United States Invaded

by Ira Tabankin

“Every first responder in the country has just been put on 12 to 18-hour shifts. I have to report to the station. By the way, ‘The Russians Are Coming’ was a comedy, I think this is going to be closer to Red Dawn.”

  “Take care buddy.”

  “Brad, you’re too old to fight the Russians, stay cool and don’t do anything stupid, OK?”

  “Yup, I got it, I’ll join with my militia buddies tomorrow.”

  “Brad, I’m calling Kathy from my car, you know there’s no way she’s going to let you go to war.”

  “You heard the President; he asked the local militias for help. We’re armed, and we’re members of the militia. There’s no way I’m going to let Russia or the United Fucking Nations walk in and take over our country. I’m Jewish, I know what comes next if Russia wins this battle. No way. I may die, but I’ll die fighting them with a rifle in my hands.”

  “Brad, stay home tonight, don’t get crazy. I don’t want to get a call to pick you up and have to bring your body home to Kathy.”

  “Ron don’t worry about me.”

  “That’s what friends do. I’m begging you to stay home.”

  I decide to load all of my magazines as a just in case. Kathy comes home from work; she looks around the family room. She sees me loading magazines from a box of 1,000 rounds. “Stop right what you’re doing. I know what you’re thinking. You’re not going to fight anyone let alone the Russians. No way, now take your toys and put them away.”

  “I need to load the magazines in case the fighting moves towards us, I want to be ready.”

  “This might be a good idea after all, at least I’ll find out how many you have stocked away.”

  “Want to help?”

  “Not my idea of fun. I like to shoot; you load, I’ll have a glass of wine and watch you. Want to go shooting this weekend to practice?”

  “Don’t have to ask me twice, I’m in.”

  “Honey do you think we should hit the stores to stock up?”

  “Nope, all of the sheep are doing that tonight. I’ve been building an inventory of food and water for months. No way am I going to fight our way into a store tonight. I’d rather fight the Russians.”

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  The reaction to the President’s speech is panic. Supermarkets and Home Depot stores are swamped. Stores have to limit how many people can enter the store at any one time. The stores have called in every worker they can reach, yet the checkout lines are thirty people long in each of the twenty lines. People shove, push and fight for canned food and bottled water on the shelves. Some people force themselves into the stock area to grab items that have sold out on the shelves. Even with a few people getting out of line, most of the shoppers are polite, until someone pulls a handgun and shoots people to take the goods in their carts. Other shoppers jump on the shooter trying to hold him until the police arrive. He manages to get two more rounds off, hitting and killing a 43-year-old father of four, who was one of the first to grab him. Two men in their twenties grab the shooter’s head, pounding it into the floor until the shooter is dead. The police arrive to ask what happened. One of the mob that grabbed the shooter says, “He shot four people, then he fell, he must have smacked his head on the floor the wrong way.”

  Looking at the body, the officers say, “Guess one has to be careful on these floors. I’ll write up his death as an accident.”

  “What about the ones he shot?”

  “There’s nothing I can do for them; they’re are dead. I called the medical examiner to pick them up. I have to tell you it could be a while. There're been many shootouts tonight.

  The officer is paged to come to the front of the store. He jogs over to meet the manager who’s trying to break up a fight among three shoppers who are fighting over a case of bottled water.

  Walmart experiences mass lootings and theft. Shoppers fill shopping carts and just walk out. Some of the store workers try to stop the looters to no avail. A few of the looters shoot the workers trying to block them. Walmart decides to close their stores. Store managers make the closing announcement over the public address system causing those still in the store to panic and riot. Fires are set in the stores to cover the looters pushing carts out of the stores.

  Every network begins broadcasting messages asking shoppers to stay calm and not to panic or loot. The message is ignored. In fact, it increases the rioting and looting. Many see the message, they figure others must know something they don’t, so they get in their cars and head to their local supermarket.

  The stock market is confused the shares of the major defense suppliers surge, the shares of entertainment companies drop. Banks shares also increase based on the thought people will be borrowing to purchase supplies, and the government spending will soar.

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  Alvin calls the President, “Mr. President, we have thousands of reports about supermarket rioting, gun shootings, fights and stores burning down. The population is panicking. They’re tearing the shopping centers apart. Gun stores have been broken into hundreds of thousands of rounds have been stolen, rifles, shotguns and handguns taken. I’m afraid most of these people are going to be shooting anyone in a uniform. They’re as likely to shoot our troops as the Russians and United Nations troops.”

  “Damn it Alvin, didn’t they hear a thing I said? What can we do? Should I go back on TV again?”

  “No, sir, I’m going to issue some statements to back up yours. Maybe they’ll calm down after the stores close. I’ve called most of the CEOs of the various chains asking them to close early tonight.”

  “That was a good idea. Alvin, what do you think their reaction is going to be tomorrow when the Supreme Court issues their statement?”

  “Adding that on top of tonight’s announcement, I think things are going to get even crazier. I think you might have to declare martial law very soon. In order to save what supplies are in the public domain, we need the stores to ration what they have. With your permission, I’m going to announce rationing tomorrow morning before the Supreme Court announcement.”

  “Alvin, do I need to sign an executive order for you to make an announcement?”

  “Yes sir, you do. I sent one to you; you can print it and sign it, then send it back to me.”

  “You’ll have it in a minute.”

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  At noon the next day, every media station cut away from their normally broadcast programs to the front of the Supreme Court. The reporters stood in the rain trying to guess which way the Justices had decided. Almost every reporter said the Justices would have to decide that even if President Obsma weren't qualified to be President, the bills, laws, executive orders and treaties would naturally have to stand. How could they overturn thousands of signed bills? It simply wasn’t logical. None of the media’s legal experts could find any ruling that would support the overturning anything the President signed. Others reported that the Constitution was an outdated document and should be viewed as a “guide." International media wasn’t so sure what was going to happen. A few of the international reporters were very concerned that the court could rule that everything Obsma signed was going to be overturned. If this happened they worried about the many trade agreements and treaties signed with their countries.

  Shortly the image changes to the nine Justices sitting in a straight line on stage. The chief Justice stood he walked to the podium, adjusted the microphone, “Can everyone hear me?”

  The media yelled back, “Yes we hear you fine.”

  “Ladies and gentlemen, the court reviewed the documents surrounding President Obsma’s qualifications to hold the office of President of the United States.”

  Many of the reporting heard the Chief Justice say President Obsma, so they thought they’d won, they tweeted out messages before the Chief Justice got to his second sentence.

  “The documents we reviewed clearly showed that President Obsma did not meet the qualification as set forth in the United States Constitution for ’natural born citizen.’ No matter how we approached the q
uestion, we couldn’t make him fit the clause. The documentation clearly shows he was born outside of the United States of America, nor was he born in any of the United States of America’s territories. As such, in a rare unanimous vote, we have voted that President Obsma should not have been allowed to run for the office, as such he shouldn’t have been elected and following through with this thought, we have reviewed President Obsma’s records. We find that because President Obsma wasn’t qualified since his qualifications were based on fraud, then everything he did in office was based on fraud. We find that every bill he signed into law, every treaty, every executive order, every presidential finding, every ruling has to be overturned due to the fraud his election was based on. We find the leadership of the Democrat party knew and perpetrated this fraud on the people of the United States of America. Hence, in conjunction with the Department of Justice, early this morning warrants have been issued for the leadership of the Democrat party, plus 36 aides of President Obsma.”

  The Chief Justice paused to take a sip of water, the media went insane, calling out questions, many tweeted that the vote was 5 to 4 it was a right wing conspiracy.

  The Chief Justice continued, “I’d like to repeat; this vote was 9 to 0, every member of the court voted the same.”

  The shock wave rippled through the crowd. None could believe the liberals on the court would have voted against President Obsma.

  “This vote wasn’t left or right; this vote was based on the law, it was based on the Constitution. We realize it’s impossible to simply overturn everything Mr. Obsma signed, as such, in discussions with President Brownstone, we have agreed with the President to do a phased approach to the turning back the clock to the laws as they were on January 19, 2009. The President will be holding a press conference this afternoon to explain how Congress and the President are going to handle the change.

  “We’ve also reviewed the questions of liability. We recognize many hundreds of thousands have been injured by the bills signed into law by President Obsma. Normally Mr. Obsma would be liable for committing fraud, however, as Mr. Obsma has passed away, the Depart of Justice is publishing a list of the people who had a hand in committing this fraud against the people of the United States. These individuals can be held liable. Before any of these people rush to a bankruptcy attorney, let us remind you, bankruptcy doesn’t protect against criminal fraud. The government of the United States is NOT, let me repeat; the government of the United States is not liable and can’t be sued for damages. The government of the United States did not commit fraud. It was an act of fraud committed by a small group of individuals against both the people of the United States and the government of the United States.

  “We as a court are very depressed that a small group of people would put personal power above the laws of the country. We as a group are disgusted by the fraud committed against the people of the United States. We as a group are disgusted that the press went along with the fraud. The press didn’t do the job of a free press; you acted as a support arm for Mr. Obsma; you put your own desires and beliefs ahead of your job and the truth. Our founders wrote freedom of the press into our Constitution with the hope a free press would seek out the truth, so we’d never get to this position. The press has failed the people and the country. We are ashamed of you; you should be ashamed of yourselves. You could have vetted the candidate and sought out the truth. Instead you placed your desire to see Mr. Obsma elected above your search for the truth. Those of you sitting in front of us who did everything in your power to get Mr. Obsma elected are as guilty as those who knew the truth and hid the facts to defraud the population. The difference is, they knew the truth and hid it, and your job was to report the truth that you covered up. Before you ask about your personal or network liability, we have decided to not hear any appeals on this subject. We’re going to allow cases go forward and allow the lower courts to make the decision.”

  The press fell silent. They realized they may shortly not only be out of a job, but may also have to defend a number of lawsuits. The court handed them the worst decision possible. While the Chief Justice is speaking, the network management listening starts turning pale. In their hearts most realize, the Chief Justice is correct, in their heads, they’re upset with the decision. Shortly after the Chief Justice walks away from the podium saying the court will take two questions per Justice, the phone in hundreds of producers’ offices rings, it’s the CEO’s of the networks. Today is the last day for more than 400 news program directors and writers. The networks are trying to cut away their problems so they can tell the court they realized too late their problem, when they did realize their people were not performing in the best interests of the people, they were fired.

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  The supporters of President Obsma took to the streets, yelling the Supreme Court made a racist decision. This was proof the United States was a racist country. Their numbers grew from hundreds to thousands, to tens of thousands, and still additional people joined the mobs. Buildings that had recently been repaired from previous rioting were again damaged. Many were set on fire; many looted. The mob demanded justice; they called for the justice of blood.

  In Atlanta, Chattanooga, Charlotte and Orlando local militias met the mobs with violence. Gunfire went back and forth between the two groups. Blood flowed in main street America as the scene was repeated in twenty different cities.

  The neighbor against neighbor fighting that was seen before the LSA and USA split is repeated, this time with more firearms and even greater hatred. Buildings that were repaired from the previous round of rioting are torched again. Stores that were rebuilt and restocked are again looted, many won’t reopen for a third try.

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  Lawyers all over the country jumped on the Chief Justices comments; within two hours class actions suits were filed against the National Democrat party, against the people listed by the Justices and against the three major networks, their senior management, producers, directors, and reporters. Within four hours, hundreds of lawsuits are filed. Broadcast networks offices are jammed with process servers lined up delivering lawsuit papers. The three CEO’s of the networks agree to meet with a goal to find a way out of their legal mess. They’ve learned from their internal legal departments; they won’t be able to hide behind of their normal tricks. The Chief Justice made it very clear the Supreme Court wasn’t going to block any of the lawsuits.

  Network CEO’s meet in a private club, the head of NBX says, “We’ve got a lot of mutual problems; if the suits continue we risk losing the networks. None of us has sufficient assets to fight, let alone if we lose these suits. I’m suggesting we come together and try to settle these en-mass.”

  The Chairman of ABX replies, “Frankly I’m shocked at the Chief Justice, I’ve been thinking maybe we ought to put pressure on Congress to impeach the court. If they’re impeached their decision won’t stand, we can get from under this mess.”

  The Chairman of CBX leans back in his chair, “I don’t think Congress will do a thing. President Brownstone has Congress in his vest pocket. Most of the country likes the President, he’s put them back to work, lowered their taxes, cut the cost of gasoline by 50%, he’s improved their lives. In addition, we may be facing an invasion. The people will come together and support the President. Either we settle or we all collapse. We don’t have the assets to fight all of the suits, as soon as we get one to court a hundred more will pop up. Even if we happen to win one suit, the lawyers will learn from the Judge’s decision how to reword the next suit. I agree, our only course of action is to find a way to settle.”

  The CEO of NBX thinks for a couple of minutes before he says, “I wonder what would happen if we sold our networks to Wolf. If you noticed, Wolf didn’t get singled out by the Chief Justice. They were against the President and tried to vet him, even if they get sued, I’m betting they’ll be able to get the suit thrown out of court. If we sold our networks to Ralph, we could claim we’ve changed our ways.”

  The Chai
rman of ABX replies,”It’s something to think about. Do you think Ralph would buy us?”

  “I think he might, but it would be for pennies on the dollar, our share price fell 75% today.” Said the chairman of NBX.

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  President Puten watched the rioting and chaos in the United States laughing. He told his closest aides; this is perfect. I couldn’t have asked for a better outcome; they’re tearing themselves apart. By the time our troops cross the border they will be so tied up with their internal battles, our troops will be able to march right in and disarm them without a fight. I should record their news programs so I can enjoy this moment again and again.

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  When the President issued the orders for Doomsday alpha one, the SSBNs went on full alert; they dove deep and cut their speed to three knots; they all but disappeared from anyone looking for them. They became more silent than the background ocean noise. US Air Force B2 bombers were loaded with nuclear weapons, they flew to hidden bases where they waited for the final order to attack. Minute Man missile launch capsules were sealed; the launch officers strapped themselves into their chairs, they opened their safes took out their launch codes and keys. Every missile was made ready for launch. All missiles undergoing maintenance had the maintenance stopped; the technicians exited the silos, closing up the panels on the missiles. The lead techs informed the launch officers the missiles were good to go. Air Force fighters were launched to fly air defense over American cities. Other fighters flew north in case any Russian bombers flew over the North Pole. AWACS and refueling planes orbited in safe areas. Every US Military base went to their war footing. Every base started to disperse their equipment and people in case their base got hit, so they didn’t lose their assets.

  Anti-air missiles were set up near the strategic bases and projected points of entry any invading aircraft would take.