"The Checkpoint: New Fiction from the War on Domestic Terrorism"

www.sit-rep.com ^ | March 6, 2002 | Travis McGee

[budwiesest]

Yes. I noticed.

>>>>He was angry because it was Sunday afternoon, and he was pulling the absolute shit duty of all time manning a FIST checkpoint, instead of kicking back on his recliner in his den with a cold Budweiser in his hand watching the Steelers play the Rams.<<<<

[RGSpincich]

I am 2/3 finished already!

How do you know that?

You must have seen the movie! ; )

[Travis McGee]

Sometimes I worry that more danger comes from the Republican party: the old "only Nixon could go to China" theory.

They could shove through stuff in omnibus laws like "The Patriot Act" that the DemonRats could never get away with.

[Travis McGee]

"The King of Beers", (even among goose stepping black clad JBT BATF Stormtroopers).

[Travis McGee]

Just a guess: the book covers three weeks, and I've finished two.

Of course, the last few days could take longer, the way this "checkpoint" took about eight or nine pages to cover just sixty seconds!

[Twodees]

I think they are two wings of the same buzzard. The democrats get all sorts of harmful stuff done while they're in office with the republicans doing diddly to stop them. Then, people get fed up with the dems and elect some pubbies to office. The pubbies just flog their dummies and swear out loud that they wish they could undo what the dems did....

It's all a rigged game. They're both out to destroy what's left of this experiment in liberty started by the founders.

[Travis McGee]

Totally rigged.

Willfully neglectful at best, passing catch-all elastic-banded laws like "The Patriot Act" before they are even printed, much less read.

But we ain't gonna' go down quietly! They still gotta disarm us!

[Travis McGee]

Ping.

[junta]

I admit I had my doubts about your ability to write more than a short pithy post, but I just finished "Checkpoint" and have now come full circle.

[junta]

To clarify my last post. I think the writing is great, the action sequences well and I cannot wait to buy it, which I hope is soon.

[Twodees]

Yep, they still have to disarm us. I think they intend to try pretty soon.

[Travis McGee]

Hey thanks! Did you read the one I posted two week ago called "The Raid"?

[Travis McGee]

My biggest hope is that my book is successful enough to extend its impact beyond "our choir" to the other side, to serve as a clear warning shot across their bow.

Because if they think that by any trick or subterfuge they will disarm us, they will only drive this nation into a dirty war or civil war.

They had better not forget for one minute the ten million scoped seer rifles, and how few of the tyrant class would be able to be protected inside a 500 yard security zone.

[Travis McGee]

Whoops: seer rifles = deer rifes.

[Travis McGee]

Hey OldManDigging, what's Bigfoot 2's correct screen name?

[Twodees]

John Ross's novel should have warned them, but it seems they're ignoring it. Maybe yours, coming from a SEAL will make somebody in government start to think. For sure it will strike a better chord with active duty military than UC did.

I'm ready to buy a copy as soon as you finish and get it printed or published online whichever works quickest.

[Travis McGee]

I will, I hope to be finished before summer.

[Travis McGee]

UC is a great book, but it was too long and too expensive in hardback only and so never reached as far as it could have. Only the already converted members of the 2nd amd "choir' would spring for the $25. Beyond "our" crowd, I doubt it was read much at all.

Also my plot has lots of good guy LEOs who hate the Special Training Unit type outfits as much as we do, and the plot will not "turn off" the undecideds the way that UC may have. There's lots of action but no hog feeding in my book.

[ActionNewsBill]

Wow! This is good stuff! Your book could become required reading for patriots much in the same way that "Unintended Consequences" is.

I hope your book will be allowed to be published and sold without you being harrassed by the BATF.