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

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

[CJ Wolf]

nice work Travis, you got a real gift for fiction!

[Travis McGee]

Thanks Dukie, a good word makes it worthwhile.

[Travis McGee]

What ever you do in a checkpoint or traffic stop, do NOT reach for your seatbelt clicker when ordered to get out of your car!

[F-117A]

This reply probably puts me on some list, but I had to say thanks! Keep up the good work!

[Lumberjack]

They'd need to get shot in the face with an FBI agent's M-4 assault rifle at a mistaken traffic stop to get it.

Thanks for the ping. I've read some of your stuff at another site, and love it! I look forward to the book. :)

As to the quote above, I don't think this would happen unless it were an accident where they were fellating the rifle barrel of the JBT's M-4 in joyous ecstasy at having gained the attention of one of their heros, if only for a moment in time, and the gun accidently goes off.

Sorry, I'm just really disgusted at how easily Americans are rolling over for this crap. I had thought at one time that Americans had a spirit of patriotic independence about them. Unfortunately, I've been proven wrong. Only a handful of us "original models" left, among a race of subservient, servile little toads.

[Travis McGee]

Thanks for the kind words.

It's sort of like putting your baby up on stage in a beauty contest, when you don't have a clue if she's homely or not.

[WALLACE212]

As a fledgling author myself I can relate, I coincidently am working on a book much like yours; of course now I think it will have to change a wee bit! Your writing is good stuff; keep it coming my friend.

The following is off an older thread that I posted to; it is 100 true, happened to me last month. The time is coming...

"So what your are saying is that the National Guards(wo)man that repeatedly pointed her '16 with her finger on the trigger at myself and my daughter (14 months old) was "just a minor inconvenience" that we all need to put up with because "we are at war", every time we board a cruise ship/ aircraft. What led up to this situation? THE ONE INCH LONG PLASTIC GLOCK 17 REPLICA ON MY KEYCHAIN. That was my sin against my beloved country! For my transgression I was nearly strip searched right there in the terminal (take off your belt, remove your shoes, lift up your shirt etc.) A half dozen baggage handlers, not one of which could even speak fluent english, perused my wallet and other assorted personal belongings as they even dumped out an unopened pack of cigarettes. One of them tried to "lighten" my wallet until I protested. Bear in mind the entire time I had an automatic rifle aimed at my abdomen by a pimply teenager who had no clue as to proper firearms handling, and who couldn't care less that the baggage idiots were outright trying to steal from me."

[Travis McGee]

Well, now I have to buckle down and really write, because there will be no more chapter excerpts until I'm finished.

("The Raid" and "The Checkpoint" were the only two which were "self contained" and worked as short stories on their own.)

[Travis McGee]

I look forward to seeing it in print myself! Know any agents?

[Travis McGee]

I look forward to seeing it in print myself! Know any literary agents?

[Twodees]

All right now, come clean. "Sanderson" was based on Mark Earley, wasn't he?

[Mikey]

Damn good story. Only to scary for I see this coming to a town near all of us in the not so distant future.
When your book is done, please announce it on FR and how much and where we can get a copy. Do Freeper's get a discount?

[Travis McGee]

No, but I knew some guys who took the "electric cattle prod challenge" until they could just hold it against their skin grinning.

[Travis McGee]

After I finish writing it I have to get past that pesky detail called "getting published".

But freepers will know the day I know how it's going down!

[Travis McGee]

You bet, anytime.

[Mikey]

"After I finish writing it I have to get past that pesky detail called "getting published".

If the shame steam media won't or gives you to much of a hard time publishing your book (because its not PC), try self publishing on FR.

I'll buy a copy.

Do I hear another?

Hey how about FR publishing your book and a certain percentage of the proceeds goes to FR as a donation? Just an idea.

[Jane G]

Waiting for the publication, anxiously. Doc

[monday]

BWAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!

[Travis McGee]

Did you catch what kind of beer Bogart was dreaming of drinking?

[spunkets]

No their aren't, but they passed it on. They recognized that Freedom is the best there is. They told us so when they passed on that gift and those that payed attention recognized the truth.