The Balkanization of America (5 page)

“Sir? We can’t arrest a sitting Governor.”

“Arrest her or kill her, she went against my orders; she destroyed the southern bridge; she broke federal law by arming her citizens with assault rifles. She committed an act of war against Mexico.”

“Yes sir, I’ll send a team to arrest her.”

A DHS Gulfstream IV lands at the Sky Harbor International Airport, it’s met by a line of black DHS Tahoes. Ten armed DHS agents climb into the SUVs to arrest the Governor. On entering the statehouse in Phoenix, the lead agent says, “Madam Governor, we have a warrant for your arrest.”

She looks at the agents, laughs and says, “Go home; you’re crazy if you think I’m going with you.”

The DHS agents draw their weapons getting the jump on the Arizona state police who are guarding the Governor. The DHS agents push the Governor to the floor, handcuffing her arms behind her back. The agents quickly return to their Gulfstream with the Governor before the State police can respond. Two DHS agents are providing security for the Gulfstream open fire with automatic weapons at the Arizona state police cars who try to block the plane from taking off. The citizens of Arizona rise in protest, tens of thousands jams the streets of Phoenix. The media takes the President’s side saying the Governor has independently declared war on Mexico and has to be arrested to stop the breakout of a war between America and Mexico. The media points out that only a very unbalanced person would order the killing of thousands of innocents. The people of Arizona knew better, they stormed the local media stations, burning most of them to the ground; they hang two television anchors who claimed the Governor had declared war on Mexico. Many of the citizens who had lived along to the border and were wounded or raped by the Mexican criminals post their stories on the internet. Pictures of the American dead and their burnt homes fill the web. Many people realize the President refused to provide security for the people of Arizona.

The battle of words and images moves back and forth with each side claiming victory. The majority of the country supports the actions of the Governor. Protests in support of the Governor spread across the country. Hundreds of thousands of people march in the cities protesting the Mexican attacks. Most of the media sources called the protesters anti-Latino racists; they said the damage and stories were all lies made up by the Tea Party and the Coke brothers. The Senate minority leader takes to the floor of the temporary Senate urging action against the Tea Party and the Coke brothers. The President shows images of the destroyed bridge, claiming the Governor ordered it destroyed killing hundreds of poor innocent Latinos who were on the bridge when it went down. The President claims the destruction of the bridge will be felt through the entire country’s economy. He gives fifteen speeches making the claims the Governor, an elected official of the state of Arizona has declared war with Mexico, she cost the American economy billions of dollars. The President tells the country he’s going to have to compensate the Mexican businessmen who built the bridge. This time the people of America aren’t buying it, they’ve seen the images of the damage in Arizona. They’ve heard the stories from people just like themselves. They turn on the President; they called his story a lie. The mainstream media fought back with photoshopped images of dead bodies lying in the rubble of the destroyed bridge.

Hundreds of clashes between both sides spread through the country. In many cases, local law enforcement officers stand by and do nothing as the two sides fight each other. In many cities, the battles grow from small bands of people to groups of hundreds, growing into many thousands who clashed. This becomes the largest series of battles in American since the civil war. No one knows where the firearms came from. On the fifth day of clashes in Phoenix the two sides meet on the edge of Scottsdale, only this time, both sides are armed with rifles and handguns. Molotov Cocktails and crossbows. Twenty minutes later three hundred fifty people lay dead or wounded on the streets. The streets run red with the blood from both sides. The world’s media broadcast the images. Images of men, women and children dead and wounded bleeding where they fell. Hundreds of emergency medical services people work on the wounded while the battle continues around them. Ten minutes into the rescue operation snipers on both sides start firing at the first responders forcing them to leave the wounded on the battlefield. The fighting spreads to other towns and cities in Arizona. On the seventh day fighting breaks out in Naperville Illinois. Eighty-six people on both sides are killed. On the eight day, Oakland California erupts in war, the battle swings back and forth for three days, when the fighting finally ends due to the fire department risking attacks by both sides to spray the fighters with high-pressure water. The months of built up frustration explodes across the country. The Oakland Airport terminal is torched; two terminals are gutted. An entire city block of homes is burnt to the ground, two Walmart’s are looted and burned. On the ninth day after the President arrested the Governor, smoke hangs over one hundred six American cities. The death toll reached four thousand, property damage exceeds fifteen billion dollars.

No matter how much the administration tries to spin the story and provide various distractions, Truth spreads through the country. It’s the straw that breaks the people’s belief in the President. The media tries to spin the story, they try to blame the Tea Party, and they even blame the people of Arizona for not more warmly welcoming the Mexican peasants into America. Only the hard core left still believe the President.

President Obsma knows he needs to swing the people quickly back to his side; the situation is rapidly spinning out of his control. He announces he’s going to give a major speech in downtown Chicago. The President figures he can excite his base by returning to the city that started his political career. He knows his base will take to the streets when he asks them to, given their numbers; he knows they’ll turn the tide before it spins into a true civil war. He also knows the press will eat up whatever he says, further exciting his base.

“My fellow American’s I’ve come here to Chicago where I started my political career, Mary and I started our lives together right here in Chicago. I started bringing voices to those in the inner city which for so long were ignored. It’s here in Chicago that I learned what the real American people; the hardworking people of America want and need. I’ve returned here to announce we as the strongest and most charitable country in the history of the world have not done enough to support the world’s hungry and poor. Too many children go sleep on a cold mud floor hungry, many go to sleep at night without having eaten a thing all day. The average American family throws away more food than many children get to eat in a month. If we the richest country in the world do not help these hungry children, who will? How will history treat us? How will history speak of America? Do you want your grandchildren to learn we allowed millions of children to die of starvation? Do you want your grandchildren to read we had the means but lacked the will to help the hungry? Or the sick? If your children were sick, if your children were hungry, if your children had to go to sleep hungry on a cold dirt floor and you knew there were people who could help, what would you think? How would you feel? We have the means to help the world. We should be the super power of caring, the super power of healing; we grow enough food to feed the world. We pay farmers not to grow food while millions go hungry. The world will love us. No longer will anyone call us “Ugly Americans” no longer will anyone ever want to make war on America. To pay for this massive aid program, I’m announcing I am going to dismantle our nuclear weapons.

These are weapons that cost us billions of dollars a year, weapons we all know will never be used. Weapons that are inhumane, weapons that do such terrible damage and harm, not only to any potential enemy, but to the very planet we all live on, look at the screen behind me, look at the images of the damage our two weapons did to Japan. Look at the horrible burns on the people, look at the pictures of innocent children we harmed who just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. We bombed them with a weapon that was still causing harm years later. We caused mutations and a thousand fold increase in cancer rates. Are we, as Americans proud of what we did to the Japanese people? Of course not, should anyone ever use these weapons again? Of course not. Why haven’t they already been destroyed? Because as long as no one has the strength to be first no one will follow, today, America has the strength to be first. Today I’m announcing America will be nuclear free within four years. I’m also ordering the destruction of our only factory that makes nuclear weapons, never again will America cause such pain and suffering, America will provide aid to all who need it, America will lead from the heart, not from the sword. As a first step, we should welcome the peasants from Mexico, who only want to feed their families. They only want to share the American dream. Are we so selfish that we would refuse to share the American dream with those who want to share the same dream we all have? America was made into the great country it is today through immigration. We melded together; we will continue to meld to form a new stronger America. How can a free country have sealed borders? How can we share a dream if we tell others they can’t share that common dream with us? Tomorrow at 6:00 AM EDT, I’m ordering the immigration service and border patrol to cease operation, the immigration staff will be merged into the TSA and DHS. The Border Patrol will serve as an aid support organization for those who share the American dream with us. Let’s put our petty differences aside, let’s put our petty arguments aside. We’re not red or blue; we’re all Americans who share a common dream. We share a dream that our children will have a better life than ours, so do most of the world’s people, we are in a unique position of being able to enable the dream to come true. We’re going to be the light that leads the world out of darkness and into the light of charity. Thank you my fellow Americans.”

Chapter 5

The national evening news programs are interrupted in mid-word; “America we are Anonymous, the President is lying, what you heard today is a lie. Don’t believe what the networks and the government show and tells you, they are lying to you. The truth is the President wants and is moving ahead with his plans to destroy America. When he opens the borders, he hopes to overwhelm the current economic system with millions of new government assistance recipients. He plans to bankrupt the country, to default on the country’s debt so that he can rebuild the country in his own image. An image that doesn’t include many of you. The President plans to use the current unrest to create a race war so that many of you will kill each other off, leaving him with only his most loyal followers. America doesn't fall for this scam, rise and overthrow this would be king. We are Anonymous.”

President Obsma asks the chairman of the FCC, “Why can’t we block their transmissions?”

“Mr. President, they can block our communication with ease; we can’t interrupt them. We don’t know who Anonymous is or where they’re located. We’re not even sure they’re located in America.”

“Edger, I don’t care how you do it, find them and shut them down.”

“Mr. President, we’ve been trying to locate them for years all the while they’ve grown stronger, they can hack our most secure networks, and it seems that nothing we put up to block them keeps them out of our systems for very long. Most hackers attack specific computer networks; Anonymous is hacking everything, we’re surprised they haven’t hacked the electrical grid yet, or if they have we don’t know about it. Mr. President, if they want; they can shut the country down. They can turn off the country’s electric grid, jam our telecommunications networks, send trains crashing into each other, turn and lock every street light in the country red leaving traffic blocked from Maine to California. Sir, they have been slowly ramping up their attacks, if they engage us in an all-out cyber war, we’ll most likely lose control of the country.”

“That’s impossible.”

“Mr. President, it’s not only possible but also it’s very likely.”

“Then find them, find them and end their threat to the country.”

“Sir, we’re trying.”

“Try harder.”

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President Puten of the Russian Federation smiles telling his ministers, “Obsma is very unstable; he’s most likely going to push America over the edge. If America implodes in on itself and enters a race or civil war, we should consider landing troops to take over and safeguard their strategic weapons systems.”

The Defense Minister addresses the assembled group, “Mr. President, do you think America will collapse into civil war?”

“Minister, I do. I expect the current unrest to grow until either the President steps down or the people rise and fight each other.”

The Foreign Minister says, “Mr. President, can we do anything, should we do anything to support one side of their struggle or the other?”

Puten smiles, he turns to face the Foreign Minister, “Minister, which side do you think we should support?”