The Balkanization of America (12 page)

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“Sir, it’s more than the normal summer unrest, even the United Nations have withdrawn their headquarters to Switzerland.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.”