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Lie To Me Some More Please
The phone, the one nobody ever uses, rang. "BINGO. Repeat: BINGO." General McGee made three calls, all in the Pentagon. He said one word. BINGO. The entire navy, air force, and secret service was scrambled. From the top down to new recruits, the word was given: We are taking over the government.
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Armed officers led by Generals and Admirals and The Director of Homeland Security marched on the White House and Congress. The Supreme Court's barristers were detained. The West Wing went silent. No ally could reach The State Department, including Russia, The United Arab Emirate, United Kingdom, or any of The European Union nations. Military Colonels took over the switchboard at The House of Representatives and The Senate. Everyone in a federal government building was arrested by Naval Commanders and Army Captains and put in buses and vanished. Inquiries turned up no information on the whereabouts of Congressioal Representatives and Senators and their families. BINGO was the Coup D'Etat no one belived could be initiated from a government inside the government.
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Sixty five billionaires were assassinated and their estates confiscated. Banks were closed and two hundred CEO's were detained, interrogated, and later hanged for treason. The production and display of the american flag increased by millions as citizens realized it was no longer business as usual when all schools and places of business were sealed and no gas was delivered to gas stations.
Violation of curfews were met with being shot to death. Fear became the predominant theme around the dinner table of every home in the nation.
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The world looked on as the walls went up. The internet folded, The United Nation's delegates were arrested and flown home. The UN building became the Congressional Congress Building. Civil Defense channel was the only source of information. "After the collusion of the usa presidet with foreign powers to take over the nation, a united group of military officers have taken over the country in your name to protect our way of life." The second announcment: Remain in your homes, groceries will be delivered and distributed at your local stores. Hospitals remain open. Non-emergencies will be turned away. The last announcment stated, "All infrastructure sites, oil reserves, electrical grid, water and gas facilities are protected by military personnel who will shot to kill anyone not authorized to be at those sites.
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Trump and his entire cabinet were marched out onto the front lawn and beheaded in public with Marine dress swords. New protocols for the protection and selection of operators of the nation's nuclear arsenal was enacted. The federal prisons filled. National Guard and The Reserves were deployed and Martial Law blanketed the country from Hawaii to the Phillipines. Trade was suspended and flights in or out of USA were canceled or redirected to Canada. The news stations and newspapers and magazine industries along with the internet were closed or shut down and taken over by Naval Officers.
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Junie Bararian sat in his basement with three candles in front of a manual typewriter. "We have heard nothing else and the short-wave radio is the only way I am getting reports across the globe. The USA's allies have released statements that all communication with the US has been temporarily suspended. USA citizens and military have been recalled to native soil. Russia has also gone dark. Chinese, japanese, and US astronauts have been assassinated by Russian astronauts. Food found in US stockpiles in abandoned military and ambassadorial bases are contaminated with sedatives and are being destroyed. We are technically under arrest in our own country.
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Slowly, normalcy resumed as school were opened and necessary local businesses. Gas was still unavailable. When the electrical grid was opened, the internet was wiped clean and censors intercepted and erased anything typed that was considered subterfuge. Radical political grups were disbanded and every member, past or present, was executed by fireing squads. Churches remained closed. The news I have been able to reap from the wireless is that ninety three headsof the armed forces had been arrested and executed in federal prisons. There was no talk of elections or anything Constitutional except repeated excerpts regarding "the right to overthrow". Few knew who was running the country. Frequent flights of miitary planes sweep low overhead all day, all night, Extra hospital and clinic beds were filled with the mentally ill.
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Junie Bararian stretched, glanced down at his notes, and took a break. No one would read his assessment of the country's shut down and the world's response to it. He went to his cot and slept for nine hours. He awoke in federal prison in chains under charges of treason. His nine year old son had reported him.
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Lady A
03-21-18
1251a
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