“Not really,” Oscar replied. “We would have been here before curfew time if I hadn’t run into a roadblock on Washington Boulevard. In order to get around it I used the side streets. Unfortunately, the route I chose took me through a Black neighborhood, and somebody took a couple of shots at the car. A rifle bullet came in the back window and went out the windshield. That was a bit exciting. I’d just as soon not try to go back the same way tonight. Anyway, we brought our sleeping bags with us, and I hope you’ve got some free space on your floor for us.”
The discussion centered on strategies for using the rebellion to further their own cause, while coping with the government’s ban on publications or activities which might incite disorder. Kevin Linden held up the current edition of the Washington Post. The principal headline was “Blacks Respond to White Racism with Violence.” Under that, in slightly smaller type, was “Government Must Redress Black Grievances, Prevent White Backlash.”
“It’s pretty clear from this what the Jews’ line will be on the rebellion,” Kevin laughed. “Until this, I thought they were siding with the Agency to keep the Blacks in line. Now their main concern seems to be keeping us in line. They’re playing down the atrocities committed by the rebels and even making excuses for them, just the way they did before the Agency was created. They aren’t even making much of a fuss about the fact that the Blacks seem to be especially targeting Jewish businesses for looting and burning.”
“That’s a little misleading,” Bill Carpenter spoke up. “I’m on pretty good terms with a secretary in the big Jewish firm down the hail from my office, Abramowitz and Cohen. She said that Jewish businessmen were calling frantically all day yesterday and today, and that Abramowitz was telling them not to worry, that the government would more than cover all their losses under one of the provisions of the Horowitz Act. I looked up the law, and sure enough there’s a clause in it which stipulates triple reimbursement of all losses suffered by any member of an identifiable minority group as a result of a ‘racist act.’ Ordinarily the reimbursement is made from the confiscated assets of the perpetrator of the act, but whenever the perpetrator is unknown or for any other reason cannot be made to pay the government pays the victim instead. Abramowitz was assuring his callers that the fix was in, that all losses suffered by Jews would be attributed to the deliberate ‘racist’ targeting of Jews by the rebels, that they would qualify as members of an identifiable minority, and that they would get triple reimbursement. The funny thing, the secretary told me, was that when the Jews heard this from Abramowitz some of them became even more upset. One wailed that he had just filed inventory figures for his jewelry store last week. If he had known the rebellion was coming he would have placed at least twice the valuation on his stock. He was inconsolable. Another was moaning that the Blacks had only smashed the display windows of his clothing store and grabbed a few coats, instead of burning the place down. And he was afraid to go back and torch the place himself!”
“Excellent!” Oscar exclaimed. “One could hardly ask for a more invidious scenario. Imagine how the White businessmen will feel when their Jewish competitors get triply reimbursed from the Federal treasury, while most of them won’t get a dime, even from their insurance companies, because their policies exclude losses due to war or insurrection.
“I’m still surprised, though,” he continued. “I had a reliable source of information inside the Agency who told me that the Jews were very worried about the likelihood that they would be targeted if there were a Black uprising, and that this worry would lead them to back the Agency in such an eventuality. It looks like the Jews had things figured a little differently than he thought. At least, they certainly were more prepared for what has happened than they let on to my source, and not half so worried. It looks like they were all set to jump in whichever direction seemed most advantageous to them. It must have been clear to them by the time today’s Washington Post went to press late last night that this uprising will be no real threat to them in itself and that so long as the Whites don’t get too unruly they can safely resume their policy of using the Blacks and other non-Whites as their principal weapon to destroy what’s left of White resistance to their rule. Whether the Black nationalists hate their guts or not really doesn’t matter a bit to them.”
“Always being prepared to jump in the most advantageous direction has been the cornerstone of Jewish survivability for thousands of years,” Harry cut in. “The thing to remember about them is that they never, but never, take any interests but their own into consideration in their planning. More than one politician or bureaucrat who thought he had an alliance with them has found that out, to his sorrow. And you can be sure that they’ve thought about the public relations consequences of profiting from this Black uprising and will have their asses covered. First they’ll have the media create the impression that they’re practically the only ones who’ve suffered any losses; then, when anybody starts complaining about the preferential compensation they’re getting from the government, they’ll have their stooges in the Congress and in the Christian churches cluck-clucking about the awful ‘anti-Semitism.’ Believe me, there’ll be very few businessmen who’ll have the guts to complain publicly, no matter how much it galls them privately.”
“Okay, folks. So much for the anecdotes and theories,” Kevin said brusquely. “Our job tonight is to figure out what we have to do to upset the Jews’ calculations and get the greatest advantage we can from the current disorder, both during the next few days while it’s going on and then in the months afterward.”
The discussion went on until the early morning hours. The general conclusions reached were that the government probably would have the rebellion under control within a week or two, even considering the fact that a number of Army units seemed to be presently unable to cope with the mutinies by Blacks which had broken out in their own ranks; that an open appeal to Whites by the League would lead to immediate governmental suppression of the League; and that the time had come for the League to shift most of its resources into clandestine, or “underground,” action.
The one exception to this last conclusion was Saul’s program. Oscar and Saul argued successfully that Saul should remain on the air as long as he could, continuing to bring his viewers around to positions on which the League could later capitalize. Saul could even strengthen his position in relation to the government at the same time by throwing a heavy dose of “render unto Caesar” and other law-and-order rhetoric into his sermons for the next week or so, when the government would be grateful for all the support it could get.
Aside from that, however, their planned activities would hardly endear them to the nation’s political leaders and law-enforcement authorities. They would use every means available to them to alert the White population of the country, not so much to the racial aspects of the present rebellion, which were more or less self-evident anyway, as to the less-evident Jewish aspects. They would, in other words, propagate essentially the same message Saul was propagating, but via other media, without the Christian trappings, and in even more forceful language. They would use pirate radio transmitters, air-dropped leaflets, painted signs on highway overpasses, and aerial balloons to rouse as much feeling as possible against the government’s racial policies and to lay the blame for those policies squarely on the Jewish control of the news and entertainment media. It would be a sharp break with the League’s previous policy of strict legality, but it was unanimously agreed that the opportunity presented by the rebellion had to be seized by all available means, legal or not. For the next few weeks the government undoubtedly would have its hands full trying to pacify the Blacks anyway, and so moderate discretion in the conduct of their activities should suffice to minimize their risk.
Oscar’s own area of responsibility, in addition to continuing his management of Saul’s programs, would be to set up a mobile pirate broadcasting station powerful enough to blanket the Washington metropolitan area and reach deep into the adjoining states. Before retiring t
o his sleeping bag that night he began making a list of equipment Harry would need to obtain for him the next day. He estimated that he should be able to be on the air within three days, if everything were available.
Later, as he and Adelaide lay on the floor in their sleeping bags in a corner of the darkened room, she said to him, “We were too busy for me to mention it earlier, but while you were out this afternoon my mother called. She’s been seeing some of the news about the rebellion in this area and was worried about me. I asked her about conditions in Iowa, and she said things are pretty peaceful there. She had heard some radio reports of shootings by Blacks in Davenport and Cedar Rapids, but there wasn’t anything about them in this morning’s newspaper. Some of the neighbors are talking about buying more guns and ammunition, but Reverend Malone has been phoning everyone telling them to stay calm and don’t do anything rash. There’s been talk in the past about burning down a Vietnamese resettlement camp the government built just down the road from us two years ago, and he’s worried that someone will do it now.”
“Just what should be expected of the good reverend!” Oscar snorted. “It’s hard to say now just how the folks in Iowa and the other parts of the country which aren’t being affected much by the rebellion will react to it, but I’ll bet they won’t learn much from it. As long as the Jews control the television they watch and the newspapers they read — and as long as the Jews’ accomplices, like the Reverend Malone, are permitted to do their work — the sheep will keep ambling along toward the slaughterhouse.”
“Well, there are some things that would stir up the people I know back in Iowa,” Adelaide replied, “besides having gangs of armed Blacks roaming the countryside. They’re not really all that fond of the government here in Washington. There are many things they don’t approve of. But as long as there’s food in the refrigerator, gas in the car, and something to watch on the screen, they won’t do anything. My grandpa isn’t the only one in our county who feels the way he does; he’s just the only one who isn’t afraid of what Reverend Malone will say, and so he speaks up while the others remain silent. But if there weren’t any electricity for a few weeks, as an example, so that all of the food in the refrigerators spoiled and the TV screens were blank, grandpa would have plenty of company. He might even be able to drum up a fair-sized lynching party and go after Reverend Malone. A lot of people are still simmering about Malone’s getting Washington to resettle those Viets in the county.”
“I hope you’re right, sweetheart,” Oscar replied. “I’d like to believe there’s still a little fight left in our race. Better get some sleep now.’, He kissed her and then settled himself more comfortably into his sleeping bag, but he did not fall asleep immediately. Instead he thought about the new situation which would confront him and his comrades in the aftermath of the Black rebellion. It was too bad, he reflected, that the Blacks had planned their uprising so poorly. Slicing up a few thousand honkies would gain them little in the long run, not when there were 150 million more. They should have gone after the country’s economic infrastructure instead: power plants, dams, factories, transportation hubs, reservoirs, things that could be burned or blasted or flooded or poisoned and would disrupt the flow of commerce, halt the production of goods, pull the plugs on the country’s refrigerators, and make its TV screens go dark. Then they might have brought America to a real state of civil war; they might have seriously disrupted the Jews’ mechanism of mind control and the government’s mechanism of enforcement; they might have kept Whitey off balance long enough to gain some real leverage for their demands.
And, really, that’s exactly what the League should do, not just react to the uprising with a momentary burst of new propaganda. He had hoped to be able to give up his one-man commando raids, with the risk they entailed, and devote himself to safer and less violent activity, such as guiding Saul’s programs. But he also had made his choice, when forced by Ryan to do so, for flux instead of stasis. Acting alone he could not hope to accomplish the massive damage to the economic infrastructure which 40,000 or so organized and highly motivated Black nationalists might have accomplished, but there were other things he could do. By killing Ryan he had substantially increased the potential for flux. There certainly must be other men in key positions whose deaths also would influence the course of events. Both the worsening economy and the Black uprising would lead to a more unsettled climate in the country, the sort of climate which he ought to do everything in his power to exacerbate. Only in such a climate could the League hope to begin competing effectively with the Jews for the hearts and minds of the White public.
He sighed. Well, he would be very busy during the next few days discharging responsibilities he already had incurred. But after that it would be time to do some more hunting.
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