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

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

[fnord]

thanks for the read. nice touch adding recent real-world events.
now, log off FR and get back to writing, so we can all buy the book! dangit :-)

[Dukie]

"I want you dead, Fritz."

Gripping stuff, Travis.

[Joe Brower]

log off FR and get back to writing, so we can all buy the book!

Seconded! $;-)

I plan on buying several copies as "gifts" for my friends and relatives for birthdays, Christmas, etc. I have an older sister, an English teacher who's written a few books herself, who's always harping on me to "read some fiction instead of tech journals and political nonfiction"! I'm sure she'll be glad to see I'm taking her advice...

[Joe Brower]

I can see the font, "Wingdings", no problem. I'm running WinNT4 SP6a and IE 5.5, FYI.

And I wasn't on-site when the wall fell, but I watched it on TV...

[WALLACE212]

Thanks for the ping sir. Some excellent writing as well... can't wait for the whole book.

[Have Ruck - Will Travel]

Good work, glad I logged on again tonight to see it.

You know you have done it now, don't you? Now that you've dangled the carrot out there and gotten us all excited, every second post you see is gonna be somebody asking when it is gonna be finished. :-)

Ruck

[harpseal]

Absolutely outstanding. See your FreepMail for some comments.

Stay well - Stay safe - Stay armed - Yorktown

[who knows what evil?]

This sixty second chapter takes place thirteen hours after the action described in "The Raid". This is the second and last excerpt from my novel, which I hope to finish before summertime 2002.

Great stuff! REALLY looking forward to the whole enchilada! Jeff Head; now Travis...FR authors rock!

[Howie]

Good work! Thanks for flagging me, I will send a link to my CHP brother-in-law. The most curious part of the JBT situation is the way they are able to hide. They are almost impossible to find when they are off duty. I think I have one living next door to me.

He hides his face when I walk by, won't talk, has some very suspicious looking things in his back yard and is damn sure hiding from the law or from his past deeds.

[Poohbah]

Outstanding scene.

Of course, I have known a couple guys who use pepper spray as a breath mint...swim buddies of yours, maybe? ;o)

[Rebelbase]

Thanks for the bump.

[budwiesest]

Nice stuff Travis.

Those pesky seatbelts...........

[Travis McGee]

Thanks! Hope you liked it.

[Travis McGee]

There aren't many left like Luke Tanner who remember fighting the Nazis. The German ones I mean.

[Travis McGee]

It's just around the corner as explicit gun searches, but in many states LEOs use "sobriety" or "seatbelt compliance" checkpoints to troll for general violations of anything. IOW, it's an opportunity to take a hard look inside the cars of otherwise suspicionless citizens and shake them up a little to elicit "probable cause".

"Do you have any weapons in your car" is a fair question, followed by "do you mind if we look?"

If you say "yes, I do mind, do you have a warrant?" this may be interpreted as their "probable cause", because "innocent people almost always give consent."

I think in Kentucky they have been using uniformed National Guard troops to help man up these "seatbelt compliance" checkpoints.

[Free the USA]

bttt

[Travis McGee]

It was a strange time, going into East Berlin in uniform.

[wardaddy]

Wow!....very gripping. Pity the old vet..the last of the best.

I'll bet that TC Contender sees effective action somewhere in your book. Great weapon for it's size and cost.

A boat named Guajira?.....excellent name choice...one of my old stomping grounds..one of the world's choice "no man's land" environs....an apt analogy for our society when the gungrabbing cataclysm you describe begins.

This is scary stuff...scarier still that so few folks realize the worm has already begun to turn. I hope your book can help awaken more like minded folks.

Regards

[Askel5]

The 28th Infantry “Bloody Bucket” Division had not killed all those Nazis in France and Belgium just so they could regroup here in America!

The "rest of" the excerpt was excellent but I'm looking forward to the rest of the novel.

Nice work, Travis.

[Travis McGee]

Yeah yeah yeah....