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

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

[Travis McGee]

You and me both!

But if anything happens to me before it's published, they'll just make these two chapters more famous than my book ever could be.

[Travis McGee]

Here's the other one.

[Travis McGee]

Here's the second part.

[patton]

Even better.

[Travis McGee]

Thanks.

[Copernicus]

A remarkable piece of work.

In the summer of 1999 I had the misfortune to witness a "Clickit or Ticket checkpoint in action down in North Carolina. This was a random road block to harass people who had improperly installed child safety seats/ were caught driving without their seatbelts /or other "minor" infractions ($200.00 tickets). The checkpoint included an ambulance, a heliocopter, a prison bus paddy wagon and multiple police cars parked in both directions.

I drolly predicted at the time these people should be careful for what they wished lest they find themselves in a firefight with rogue drug dealers and Sally Soccermom caught in the crossfire unable to advance or retreat out of the line of traffic.

Your scenario beats my prediction hollow.

Good work... I think

Best regards

[patton]

VEPCO is now Dominion-Virginia Power.

[HiTech RedNeck]

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

It will first become a crime, even if not to have one of these things at all, to have it other than unloaded and double locked in a case in any place other than unpopulated hunting land.

[Travis McGee]

Yeah, I like that giant Excursion charging the private from Chiapas with the machine gun.

[Travis McGee]

Thanks, I've been away a while. Is there an acronym or logo on the trucks that is noteworthy?

[breakem]

Face covered, badge number covered, no name on the uniform = facist and no accountibility

[Travis McGee]

In my book, a week after the semi autos are banned, the deer rifles begin to "be heard".

A few days after that by emergency decree (as per the fine print in the Patriot Act) it becomes illegal to have a scope on any centerfire rifle, (5 year MM federal time) with greater penalties for transporting a scoped rifle (10 years MM).

Nothing will move congress and the president to swift action like some of their class becoming targets.

[Lurker]

You have me looking forward to more of your stuff Travis.

Thanks,

L

[Travis McGee]

Thanks for reading and enjoying it, that motivates me to get finished!

[junta]

One quibble about the "Raid" in my time in the "suck" (USMC) those types that dreamt about being a Marine from childhood were usually the worst cases. It seems they thought from day two they would be jumping out of airplanes and slitting commie throats instead of field daying a head and buffing out a floor and when reality hit them it was doubly hard. Of course you were in the Navy and specops to boot so I imagine civvies cleaned up after you like it was Howard Johnsons so you might not be able to relate. Myself I've got a floor buffer first class medal to prove my valor.

Secondly I'm wondering the fate of the two females? Thirdly you are right about South African women if the couple of real men left in conservatism were to watch South African rugby matches on the stupidvision and check out the babes in the crowd, Mbeki and his ilk would be decorating a tree, they are worth it. Before SA falls into the abyss I'm thinking about coughing up I think the 10,000$ to make the trip, Col. Cooper made that recommendation for single guys to check out the girls starting at the J'burg airport.

[Travis McGee]

Well certainly young Danny Burgess is a victim of the USMC propaganda machine. Reality is quite different, but I have know some boys who swallowed the "every day a new adventure" story hook line and sinker.

The 2nd wife gets shot running downstairs with the .38 in her hand, that's the shooting and one scream from his Mom Danny heard. Danny's sister gets locked in the closet with Hummel's rubber door wedges. All of them burn in the fire except the father Burgess who is taken off in the helicopter.

[Travis McGee]

Ping.

[patton]

You know, I will have to look at of their trucks to see. Who actually looks at these things, anyway?

[patton]

Mic on computer - same trick as cell phones.

[Travis McGee]

Every home an open book, every citizen trackable: that's the goal and we're nearly there.