The Rampage of Ryan O'Hara (21 page)

Markowitz continued, “We all agree that as volunteers, our oath of fidelity mandates that we dedicate ourselves to assuring the preservation of the republic. When we swore to live by the words of that solemn pledge, we acknowledged a shared commitment to the elimination of anyone whose goals center on the destruction, transformation, or replacement of our constitutionally protected way of life with something foreign to what was bequeathed to us by our forefathers.

“The targets that have been chosen as the focus of our efforts are located in various parts of the country. We will converge upon them simultaneously at a given hour on the same day. The action will be coordinated from this command post after the green light to proceed is given to each individual team leader prior to commencement. Before departing from this location, we will synchronize our watches to Greenwich Mean Time—or Zulu, as you former military intel people like to call it. We will stay on this setting until the mission is debriefed following its completion.

“In the folders in front of you are detailed reports on the subjects who will be visited by your teams. If you’ll please open them, you will find written biographies and descriptions of your targets as well as information about their family members. Also included are photos, locations of residences, places of employment, and other areas they frequent within the borders of the United
States, to which this particular operation, unlike some of those in the past, will be confined.”

Markowitz looked at the man directly across the table from him and said, “The most important individual on our list of targets is in your sector, John. He is a person all of us are familiar with and whose activities have been responsible for much of the misfortune that has fallen upon our country and many others in the Western world.”

John Cervenka, formerly of the DIA, looked at his file and smiled. “Yes, of course, the Jew who can’t make up his mind as to whether he wants to be a Nazi, a communist, or a Muslim while sustaining himself on the tit of the capitalist cow he longs to slaughter.”

Markowitz nodded. “I figured you’d be pleased with this target, John. I’m just glad he’s in your sector because I made the assignments based solely on geographical considerations—nothing more and nothing less. You’re fortunate that he happens to reside in your area of operation,” the leader observed, careful not to indicate that in fact the most valued target was being given to Cervenka and his team because his abilities were felt to be a cut above the others in the room.

“That’s fine by me, Sterling. No matter the reason for the assignment. I’m just happy to be the one who will be able to carry it out. Now all I have to do is to decide on the most appropriate method of bringing about Vidor’s exit from life.”

“I don’t care how you carry it out, John, as long as it’s done as quietly and expeditiously as possible,” Markowitz replied.

“Understood,” Cervenka acknowledged.

Markowitz shifted his attention to the man sitting next to Cervenka. “Larry, you may have to sit this one out unless we can find a place for you on one of the other teams. It seems that an unidentified person or persons with some animus toward your targets have carried out your assignment for you. Whoever it is got the jump on us and took out Professors Bill and Brenda Delgadillo and their nephew, Hugo.”

Larry Wohler, late of the CIA, appeared disappointed but said nothing.

Markowitz looked around the room and continued, “I assume you’ve all been reading the papers and are already aware that the professors were cooked in their Chicago brownstone. Is there anyone here who doesn’t know the backgrounds of those two pukes and the roles they played in Lenin’s Legion? If not, then, are you all familiar with their nephew, Hugo, and his involvement in South American communist revolutionary causes?”

Their lack of response was evidence enough that all members of The Group were very familiar with the Delgadillos and their nephew.

Wohler finally broke the silence. “Someone must have been awfully angry with the professors and their nephew to have turned their home into an oven. I suppose whoever it was did us a favor. We won’t have to expend our assets on the task, but I must admit I’m really going to be let down if I’m not part of this operation.” Looking back at Markowitz, he went on to plead his case for inclusion.

Wohler succeeded in making his case, and upon reconsideration Markowitz said, “Okay, Larry. On second thought, I’m sure I can find something for you to
do. If we haven’t found a team that needs an extra body, I’ll just have you remain down here with me to help out with command and control.”

“That’ll be fine. Anything I can do to assist in this effort will be better than doing nothing. Although, I must say, it would have been much more satisfying to be the one who ended the lives of those Marxist assholes in the windy city,” Wohler mused.

“Yeah, some people have all the fun. Whoever did it has apparently been very busy. According to the news reports, it looks like the person or persons who carried out these acts may be responsible for taking out a couple of other former Legion members. One of them, Gilbert Hayward, was killed in Sedona, Arizona. The other, Patrick Finnegan, got wasted in New York City,” Markowitz said.

“So are you suggesting there’s some type of vendetta taking place, highlighted by hits on former sixties and seventies radicals?” asked Frank Tucker, a retired FBI agent who was considered The Group’s foremost authority on domestic terrorism.

“Looks that way, Frank. The only thing is that each killing or assassination, if you will, was carried out using a different MO. We’re looking at a combined shooting and arson in Chicago, a bombing in Arizona and—get this—a massacre in Finnegan’s New York City pub—possibly staged to look like nothing more than a bar brawl that got out of hand. Four people, including Finnegan, a couple of camel jockeys, and a small-time crook, were found shot, knifed, and stomped to death in that one. So far as anyone’s been able to determine, Finnegan was the only former member of Lenin’s Legion among the
dead. The others had no known ties to radical groups. Although, relative to the Arabs, that possibility can’t be entirely ruled out.”

Markowitz continued, “The various police agencies aren’t playing up the angle that these killings are connected, at least not publicly. But the press is, with the help of Finnegan’s widow. It looks pretty obvious that the motive could be the same in all three of the incidents. This brings me to your target, Frank.”

“My target?”

“Yes, your target. It just so happens that your target, one Jonas Judd, was also a member of Lenin’s Legion. Like the dearly departed from Chicago, Arizona, and New York, he was also one of the group’s leaders and was involved in numerous bombings and other acts of terrorism during its active period.”

“So how and why does he fit into our plan, Sterling?” Tucker asked.

“Judd was one of a number of Lenin’s Legion members, along with the Delgadillos and Hayward, who escaped prosecution because of FBI misconduct committed during the retrieval of illegal wiretap information. The agents, knowing full well what the rules of evidence entailed, nevertheless decided to cut corners and failed to obtain the necessary warrants. I’m sorry that I have to expose some of the dirty laundry from your old organization, Frank, but in order to familiarize you with the character of the guy you’re going after, we have to get his profile and history up in plain sight. No offense intended.”

“None taken, Sterling. People screw up from time to time and the FBI, like any other organization, is made up of people with flaws,” Tucker assured his boss.

Markowitz nodded. “Anyway, moving forward, the reason we’re going after Judd isn’t because of his days in Lenin’s Legion. Although it’s probable that many people would like to seek revenge against him for the acts he committed while a member, that’s not our purpose. Our purpose is to abate the activities that he and the crowd he’s currently running with are presently engaged in. The Delgadillos were part of the same bunch and that’s the reason they were initially on our list. It didn’t have anything to do with the sins of their past.

“You see, Judd, the Delgadillos, Hayward, and many of the others who carried out the insurrection against the country back in the sixties and seventies never really went away. After avoiding prosecution for their murderous and treasonous rampages, they had an epiphany of sorts,” Markowitz continued.

“How so?” Tucker asked.

Markowitz explained, “They came to believe that their ambitions would be better served by working within the system they were trying to bring down. They learned that the use of violence was unacceptable to some, who, although sharing the same leftist ideology, were not willing to commit the types of terrorist acts that made Lenin’s Legion notorious. They realized that if the cause was going to succeed, those still active would have to develop a more peaceful approach to change. The hope was that a revised, less lethal, and less violent strategy might encourage some of their previous supporters to rejoin them. A simple plan developed wherein members began to seek and secure positions in government, academia, and business. Once ensconced in these institutions, they were able to subvert the internal structure
of our society by posing as dedicated public servants, educators, and business professionals.”

“So besides blending in and becoming part of the hated capitalist establishment, how were they able to organize and build an effective and efficient coalition capable of coordinating their agenda on a national level?” asked Tucker.

“Simple,” Markowitz replied. “The hardcore ones—that is, those actually dedicated to carrying out a revolution as opposed to those only paying lip service—convened a series of seminars throughout the country where they reintroduced and expanded upon the ideas developed during the sixties and seventies, when they first became committed to overthrowing the government.

“Next, they formed the organization we all know as the Movement for Revolutionary Change or MRC. The MRC, in turn, initiated the rebirth of the Students for Revolutionary Change, otherwise referred to as the SRC. MRC members are now firmly entrenched and operating on college and university campuses as tenured professors, where they actively recruit students into the SRC. The students are indoctrinated in Marxist theory with the expectation that some will develop into dedicated communists committed to becoming the social revolutionaries of the future.

“Additionally, these Marxist wolves in sheep’s clothing shamelessly and intentionally spew revisionist history from their lecterns as they distort and demean the virtues of America. Through loudly pontificating their fabricated claims of American tyranny both at home and abroad, these seditious academician sons of bitches propagandize the lies of the left as they endeavor to
brainwash their students into believing that the United States is an evil, racist, imperialistic, and genocidal nation. Their curricula, replete with unchallenged assertions, allege the existence of conspiracies between the government and corporate capitalists. They profess that these alliances wantonly wage wars and expend the blood of ordinary citizens for no other reason than to further enrich themselves.”

Markowitz was on a roll. “It didn’t take long for Judd and the Delgadillos to rise to leadership positions in the MRC. Hayward played a minor role, but due to his erratic personality and excessive drug use, his contributions were minimal. He soon became irrelevant. Over the years, Bill Delgadillo became the recognized leader of the MRC. He proved to be an excellent organizer as well as an effective speaker who regularly convinced students to join the cause. His converts echoed his Marxist ideas in campus discussions, organized antigovernment protests, and picketed armed forces recruiting offices, occasionally reviving images from the past by being arrested and grabbing a headline or two.

“In addition to reprogramming the minds of students at his home campus, Bill traveled the lecture circuit, making frequent appearances throughout the country, mainly but not exclusively at college campuses. There he made a lucrative supplemental income extolling the wonders of communism to his captive audiences. The additional income he earned lecturing, combined with several books on progressive childhood education that he authored, provided him with an affluent lifestyle, barely distinguishable from the rich capitalist elitists that he consistently harangued. This made
him—in addition to being a seditious, traitorous, terrorist tool—a hypocrite.”

“This is all very informative, but the Delgadillos are dead,” Tucker interrupted. “What about Judd? What has he done recently and why is he on the target list?”

“Good question, Frank,” Markowitz answered. “As I’ve explained, the Delgadillos, with the help of a cadre of Marxist educators, were cultivating the minds of college students throughout the country. But that wasn’t their only activity. They and Judd were part of an international organization that aids an alliance of Islamic terrorists and communists whose goal is the eventual annihilation of our ally Israel.”

Shifting his attention to Cervenka, Markowitz continued, “Your target, Orosz, is supplying vast sums of financial aid to these Islamic terrorist organizations. His purpose is procuring arms. He and the Iranian surrogates of the Russians and Chinese are involved heavily in the implementation, facilitation, and logistical management of the people and equipment necessary to shift the balance of power in the Middle East.”

Markowitz paused to take a sip of water. “Furthermore, it’s suspected that Russia and China are involved to a much larger degree than previously thought. Both countries believe that, with Israel out of the way and the United States’s position compromised, the entire area will fall under their respective spheres of influence. Once that happens, one or perhaps both of those countries will have control of the entire region, including the Persian Gulf, the Arabian Sea, and the Suez Canal.”

Tucker appeared angry as he interjected, “It’s not enough that we’ve mortgaged our country to the Chinese with poor fiscal management and lopsided trade agreements. No, that’s not bad enough. Now the Chinese, along with the Russians, whose leaders are attempting a retrograde back to the days of the Soviet Union, want to inflict communism on the Middle East.”