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For any new freepers who don't know, I am writing a novel about the federal government's assault on the 2nd amendment which follows a scenario which could be put into action at almost any time in this era of the "Patriot Act". I think my novel will be more accessible than John Ross' fine novel "Unintended Consequences", (certainly it will be shorter, at under 400 pages, and it will not be gratuitously, needlessly sexual).
The novel starts in an NFL stadium high in a light tower when a groggy unemployed much VA-hospitalized "Gulf War Syndrome" vet awakens. He is dressed in desert cammies and has an AK-47 tied to him with a lanyard, has a terrible headache and a dry mouth and no clue what he is doing there. Just as he begins to sit up on the ledge, a helicopter comes into his view from the sun and he is shot by a local SWAT sniper. That is how the novel opens.
Of course, 100s are dead by "his" bullets and many hundreds more are dead and injured in the panic and stampede. On Monday both houses of congress pass an emergency bill in record time outlawing the private possession of all centerfire semi-auto rifles, with a one-week turn in period and no buy-back. The few pro 2nd Amendment congressmen willing to speak are shouted into silence, the bill is passed and signed by the president, public opinion polls show overwhelming support for it.
The next Friday night there is a "gun store kristallnacht" in SE Virginia as "mobs of outraged citizens" in the dead patsy's home town torch them with gasoline bombs. The mobs are actually gang bangers on parole recruited by the acutal organizers of the stadium massacre, who are two deranged and power mad BATF officials. They hope by creating a massacre blamed on easy access to high capacity "assault rifles" to become the leaders of a new anti gun federal law enforcement division with sweeping powers and unlimited funding.
A decorated Viet Nam green beret is killed with a bomb secretly placed in his car, then it is leaked to the media that he was on his way to blow up a federal building when "his bomb went off prematurely". Other "false flag" black operations of this sort lead to a public climate of fear and hysteria over "right wing militia terrorism". The aim of the plotters is to have the president authorize the creation of a special covert federal unit which will be permitted to act outside the constitution to pro-actively terminate "suspected terrorists" using Phoenix Program tactics on American soil during "the emergency".
That is just the beginning, but as you can imagine, the plot does not exactly go according to plan. A new division of the BATF is secretly named the "lead agency" in the repression of "gun nuts and militia fanatics", when actually it was a rogue BATF senior official who orchestrated the stadium massacre in order to increase his power and his budget in the predictable reaction to the "right wing militia massacre and bombings". In fact, this official had conveniently already written contingency plans for this type of new counter terrorism unit, and is (as he planned) named the first chief of the new covert "Special Projects Division".
Anyway, the situation evolves into a sub rosa "dirty war" of secret arrests, covert "interrogation centers", "disappearances", assasinations and counter assasinations, with the JBTs using the latest computer, GPS, wireless, and digital face imaging technology, and the other side using their "ten million scoped deer rifles" one shot at a time that I used to write about. Running throughout the book is the race to solve the mystery of the stadium shooter: was he truly, as reported, a deranged former Marine, or just a hapless patsy? Did he even fire a shot? If he is a patsy, who put him up there with the rifle?
Needless to say, ABCNNBCBS has one opinion (the anti gun govt. line) while the internet forums are a hotbed of opposing theories. A website called FreeAmerica.Com plays a major role in revealing the details of the plot, the truth and the outcome is left up in the air until the very end, as some of the targeted "right wing gun nuts" take the dirty war back to the "Special Projects Division", and the full truth about the stadium massacre and aftermath is readied for airing on one new major news network, while the S.P.D. races to stop the story from airing by all the means at its disposal.
Post 9-11 I lost a couple of months of writing time, wondering if my novel would have any more relevance or would even be sellable. Current events such as those mentioned in the article above convince me that my story is more relevant than ever. I have been redirecting some of the plot line slightly to take into account legitimate fears of arab muslim terrorism, which have had the side effect of prodding most Americans to accept ever greater restrictions on their civil liberties. And as we see, we have a federal law enforcement apparatus which seems ever more willing to adopt gestapo tactics in the name of combating terrorism, and would like nothing more than to find domestic "right wing militia terrorist groups" to turn their new powers against.
And if the JBTs cannot find actual "right wing militia terrorists", it may prove very tempting to some in the "anti terrorism industry" to create them.
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If Helen Chenoweth's husband can have his cattle rustled by the government and the owner of one of the biggest gun show operations in the country can be jailed for an undisclosed amount of meth what makes any of us feel safer in this brave new world.
I'm stocking up on ammo and balloons thank you very much.
Stay Safe