by Ira Tabankin
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.
The fourth day after the FBI announcement, the New York Slime computer system is hacked, the front page of the paper ends up printed with a picture of the Director of the FBI sitting backwards on a donkey wearing a dunce hat. Tens of thousands of copies are printed and distributed before anyone realized what was printed on the front page. Hundreds of thousands saw the picture on the internet. The fifth day after the FBI announcement, the FBI headquarters building’s central HVAC compressor caught fire filling the building with deadly smoke forcing the FBI shut down the building. Unknown to the FBI, a few of the firemen, are patriots, they leave behind a handful of small IEDs. When the FBI reopens their building, the IEDs explodes destroying the FBI’s two server rooms. The FBI biometric lab in Clarksburg West Virginia is attacked. Millions of fingerprint files are destroyed.
The FBI responds by rounding up people who used to own firearms, these people, are brought in for questioning. The FBI becomes bogged down in the questioning, leaving the Patriots alone to continue their attacks against the Federal Government.
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Six days into Anonymous’ imposed blackout of the airwaves, they turn control of our televisions back to us with a statement, “We are Anonymous, this was a simple demonstration of our ability. We’re turning on your televisions because of the attacks against the DHS and FBI. We see you’re trying, we’re supporting you. Continue your attacks. America time is running out.”
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One week into the government’s failure to fund its various aid programs the number of knockdown attacks for looting increases 300%. Car jacking’s increase 400%, bank robberies increase 600% and shoplifting crimes increase over 1,000%.
President Obsma tells his Secretary of the Treasury, “Mr. Secretary; we have a major crime wave due to our inability to fund our social programs.”
“Mr. President, we’re still having problems selling bonds, all of our usual buyers have refused to purchase any more of our bonds because of our civil unrest. China has said they need another thirty days to review our offer.”
“We almost always have unrest in the summer, this year the unrest came a little later than normal.”
“Sir, it’s more than the normal summer unrest, even the United Nations have withdrawn their headquarters to Switzerland. No one wants to lend us money right now.”
“Why can’t we have the Fed lend us the money?”
“Sir, don’t you remember, the Fed Director refused to print any more money? You tried to fire her; however, she refused to leave because her term wasn’t up yet.”
“That’s unacceptable, tell the Director of the FBI to arrest her, I’ll appoint a new Fed Director this evening.”
“Sir, she still time left on her term, what are you going to charge her with?”
“Being a domestic terrorist because she is single handily killing our economy.”
Chapter 11
President Obsma ordered the NSA and DHS to launch attacks on the social media sites. Tens of thousands of government agents start making posts that are very pro-government, they respond and record any anti-government post. Any anti-administration post is sent to a central office for review. If the post came from a reporter or anyone in a position of power, the person gets a phone call warning them what will happen if they don’t remove their post. The administration works to sway public thought. Anti-government forum sites fight with the administration to stay active.
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America’s economy slips deeper into recession. The government has agreed to hire the unemployed. The President has mandated price controls, anyone who’s ever studied economics knows when people are paid to do nothing when the profit motive is removed from the equation, when there is no incentive economies fail. People pretend to work, the government pretends to pay them. With prices, frozen producers simply cease making products they’ll lose money on. The President can mandate all he wants that companies can’t lay people off or cease production, the mandate is ignored, companies exist to make profits, not simply to hire people they can’t afford to pay. Many companies close. In many cases, the business owners simply don’t show up; their workers are locked out.
Store shelves are bare; consumers get angrier by day. Even the President begins to realize he has to kick start the economy. The President decides to announce a new series of executive orders, he announces; a 10% reduction of the government workforce, those being reduced will be eligible for newly displaced
workers benefits program, the funds are going to be taken from the Social Security accounts. The President figures the old won’t be around to vote much longer, plus he may not even allow any more elections. The President has already reduced Medicare payments to a degree many doctors refuse to see patients covered by Medicare. The Affordable Care Act set up “death panels” to determine the level of treatment the ill can receive, the older and less productive a person is, the less care they receive.
The President knows taking care of the younger more productive population will provide him the support he needs to complete transforming the country. He still has to overcome the major problem of the government being bankrupt. No matter what the President promises to pay workers. No matter what new benefits programs he promises, there isn’t sufficient cash to fund the payments he promised. Workers are laid off with no income; they join the rioters who know they are entitled to what they want. Rioting across the country sharply increases. 30% of the major big box chain stores have been burnt to the ground, 25% of the country’s grocery stores have closed, and 85% of the small “Mom and Pop” stores have closed due to a lack of inventory or from being robbed.
Flash mobs attack stores to take what they feel they’re entitled to, any store owner or manager who tries to stop the mob is usually beaten to death. America’s infrastructure is falling apart. Water and electricity operate in most major cities only eight hours a day; many of the workers have walked off their jobs due to not being paid by the cities who are also bankrupt. They have not been paid; there’s also little to buy with their pay. When they can find something to purchase, they are usually mugged right outside the store. The President closed the coal mines and ordered all coal fired power generating plants to close, in the name of protecting the planet for our children’s children, this adds to the country’s lack of electricity. In the midst of the cold winter of 2014, every power generating plant ran at 100% providing power to homes and business. 25% of those power plants have been shut down due to the President’s ban on coal. Without replacement power plants, the country is short of electrical generating capacity. Generators are the newest thief item; many people have their generators enclosed in cement bunkers to protect them from thieves.
Flash mobs turn to attacking restaurants; they swarm into a restaurant, stealing the food off diner’s plates, and then clean out the kitchens before rushing out. Many high-end restaurants remove their signage; they hire armed security guards to protect their diners. Police refuse to do anything because the President signed an executive order relaxing laws for minorities. The great unifier once again drove dividers between the classes and races.
Farmers are banned from letting their cattle graze on government lands. Any cattle caught on federal lands are confiscated by the government. Ranchers are fined millions of dollars if their cattle accidently wander into unfenced government lands. Resulting in the increased cost of beef. Anyone supporting the farmers are classified as domestic terrorists. Farmers try to figure out how to comply with the latest EPA’s rules limiting the amount of cow flatulence to control global warming. Many farmers decide to reduce the number of cows vs. paying the fines. The result of the cow reduction is an increase in the cost of milk and dairy products.
Glen and Rash tell their listeners to fight back the only way they can, they tell their listeners to change their W4 forms. They tell their listeners to claim fifteen dependents bringing their withholding tax to zero. This serves to further pressure the President as much-needed revenue isn’t flowing into the treasury. Many of the ex-middle class now qualify for government programs, increasing their cash in hand while putting additional stress on the government’s limited funds. Business owners return their quarterly tax forms listing drastically reduced revenue, further reducing the amount of taxes being paid into the treasury’s coffers.
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The Secretary of the Treasury informs the President, “Mr. President, we have a very serious situation that’s getting worse every day, our tax collections are 75% below the same period last year. Sir, frankly, the country passed over the tipping point, we’re bankrupt.”
“Mr. Secretary, isn’t there another way to get additional funding?”
“No Mr. President, we’re out of cash, we’re not taking in enough and our outgoing has increased to the point where 87% of all of our outgoing funds are earmarked for various benefit and entitlement programs.”
“Stop making interest payments.”
“Sir that will have serious repercussions. China will be very upset; they will foreclose on their debt.”
“Don’t tell me you think the Chinese are going to show up here and start taking ownership to cover their debt. They’re just going to have to wait, same as everyone else.”
“Sir, the country’s default will impact every citizen; it will push more people to be against us. It’ll give Congress even more encouragement to pass the articles of impeachment.”
“Mr. Secretary, Congress can vote for anything they want, however, since I sent them home, nothing they vote on is binding unless I want it to be binding. Let them vote, the country knows Congress is weak and useless, they stand in the path of progress, we’re stronger without them. The only way out of this is to attack Texas, we’ll take back their gold and petrochemicals; the people will come together; they always do when we go to war. I want some of our people dressed as Texan Rangers. These people will attack a few of our border towns; we’ll use the attacks to whip the people up. They’ll demand action against Texas; their focus will shift while the Army conquers Texas, I’ll tell my base we’ll share with the American population the spoils of war we capture in Texas. Once we win, we’ll force Texas to pay a higher yearly tax to the country, they should be able to fund our operations for many months. I’ve also decided to send many of the unemployed into the rural areas; they are going to work on farms helping increase food production.”
“Sir, this is a very bad idea, these people have no idea how to work on a farm; they will get in the way, in reality the production of food will slow down. Sir, please don’t do this, it’s been tried before, it’s never worked.”
“I know my history, I figured out how to make sure it’ll work this time, I’m going to send most of my Citizen Defense Force to help motivate the new farm, workers.”
“Sir, this will make it even worse, sir the country is on the verge of total collapse if you reduce the amount of food, the country will go over the edge, and there won’t be any way to bring it back.”
“You always see the worst in every plan, I’m telling you this will work, and it worked in China.”
“Mr. President, no it didn’t, Premier Mao ended up killing hundreds of millions of his own people.”
“See, I told you this will work; it’ll reduce our medical and Social Security costs, a year from now you’ll be saying what everyone already knows. I’m a genius, I’m the smartest man to every sit in this office. By the way, its 5: 00 PM, my day ends at 5. I’m leaving for a golf weekend this evening.”
“Mr. President, it’s not a good idea to continue playing golf while the country is suffering.”
“Nonsense, everyone knows all work and no play yield too much stress. I do my best thinking on the links; my base wants me to be relaxed and refreshed in order to do the work they sent me here to perform. Before I leave, I’m going to issue an attack order.”
“Mr. President, did you read the briefing report that the Texans attacked our troops that are on the border?”
“What report? Why didn’t I see this report? Why didn’t someone tell me we were attacked, my God, we’re at war! You should have told me this when you first arrived. My God, America’s been attacked. This is wonderful; I don’t have to attack Texas because they’ve attacked us. Why didn’t you say this earlier? Can we nuke Austin?”
“Mr. President, you don’t want to use weapons of mass destruction, the world will turn against us even more than they have now. You swore to destroy our nuclear weapons.”
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nbsp; “I know we still have some, but I understand. We have to teach them they can’t attack us, I’m not going to stand for this, I want Austin wiped off the map. Find a way to teach the Texans they can’t screw with us.”
“Mr. President, if you go ahead with this, I’m going to have to resign, I can’t agree to wipe a major American city off the map.”
“They’re not our people any longer; they left the union; they caused most of the problems we’re currently facing, and they train and support the domestic terrorists that have harmed our economy. I won’t have them go unpunished. If you’re such a coward, you may leave, I accept your resignation.”
“Mr. President, isn’t there anything I can say which will make you rethink how to respond?”
“Why are you here? You’ve resigned, leave the White House.”
As the Secretary of the Treasury leaves the Oval Office, the President motions for his senior Secret Service agent to come to him, “I don’t want the ex-secretary being able to tell anyone what took place here, please arrange he disappears.”
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The Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security is meeting with his Director of IT, “What do you mean our network is locked?”
