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Nckdictator: Sep 8, 2006; Just..someone

"Dragon's Fury" makes Tom Clancy look subtle and nuanced.

In it China,India,Pakistan,Iran,Iraq,Cuba, Syria and Saudi Arabia all attack America only to be stopped by President Norman Schwarzkopf and Vice President Alan Keyes.

I've read plot synopsis of countless terrible novels but Dragon's Fury stands out due to:

1. The aforementioned country's working together.

2. The author's totally not racist depiction of African-Americans who "see the light'" and become staunch Republican voters.

3. The Supreme Court rules all abortion illegal because ???

4. The President opens up National Parks in America for oil drilling. This is portrayed as a good thing.

5. Violent crimes ends because of repelling of most gun laws.

6. Illegal immigration ends after a mob of women and children storm across the border and lynch random American dudes for no reason and the President kills them all with a Hellfire missile.

7. Dan Rather is a evil Chinese spy and is executed.

8. The US and UK destroy Mecca, , bulldoze the ruins and salt the Earth.

It's pure insanity and written by some crazy far-right dude. (and for free on his website)

http://www.jeffhead.com/ebookdownload/DFS-WorldWar.pdf

The "destruction of Mecca" sequence is so overdone one can imagine the author pleasuring himself while writing it.

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But in the end, over 75,000 combatants and an estimated 65,000 civilians remained in the city and around the holy shrines, fortifying them all for the expected ground assault...that never came.

With no more talk, with no more fanfare, at noon on June 8th, the bombing began.

Waves of B-52H bombers performed the most intensive bombing raids since the Vietnam War... all concentrated on the one, city. Wave after wave, the bombers came throughout the 8th, 9th and 10th of June...non-stop.

Interspersed in with the ARC LITE bombing was the use of dozens of newly developed MOAB II area demolition bombs. Mammoth 60,000 pound bombs that were delivered by specially configured C-17 Globe Master transports, dubbed B-17 IIs. Each of those behemoths was capable of completely reducing entire city blocks. They were known as poor man's mini-non-nukes.

By the morning of the 9th, first hundreds...and then thousands of inhabitants and combatants began exiting the ruined city. Any who came out with weapons in their hands, or who otherwise attempted to fight were immediately shot down and killed.

Soon, all who came out were unarmed and nonbelligerent.

By the afternoon on the 9th, no major structure was left standing in the city. By noon on the 10th, when the bombing campaign ended, not one stone was standing left upon another within Mecca.

An eerie silence fell across the face of the countryside in and around the remains of the city. There was not so much as a moan coming from the ruins. .
That afternoon, allied scout, EOD and medic teams entered the city. Over a two day period, fewer than 500 injured were pulled from the mounds of rubble. By the 14th of June, all rescue and recovery efforts ceased. The allies did not intend to rebuild Mecca...they intended to send a message.

Over one hundred U.S. Army D-9 caterpillar bulldozers then appeared on the perimeter around the city and converged on it. They literally covered over the smoldering debris and smoothed it out in three days time. A flat, desolate landscape then occupied the ground where once Mecca stood. All debris, all ruined or discarded weapons-all bodies-had been buried there.

Atop this soil the allies sprinkled salt and then soaked the ground in swine fat. Around the perimeter, and interspersed every five hundred yards within, the following metal signs were erected:

Here stood Mecca, until it was occupied by barbarians, terrorists and desecrators and those who harbored them, who then committed atrocities against the United States of America and the United Kingdom and their allies.

Now there is nothing here but a desolation of pig-fat and salt.

Let the fate of this once great city be a clear message to all those who would desecrate that which is holy and who would consider committing similar atrocities against United States or United Kingdom forces, personnel or civilians.

To the innocent we allowed to escape we say-De Oppresso Libre! To the barbarians who died here we say-Sic Simper Tyranis!

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Nckdictator: Sep 8, 2006; Just..someone

Palpatine MD posted:

What the gently caress did I just read

What's that? more you say?

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In the United States itself, production levels were steadily climbing and more ships, aircraft,weapons, and materiel were pouring out of newly built or refurbished U.S. factories and shipyards.But the effort was not building quickly enough for the Allied war planners, and so their enemies continued to gain ground. Part of this was attributable to the rampant outsourcing efforts that had occurred in U.S. industry throughout the 1990s and early 2000s. Firms had been tempted by the cheap labor and favorable economic conditions offered by the very countries now fighting the United States and her Allies, and by the short sighted plans and philosophies of those who saw the increased profit and reduced tax liabilities as ends unto themselves.
As a result, large international U.S. firms, and all too often the U.S. government itself,spearheaded the headlong plunge to move more and more operations off shore. By 2005 a large percentage of U.S. manufacturing and engineering capability had been moved to, and was now owned by, the very nations who would be seeking to defeat America and her allies just a few years thereafter...

But that progress itself was also being hampered by the continuing terror attacks on U.S. soil.
Literally tens of thousands of American citizens had been killed. Billions of dollars of capital
equipment, infrastructure, and property had been destroyed. Although the nation was now on
a full wartime footing, overcoming these attacks interfered with efforts to ramp up. The President�s initiatives on the Second Amendment, pushing and passing legislation at the national and state levels that eradicated most gun laws, had helped immensely.
Citizens became the front line of defense and interdicted terror attacks as they developed.

Even so, attacks conducted by Hispanic, Oriental, and Muslim terrorists continued. Agents who had infiltrated the nation over many years, taking advantage of a lax immigration policy and porous borders were activated, to simply implement plans of long standing. Winning these destructive and deadly battles on the home front was critical to the hopes for victory in the overseas theaters. In an effort to stop the flow of new terrorist combatants into the nation, and in addition to measures that Geneva and Alan explained regarding the Second Amendment and Home Guard, the Weisskopf administration implemented military- controlled borders. Several divisions of troops were deployed along the southern border of the United States, and a national buffer zone had been implemented on both sides of the southern border with Mexico, five miles deep into Mexico and one mile into the United States.

In a vast operation, those areas on the U.S. side had been cleared of structures, businesses, and housing. The inhabitants and workers had been relocated and the Federal Government had given vast areas of former Federal Lands to duly and richly compensate those citizens so displaced�deeding over to them lands upon which the rebuilding of their business structures and dwellings was subsidized...

In addition, due to the extreme nature of the attacks and the threat, internment camps had been established within the remote, intermountain areas of the American West. Similar in nature to those established in World War II for Japanese-Americans, these camps had one vast difference: no U.S.citizen was interred. U.S. citizens� constitutional rights were respected. Only foreign aliens found to be residing in the United States illegally were automatically interred.

Legal aliens from the affected belligerent nations, where there was no proof of hostile involvement, were simply given the option of being returned to their respective nations as quickly and efficiently as possible, or they were interned for the duration of hostilities. Avoidance of compliance or dishonesty was rewarded with immediate internment. The internment policies were a direct reaction by the Weisskopf administration to rampant homeland terrorism, and they were completely supported by Congress. They were also controversial, but only to the most die-hard social and liberal proponents of �open� immigration. In the new, harsh reality, the numbers of those dissenting were few.

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Nckdictator: Sep 8, 2006; Just..someone

"nether universe pole"

# ¿ Sep 19, 2016 03:07

Nckdictator: Sep 8, 2006; Just..someone

I know terrible 19th century novels are probably cheating but An Entirely New Feature of a Thrilling Novel! Entitled the Social War of the Year 1900, or Conspirators and Lovers. A Lesson for Saints and Sinners. certainly sounds like something.

http://io9.gizmodo.com/5890703/the-worst-science-fiction-novel-of-the-19th-century

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...The Social War's author, Simon Mohler Landis (?-1902) , certainly has a record to match his novel. A Pennsylvanian clergyman, Landis claimed to be a doctor, although no proof of this could be found. He was forced to declare bankruptcy at least three times in the 1850s and 1860s, and all of his property was seized and sold by the county, yet within a few years he had always recovered and seemed to be prospering, through a combination of lectures and selling products like Dr. Landis' Celebrated Patent Compound Electro-Magnetic Hot and Cold Air Bath and the Patent Compound Male and Female Magnitude Syringe and Organic Bath. In 1865 he founded the "First Progressive Church of Philadelphia," and as its pastor wrote and A Strictly Private Book on Marriage: Secrets of a Generation (1870), a sexual education book that was so explicit (by the standards of the era) in the ensuing trial for obscenity the book was described as "so lewd and filthy, and obscene that it is unfit to be spread upon the records of this court�and hence to read in the presence of a public audience."

Landis was jailed for five months, then released. He moved from Philadelphia to New York City, then to Detroit, then to Boston, publishing an account of his trial (Prison Life Thoughts) and polemics against doctors, self-abuse, and free love. He died in Boston in 1902.

...The Social War is about the conflict between the American society and the Naturalists, a military secret society led by Victor Juno. Juno is a physician who believes in using animal magnetism rather than medicine to solve sickness. But Juno is also a minister obsessed with society's sinfulness, and he lectures about this sin at length.

Juno is opposed by organized religion, the medical establishment, and most of all the Conspirators, who are led by three people:

Rob Stew, "what the New Testament would call a Judas Iscariot, a viper, scribe, hypocrite and pharisee. A man who can dissemble and adapt himself to any kind of villainy, who goes about praying and exhorting, claiming to be a chosen vessel of the Lord!"

Joe Pier, who "has many refined, tender and noble feelings, but being one of those milk-and-water creatures who has no mind of his own, nor enough talent to succeed in life without some one to keep him stiff in the back bone, he is just the miserable, though useful instrument in the hands of a Judas-like Deacon Rob Stew-to aid in proselyting [sic] millions to the faith of blue-stocking orthodoxy."

Nancy Clover, "a finely formed female, of profound talent and wheedling capacity. She has the faculty of LOVE OF POWER immensely developed, in addition to a mountain of Self-conceit, which makes her bold and dauntless. Moreover, she possess almost a talismanic power to make every one fall in love with her, whether man or woman, and she always plays upon the lute-strings of affection of those whom she wishes to control, before she attempts to use her LOVE OF POWER over them."

The Conspirators and their followers have power in Philadelphia, but Victor and the aforementioned Lucinda Armington and her father do not bow to them, and the Conspirators kidnap and torment Victor and Lucinda, with Stew repeatedly attempting to rape Lucinda.

Eventually Victor summons the forces of the Naturalists, who seize weapons and capture the Conspirators. A civil war breaks out, and after the usual plot twists, including the Victor's near-death-by-firing-squad, the Naturalists win. Juno has Stew castrated and the other prisoners of war shot. ictor then declares that the United States will be a theocracy-because "God is a dictator." Victor's ten point rule:

" All money must be deposited into the Treasury

The "owners of filthy luchre" and those who have "sinned by indulging in unhealthy habits, such as rum, tobacco, medicine, profanity, licentiousness, and so forth" must "give up your sinning or die!"

"Idleness shall be a felony" and "obedience and submission to fixed law or death is the edict."

Each man, woman, and child must work at least two to three hours every day.

The Naturalists' soldiers were healed without medicines, therefore�medicines, fashions and all artificial and useless things must be abolished instantly!

Self and selfishness for mere isolated gratification shall be treated as a virulent disease, and such invalids must instantly be placed into the institutions of instruction until healed, or remain there for life."

Immigrants must abide by the new ways and are "positively forbidden to introduce, or themselves use, on our soil any agencies�that are prohibited by this proclamation and the new constitution.

No one shall be permitted, under the penalty of death, to destroy or remove valuables from the United States.

Those who do not understand how to act will be esteemed good citizens by instantly applying for information to any of the Secret Order of Naturalists.

Provisions, clothing, tenements, and all necessary things shall from this day be supplied to each as they need, and no one shall usurp more than his or her necessities demand, under the penalty of being imprisoned in the institutions of instruction."

Juno also forbids the free press, and decrees that all who wish to be married must be virgins ("in a natural state." Those who have previously libeled or slandered Juno are branded on the forehead. The parents of weak and sickly children are to be imprisoned. Stew, Pier, and Clover are sentenced to "be branded with our disgracing motto on their foreheads, cheeks, arms, legs, feet, trunk and each one have the letters B and C cut through their ears; after this is done, they shall all four be imprisoned for life in one room, unless I pardon them, where they shall work four hours a day, and be kept as a free show to all the world."

Then two years of famine and pestilence are sent to the United States by God, "to aid the cause of reform, by destroying those who led dissipated lives." The Naturalists are spared, but no one else is, so that "the path for the Naturalists was cleared of all its deteriorating rubbish, and the work of God and man went exultingly along."

# ¿ Sep 23, 2016 23:06

Nckdictator: Sep 8, 2006; Just..someone

So, someone on another forum has been doing a read-through of Victoria: A Novel of 4th Generation War by William Lind, a writer for various far-right sources and former aide to Senator and Presidential candidate Gary Hart.

https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/coiler-reads-victoria-a-novel-of-fourth-generation-what-the.360750/

The plot summery is a doozy.

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When Captain John Rumford, USMC, stands up for the dead Marines of Iwo Jima against the forces of political correctness that have invaded his beloved Corps, he is promptly cashiered for his trouble. But upon his return to his native Maine, he discovers that even in the countryside, there is no escaping the political correctness that has spread throughout the United States of America. And when what begins as a small effort by some former Marines to help fellow Christians in Boston free themselves from the plague of crime in their neighborhoods turns into a larger resistance movement, Captain Rumford unexpectedly finds himself leading his fellow revolutionaries into combat against an ideological enemy that takes many different forms.

Victoria: A Novel of 4th Generation War is a vision of an American restoration. For some it will be seen as a poignant dream, for others, a horrific nightmare. But Victoria is more than a conventional novel and involves considerably more than mere entertainment. In much the same way Atlas Shrugged was the dramatization of a particular philosophical perspective, Victoria is the dramatization of a new form of modern war that is taking shape as the state gradually loses its four-century monopoly on violence. It is a book that informs, even teaches, through example. And sometimes, the lessons are very harsh indeed

It sounds bad but nothing worse then your generic right-wing post-apocalyptic fantasy. Sadly, it is.

Some random examples:

The book begins with our heroes burning a Episcopal bishop at the stake, because she;s a woman, and women can't be bishops, and any woman claiming to be one is therefore a heretic. Therefore she deserves to die.

The rest of the book is written in a flashback explaining how Our Hero led up to this utopia.

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�Sadly, this great culture of ours, Western culture, is under attack,� the professor replied. �The universities today are active and conscious agents in its destruction. Indeed, they have generated theories as to why Western culture should be destroyed. Of course, they aren�t alone. The most powerful single force in America now is the entertainment industry, and it is also an agent of cultural destruction. Many of the politicians play the game too. The usual code-words are �racism, sexism, and homophobia.� When you hear them, you�re hearing the worms gnawing at the foundation.�

I�d been told my high crime was �sexism,� so that clicked, and Col. Ryan was certainly a politician. It sounded as if there were a new battlefield I needed to understand.

�So where do I start?� I asked.

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About a week later I got a letter. It was from my old company Gunnery Sergeant, a black fellow and a good Marine. He was also a husband and father�rare among black males by the 21st century�and a Christian. He wrote to ask for my help.

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�They�you�always end up getting sucked in to the Republican Party,� Mr. Kraft continued. �It holds the keys to the club. And it sold us out long ago. Sure, it tells us what we want to hear, but it snickers and winks the whole time it�s talking. The only people it delivers for are those on Wall Street and in the country clubs.�

�The fact of the matter is that you can�t create what we believe in, a country that follows the Ten Commandments, from Washington. The people in Washington follow only one commandment: Promote Yourself. You have to create it here, not by what you say, but by how you live.� Kraft�s words brought to mind something my friend who worked for a Senator had said to me. He said the difference between the Democratic Party and the Republican Party was the difference between Madonna and Donald Trump.

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As our culture began to fall apart, in the 1960s, the gays started �coming out.� This broke the old rule of �Don�t frighten the horses,� which had allowed mutual toleration. The rule meant that they were not open about their orientation, and we pretended not to notice it.

By the 2000s, they had become one of the cultural Marxists� sacred �victims� groups, which meant they were encouraged to flaunt their vice and we were supposed to approve of it. This was justified in the name of �toleration,� but toleration and approval are different. You may tolerate things you don�t approve. I was willing to tolerate gays, but I would sooner have given my approval to an act involving three high yellow whores, a wading pool full of green Jello, and Flipper.

As usual, Maine had elected a liberal Governor, a former Senator named Snidely Hokem. He�d gotten tired of the Caligula�s court that was Washington, where he�d competed hard for the role of Incitatus�s hindquarters. But he still liked having his own backside kissed, so he figured being Governor might be about right for him.

To keep up his liberal standing, he had to find one of the �victims� groups and abase himself and the State of Maine before it. That was a challenge, since our winters kept out most �minorities� and our women had too much real work to do to be feminists.
The gays provided the perfect answer. So on September 23, 2020, The Honorable Snidely Hokem issued an executive order that each public school in Maine, including every elementary school, had to hire at least one homosexual guidance counselor. The order explained that this was necessary so �students with different sexual preferences would not feel excluded.� In order to determine who had what �sexual preference,� the gay counselors had to be given �unrestricted public and private access� to all the kids.

Suddenly, Mainers found their �luxury liberalism� had turned on them and bitten them, hard.

I expected Hokem to back down in the face of the voters� wrath. After all, he was a politician. But he didn�t. Instead, he got on the television and gave a real stem-winder about how �we were all guilty of oppressing people who were really no different from ourselves.� Far from condemning them, �we should confront our own homophobia, which is a greater sin than any they might commit, not that what they do is sinful.� �Let us ask ourselves,� he concluded, �whether our children are not safer with these counselors than with the average Roman Catholic priest. After all, the sexually victimized have never led an Inquisition.�

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�Okay, guys, I�ve got just one question: how can you get me out of this one?� Hokem opened.

�At this point, frankly, I don�t know,� said his chief fundraiser. �Why in hell did you give that god-damned speech? It sounded like the most radical gay activist in the state wrote it for you.�

�That�s because the most radical gay activist in the state did write it for me. It came straight from Don Rexrod�s office.�

�poo poo, he�s head of the North American Man-Boy Love Association. Even most of the other gays don�t like those perverts,� said Hokem�s chief of staff, �Ms.� Virginia Teitelbaum. �Boss, if you�re dancing to his tune, you�ve got to tell us why.�

�Because Don and the rest of the gays have me by the balls, that�s why,� Hokem said. �Well, not that way, but you know what I mean.�

�No, we don�t know what you mean,� said Teitelbaum. �We can�t help you unless you tell us what the real problem is. You know what you�re doing is political suicide. Exactly why have you gotten so far in bed with these people?�

�Now cut it out,� Hokem yelled. �I�m not in bed with any gays. I�m perfectly normal. I�ve got a family, after all. Hell, if I weren�t normal I probably wouldn�t be in this mess.�

�Years ago, back in the early 1990s when I was on the Senate Armed Services Committee, a bunch of us took a junket out to the Army�s training center at Ft. Irwin in the California desert. We figured that wouldn�t look like a junket to the folks back home, but the place was close to Vegas. We flew back each night to Caesar�s Palace, where we had the usual free suites. Anyway, a bunch of us got plastered at the bar and we spotted some really nice tail. I mean, they were gorgeous.�

�We figured, what the hell, we�re Senators, right? Who�s gonna make trouble for us? So we took them upstairs and started having some fun. Strangely, it was right where they held that Tailhook party.�
�I swear, none of us even suspected they were drag queens. By the time I figured out something was where it shouldn�t be, we were all in pretty deep. And the bitch, or whatever she, or he, was, was wired for sound. They had the whole goddamn thing on tape! The drag queens gave the tape to a bunch of gay political activists. So when our gay friends call, I listen,� Hokem concluded.

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The challenge, and our opportunity, came in the early summer of 2021. The Democrats were back in power in Washington, and their slogan was �A Rainbow Over America.� For Maine, that translated into an announcement on June 22 by �Ms.� Lateesha Umbonga LaDrek, the Secretary of HUD, that her department had purchased two large apartment clusters in Bangor. The current rent-paying residents would be moved out, and 350 black federal prison parolees from out of state would be moved in. LaDrek said the purpose of this action was �to offer oppressed people of color a second chance by letting them serve as ambassadors of diversity to the people of Bangor, who were imprisoned in an all-white ghetto.�

Maine seethed. But after years of being told that they were evil �racists,� people felt morally unable to defend themselves. They dared not speak openly against the trashing of their community...

�Let the enemy overextend himself. But how do we keep them from moving the black scum in?�

�By moving someone else in first.� The speaker was one of our more unusual recruits, Father Dimitri, an Orthodox missionary from Russia. Russia was again a Christian nation, under a new Tsar, and she saw her mission as carrying the Word to the repaganized West....

�What are orcs?� Sergeant Danielov asked.

�The word is from Tolkien,� Father Dimitri replied. �He was one of the great Christian writers of the 20th century. In his Lord of the Rings, which is Christian analogy, orcs are soldiers of the Evil One. Those creatures your government wants to move in to Bangor are orcs, believe me.�

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Meanwhile, the 250 black parolees who were to move into Bangor had been stuck in a couple of motels near Worcester, Massachusetts, waiting for the federal troops to clear their way in. The Justice Department�s lawyers had determined that, since they had been paroled, they could not be kept under guard...

A summer day in New England is a true joy. That Fourth of July was especially nice. The temperature got up to 77 degrees, with low humidity, a gentle breeze out of the northwest and a few white, puffy, cotton-ball clouds, the kind that children like to see animal shapes in. Sister Mary Frances of the Church of the Blessed Sacrament had brought her Bible school pupils, grades two through five, to a small park on the bank of the West River. They had sandwiches and cookies, toys, a big American flag and sparklers to celebrate the day. Sister Mary Frances had planned to read them the story of the Ride of Paul Revere.

Thirteen of the parolees discovered them there just after lunch. By the time the police found them later in the day, the Sister and most of the children were lying where they had knelt to say the Rosary, praying for the protection that did not come in this life. She had been raped repeatedly before being strangled with the chain on her Crucifix. Perhaps she had bought the three surviving children the time they needed to crawl off into the woods and hide. A posse of state troopers and frantic parents found them there just after dusk.

But �Ms.� LaDrek of HUD happened to be in Worcester that very weekend. She had come to open a new high-rise public housing development, modeled on St. Louis famed Pruett-Igoe. At her news conference, she said that the slaughter of Sister Mary Frances and her young charges �was nothing compared to what people of color had suffered in America since the white invaders first arrived. Maybe it would help the white people of Massachusetts have a better understanding of Black Rage. If so, it might be a positive experience for Worcester.�

The news conference had been carried live on most of the Worcester TV and radio stations. It concluded with Ms. LaDrek leading the new residents of the housing project into the commons room for a nice lunch. By 12:30, the courtyard in front of the project was filling with Worcester�s citizenry, and they weren�t in a celebratory mood. They were construction workers, housewives, good Catholics most of them, some coming straight from the noon mass at Blessed Sacrament. Their kids could have been the ones raped and butchered. In some cases, they were.

The priest from Blessed Sacrament himself, with some of the nuns, led the uninvited guests into the luncheon, chanting the Dies Irae. The distinguished Secretary of HUD tried to bolt out the back door, but one of the nuns, a sturdy Irish girl, tackled her. The swift, new elevator whisked LaDrek and a party of escorts to the top floor, where a window was knocked out. The Honorable Secretary of HUD followed the shards of glass down, to a hard and fatal landing in the front parking lot.

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�I was elected Governor of this state and I will stay Governor of this state as long as I want the drat job,� Fullarbottom roared. �I don�t care what these people want or what anyone wants. I spent my life working my way to this position. For thirty years, I did all the crappy jobs the Democratic Party asked me to do, squeezing money out of every store owner in Burlington, kissing the backsides of all the party bigwigs, marching in the drat Jefferson-Jackson Day parade with a blintz in one hand and a kielbasa in the other. If the people who elected me wish they hadn�t, tough. The office is mine, and I aim to keep it until I don�t enjoy it any more.�

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By the third decade of the 21st century, the dissolution of the United States had reached the point where each year brought a new crisis. The crisis of 2023 began with the Persell Amendment to the Clean Air Act, a measure intended to prevent the smoking of tobacco.The government and the �health industry� that lived off the government whooped it up that tobacco smoke was second only to Zyklon B as the worst thing you could inhale..

And politicians were always on the lookout for suckers. So when the Clean Air Act came up for renewal in 2023, Senator Whitman Persell (�Wimpy� to his friends), Democrat of California, saw a chance to score some points with the anti-tobacco harpies. He proposed an amendment whereby anyone who smelled tobacco smoke anywhere might sue any nearby smoker. The plaintiff did not have to prove that the smoker was smoking at the time; the fact that he or she was an admitted smoker was considered proof enough. The amendment encouraged triple damages for �pain and suffering.

As the law intended, smokers found themselves hunted like rats. A smoker, placed under oath on the witness stand, had to admit smoking or be guilty of perjury. But if they admitted they smoked, they lost the suit, along with their life savings and most else they owned. Repairmen, neighbors, even family members would come into a smoker�s home and promptly file a lawsuit, which they won. If someone smelled smoke in someone else�s clothes, they sued and won. The Surgeon General even issued a pamphlet suggesting ways smokers could be trapped into revealing their filthy habit, and then sued. It was a virtual reign of terror, enforced by impoverishment.

It started about six months after the Persell Amendment took effect. In Pasadena, a little old lady had been sued by a Meals on Wheels deliverywoman who had spotted a telltale cigarette butt in her kitchen garbage. As usual, the smoker lost, and the court ordered her home seized and sold to pay the deliverywoman her winnings. In the final court session on the case, the little old lady pulled a Saturday Night Special out of her handbag and blew away the judge and the plaintiff.

She was shot down herself by a sheriff, but on her way to court she had sent a letter to the L.A. Times explaining her action. �I had nothing more to lose,� she wrote. �I would rather die quickly than be left on the street, penniless. And I won�t stop smoking. I was born and grew up in England, and I remember how, in 1940, when a Nazi invasion seemed certain, Churchill had posters printed up saying, �You Can Always Take One With You.� So that is what I will try to do.�

Her story was picked up by the rest of the media, not in sympathy but to demonstrate how all smokers were dangerous extremists. However, smokers got a different message. �You Can Always Take One With You� posters appeared on walls and street signs. Other smokers who had lost everything, or feared they soon would, began shooting. They shot judges and lawyers. They shot the people who had sued them, or other members of the plaintiffs families. They shot government health personnel. One of them shot Senator Persell; regrettably, he survived. They all left the same message: �I had nothing more to lose.�

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# ¿ Jul 10, 2017 21:01

Nckdictator: Sep 8, 2006; Just..someone

Wheat Loaf posted:

Gary "The best chance to stop Reagan" Hart co-wrote this book?

Sorry, I wasn't clear on that. The author of this book co-wrote a nonfiction book on military policy with Gary Hart.

http://articles.latimes.com/1986-04-20/books/bk-940_1_gary-hart

# ¿ Jul 10, 2017 21:20

Nckdictator: Sep 8, 2006; Just..someone

I just got to the part in the read through where "the good black people" go and lynch a bunch of 'orcs'. I'm loving speechless.

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On July 27, 2027, the blacks of Newark, New Jersey rose against their oppressors and took over the city.

The rioting started in the usual way. It had been blazing hot in Newark for more than a week, with nighttime temperatures staying in the 90s. On the 25th, a few fires were set. The tomtoms beat through the night, and on the 26th the looting began. But that evening, outside the Mt. Zion A.M.E. church, the script changed.

The congregation had gathered at about 5 PM, more for safety than worship; black rioters usually didn�t fire-bomb black churches. The preacher, one Rev. Ebenezer Smith, delivered an unusual sermon:

"Maybe at one time our oppressors were white people. But that is not true any more. I have never seen a slave owner, or a slave dealer, or even a slave. They were all dead long before I was born, before my father and his father were born.

I have never met a member of the Ku Klux Klan. There may still be a few of those somewhere, but I doubt if there are any within a hundred miles of Newark. If I did meet a Klansman in his white sheet, I would laugh. We Christian black people are oppressed today worse than we have ever been in our history. Our lives are worse than they were in the deep South under segregation. They are probably worse than they were when we were slaves, because then we were at least a valuable piece of property.

�It is time for us to fight our real oppressors, the drug dealers, the whore-mongers, the gang members. The fact that they are black makes no difference. They are our black oppressors. They are not our brothers. They are worse enemies than whites ever were. It is time for us to battle them, and to take our city back from them.�

He then equipped his congregation with baseball bats and led them out into the street. Singing �Onward Christian Soldiers,� they proceeded to beat the crap out of any gang member they caught. Other honest blacks, seeing what was happening, came out and joined in. Some had guns, others had ropes, kitchen knives or tires and gasoline cans.

When they turned the corner onto Newark�s main street, a bunch of gang members opened fire on them. A few fell, but the rest came on. They mobbed the gang members, hanged a few from the nearest lamppost and �necklaced� the rest, stuffing a gasoline soaked tire around their necks and setting it on fire.

The Internet was the command and control system. Video of burning Boyz soon filled the cell phone screens, and more decent blacks poured into the streets. By midnight, it was full-scale war, blacks against orcs. It turned out there were still a lot more blacks. The gangsters, pimps, whores, drug-dealers, and drug-users ended up lumenaria...

It took a while for the politically correct establishment to react. But they did, because they had to. One of their most useful lies was that they represented the �oppressed.� Now, their own slaves had rebelled and taken over the plantation.

https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/coiler-reads-victoria-a-novel-of-fourth-generation-what-the.360750/page-31#post-19565412

Also, guess who published the book? Theodore "Vox 'huge rear end in a top hat' Day" Beale.

# ¿ Jul 12, 2017 03:59

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The flow of yen also brought the federal army new recruits, mostly black gang members from the inner city, immigrants straight off the banana boat, and women. The gangs demanded they be accepted whole and designated as military units, with names like the Bad Boyz Battalion and the West Philly Skullsuckers, on the grounds that �forcing them into a white male structure would deny their unique cultural richness.� The result was units that spread drugs and mayhem throughout the federal army but ran as soon as someone shot at them. The immigrant outfits had Spanish as the language of command, and their officers would do anything for a bribe and nothing without one. The all-female infantry battalions were issued cardboard penises so they could take a leak in the field without wetting their drawers.

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But that battle was never fought. The Texan invasion gave the Indian population in southern Mexico the opportunity for which it had long waited. On April 25, with the fall of Monterrey, Indian rebels in the Yucatan proclaimed the rebirth of the Mayan Empire at Chichen-Itza. Nahuatl-speaking Indians, the remains of the Aztecs, announced the rebirth of their kingdom in Tenochtitlan three days later. Indian columns, some led by feather-clad priests and Jaguar warriors and others reciting the Popul Vu, marched on Mexico City. The Texans pinned down the Mexican Army, so there was nothing to stop them. Mexico City fell on May 21. On the 23rd, an Aztec high priest cut the beating heart from Mr. Ambassador Zimmerman and offered it to the Hummingbird Wizard atop the Pyramid of the Sun at Teotihuacan.

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...President Warner noted that the naval blockade would be difficult politically, because of probable Russian reaction. Otherwise, he seemed ready to approve the plan. But his Secretary of Defense wanted to say something.

She had represented Harlem in Congress, and after her defeat by a Black Muslim candidate the administration had given her the defense job to maintain her visibility; she was one of its biggest supporters in the black community. The 42nd Division was her baby � in fact, she had carried several of its babies, until the abortionist had restored her shapely figure � and she wanted it to have its chance to shine.

�Mr. President,� said the Honorable Kateesha Mowukuu, �I am the only black woman at this table. We have heard what these white men have to say. I would remind you that in this war, white men are our enemy. Now you will hear what a black woman has to say, and I expect all of you to listen with respect.�

�Black people have been the only warriors in history. White men can�t fight. It�s because their noses are too small. Courage comes from the nose, not the heart, as the African spiritual healers you call witch doctors have long understood. That�s why black people eat their snot. What do you white folk do with your snot? You wrap it up in a little white surrender flag and put it in your pocket. So you don�t have no courage.

...Gunpowder was invented by ancient Zimbabwean scientists, who made it from elephant poo poo. You ever hear an elephant fart? Black scientists knew there had to be some juju behind that.�

All of America�s military heroes were black people. Washington was a black man. We know that because he came from Washington, D.C., which is a black city. General U.S. Grant had a black grandmother, and so did Robert E. Lee. In fact, it was the same black woman, which is why they looked so much alike. Eisenhower is really a black name, and General George Patton got his pearl-handled revolvers from his black grand-daddy, who took them off Simon Legree.�

This racist white-boy society of yours has dissed black men big-time. You�ve throw�d �em in jails and cut off their tails. You�ve put AIDS in their veins and cocaine in their brains. You�ve made black mean slack and crack, Jack, and we ain�t gonna take it no more.�

And now the black warriors of our black 42nd Division, which I will rename the 1st Division, will teach these Yankee racist, sexist, crackers what happens when they mess with black people,� Ms. Mowukuu concluded. �And they don�t need no help from nobody.�

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When I stuck my head into Ross�s CP, which was a single command version of the LAV, I was almost impaled by a German spiked helmet coming out.

Below the helmet was a vast, rotund figure that could only be Bill Kraft, clad in the dark blue uniform of a 19th century Prussian officer. Down the trouser legs ran the wine-red stripe of an officer of the Prussian General Staff. I must have done a double-take, because Kraft looked at me and said, �Don�t you remember why I turned down your kind offer to join the Christian Marine Corps?�

I had to think back a bit, but I did remember. Bill had said, �I wear a different uniform.� Now I knew which one.

�We were wiped off the map in 1947.� Bill said, �but Prussia is more than a place. As Hegel understood, it is also an ideal. Prussians still exist, and so does the Prussian Army, a bit of it anyway. Now, it�s fighting again, here, for what it always fought for: for our old culture, against barbarism. Someday, we will win.�

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We marched all three probable-Deltas down to the rack room. I�m not sure they believed we really had a rack until they saw it. When they did, they looked rather grim. �Perhaps you�ve heard of the Retroculture movement?� I inquired gently. �We find it has wide potential application.�

Our rack operators were members of the Society for Constructive Anachronism, who had never had anything more lively than department store manikins to experiment on. The prospect of real groans excited them to no end,so they were quick about getting Shorty strapped in. A few preliminary twirls of the capstans took the slack out, and the boys were grinning as we heard the first snap, crackle, and pop. �Shame he�s not a Chinaman,� quipped the Torturemaster. �We�d soon have Rice Crappies.�

To the disappointment of the torture team, it was over quickly, after the first few screams.

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I picked up the sat phone and called John Kelly again to let him know the cavalry was coming. It would be close, but we had a chance. Like last time, it rang and rang. Finally, I heard a click.

�Who dis?� a voice said in an accent I recognized all too well. Maybe it was one of Kelly�s men.

�Put Colonel Kelly on,� I ordered.

�Allah is Great! Allah gon� kill all da white devils!� the voice replied. �All da white devils gon� burn in hell! Ha ha ha ha�.�

It was over for John. I hoped it had been quick.

I can't imagine why not even Baen would publish this masterpiece of literature. Also, that author gets around, here he is as an aide to Gary Hart

And with some guy

Nckdictator has a new favorite as of 18:39 on Jul 14, 2017

# ¿ Jul 14, 2017 16:22

Nckdictator: Sep 8, 2006; Just..someone

http://www.michael-coleman.co.uk/bear-kingdom/4519474424

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Did you know that cave bears used to prowl around the southern part of England? Not any more though, because we humans killed them off so that we could live in their caves.

But what if humans hadn't won that fight? How would things have turned out for us if bears now ruled the land?

The Bear Kingdom trilogy gives you my answer - and it's very, very scary ...

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The first story in a fantastic new trilogy, "The Howling Tower" follows Benjamin Wildfire, the feisty protagonist, who runs away from his cruel bear owner with mad Mops, the girl-next-door. They are determined to find the fabled Hide Park (a place where it's said humans run free) but instead they are caught by a sap-catcher (saps are what bears call humans) and taken to Howling-Tower, a prison-like place of training, and it turns out, evil experimentation. It takes all of Benjamin's ingenuity to survive, but will he manage to escape

Too scary for me.

# ¿ Aug 28, 2017 03:13

Nckdictator: Sep 8, 2006; Just..someone

Zore posted:

I think the Celebrian they're talking about is an infamous fanfic from the late 90's-early 2000's about a Lord of the Ring's character who is Elrond's wife. Its about how she gets abducted by orcs and goes into some incredibly awful ape stuff.

Awful apes are the worst kind.

# ¿ Aug 28, 2017 03:34

Nckdictator: Sep 8, 2006; Just..someone

Wheat Loaf posted:

How are the Billy Jack movies? I've heard about them but never seen any of them.

https://thedissolve.com/features/forgotbusters/593-forgotbusters-billy-jackthe-trial-of-billy-jack/

Here�s your answer.

# ¿ Dec 24, 2017 08:08

Nckdictator: Sep 8, 2006; Just..someone

Edit: I can't read.

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# ¿ May 3, 2024 09:10

Nckdictator: Sep 8, 2006; Just..someone

Elviscat posted:

So, if I plug in:

A) Female characters who pass the Bechdel test.
B) Well written.
C) in the genre of Sci-fi/Fantasy.
D) No weird sex stuff.

My ultra advanced neural net spits out "William Gibson's recent novels" and "Jim Butcher kinda tried"

What else should I be looking at?

Check out Library of America's anthology "The Future Is Female! 25 Classic Science Fiction Stories by Women, from Pulp Pioneers to Ursula K. Le Guin"

https://www.loa.org/books/583-the-future-is-female-25-classic-science-fiction-stories-by-women-from-pulp-pioneers-to-ursula-k-le-guin

http://womensf.loa.org/

It's utterly, utterly fantastic and highlights many long forgotten women pioneers of the genre. Also, their just simply good stories. The overview in the first link provides a pretty good idea of the contents.

# ¿ Feb 26, 2020 15:28

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