well.

He financed revolutions and guerrilla warfare around the world all the while setting up economic systems that turned the entire world into a fragile bubble. He came to America and within twenty years could claim to own the Democrat Party in the open, knowing the media was on the same side. “I bought it, I own it”.

George Stark and other super wealthy socialists created their own club and worked together to entrench the radical left into the levers of power. They dominated finance as well as insurance and the media. They had the power to bring a communist-fascist revolution to the United States.

The opposition to these plans was unorganized and mostly powerless, the weak-kneed Republican Party a poor substitute for a real patriotic political party. The leaders of the party were not much different from the Democrat Party; their last Presidential candidate had even attended the shadow convention held by George Stark.

The first year in office the President spent two trillion dollars more than was spent in the previous year. This was almost all debt and the economy was pushed off the road by heavy handed regulations and punitive taxation. The unemployment had doubled in less than two years and doubled again before the third was over.

That is about the time when the government declared political dissent to be a form of hate speech and protests to be similar to terrorism. Not just the words, those had come days into office, but actual arrests and prosecution. Now disagreement could cause a person to be fined or locked up in a prison.

In the fourth year the President ran for re-election in the face of polls that showed him heavily disfavored against literally anyone.

The Capitol building went up in flames during the night before the primaries, the media immediately blamed it on “right wing extremists”. Within days the primaries were cancelled by Presidential order and the Republican Party was labeled a terrorist organization and banned. Its leaders arrested all over the country and their offices shut down, assets frozen.

No evidence was ever presented for this but none was needed.

The leftwing media had demonized the “right” with false accusations of violence for more than four years and they made many people believe them. Despite the facts that the violence on the left was a common everyday thing the media liked to blow up any criminal at all into part of the “rightwing conspiracy”. While ignoring the organized and pre-planned violence from unions and various radical left organizations they favored.

The former Secretary of State who had decided to run in the Democrat primary had never been heard from again, she was simply disappeared. A lot of people were disappeared during those horrible months of 2012. Church pastors, small businessmen, bloggers, opposition recruiters for the various upstart parties. They did not ban all opposition parties until 2013.

In the field ahead of me I saw military vehicles and foot soldiers crisscrossing through the high grass, probably looking for me. I heard the pat-pat-pat of a distant helicopter, probably engaged in the search too. It reminded me that I was sixty miles from the front lines and more than twenty miles before my first possible extraction point. It looked more and more like it would be at least Beta Point before I’d hop a ride out of here.

The division in the country had become immediately apparent and panic had ensued as millions came to the realization that civil war was imminent. Leftists made a rush to states that were leftist and everyone else made a move get away from those leftist states. The leftist states were on the east and west coasts as well as much of the northeast and rustbelt.

Almost half the armed forces defected to our side when it all started. Orders to move against their own countrymen had been too much for them. They were not falling for the bombings and attacks coming from the “right” in the least.

Finally it all came to a head when the White House took tight controls of the media and internet, declaring all dissent criminal. Federal buildings in the self-declared Free States were taken over and radical leftists were rounded up and placed under watch. 150 Freedom leaders from the 32 states gathered in Lincoln, Nebraska and signed the Statement of Principles for the Free Republic of America.

The battle lines were drawn as the Free Republic of America delegates chose a new President, whose first speech emphasized the fight ahead for freedom against tyranny. All of the TV and radio stations in the FRA carried the speech and re-aired it several times.

It took both sides months to get everything in order militarily but it was clear that both sides had control of considerable nuclear weapons, both vowed not to use them first. The newly created First Army was set at Fort Hood, TX and it was a heavily armored force.

The Second Army was based in Nebraska and it had less armor but it was built to move faster and it was also near the base where the FRA heavy bombers were based. In Montana and Idaho they formed the Third Army, a light force that could move stealthily through mountains and forests.

The Fourth Army had effective operations in Utah, Nevada and Arizona and was a light mechanized force but with a lot of air support from the FRA Air Force. Meanwhile the Sixth Army was operating in Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and parts of Tennessee, South Carolina and Florida.

The First Army took responsibility for Oklahoma and the parts of Arkansas, Louisiana and New Mexico that they controlled.
When the battles began the FRA held strong in most places but the enemy managed to take parts of Missouri our side had controlled. The Mississippi River was the border from the Canadian River down into Arkansas but we also controlled much of the south.

We felt assured we could win this war quickly and take back our country. Then the Latino uprising began at the behest of the US government. Our southern flank was now a warzone and the Mexican Narco Army moved against the FRA in coordination with the US. There were so many sleeper agents agitating with Mexican and Salvadoran gangs to war against the FRA.

It was a major blow and it took forming different militia forces to get things under control and sometimes harsh tactics had to be employed. The enemy would go after women and children of the Anglo’s and this merited a stiff response. The Texas Militia leader had authorized televised executions in response to atrocities.
Meanwhile a US armored division based in North Carolina moved against South Carolina while Marines from amphibious ships stormed the beaches. The government of South Carolina was forced to move operations to Spartanburg as their militia began to form up where it could.

Georgia-based air assets from Augusta and Savannah did what they could against the US Air Force and Naval air assets to give the militia cover. A small FRA Marine detachment managed to arrive in Charleston before the US troops and give them a real fight. Video of the fighting would be aired all over the FRA as a lesson in fighting to the bitter end.

Within a week there were US ships being based out of Charleston again and the government was making mass arrests and putting on show trials and executing dozens of people. Meanwhile a heavily armored force from St Louis moved into western Missouri, pushing the Missouri Militia and the FRA Second Army-Third Group westward.

Once the front got to Jefferson City the FRA bombarded the enemy forces from the air with B-1 and B-2 bombers dropping cluster bombs while F-16’s were going after radar and SAM systems. The F-15’s used their AMRAAM missiles to take control of the air from US fighters and bombers.

That had all happened a few years ago before the introduction of Cuban, Chinese and Russian forces on the US side. The trio of nations had invaded Florida and secured it for the US with the assistance of troops from Venezuela and Mexico. In response the FRA used B-2 bombers and devastated Mexico City, Havana and Caracas with fuel-air bombs. F-22’s had taken down the enemy forces that rose to oppose them. FRA submarines that had been based in Florida were now basing in other states in the Gulf and destroying shipping of all of the enemy countries.

Today the FRA was in the worst shape it had been in so far. Foreign armies were now controlling much of the North American continent. Russian troops held most of Alaska while the Chinese fleet was using Pearl Harbor and moving troops to California. The FRA had nothing on the west coast since the evacuation of Guam and Okinawa; the homeless fleet had to go all around the South American tip to reach FRA ports in the Gulf. That is why we weren’t invaded from the Gulf again.

In the night I move quietly and hoped my inner X-Suit would shield me from Infra-red scanners as it was designed. Powered by battery that was recharged by my movements the X-Suit was one of the latest advances, it had been nearly finished when war broke out. My assassination of the Russian General would throw a wrench in the enemy operations and possibly into relations between Moscow and the White House.

I wasn’t the only one on a secret mission this day. Dozens of special missions were to be carried out all over US/Allied-held territory. The objective was to destabilize their operations and throw them off-balance. Whether it was the submarine attacks in the Pacific, since it was decided to re-launch operations in that theater or the naval air attacks against Florida and Cuba or the submarine assault on Washington DC itself it was all designed to shock them. Add to that high-level assassinations of military and political leaders and it would cause plenty of problems.

Europe and others that had been neutral were almost ready to write us off and join in the international alliance with the US. This day would let them know that the FRA was in no stretch of the imagination a spent force.

I arrive at the Alpha extraction point and found no sign of enemy activity. It had been a trucking company site once back when they parked their van trailers here. There were still a few them around the edges but they were falling apart.

I waited until the appointed time to activate my beacon, which I would turn off and on to keep the enemy from locating it: hopefully at least. Within the hour I heard the whap-whap-whap of an aircraft flying in fast and low and then it was there in the middle of the decayed parking lot shining a spotlight around as it touched down.

The back of the MV-22 opened and several marines exited and fell to the ground with their guns at the ready. Then I waved and waited for a response before running for the aircraft. Seconds later we were in the air and flying toward FRA territory at 350 mph. A dozen miles later I noted that Apache helicopters were flying with us as escorts.

Finally the guy in charge of the Marine squad decided to fill me in. All over the US controlled territory political and military leaders had been killed. Attacks on Florida, Cuba, Washington DC and even Chinese and Russian forces in the Pacific had gone very well. The US government was reeling and attempts to send in large numbers of aircraft to attack the FRA had been met with the same as well as massive numbers of SAM’s.

At least ten of our guys on assassination missions had been killed or captured, most of them after completing their assignments. It was assumed that the US would be able to copy the XM-27 rifle and shells within months but it had been worth it. Large numbers of US planes had been thrown into the fire in a hasty and badly advised temper tantrum.

Large numbers of enemy naval forces had been sunk or crippled by our submarine attacks but some of those submarines were lost too. Most likely USN or Russian submarines had been able to locate and kill them when they fired off their missiles and torpedoes. Another massive fuel-air bomb attack on Caracas with stand-off weapons had also been completed.

“Early indications are that the Venezuelan dictator wants out. He wants his troops in Florida back in case the Colombians get ideas to invade” he said using the com system because of the noise. “It looks like Colombia and Chile are moving from neutral to leaning toward our side, I guess those special diplomatic missions had an impact”.

I took a nap despite the cacophony of noise from the engines until we touched down somewhere in western Wyoming. I was soon debriefed by a Lt General and a small staff. He also told me that Japan, though weakened by the Chinese attacks against it had declared themselves allies of the FRA. He also confided me that Australia and New Zealand were working with us and had even resupplies our submarines.

The next day I tuned in to listen to enemy broadcasts of the New America Radio Network, they were telling their populations very little but even that was bad news. If they were admitting setbacks to their own population of slaves then things were bad indeed.

Radio Free Republic was quite openly claiming victories all over and reporting the list of top generals and politicians that had fallen. The US was listening, very little could be done in much of their territory about picking up our broadcasts. Let the US government try to disprove these people were dead if the questions started to get asked.

We also knew that New America, as they were calling themselves, was quite low on food because the territory we controlled was most of the grain belt and cattle ranches. We also did major damage to their infrastructure so that moving large quantities of food around was very hard.

FRA submarines sank a lot of shipping in the Atlantic a lot of that was probably supplies of food and equipment. They were still able to move some food through Canada to the northeast and through Mexico to the west coast but not enough. US food rationing was becoming worse each month.

The internet was long gone but computers were not totally useless since the FRA allowed sub-frequencies on radio stations to be used to send out data. A receiver device that was easy to make from old radios could be connected to computers that would allow the data to be picked up and downloaded.

Each day persons, who had electricity, could read dozens of pages of news and opinion that had been approved for such broadcasts. Four different “news teams” would send out their packets between 8 AM and 3 PM daily. These usually included a weather report, a business and food report, authorized war reporting and their own editorials and opinions and other things, almost as if they were old type newspapers.

The Spectator, Observer, News-Journal and Daily Press all had very small staffs but strove to be better than the other. All of them were attached to the military headquarters to make it easy to get approval from the PR officer. Before long the PR officer just decided to issue the Official Dispatch with official war communiqués and other public information. These would no longer be duplicated in the digital news broadcasts.

The Capitol might have started in Lincoln at the outset of hostilities but was now somewhere in Wyoming. Colorado was still disputed territory while New Mexico was mostly controlled by the Mexican Narco Army. Most of Central America was neutral and sometimes they lent a hand to the FRA behind the scenes. A couple of days after the surprise we put on the US several of those small countries allied with us. Soon we had more bases for resupplying our navy in the Pacific and not all the way to Australia.

Within a month FRA submarines had sank the sixth and final Chinese aircraft carrier along with other important vessels. The Chinese began to pull their troops out of the war and were taking whatever loot they could find with them. Soon we unleashed our aircraft carriers with major bombing against Chinese air and naval assets in Japan.

Meanwhile uprisings against Chinese rule in Korea and Indo-China were breaking out causing a further pull back. FRA marines were able to deliver shiploads of food, medicine and weapons to the Japanese during the confusion. Color photographs of this would soon appear in the digital media broadcasts all over the FRA.

As Venezuela pulled their troops back their country was attacked by Colombian forces spilling over the border. Soon joined by Peruvian, Chilean and Costa Rican forces they managed to liberate most of Venezuela in little time. Russian navy and air forces retreated to Cuba and left the country to fall into the hands of the liberators.

A US carrier fleet and an FRA carrier fleet engaged in the Pacific and the brutal result was that both fleets were crippled. The US carrier sustained enough damage to require years to repair while the FRA carrier sank after most of the crew escaped. A few of the longer range aircraft that were in the air managed to find a friendly place to land.

A convoy of cargo ships transporting troops back to China was spotted by an FRA submarine and they sank a dozen vessels. The Chinese government would later estimate that 16,000 soldiers were aboard them. They were still at war because the Chinese still occupied official ally Japan.

After four years of bitter fighting and with their own problems controlling much of the former Soviet empire the Russians began their own pull-out. Again they looted anything and everything they could find worth taking. Reports said they even took some women and children with them.

The Cuban Army was pushed out of Florida within months and the Free Florida Militia soon controlled the entire peninsula. Massive fuel-air bombings against the “occupation force” from Mexico soon had the desired effect as they began moving back south. Soon the FRA took control of New Mexico and began moving into all parts of Colorado, except the now closed NORAD.

What they found in Denver was heartbreaking. The city had been ransacked and very little was left. The FRA and the new Free Colorado Militia announced they would attempt to restore power and water to the city as much as possible. The population was much reduced so people were moved from the worst areas to better areas. Trucks of food and medicine entered under guard and doctors attempted to rehabilitate a former hospital into a working one.

The Commanding General of the FRA called it a “crime against humanity” as well as the looting by the retreating foreign armies. The “so-called US government” was nothing more than a “criminal gang” looting the entire nation.

“As we retake our nation from these barbarians we will arrest and try their officials at all levels for their crimes. They will be executed. Those who supported the regime will be penalized in various ways. We will not allow the US, once back together to return to the old corrupt ways. There will be new amendments to the Constitution, with real teeth, that limits the power and scope of the government.”

The entire speech was reproduced in the Official Dispatch and as always had no commentary or anything else. Thrust of military muscle into California, Minnesota, Iowa and North Carolina was a stunning blow to the US. Their forces retreated or surrendered in place while pilots often defected and delivered enemy aircraft intact.

FRA forces soon controlled the south and west of Washington DC and naval attacks on Baltimore made it unsafe for the government leaders to flee. Aerial bombardments of Fort Meade, Fort Belvoir, Dulles Airport and Andrews AFB made it plain that the FRA was on the way.

An armored division of 100 tanks and 150 armored personnel carriers was moving towards DC from the west while a similar force moved in from the south. Both of those were followed by armies of 75,000 or more each. They also came with attack helicopters, fighter cover, bombers and anti-aircraft systems. They simply overwhelmed the Pentagon.

The FRA navy was too strong to escape by sea and they effectively blockaded Washington DC when they landed paratroops at Friendship Airport to the north. Washington DC was cut off from the northeast corridor. The FRA forces closed in and made sure that nothing would get by them.

The FRA began to broadcast TV and radio into Washington DC as well as airdropping pamphlets demanding that the US government surrender. Meanwhile fighting continued in Silver Spring Maryland and Alexandria Virginia. Another 80,000 Militia arrived in the area from 40 different State Militia.

Washington DC itself had tens of thousands of loyal troops and they had SAM systems all over the place. The FRA grew tired and began F-22 and B-2 missions to destroy the SAM sites and then they began hitting other targets. Within days the constant barrage caused the city to buckle whether the government liked it or not.

Unmanned drones and attack helicopters directed artillery strikes and hit the enemy as the armored pincers and foot soldiers began moving into DC proper. The loyal forces fought door to door in some neighborhoods but they were fighting a losing battle. Soon they had surrounded the downtown area and gingerly took over the national monuments and cleaned out the enemy inside of the federal buildings.

As they took over federal department after federal department they checked a list of names of the most wanted officials. Then they arrested those most senior in each location or those who had done things that had made them enemies.

The White House and the US Capitol building were soon the only things left to the US government. Their remaining forces in the northeast and west coast were fully engaged and unable to render assistance. The secret Capitol subway was totally under FRA control as well.

Where there was power FRA made sure that all TV stations were broadcasting what was happening in DC. They had three different “channels” with different commentators and anchors and choices of more than two dozen “pool” cameras. Plus radio commentary from the scene was also going out around the world.
The foreign embassies were under siege as well, because it was possible for them to be hiding out in them. The FRA announced that they would not recognize the sovereignty of any embassy harboring the “criminals of the regime”. The Capitol was soon stormed and more than 3,900 people were arrested, less than 100 had been hostile enough to kill.

This included the 535 rubber stamp Congress members. They were all held for crimes against humanity and the rest were held for various charges. Then the 9 members of the Supreme Court, all appointed by the criminal regime, whose predecessors all died under “suspected” conditions were also arrested. Various cabinet and sub-cabinet officers were placed under arrest as well and soon the entire top echelons of government were imprisoned in a make-shift camp on the ellipse.

Finally the FRA entered the White House and arrested the President and all of the top staff as well as leaders of the Democrat Party and top officials with leftist organizations. All of them would be charged with sundry crimes and aiding and abetting. Meanwhile other states fell to the FRA and soon they claimed 45 states as part of the “Re-United States”.

A panel of experts and all their staff who had been collecting evidence for 7 years would be charged with helping to prosecute the arrested traitors. Meanwhile 45 states were writing new Constitutions and creating new limited governments and soon would hold elections for their state governments and for the next Congress.

Meanwhile many states that had been under regime control prosecuted their former rulers and tormenters and hundreds were executed. The federal trials would start with the lowest level officials to be tried and work their way up. Many confessed and turned in their superiors and told everything they knew. The lower echelon would be allowed to get “leniency”.

The executions began at the sub-cabinet level and up. Every single member of the rubber stamp Congress was executed as were some of their advisors and aides. The FRA announced that everything passed in the previous 7-8 years was nullified. The trials and executions would continue to be aired on the National Television System while other newly made networks would update the viewers during news breaks.

A private company was able to put 2 new geo-synchronous satellites into orbit and they soon beamed down 12 newly constituted channels. Many of the old media were long gone and would never be brought back. Some of the old media wanted the new government to “make them whole” and were laughed at.
NTS was not a government-owned channel but was “leased” for the purpose of making all of the trials and executions public. “No secrecy in these proceedings” it announced. Meanwhile donors had pooled enough resources to recreate a sort of CSPAN but this time it was simply called PAN.

The National Parents Alliance owned the Family Network and Sat-Toons networks, designed to provide good and fun programming for all ages. There was also the Free Republic-TV channel which was showing a lot of the rebuilding efforts across the country. A network of 7,000 private schools created the Educational Television Network plus their holding fund owned half of the National Education Arts Television channel, NEAT.

The Satellite Television Network, American Television Network and the North American Network were all formed by different consortium. None of these channels were based in California; they were all based in different cities. United States-TV joined the bunch not long afterwards. The Christian Television Network owned by a consortium of 5,000 churches joined the system as a commercial network with news, talk shows, game shows, children’s shows and prime time programming. No begging from this one.

Soon the Free-Sat System admitted regional channels such as NY-1, New England Network, West Coast-TV and Texas Network Television etc. This allowed important local and regional news to get to the viewers.

The new amendments to the Constitution were soon put up for adoption referendums in the 49 reconstituted states. Hawaii had rejected reunion but a strong faction there was still demanding it.

These would put term limits on Congress, make them a citizen legislature again by limiting their perks and benefits, limiting taxation and banning deficit spending and outlawing any federal welfare or social security spending. The government would also be banned from giving funds to non-governmental organizations. Amended the income tax amendment to create a single flat tax rate and limit deductions to homes and property, also outlawing inheritance and gift taxes.

The sessions of Congress were severely shortened and the power of the federal government very restrictive. It would no longer be able to give special breaks to certain favored companies and industries, laws must be the same for everyone. It also stripped the vote from anyone caught being a member of an organization that called for the overthrow of the government or constitution. Another set the national age of recognized adulthood at 18. Another outlawed fractional reserve banking and any “money schemes” beyond stocks and bonds was not recognized by the federal authorities.

By the time of the referendum vote more than 2 years had passed since the reunion. Power was restored to almost all of the country and rebuilding was way past the midway point. Socialism was all but declared dead in the United States for the foreseeable future. Not even the schools were owned by the government anymore and no-one would think of sending their kids to a leftwing college.

The first elections while the battle still raged in a few pockets had delivered 70% of the vote to the Conservative Republican Party, 25% to the Moderate Party and 5% to the Liberty Party.
This gave the GOP the 300 seats they needed in the House and 67 seats in the Senate in order to approve of all 15 of the amendments to send them to the states for ratification. Two years later the GOP still won 62% of the popular vote to the 27% for the Moderates and 11% for the Liberty Party. Once the referendums passed there would be 650 seats in the House including a seat for the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, Washington DC and Puerto Rico.

In lieu of no more federal welfare programs the National Charitable Trust was set up that would work with states and cities to identify those who needed help the most. Several types of charities joined, from food banks to health charities to housing and homeless rehab. Most states immediately began offering small stipends to the very poor because there was still a bad depression because of the war.

A National Census concluded that 19 million had been killed by the regime and by the war including those dying of malnutrition. Remembrance Museums were opened in 100 cities so that no-one forget what socialism and tyranny wrought on America.

The destruction of the communications system revived the newspaper, at least for a while. The old ones were long gone with their leftist bias. The national newspapers were the Daily Business Report, National Times and America Today. There were local ones and there was the new Independent News Service and the National Press Service as well as the Capitol News Service competing for stories.

The National Times reported on a story from a small town where the parents of 500 families gathered and formed the Town School Cooperative, creating their own school. The wealthiest among them and those chosen by the others became the Board of Governors, beholden to the parents. Their school became the 3,000th member of the National Schools Alliance which provided advice as well as books and other materials. There were many competing organizations as well all over the country.

America Today reported that the militia was still active all over the country helping Sheriff’s departments and police departments search for missing persons, spread emergency information during blizzards and storms and patrolling the streets against looters and criminals when needed.

oops.

I meant:


There would likely be battles in every unit and on every base instead of them just peacefully dividing up. I think half the armed forces could be brainwashed or charmed or whatever into following Obama into a racewar if he wanted to do that.

I thought it was a very good idea.