The Gentile Witness, Enoch Book 1: Enoch

by Samuel David

  Most of the people around him were on his team, but some he knew had doubts about his abilities, and also doubts about his integrity. The sad thing was, for those gathered they did not know the power is, given to only to those willing to allow others to have power over them. Being President of the United States was a trade off, of what you wanted to accomplish and whether or not the real powers to be wanted your agenda to happen or not. The reality was that money had the power, whoever had the most money, had the most power. Even the wars of Europe were, financed by the money brokers. No money, no war.

  He, like most of his predecessors, got to this position with money. It took a lot of money and it took many promises and surprisingly enough, as he had clawed his way up the system, he started finding out where the real power lay, and it was not in the U.S. He mused a bit on the thought and then sort of laughed to himself. If the world really knew all of this, we would all be, taken out and shot immediately by the people. Then in time, it would start all over again and in a few hundred years, it would be just as it is now.

  Jamal started walking over to Stevenson and said, “After lunch we are going to start tackling the logistics of moving and relocating most of the eastern seaboard, parts of Florida and the Gulf coasts. General Stoups said to me that he might have a good plan that we can put into affect starting with the first strike in Houston, and then work our way around the coasts. He also, I guess, has a plan to move our national treasures from DC and New York. I guess Mr. President, at least we have time, and it is not like a nuclear attack where we would only have a few hours or less.”

  “You’re right Jamal, having time does help but it only delays the inevitable. What kind of resources will this take? Did he say?”

  “No, not really. He said that he felt he would just tell everyone at the same time and then we can work it out from there. By the way, since we are going to Kansas City and then The Waldger Group meeting is right after, are we going to be coming back to Washington or are we going straight to Cheyenne?”

  “I don’t know Jamal. I really do not know. We’ve only started the process to move necessary equipment and some staff.”

  “Okay. Thought I would ask, for we need press releases and to work out the details. Vice President Johnson will be on the ground in about three hours and on his way out here. We had a delay in getting him out of China for the state visit he was attending. Do you want him brought directly here or wait until tomorrow morning?”

  “No, tonight. We have a lot to cover and a very short time to do it in.”

  “I will take care of it then.”

  Jamal started for the doors to the communication’s room and as Stevenson watched him leave, he thought, even as President of the world’s superpower, he felt overwhelmed. He knew it was only going to get worse.

  Chapter 86

  1:30 PM CST Day two of 1260 Kansas City, Missouri - Arrowhead Stadium

  Mayor Madeline Sipes, in Kansas City, was surrounded it seemed, by every agency that existed on the planet, let alone the United States. There were people from Interpol, the Vatican, several countries’ secret services, to top it all off, brass from every military unit in the U.S. They were meeting in makeshift quarters at Arrowhead Stadium using the Chief’s media room, which was the only place that was capable of handling this amount of people in a single meeting room and away from the press that was, camped out at City Hall. How the feds got their people here so quickly, she had no idea.

  The City Manager was asking Reverend Marks as to why they could not relocate the Rally to Arrowhead or some other venue. Their answer was always an emphatic no. They said, Arrowhead Stadium was a closed building and could not house the multitude that was gathering in the city.

  Mayor Sipes knew that her city was bursting at the seams and even if the Feds shut down the highways leading into the city and rerouting travelers from MCI to other airports, it was still a mess. People were actually walking to the city and to Memorial Park. There was already thousands camped out, just sitting, and waiting, even though Jack South would not even be here until Thursday evening, not much more than forty-eight hours.

  Now she was with the understanding that the President was coming, which meant dealing with the Secret Service. On a prior visit a year ago, Stevenson was a pain to deal with. Now the Vatican was sending representatives and a large group of high level Europeans, including many leaders from there and Asia. Many corporate leaders around the world were coming or were already here. They all wanted to be here for this Rally and it made no sense to her at all.

  She found out that The Waldger Group had rented the entire City Center Complex for a meeting Friday and Saturday. That meant a lot more of very high profile world leaders would be here not only for the ‘Rally, but the scheduled meetings. This was scheduled out of, the blue. Normally, groups as large and powerful as this had their meetings scheduled, well in advance of a year, if not more.

  She turned her thoughts back to what was going on here. Fortunately, the South people had agreed to let the dignitaries that were coming, have secure seating on the stage, which would keep them from the public. A clear bulletproof glass wall was being, erected on both sides of the stage, and would surround them, but still allow them to hear and to see the event.

  This whole ordeal was becoming a nightmare and a total drain on the cities’ resources. Fortunately, the Feds had come to the rescue. She noticed it had become quiet, so she turned her attention to the front of the room.

  Roland Winters, a full Bird Colonel in the Army, stepped up to the microphone and started speaking. “Thanks all of you for coming. As you well know by now, this Rally that should have been at most a few hundred people, has now taken on worldwide interest.” He paused for everyone to take this in. “As of right now, the City of Kansas City is under the jurisdiction of the United States Federal Government until further notice. Like the disaster in California, it is in the nation’s and the region’s interest that the military take command of the city and its’ policing of it. I realize this is not normal, but we have absolutely no choice. It is the only way we can insure the safety of not only the city itself, but also many dignitaries whom have seen fit to come here. This is unprecedented, but we have a plan and we will follow it.” He then flipped on a switch and a grid of the city came up on the screen.

  Chapter 87

  3:30 PM EST Day two of 1260 New York - The Network, Brad Williams’ Office

  Brad’s second show today was the evening news at 5:30 p.m. He would be covering the day’s events from the studios in New York. He had asked to be, sent to Kansas City to, broadcast live from there, but he was, shut down. That was unusual. Normally all the networks would be on location with something like this Jack phenomenon going on, especially The Network. The powers, that be had said no and that Brad was to lie low and take the bad ratings until they could get Jack South up against the wall. Then they would go in for the kill. He felt they did not trust him anymore. He was going over the notes in his office when he got a call. “Hello?”

  “Mr. Williams?”

  “Yes?”

  “Mr. Williams, I wanted to let you know that Jack South was just released from an Israeli airbase where he and an associate of his, a Veronica, were held for several hours for illegally entering the country. My understanding is that the President of the United Sates himself got him off the hook and Mr. South is on a private jet, on his way back to New York and should be arriving around 2:00 a.m. Wednesday morning. I might add Stevenson had to give the Israelis assurances they would get those new bombers they wanted in order to get them to release this person and now his friend. Sounds like a payoff to me, and the President seems to have a stake in Mr. South. At least, that is what it all sounds like.”

  “Who is this speaking?”

  “Oh sorry Brad, I can’t tell you that. However, you have many resources. Check out the information if you want. It makes good headlines with the President giving war planes to Israel to bail out Jack South.”

  Click, B
rad heard the dial tone.

  What the hell, he thought. He grabbed a piece of paper and noted the conversation as well as he could remember. He then got on the phone and called his chief investigator.

  Chapter 88

  4:00 PM CST Day two of 1260 Kansas City, Missouri - Old Municipal Airport

  John Roddenberg’s plane landed at the old Kansas City Airport downtown. It was, used primarily as a commuter airport since KCI opened in the late seventies. The good thing about this airport was that it was located in downtown, about a ten-minute drive to the Bear affiliate on Broadway. He was waiting for transportation to the city.

  On the flight down, I was finalizing the 5:30 p.m. Bear National News that he would anchor on-site at the Liberty Memorial Park in Kansas City. With the help of South’s people, they had set up an anchor desk with all the equipment on the north side of the stage, which also was, enclosed in bulletproof glass. Tonight, Wednesday, and Thursday nights, the broadcast would originate from there.

  Tonight’s show would be, extended, and had been, advertised all day as a two-hour special from Kansas City. This would show a good look at the mass of people already here, and in some cases, walking from as far away as Columbia. Columbia is where the federal government shut down the highways except for transportation of goods and local residents. They also had placed on the spot reporters in all seven threatened cities that Jack had said would feel the wrath of God on both the eastern and southern coasts. Each on the spot reporter would be reporting on the plight of the people there and interviewing local politicians about plans they may have.

  Another part of the two-hour special would be, focused on the Camp David meetings in Maryland. Even though there was a tight lid on the proceedings there, our reporter would report outside the gates and speculate as to what was occurring.

  In addition, there would be footage of the mess in California, which under normal circumstances is where he would be. But California may well pale compared to the carnage on the coasts over the next few weeks, and the real news was here, especially after Jack took the challenge of the panel yesterday and on the spot predicted the volcano in the Pacific Ocean. He is the most sought after news since either 911 or the Kennedy Assassination.

  We also had reporters in the Middle East and Africa reporting on the rain that had already started today and the repercussions to that entire region. It had been raining between the coordinates Jack gave since this morning.

  Chester Nichols, our weatherman, had been in consultation with academics all over the world today to decide the far-reaching effects of all the weather changes. I knew that today the North Pole registered a whopping eight degrees above normal for the entire day and from satellites, you could start to see small spots of ice breaking up near the costal ice sheets.

  The only thing missing from the news was Jack and his location. The viewers want to know where he is and what he is doing. After they left the building on Monday, no one had heard anything about him at all. It was as if he disappeared.

  I did know though that Reverend Marks was here in Kansas City overseeing the setup of the Rally and working with the local government, and now the federal military machine, in setting up for Thursday’s Rally. They were trying to track the Reverend down to see if he had any comments for the special.

  Other news events today were unprecedented. The stock markets in the U.S., and oil trading were, suspended by the SEC. There was no timetable as to when they would reopen.

  The Europeans were bailing on U.S. stocks and especially treasury notes. The Chinese almost caused a run on the banks. Gold went up over two hundred dollars more an ounce. Trading of gold was, also stopped, not only here, but in Europe as well.

  The highways in Texas, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama, and on the east coast were now jammed with cars and trailers expecting the worse. They were moving to different parts of the country they felt were safer, even though some still had several weeks to evacuate.

  There was speculation that the Smithsonian was trucking valuable items from displays and moving them to safer quarters. It was the same in D.C. and other areas of the country. The Metropolitan, as well as other museums in the east, were taking items and possibly trucking them to safer places. There were not specific news sources to confirm any of this other than the Smithsonian and the Metropolitan was going to be, closed as of next Monday until further notice.

  Amazing, one day ago he had to create news, now he could barely cover it.

  My thoughts were, interrupted by one of the stewards, who said, “Mr. Roddenburg, your chopper is ready. Please follow me.” Hmm I thought, the roads must be, blocked.

  Chapter 89

  4:30 PM CST Day two of 1260 Chicago, Illinois - Mark Anderson’s Law Office

  I immediately had jumped into action after getting the call from Jack on the plane and receiving a fax from the Attorney General’s office. Knowing that Jack was in Israel, he knew that Mossad would bring him in and try to obtain information from him and he needed to stop that as soon as possible.

  My first call went to Ken Giles who never acknowledged the call and he ended up talking to some clerk instead of Ken. The next call went to the White House, but once again, he was blindsided and had to leave a message.

  He then decided to cash in a favor. The one thing about being a defense attorney, he made money, friends, and enemies. He had gotten the President’s nephew off an alleged rape charge some years ago. The President and his brother’s family were, very, pleased with his firm, and would probably help. He then called the President’s brother to ask a favor.

  It had worked. He was, called back about two hours later and was, given, the fax number to Camp David. He had, faxed his pleas to President Stevenson. Well it must have worked. Veronica had called and said they were en route to New York.

  Exhausted, I just sat in my chair staring at the wall, and thinking to myself and wondering how many more times this will happen. I shook my negative thoughts off, got up, and left the office. I needed to go home and rest.

  Chapter 90

  5:30 PM EST Day two of 1260 Camp David, Maryland - Conference Room

  General David Stoups had been talking now for over two hours and I had started to drift off in other directions. Being President I knew required me to, occasionally listen to very long speeches, but they were usually in the Senate. Politicians and military brass always had an agenda and they droned on forever. I usually tried to get them to speed up, but to no avail usually.

  I just wanted to be, given the facts and then the solution so we could move on. The General had at least five hundred pages of documentation he had passed out for his portion of the meeting and seemed to be having the same amount of PowerPoint slides, as he kept talking.

  Basically he could have summed most of it up in ten minutes by simply saying we are going to start to evacuate the affected areas once we felt one-hundred percent sure that Mr. South’s predictions were true and would happen. Then we already were sure. He had not missed a beat yet, and after the island prediction, that sealed it.

  He also outlined the residual effects of getting people relocated when the hurricanes hit the Gulf areas. Hurricanes usually move due north after they hit land, which meant that in Texas, the flooding would be far inland and moving up into Oklahoma. Then the other two to hit the Gulf would move rain into the Mississippi and Ohio Valleys, also causing severe flooding. The other issue was that planting season had just started and there was concern over crop loss in these areas. It could well be disastrous and a total loss of crops in some areas, not counting the loss of life and property.

  The General showed us on the map of the U.S, with expected flooding and the hurricanes themselves, more than eighteen states would be, affected by the hurricanes and ten to fifteen other states affected by flooding.

  He suggested that we call up the National Guard immediately and all unassigned military personnel that are not overseas be, dispatched to manage the FEMA camps located in various areas of the countr
y. His plan is to seal off cities that have been, severely damaged as soon as they were evacuated. As he said, we were going to have the equivalent of seven Katrina’s at almost the same time and there is no way to deal with it.

  It was also suggested that we first try and keep Houston afloat, as a national priority over other cities effected. This would be due to the oil refineries in that area. They need to be back in operation as soon as possible, as a matter of National Security. The next priority would be Washington, D.C. and then New York City. Everything else would have to wait. If the people did not want to evacuate in any of the cities, then we would force them to, or we could just leave them there to fend for themselves, depending on the severity of the storms and availability of FEMA camps.

  The other logistic was the amount of displaced people that needed to be, moved. In New York City alone, with New Jersey’s population, there are almost seventeen million people. Then add another two million for the D.C. area, plus Maryland and Virginia. That now makes it somewhere around twenty million people. Now add Jacksonville and Miami, Florida. There are two and a half million people in Dade County alone and some two million in the Jacksonville area. Savannah, Georgia and Houston, Texas have around two million people in each of those cities, as well. It was mind, boggling. Oh, I forgot Mississippi, I thought. I cannot seem to focus on all the numbers presented, for I know we cannot fix the problem.

  The other issue he brought up was the national treasures in our museums stating they needed to be, moved out of the predicted areas. If the weather did not destroy them, then the looters would. That meant hundreds and thousands of trucks to move the nation’s art and history collections to different parts of the country. This was becoming a nightmare.