The Balkanization of America (11 page)

“Ron, you’re right, by the way, what brings you over to visit us so early?”

“I have received a message; we’ve been activated again, and we’ve been assigned a mission for tonight.”

“A mission?”

“Yes, let’s go for a walk, we’ll talk about it. By the way, do you still have that box that was delivered to you?”

“Do you mean the one with the DHS uniform in it?”

“The very same.”

“Yes, by the way, it fits me nicely.”

“Good, wear it tonight; I’ll meet you at location zebra at 0200. By the way, be armed, bring the ID card that came with the uniform.”

“Are we being the feds tonight?”

“We are.”

“I like giving surprises.”

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“Admiral, we have a mission tasking from General Brownstone; he’s planning a mission tonight, he asks if we can support with helicopter support, he’s also asked for electronic warfare.”

“Location?”

“Washington DC and the surrounding area.”

“Tell the General, yes, ask the CAG (Commander of the Air Group) to see me.”

CAG joins the Admiral on the flag bridge, “Captain, I have a mission tasking for you, read.”

“Admiral, this is an easy mission. I’ll have the F/A 18G in the air from 0100; I’ll have a refueling plane on ready five, plus a second G on standby, Admiral, I’d like to put a small attack package on standby tonight, just in case the General needs more support than he thought he might require. A few Hornets armed with smart bombs might be the deciding factor.”

“Captain, that goes beyond the support we’ve agreed to.”

“Admiral, no it doesn’t, I have a number of people in the air wing who have volunteered to fly such missions, they’ve offered to fly without rank in unmarked planes; hence five hornets have been repainted in plain dark gray without any national markings. The President can’t prove they’re ours.”

“Captain, where else could they have come from if not us?”

“
Shangri-La?”

“Paint that on the aircraft, should drive the DHS crazy.” Both men break out laughing.

At 0100, the electronic warfare Hornets launch, their mission is to block any communications or alarms coming from the night’s mission against the DHS.

Chapter 10

The result of the President’s class warfare are hundreds of the wealthiest have left the country. Canada welcomes them with open arms, when the wealthy leave, they close their businesses sell their homes, leaving tens of thousands unemployed for the government to support in their wake.

President Obsma pushed the country into a race war. Anyone who disagreed with him for any reason is branded a racist, anyone who didn’t worship him is a racist, and anyone who didn’t pay their fair share, as determined by the President is a racist. Anyone who clung to their religion is a racist. He pitted minorities against whites; he formed the Citizens Defense Force made up mostly of inner city young to enforce his will against any who didn’t agree with him. Colleges across the country started banning white students from attending diversity functions, blaming the white race for all of the minority’s problems. Whites are blamed for the lack of minority high paying jobs, blamed for the lack of inexpensive homes, blamed for poor minority school test scores.

The President whipped up his cry for more than fair treatment for minorities; schools were to apply two standards of discipline one for whites and one for minorities.He said the poor minority students had been held back and discriminated against their entire lives, and their communities are different from the white students, so different sets of rules should apply. These rules led to the further separation of the races. The more the President spoke about income inequality; the more, the lower tier minorities demanded more for doing less. Many communities reached the breaking point where gangs of both whites and minorities battled each other, some minority communities saw homes owned by whites burned, and minorities who lived in white middle-class communities saw their homes burned.  A full-scale race war is boiling just under the surface, all it needed to explode and swallow the country were a few more speeches by the President, a man elected to unite the races, a man who did everything in his power to turn them against each other.

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The Speaker takes to the floor of the conference, saying, “Fellow Representatives, I’ve spoken to the General; he has many concerns. His largest concern is there is nothing in the constitution that enables us, the Congress to select a President. He said, and he’s correct we have to follow the chain of succession, as such he’s suggested the Senate vote him to become a cabinet officer which would then place him into the line of succession, and he would then agree to assume the position until new elections are held.”

The Representative from Harlem in New York City stands, “Mr. Speaker, fellow Representatives, I don’t think the General is the right person to hold our highest office, He is very pro-gun, he’s everything we’ve had before, he’s a military man, he’ll put us into new wars, and the biggest case against the General is how can we replace the first African American President with a white man?”

The Speaker responds, “Mr. Representative shouldn’t we be selecting the best person for the job?”

“We must select an African American so that our minority population will know we understand their plight.”

The Speaker looks confused, “What plight? Even the poorest American is richer than some of the rich in the rest of the world. We’ve provided enough government benefits payments so that our people on welfare can afford large screen televisions, three meals a day, heat, air conditioning, even free transportation.  We supply them with free cell phones, high-speed internet access, healthcare paid for by the rest of the working people. And you say we don’t understand their plight? What plight?”

“Mr. Speaker, if we don’t show our African American population we’re considering their needs they will rise and take what they want.”

”Mr. Representative, what about the needs of the rest of the country? What about the needs of the other minorities? Do you only care about a single group of people? We’re supposed to represent all of the people.”

“Mr. Speaker I care about the people who elected me.”

“As you should, but not to the harm to the rest of the country.”

“Mr. Speaker do you think the people of the country will accept a military coup?”

“There won’t be a military coup; there will be a legal impeachment of elected officials who broke their oaths of office. Elected people who exceeded their authority. The Senate will vote and approve the General as the New Secretary of State who will then be line to become President, no coup, everything legal per the constitution.”

“Mr. Speaker, I’m telling you the African Community won’t accept him as their President.”

“Mr. Representative he’ll be the President of all of America, not just one group, or another. We need a leader to bring the country together; we need a unifier. Who if not the General would you propose?”

“Why not the Reverend Johnson?”

“Are you serious?”

“Yes, he ran for President before; he can unite all of the minorities, he can lead us into a new-social pack with the people who have been overlooked for so long.”

“The Reverend will cause mass uprising across the country. He won’t get the votes in the Senate. The General is our only choice to hold the country together. As far as if we can appoint a President, I had this looked into. The actual first President was appointed by Congress when the Declaration of Independence was signed; John Hancock was appointed by the delegates as the first President. Hence, Congress has appointed a President before. If we’ve done it before, we can do it again. We’re also going to have to pass new laws to make sure no President can ever get us this far down a black hole again. When the country was founded, the founders designed a country with three branches of government; they designed a system with a weak central government. The original Federal Government started off broke; they had no means to tax.

“Mr. Speaker, I’m sorry, but I can’t vote for anyone except for the good Reverend. He’s the only one who can lead us out of the dark times we’re currently in. He’ll hold the country together.”

“We can appoint him to a position within the government which is what you’re proposing to do with the General.”

“I can’t stop you; however, I don’t think you’re going to a lot of supporters for your idea.”

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5:30 AM eighteen people wearing DHS uniforms arrive at the headquarters building of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Washington DC.
All have valid DHS internal security ID cards which allow them unlimited access to the building. Once inside the eighteen split up going to different floors and offices. Four of the eighteen are IT experts, they’ve been given stolen passwords enabling them access to the entire DHS network. They sit down at the DHS terminals where they download files onto small memory sticks. The memory sticks also hold a virus that is installed into the DHS network. The others follow their instructions, completing their assigned tasks.

Their last task is to reprogram the building alarm system. Within thirty minutes all of their tasks are finished, the eighteen walk out of the building as if they belonged there. Across the country, similar break-ins are happening at other DHS office buildings. Ron and I are among a group of five people who’ve been assigned the headquarters building of the Border Patrol in Arlington VA. Entering the building is easy, our forged ID cards give us instant access as if we’re real DHS employees. We’re protecting a hacker who’s wanted by the DHS and FBI for breaking into government networks. He sits in front of one of the admin terminals in the IT department; his fingers fly over the keyboard. Smiling he says, “I’m in; this was easier than I thought. Give me the memory sticks, I’ll start transferring the files.”

Ron says, “When you’re done transferring the files, load this into their system, handing the hacker a CD-ROM.

“Do I want to know what’s on this?”

“No, just load it, and then we’ll leave.”

Frank, one of our group motions to me to follow him, he puts his finger to his lips to tell me to be as silent as possible, we slip into the Director’s office, gaining access to his computer and locked files. We have a list of files we were asked to locate; we hit the jackpot, one of the stolen keys we were given opens his file cabinet, the files we want are all there. We were given a few vials of chemical to spread around the offices with a warning to be out of the building within five minutes of opening the vials. Having completed out tasks, we meet the others and slip out of the building. I ask, “Won’t they figure out someone broke into the office and stole files?” Ron says, “In thirty minutes there won’t be enough left of their offices to worry about.”

The national morning news programs report massive fires and explosions took place overnight at fifteen DHS office buildings. The FBI claimed it was the act of domestic terrorists; the FBI Director told the New York Slimes they had a solid lead on the perpetrators. Two days latter ten people are arrested as the ringleaders. None are part of the groups that did the actual attack; the FBI simply rounded up ten people and blamed them for the attack. The FBI proudly issues a press release saying they broke up a major domestic terrorist organization which is tied to the Tea Party. The Director of the FBI calls the ten major newspapers in the country saying his organization has the Tea Party on the run, he tells the newspapers America has nothing to fear from the Tea Party as long as he’s in charge of the FBI.

The next day, a convoy of DHS vehicles is attacked with IEDs. Twelve vehicles are destroyed, two days later the Chicago O’Hare Airport main screening area is attacked with smoke bombs, hundreds of live snakes are released into the terminal adding to the panic in the main terminal. Everyone in the terminal has to be evacuated from the terminal, the Airport Fire Department arrives to find hundreds of snakes. They refuse to enter until the snakes are cleared. O’Hare is closed for 29 hours resulting in thousands of canceled flights across the country.