Posted on 07/17/2007 6:17:51 PM PDT by CodeToad
In 1973, a Frenchman named Jean Raspail wrote a bitter and paranoid novel about the "invasion" of his native land by starving Third World refugees. The book was a racist vision of the consequences of non-white immigration, aided and abetted, in the author's view, by the weak-minded liberals who failed to resist it. For almost 35 years, The Camp of the Saints has been a Bible to the radical right.
Now, courtesy of former Navy SEAL Matthew Bracken, comes the American version a portrait of the apocalypse Bracken fears will overtake America thanks to undocumented immigration from the south. The book is a fictionalized version of the Aztlan conspiracy theory the idea that Mexico is secretly planning a "reconquista" (reconquering) of the seven states of the Southwest that now animates large swaths of the anti-immigration movement. It's being plugged on extremist websites, in gun magazines and similar electronic venues, and on immigrant-bashing radio shows like Peter Boyles' program on KHOW-AM in Denver.
This isn't the first angry, self-published novel from Bracken. His new book, Domestic Enemies: The Reconquista, is the second in a series that began with another paranoid fantasy about gun control and evil agents of the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, a favorite bête noire of the extreme right. His latest book, marked by an enthusiastic interest in busty women, is a xenophobe's racy vision of hell.
Domestic Enemies opens in a secret Oklahoma prison camp (D-camp) full of women detained by the federal government for acts of terrorism. Here, Bracken's curvaceous 27-year-old heroine, Ranya Bardiwell, tends the fields under the supervision of gun-toting "Internal Security Agency" guards, monitored all the while by a Radio Frequency Identification Device implanted in her shoulder. Through flashbacks, we learn that Bardiwell gave birth to a son five years ago in federal prison. He was taken from her just minutes out of the womb. The action begins as Bardiwell is summoned to the office of a female warden who attempts to seduce her. They take a bubble bath together, during which the warden reveals that Bardiwell's son is living in Albuquerque, N.M., and has been adopted by FBI agent Alex Garabanda and his IRS agent wife.
Enraged at the thought of her child being raised by federal agents, Bardiwell straddles the naked warden and chokes her to death in the tub. She escapes, intent on recovering her son, but finds herself in a brave new post-amnesty world.
Gas is at $29 a gallon, gold at $7,000 an ounce. A lethal epidemic of "Monkey Pox" has swept through the southeast. Crime and out-of-control interest rates have citizens abandoning their homes by the thousands for tent camps in the "free states" of Wyoming, Montana and Idaho.
Preoccupied by ethnic violence in major cities and economic turmoil, the federal government has let southwestern states sink into bedlam. Armed gangs besiege Arizona and Phoenix has lost electrical power. Los Angeles is under martial law as neighborhoods burn.
And New Mexico, where Bardiwell heads to retrieve her boy, has become a haven for communist revolutionaries. Now it's "Nuevo Mexico." The state has passed Spanish-only laws and razed businesses with English signs. Ranches once owned by Anglos are seized and given to former undocumented immigrants. The brutal, M-16-toting Milicia de Nuevo Mexico aims to get rid of all Anglos.
Bardiwell is captured by the militia in Albuquerque. But, entranced by her curves and her marksmanship demonstrated when she shoots a hippie the dashing Comandante Basilo Ramos orders Bardiwell to conduct weapons training for his troops and makes her his mistress, holding her captive in his mansion. In a bizarre scene, Bardiwell drugs Ramos, photographs him sodomizing a communist professor whom he strangles during sex, then escapes out a second-story window, climbing down a rope made from the comandante's silk ties. Bardiwell then hooks up with her child's disillusioned adoptive father, Alex Garabanda, who is suicidal after losing custody of the boy to his ex-wife the IRS agent and her lesbian lover.
Bardiwell and Garabanda set out to rescue the boy from his "two mommies," but first stop to conduct surveillance at a secret meeting of traitorous politicians and "billionaire globalists" drafting a new Constitution to turn America socialist.
Discovered while photographing the meeting, Bardiwell shoots down a Blackhawk helicopter and she and Garabanda escape to San Diego. In hot pursuit is Comandante Ramos, who vows to take Bardiwell to a Mexican whorehouse, inject her with heroin and force her to work as a prostitute, and IRS storm troopers, led by the steroid-enhanced girlfriend of Garabanda's ex-wife.
Ultimately, the pair recover the child, and the book closes with them cheek to cheek in a small plane flying north, the boy sleeping next to them.
Domestic Enemies plods along between the over-the-top action sequences. Bracken oversexualizes his gun-loving heroine, devoting as much prose to her breasts as he does her weapons which is a lot and many minor players come off as one-dimensional caricatures. But a sexy heroine shooting guns of varying calibers at liberal, communist, open-borders villains in a world destroyed by immigration and multiculturalism is an irresistible fantasy for the audience this genre of fiction attracts no matter the novel's numerous flaws.
Of course, this fictionalization is hardly necessary, even for those given to this kind of thing. All one need do is listen to real-life zealots like Glenn Spencer, head of the hate group American Border Patrol, who puts it like this: "Our country is being invaded by Mexico with hostile intentions. When it blows up, they can't say we didn't tell them, when the blood starts flowing on the border and in L.A. We're [talking] about la reconquista."
Susy Buchanan
Great book endorsement!
I'll have to buy a copy of each, provided taht you can send them discreetly.
So how's france doing with that open immigration policy?
Keep up the good work, Travis McGee. The mor@ns from the SPLC can go and pound sand. There are bigots and the first place to find them would be at the SPLC.
I thought that you were a dude?
Congrats buddy!
+1, You think the author was going “See, I told you so” after the ROP’ers riots in Paris a couple of years ago.
Freepers should love Travis’s book. He even involves an internet blog in his book’s that are eerily similar to Freerepulic. :)
Don't forget the "sexy heroine shooting guns of varying calibers at liberal, communist, open-borders villains"......absolutely classic! To The Top!!!!
and now this SPLC review.
And I'll bet there are a few Azatlan sites out there as well carrying your water unbeknowst to them.
How do you do it?
;>)
So when is the Spanish audio version coming out?
Guerilla publishing at its finest.
LOL! I think she got jealous of the bathtub seen!
Ha ha. She probably was hurrying to stuff her training bra.
Preoccupied by ethnic violence in major cities and economic turmoil, the federal government has let southwestern states sink into bedlam. Armed gangs besiege Arizona and Phoenix has lost electrical power. Los Angeles is under martial law as neighborhoods burn.
I thought the book was suppoed to represent some future hellish vision of America.....not present day! This sounds like the average newspaper headlines across the country every day. This whole issue is rolling forward so fast with the integration of Mexico, Canada and the USA having become fait accompli thanks to the President who has proven to be his father's son. It's going to happen so fast and in such a short time span that it becomes apparent that smear attacks like this on Travis are transparent as delaying tactics to focus the attaention of Americans (liberal and conservative alike) on the smaller issues rather than take notice of the rise of multinational Big Brother.
I'll plug another book as a wake up call to Freeperland:
The Late Great USA by Jerome Corsi Ph.d outlines the entire plan in a book so compelling it will make your blood run cold. It's not a plan, either. It's an OPERATION that is currently underway. That's why it is going to be virtually impossible to stop. Plans can be derailed by public outcry. Now there are over 400 working groups from each of the three nations working together in all three nations to harmonize laws and bureaucratic procedures. Once the gov't forms working groups it becomes an unstoppable juggernaut.
Wait you say, this can't be done unless a treaty has been signed and ratified by the US Senate? Well that is 100% correct. However the current administration has once again made an end run around the Constitution by signing international memorandums of intent. Kind of like the old Clinton administration mantra: Hey stroke of the pen, law of the land. Kinda cool.
I don’t know if he still does this, but order direct from him on his web site and get it autographed. You might be one of the few people on the planet to have an autographed copy of a history book with the way things are turning out these days.
“Ill have to send them a Aztlan t-shirt.”
lol.
Well, good on you! BTTT
Running [”Domestic Enemies” + Bracken] on Google you are now up to One Thousand Six Hundred and Forty hits.
I’m baffled. I recall your heroine being rather lean, and not remarkably busty.
I think this quote is especially good for selling books:
“...a sexy heroine shooting guns of varying calibers at liberal, communist, open-borders villains in a world destroyed by immigration and multiculturalism is an irresistible fantasy...”
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