by Ira Tabankin
Naval nuclear weapons which had been removed in 1991 by President Bush, were restored to the surface fleet. Every warship possible was at sea.
In addition to the US Military hundreds of local militias made contact with their local military bases. The militia’s commanders got their orders; they returned home to prepare and position their people
Minuteman and Peacekeeper missiles which had been withdrawn from service, and still had usable silos were taken out of storage, checked, armed and installed into their silos. The Russians watched this through their network of spy satellites. The Russian military high command was getting concerned. They wondered how many more damn missiles the Americans had ready to install. They watched the US Air Force install armed missiles on the test launchers adding to the number of available nuclear ICBMs.
Fifteen US Air Force F15 fighters takeoff carrying a single large missile on their center line hard-point. When the F15s reach 60,000 feet the missile dropped free. The missile seemed to hang free in the air for a moment; its rocket engine ignited sending the missile into space towards its target that is orbiting at 18,000 MPH. The missile’s seeker locks on to its target, directing the missile crashes into the satellite destroying it into thousands of pieces. One of the anti-sat missiles blew up fifty feet from Its F15 mother plane, the shrapnel from the exploding missile damages the F15 who tips over to return to its base as quickly as possible. A second wave of twelve F15s carrying AS 135 missiles targets the Russian Federation’s communication satellites, all twelve strike their targets. The next wave targets the Russian Federation’s ocean radar surveillance satellites blinding and deafening the Russian Federation.
The Russia military studied the Americans progress when all of a sudden their monitors went black. At first they thought there was a download issue until one of their staff rushed into the conference room. “Generals, we just lost all our spy birds, they’re gone.”
“Captain, what the hell do you mean, the birds are gone?”
“Sir, they’re gone, they’re blown apart. Someone took them out. We lost 98% of our birds. Sir, we’re also losing our communications and our radar surveillance birds. We’re blind deaf and dumb.”
One of the Russian generals throws his cup of tea across the room, saying, “Damn Americans! They somehow took our birds out. They signed a treaty not to militarize space. Looks like they just broke that treaty. We lost our eyes and ears. We’re blind to their preparations. I don’t like this. Our troops are going to cross the border without knowing what’s waiting for them on the other side. I have a really bad feeling about this.”
Every military base, every military supplier was working 24 hours a day, fleets of trucks made runs from the defense integrators to the numerous military bases, ships and weapons depots. Every navy ship was swarming with technical workers; airplanes were being towed out of the ‘Boneyard’, train loads of parts are met by busloads of workers to update the planes, making them flyable again. Anti-air and anti-missile missiles are being deployed outside every American city. Ammunition factories are operating 24/7, millions of rounds of ammunition are flowing out of every plant. Tens of thousands of AR 15 and M4 rifles are being built and shipped to waiting troops and militias. Lines of temporary workers are building land and naval mines in the millions. Cold war fallout shelters are being reviewed, restocked and updated. Stores sell out of survival food before it reaches the shelf. Warehouse stores can’t keep bottled water, flashlights and canned food in stock. America is getting ready for war. The first invasion on American soil in over 200 years is only days away from taking place.
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The General Assembly debates their next course of action for ten days, voices of reason asking the member nations of the United Nations to find a peaceful solution to the United States not agreeing to sign the nuclear disarmament treaty are shouted down. Fights between the delegates break out on the floor of the United Nations. The Secretary-General pleads with the delegates that the United Nations can’t wait any longer. Time is running out, every minute the United Nations delays in attacking America, America prepares for the attack. He warns the delegates that America could be preparing to fire nuclear weapons against their home countries if America doesn’t lose her nuclear weapons. The Secretary-General knows if the United Nations can’t bring America to heel, they’ll never get any of the other countries who walked away from the treaty to agree to sign it either. The Secretary-General tells the delegates ‘on the fence’ that Russia and the LSA will provide the resources of people, equipment and bases, he believes will be more than sufficient to surprise America and win a quick war, taking control of America’s nuclear weapons. He calls the Russian General in charge of the new United Nations military ordering the general to begin the attack the following evening.
The general agrees nervously since he’s recently lost his eyes and ears in the sky. He agrees because he can’t think of any way to delay the attack until Russian can launch additional satellites. The Secretary-General informs the General he either agrees to the timeline or he’ll be replaced. The General knows he has no choice but to agree with the timetable. He tells the Secretary-General he’s ready. He has two complete Russian Army groups totaling 800,000 men, plus five mixed international armies totaling an additional 100,000 people.
The invasion of America is set to start at 0400 the following morning.
Chapter 21
The citizens of the LSA watch the USA Supreme Court press conference in shock. Their founder, their savior, was not only dead, but if the USA Supreme Court is telling the truth, he’s not who he said he was. If he didn’t tell the truth about his background and his Presidency, what else didn’t he tell the truth about? What else did he lie about? The average person in the LSA is at first confused, their confusion turned to anger. Anger at the USA Supreme Court, anger at President Brownstone for releasing what has to be made up, phony information. Anger at the media for their sudden turning against President Obsma. Anger at being kept in the dark. Anger at President Reid for keeping them in the dark.
When the USA Supreme Court press conference ends, their television programs are interrupted by a news flash broadcast that President Reid had been arrested for the possession of child pornography. Many of the LSA citizens couldn’t believe the news today, first Obsma and then Reid. None could justify why President Reid would have child pornography on his computer. There were a series of ironclad laws on the LSA books against child pornography. No one in the LSA could escape prison if they had images of child porn on their computers. It was one of the few laws the rich and wealthy couldn’t slip through, or use their money and power to escape.
President Reid promised a press conference that evening to explain his side of the story. The citizens of the LSA sit in front of their televisions ready to hear their President explain why he was arrested. Before Reid can say a word, their television screens turn black; the sets flash on showing images of kiddie porn, disgusting images, images that make parents tell their children to leave the room, a deep voice says, “Citizens of the LSA, everything you know about President Obsma and President Reid has been a lie. Everything about both them is a fraud perpetrated against you so a very few could rule for the rest of their lives as kings. Yes, kings. They thought they answer to no one, yet look at the images found on President Reid’s computer. Nasty, disgusting images, vile images. Is this the man you want to rule over you? Would you like your children to be taken from you and used in this way? Whose children were these? Which ones of you lost your children so they could be abused for the pleasure of your ruling class? Is this why you left the United States? Is this your progressive paradise, using poor innocent children? Citizens of the LSA, we are Anonymous; nothing on the internet or your computers is hidden from us. We see all, we know all. None can keep secrets from us. We want you to see the light. Come out of the darkness and see the light of truth. Do you know your President Reid has made an agreement with the President of the Russian Federation, President Puten, to attac
k the United States? Your President has made a deal with the devil to put your new country the LSA under control of President Puten. Is this why you seceded? Is this who you want to be your leader? Did you agree to leave the United States and become a Russian? Are you ready to become a slave to the state? Your leaders have sold you out. You have been lied to; you have been, as they say, ‘played as a fool.' Take back your government now. Force your leaders to enable you to elect your own leaders. Own your own destiny. Make war on no one who hasn’t invaded your homes. Live and let live. Peace is better than war. Life is better than death. The time is now for you to rise up and take back your lives. If you truly believe in your progressive theories, then why are you allowing a mentally ill dictator lead you to ruin? We’ll now return control of your television and media to you. We are Anonymous; we are always watching.”
Television screens throughout the LSA return to the images of President Reid yelling at the production people to fix the transmission. The people of the LSA see live on their television displays their President screaming like a spoiled four-year-old. They see him condemn a video engineer to death for not being able to override Anonymous. They watch the man who was their caring grandfather, their President, who took over after their founder died, act like a tyrant. To most of the citizens of the LSA, this is an eye-opening view of the man they thought was a pure caring progressive who worked 24/7 to improve people’s lives. The man they saw in front of them was nothing but a ruthless petty would be king and tyrant, a bully who threw his weight around.
When President Reid realizes the broadcast is going out live, he turns towards the cameras to explain, “My fellow citizens of the LSA, the images you just saw wasn’t me, it was an animation created by the evil organization known as Anonymous. They are owned and controlled by the evil Coke brothers. We know the Coke brothers to be far right wing fanatics who will stop at nothing to bring down our progressive paradise.”
Citizens of the LSA are at first confused by President Reid’s comments, slowly it dawns on most of them Reid has been lying to them. The images they saw were the real President Reid. Before President Reid can continue four LSA National Police officers approach the President, “Sir, we’ve informed you; you are under arrest, you are not allowed to make public statements as these statements can confuse a potential jury. You must cease this broadcast and come with us.”
President Reid, yells at the officers, “I am the President-For-Life of the LSA, you’ll do what the fuck I say. I don’t have to listen to you. I rule here. In fact, you’re all fired, now get out of the building.”
President Reid forgot the cameras were still on; he forgot he was broadcasting live to all of the homes in the LSA. His image of a loving grandfather had just been shattered. Slowly at first, people go outside to demand the arrest and impeachment of the President. The initial people are soon joined by more, and more, soon over three hundred thousand are marching for the impeachment of President Reid. Nanny Polsi senses this is her time, she takes to an outdoor stage in San Francisco. “People of the LSA, I hear you, I hear you, I’ll file formal impeachment charges against President Reid tonight. I’ll lead you with honesty and empathy.”
Before Nanny can complete her comments, she’s interrupted; her microphone is muted, “Citizens of the LSA, We are Anonymous, don’t be fooled by this woman’s lies. She is worse than President Reid; she has built her entire political career on lies. She’s an expert telling her listeners what they want to hear. She claims to be a devote Roman Catholic, yet she’s the most-vocal voice for abortion. The Holy Father in Rome has told her she has to change her comments or risk being excommunicated from the Holy Church. Is this who you want you trust? How can you trust her if even the Holy Father doesn’t trust her? The Holy Catholic Church has outlawed her from receiving communion. This isn’t who you want to lead a new country. You want a leader who has your best interests at heart.”
Nanny is furious, at the interruption, when control of the video is returned to her staff she yells, “The Holy Father and I are very good friends don’t believe these criminals.”
Before she can complete her sentence, the screens display a secret video of her meeting between her and the Holy Father who’s telling her to change her comments. Nanny is shocked, she never knew the Vatican secretly recorded meetings with the Holy Father. Nanny returns, saying, “Don’t believe that image, the Vatican doesn’t allow pictures, that video must have been created in a lab.”
Her comments were too little too late, the people of the LSA knew the images they saw looked real, the Holy Father sounded very real, and his image was real. Citizens of the LSA lost their founders, their second President to a violation of the child porn laws, their Vice President, Nanny Polsi, has been caught lying. Even though the LSA doesn’t allow formal displays of religion, the majority of the population still believed in one of the major religions. They accepted the no displays in order to be fair to everyone; most didn’t like the idea of anyone going against the Holy Father. Those who were Catholic had their minds changed about Nanny, she no longer was the caring grandmother she pretended to be. These events left the LSA with a problem, who was going to be their new President?
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“Mr. President, DARPA has a unique idea you may find interesting.”
“John, I’m listening.”
“Sir, DARPA thinks they can guide a satellite to crash into a small asteroid, they can calculate the strike point so that the asteroid falls on Russia. It will appear to the world as an accident that happens from time to time. The Earth gets hit by asteroids all of the time. DARPA thinks it can calculate the impact point in Russia to land at a city similar in size and population to Minot. We’ll get our revenge without them realizing we did it. If they continue to attack us, we can drop more asteroids on them.”
“John, how soon can DARPA be ready?”
“Sir, they are ready, they only require your written order.”
“Which I assume you have on you.”
“Yes, right here, and here is a pen.”
Smiling the President picks up the pen signing the order. “John, make it a nice juicy asteroid.”
Four days later the famous Russian city of Volgograd ceases to exist. An asteroid crashes into the city without warning. The Russians lost most of their ability for an early warning when they lost their early warning and spy satellites. The city of over a million people suffers an explosion equal to a 10MT nuclear explosion. The city is completely destroyed.
President Brownstone sends a message to President Puten offering his condolences for the loss of the city
President Puten, reading the message screams, “I know the bastard did it. I don’t know how he did it, but he did it. He killed over a million Russians. I want a nuclear strike on America.”
The Science advisory to President Puten responds, “Mr. President, it wasn’t the Americans. There’s no way we know of to direct an asteroid to a target on Earth. The strike was a natural event. We get hit with meteors all of the time; this one was just larger than some of the recent ones. It was also smaller than ones that have struck the planet in the past hundred thousand years. If you strike the Americans with a nuclear attack, the United Nations will turn against us. We’ll lose the war, sir; we’re so close to seeing your grand plan to fruition, I beg you don’t do this.”
Puten thinks over his advisor’s words and agrees with his science advisor. “Thank you Andrei, you stopped me from making a purely emotional decision when logic has gotten us so close to the total victory.”
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Russian attack submarines are ordered to be in position by 0300, they are informed that special orders will be sent to them at 0330. Most of the Russian submarine captains knew they were being followed by American, and in some cases, Chinese attack submarines. The Russians prime targets are the American aircraft carriers. Both sides have practiced the attack and defense for fifty years. The Americans knew the United Nations attack would come soon, they didn’t know exact
ly when, but they knew it had to be very soon. The Russians knew every hour they gave the Americans, the better prepared the Americans became.
Admiral Zander looked at the master map in the War Room under the Pentagon; he watched an ensign plot the location of Russian submarines. He picked up a bright blue telephone handset, which connects him to the admirals commanding the ten US aircraft carriers, “This is Admiral Zander, I expect the attack to commence tonight, my gut says, they will attack before dawn. When the Russian submarines make their move towards our carriers, you are weapons free, I say again when the Russian submarines make their turn towards our carriers, you are weapons free. I want every one of their attack boats sunk.”
“Admiral Rayson, commanding Second fleet on board the Nimitz, Sir, what about our attack boats?”
“Message is being sent to them to come shallow to pick up the weapons free message.”
“Sir, what about the Russian missile boats?”
“I’ve assigned a group of the Virginia class attack boats to take out their missile boats. The Virginias are the quietest boats we have.”
“Sir, Admiral Scott, Seventh fleet on the Reagan, I suggest we issue a NoTAM (Notice To Air Men) that we’re declaring a 200 mile perimeter no-fly zone around each carrier.”
“I’ll issue the NoTAM from here.”
“Sir, Admiral Zellander, Fifth fleet on the Washington, Sir, it would be nice to get come P3s or P8s out here for assistance.” (P3 and P8 are land-based long-range anti-submarine airplanes). Sir, I don’t know how you did it, but thanks for getting the Washington back to sea.”
“Admiral, all we have are already in the air heading for your carriers. Their call sign is penguin flight; each will respond by number. Each is fully loaded.”
“Admiral Barnes, on the Lincoln, Sir where are our SSGNs?” (Nuclear-powered submarines that carry 154 Tomahawk cruise missiles and Navy Seals. There four of them in the fleet.)