April 10-17, 1989
Various skirmishes take place along Alabama’s borders with Mississippi, Tennessee, Georgia, and Florida. The battles are between Alabama’s National Guard, and State Police on one side, and the National Guards of those states-working in tandem with the Holy Battalions- on the other side.
However, the forces opposing Alabama are frequently driven back. Due to Rumsfeld era privatization, many of the forces opposing Alabama are under-equipped, despite the Robertson’s administrations re-armament program. Also, as Alabama was considered to be a safe Bible Beltarea, the CV didn’t expect any resistance from there. Also many National Guard forces suffer from poor morale, as more than a few voted for Wallace at least once.
George Wallace, who had been expecting some kind of invasion from Rumsfeld or the Christian Values Party, managed to keep the Alabama Guard and State Police well-armed and trained: in part because he recruited anti-CV experts from other states, including Charles A. Beckwith formerly of the US Special Forces. Governor Wallace has also directed an aggressive policy by the Alabama state police to up-root Holy Batallion infrastructure in Alabama. To that end he (very unofficially) recruited white nationalists in the United Klans of America to do things government forces could not. Of course (and Wallace realized this even as he was doing it) this represents a bargain with the devil. Politically, Wallace built a borad anti-CV coalition in his home state which included moderate Republicans, Democrats, former President Jeremiah Denton along with the more radical groups.
Tuesday, April 11, 1989
Governor George Wallace and the Alabama Legislature push through an emergency internal security measure declaring that any member of “the Christian Values or Holy Battalions will be detained as enemy combatants and potential terrorists until the end of the conflict.” (The Alabama CV caucus was barred from entering the building).
George Wallace: I know many of you fear we are suppressing democracy. But as you can see, these Bible-thumpers have no respect for our rights, they are terrorists that need to be stopped, and you all know how we treat terrorists here in Dixie!
Mass arrests of CV and Holy Battalion figures begin across Alabama.
Wednesday, April 12, 1989
A joint protest by members of DC WTP activists and the Daughters of the American Revolution (a rare collaboration) protest the dismantlement of the Washington Monument in favor of a statue of Jesus. The protest is met with attacks by Holy Battalions. The DC Police stand by and do little to interfere.
Thursday, April 13, 1989
Forrest Hood “Fob” James, a CV assemblyman, and some other CV delegates who managed to evade arrest and flee the state, meet in the town of Columbus, Mississippi, and establish an “Alabama Government-In-Exile”. They draft their own state Constitution, which incorporates the February Laws and the Ten Commandments.
Fob James: Godless Governor Wallace has shown his true colors. He has no respect for God’s warriors, and treats them like criminals. He even holds the God-loving people of Alabama hostage. I reach out to the captive people of Alabama to resist this traitor, this heathen.
An Economist article reveals that the recent Soviet harvest has managed to generate its first surplus in decades. This is credited to small scale privatization of agricultural land and private investment, allowed under MBA Communism. Now, Russia produces more food than it can consume, and begins exporting some of it.
Eastern bloc nations that have been dragged by Moscow into accepting MBA Communism- notably Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Poland-are also enjoying surplus yields, and a slow rise in living standards.
Controversially (among conservative Roman Catholics) Pope Pius XIII gives his “conditional support” for MBA Communism as a path to “greater human dignity.”
Friday, April 14, 1989
The Harrisburg Standoff:
A group of Holy Battalion militants attempt to detain members of a Bozeman Commune, founded and filled by LGBTQ people seeking to build their own community, in the town of Harrisburg, NE. However, the arrest is resisted by local law enforcement.
Harrisburg
Joseph smiled as he and five of his fellow brothers in Christ dismounted the military truck that took them him. He felt giddy, as the sodomites and their perversions would finally be cast into the fires of Hell where they belonged!
His blood boiled as he saw the rainbow colored arch that adorned the entrance to their personal Sodom. Such a bold declaration of sin! What an abomination. To his confusion, Joseph saw the sheriff – Bridges, a hard-nosed old man- along with his two deputies, a college-aged guy and a middle-aged woman, march out beneath that disgusting arch.
“Sheriff, have you finally decided to see what is right?” Joseph called out in his best thunderous, would-be-old-testament-profit-voice, attracting the attention of his men.
“Yes, I have,” Bridges said flatly. “You’re going to leave these people the hell alone.”
Joseph barely maintained his smile, but he soon felt his fellow brothers were fuming.
“What”, Brother Matthew exclaimed incredulously. “You contemptible sinner!”
“Brother Matthew,” Joseph interrupted, holding up his hand. He then tried to give a sincere smile to Bridges. “Come now, Sheriff. We only wish to cure these people of their unholy perversions.”
“You mean, ship them off to your concentration camp,” barked the younger deputy, Simon.
“Yeah, over our dead body,” Janice, the female deputy said.
“Why do you insist on defending these people,” Joseph asked, his voice becoming stern, as he turned toward Bridges,” surely you’re as disgusted by these people as any God-fearing man is?”
Only a couple of years ago, Bridges would have been inclined to agree. He remembered when the Libertarians, really money-loving liberals from back East, took over the community. Then followed Alan, and his pack of 15 gays and lesbians, who wanted to build their own town without fear.
Bridges had been very opposed to letting queers and their liberal ways in his town. He had raged to the Libertarian mayor, some New York hippie, who proclaimed “live and let live” and welcomed them in-or more specifically - welcomed the fact that they were buying up land.
To Bridges surprise, they actually brought business to his town. Eventually after some cajoling from his wife, he accepted a dinner invitation from Alan and his “life partner”. They seemingly behaved like a couple, and he did enjoy their food. Now they often met for bowling and beer.
“Yes, Joseph I don’t like how they live,” Bridges admitted. His jaw set as he saw Joseph beaming and his deputies giving him crooked smiles. “But my job is to protect people, not tell them how to live, and protect how they choose too.” He glared at the nut. “You want these people, you’re going to have to go through us.”
Joseph’s smile seemed to grow more arrogant.
“You are outmatched and outgunned,” Joseph declared. “But if you wish to be the Devil’s agents, we will gladly introduce you to him.” He stepped back as the five other Holy Battalion men with him pulled out their rifles. Bridges and his deputies pulled out their guns. Just when somebody was about to fire, a massive explosion was heard. Bridges and his deputies hit the ground. After a moment, they looked up and saw some of Alan and his friends walking over, carrying weapons. Alan was holding a collection of grenades. He saw five of the HBs dead, and saw Joseph writhing in agony, probably perforated by some shrapnel, and swearing up a storm (which he had admonished others for doing).
“Alan that was incredible,” Simon exclaimed, “I didn’t know you had it in you?”
“What didn’t think a fag like me had any teeth,” Alan asked, a sad smile on his face. Simon and Janice looked somewhat embarrassed, not meeting Alan’s eyes.
“Well,” Bridges said slowly,” I mean we thought you look you liberals didn’t like war”. Alan gave him a somewhat severe look. “We don’t like to fight wars that we feel are not our fight. We fight for things we feel are worth it. Our rights, our country,” he gestured to Bridges, “you guys.” Alan and his friends had the expressions of men prepared to march into hell.
Bridges felt a great amount of respect for these people. The fact that he was closer to them then to the so-called “Warriors of Christ”, showed how much had changed in only a few short years.
April 15-17
In what is considered to be the first real battle of the Second American Civil War, a group of Mississippi National Guardsmen aligned with the Holy Battalion attempt to take over the town of Butler, AL. Despite being numerically superior to the Alabama Guard and Police there, they are driven back by the superior tactics of the Alabama forces. 25 HB and 4 Alabamans lay dead.
Tuesday, April 18
White House-Situation Room
“How, How could that apostate George Wallace being able to resist our Godly forces,” Tim LaHaye screamed in a rage.
“Brother LaHaye,” Secretary of Defense James Dorman said with a rather smug expression. “This is why I warned against taking any action against Wallace until we were militarily ready to deal with him. Our forces still hadn’t recovered from Rumsfeld’s privatizations.”
“We assumed the people of Alabama, who are usually a God-fearing people,” SNICO Douglas Coe said sadly,” would be willing to turn Wallace over, not defend him with their lives.” He grit his teeth. “Wallace is a cripple, weak in both mind and body, but he still resists His word, and has gotten other Alabamans to do the same.”
“Wallace may be a sinner, but he certainly not weak in will,” Dorman said. Coe and LaHaye glared at him.
“You speak glowingly of the man. Have you been taken in by that apostate’s word,” LaHaye said warningly. Dorman gave him a small smile.
“As a God-fearing Christian, I feel Wallace deserves the fires of hell.” Dorman’s smile became sly. “But as a warrior, I can admire his will. Wallace could have chosen a comfortable exile in Canada or a Godless European nation, or California, and he was in worse shape than Nixon. Instead he chose to remain here and fight. I can respect such tenacity, misguided though it is. Perhaps that why Alabamans resist us. They are taken in by this spectacle to.”
“You can admire Wallace later, brother James,” the President said tiredly. “We should have been more patient, but we underestimated Wallace and his political power to convince the people of Alabama to accept Satan. We’ve started a fire and we must now put it out.”
“Unleash fire upon the people of Alabama,” LaHaye screamed. “We must cleanse that land of sinners before-“
“Brother LaHaye,” Dorman interrupted. “We cannot send guns and men everywhere. We still are not prepared for the Final Crusade, let alone for the war against California and the Northeast, and if we divert too many resources South, our enemies may have an opening. We still face the growing conflict out West with the Libertarians, and our current commitments in Cuba. We must do this smartly.”
“And how do we do this?” the President asked him.
“Starve them,” Dorman said.
“Starve them?”
“A man may desire to fight, but his resistance is weakened by hunger. Let us block any movement of goods in and out of the state. Block the roads, destroy the ports, and destroy the roads. The interstate travel laws allow us to do this. Within a matter of weeks, the people of Alabama, weakened by hunger, will toss Wallace from power, and embrace His word.”
“Excellent idea Brother James,” the President said happily. Coe and LaHaye glared at the Secretary of Defense with more than a hint of jealously in their eyes. “We can easily destroy Wallace without causing too much damage.” He set his jaw, and narrowed his eyes. “In the meantime, we must accelerate our plans, and step up our war against non-believers.”
Wednesday, April 19, 1989
Pat Robertson appears on television and announces that the in light of the “simmering rebellion” of Alabama, he is enforcing the Interstate Security Act of 1983 (enforcement of which had lapsed during the Denton administration) and signs an executive order banning any exports to and from the state of Alabama, under the risk of treason.
Pat Robertson: “This siege will not end until this agent of sin, George Wallace, ends his Satanic sedition and releases the people of Alabama from his immoral captivity.”
Operation Ten Plagues (the Siege of Alabama) begins.
Various National Guardsmen and CV begin blowing up roads in and out of the state. State police from neighboring places block any movement in and out of the state. Air force pilots begin bombing the state, especially the Alabama Gulf Coast. Despite the desire of the Air Force to avoid civilian casualties, the downtown of Mobile is severely damaged, with hundreds killed.
Within a few days, all shipments of food and petroleum into the state cease. Air raids on the state continue.
Lieutenant Governor Bill Baxley: “There trying to smoke us out!”
George Wallace (deadpan): “These people have to look into the mirror to find the real rats”.
Thursday, April 20, 1989
Across the US and the world, protests breakout against the attack on Alabama, and in favor of Alabama. College students across the Union wave posters of Wallace, an irony considering that college students were the ones protesting against Wallace only a decade ago.
“Even when Wallace tries to be revolutionary, he can still be a chameleon, a man who can shift according to what the public wants.”-Richard Nixon
Many world governments and heads of state, who remember Wallace as the last fair American leader, also condemn the attack on Alabama.
Former Italian President Norberto Bobbio, who credits Wallace with opposing the right-wing coup in 1979, delivers a blistering attack on the Robertson government.
“Mr. Robertson told us that the era of Rumsfeld is over. Only now we find something much, much worse. Rumsfeld’s indirect war on the American worker in the name of profit has been replaced by an outright war on the American citizens in the name of religious dogma! Until this war against the people of Alabama and Wallace ends, we will not do any business with Robertson and his band of fanatics.”
ROC (Taiwan) President Huang Chieh condemns the attack on George Wallace of the Robertson administration, calling it a “barbaric savagery”. Across both Taiwan and the ROC-controlled Mainland China, Chinese citizens hold parades in honor of Wallace. Many Chinese citizens and KMT politicians credit the former President with the downfall of the Lesser Mao. Protestors in Taipei (some of them Chinese American exiles) put a statue of Wallace in front of the American embassy. This despite the fact that as President, Wallace ordered a nuclear strike against the Chinese mainland.
In Tel Aviv, Jewish American olim protest the Israeli government, which they claim is enabling the attack on George Wallace.
The UN Security Council Votes a Resolution condemning the Siege of Alabama, which is passed unanimously.
New York Governor Spiro Agnew denounces the attack on George Wallace, and reiterates that he and the rest of the Northeast will not use its resources to enforce the Moral Decency Act, the Interstate Security Act, or aid in the attack on Governor Wallace.
Spiro Agnew: “The President and I have had significant disagreements, but he remains committed to Liberty, unlike the Robertson administration, which sacrifices that in the name of a new Crusade.” (Irony, as Agnew had attacked Wallace for years on his TV show as an opponent of freedom, and called for his impeachment).
Pete McCloskey: I knew the Union was too broken for us to remain. Sadly, I wish on this occasion that I had been proven wrong.
Governor Edward Crane calls Pat Robertson “the Cross-bearing Fuhrer”.
Friday, April 21, 1989
Governor George Wallace appears on the radio, and establishes a rationing program to deal with expected food and gas shortages. He also demands that Alabamans walk and bicycle for all but necessary (transport of food and injured people) transportation.
Hughes Ad:
(shot of a beautiful Southern forest).
Narration: Dixie is a beautiful land of proud tradition. You and your ancestors have fought hard and long to keep your beliefs and their property. But some have sought to destroy it.
(shot of Wallace scowling)
Narration: George Wallace has turned his nose up against what you and your ancestors have defended.
(video of a Holy Battalion giving free food to a bunch of children (all of them white))
Fight back, and join the Holy Battalions to defend your ideals.
Oregon Governor Victor Atiyeh (I-OR)*appears before the Oregon Legislative Assembly and pushes for a nullification clause similar to the one pushed by the Northeastern States, declaring “Our state will not be a party to the fanatical cult that calls itself a government from its war on the people of Alabama.” It is passed unanimously.
Washington Governor Joel Pritchard (I-WA)** also pushes for a similar nullification clause for the State of Washington.
*Atiyeh had been a Republican until 1986, when the Oregon Republican Party members nearly had him impeached over his opposition to the 28th amendment. He began relying on Oregon Democrats and Libertarians.
** Joel Pritchard had been elected in 1986 as a Republican, but broke with the President in late 1987.
The Red Cross releases a statement saying that the insurrection of Alabama and the conflict with the Libertarian communities out west has become “a civil conflict.”
Saturday, April 22, 1989
Tom Bevill (D-AL), one of the few remaining Southern Democrats in Congress, pushes the “End the Aggression Against Alabama Act” to stop the federal government’s attack on Alabama. The bill, due to CV control of the House, dies in committee.
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Birch Bayh’s office-Capitol Building
“Goddamn it, Birch, isn’t there anything we can do,” screamed Senator Galtieri at Senator Bayh, sitting behind his desk. “These people have launched undeclared war on Wallace. They’re starting to attack my people. There’s got to be something we can use. Something-“
“We don’t have the votes to get it through the House,” shouted Birch with disgust. “Even we could, and it could pass Senate, Robertson would just veto it, and we sure don’t have the votes to override it.”
“And even if we could override the veto, Robertson could challenge it in court. Phyllis and her clique on the court would give him the right to do it in the name of ‘morality’,” scoffed Lincoln Chaffee. He looked down at his knees. “I’m thinking of just leaving the Senate and moving back to Rhode Island.”
“Lincoln, you can’t just-“
“Ron,” Chafee interrupted with, “you think I want to give in to those bullies down the street? The more we fight, the more we look like a rubber stamp. Maybe this is what we deserve.” He sighed. “We let Rummy turn us into a rubber stamp in the name of ‘freedom’, and now its all coming home to roost.”
Bayh looked at Chaffee’s hopeless expression. An expression he had seen on so many victims of Rumsfeld’s “war on the poor” back in Indiana. Lincoln Chaffee wasn’t the only Senator who said he wanted to resign Congress, and if Birch was being honest, he was tempted to do just that. Just another sign of how bad things had gone.
“Well there is something we can do,” Senator Galtieri said, his voice sounding a little more optimistic.
“What?”
“Let’s just make a statement, to show these CV nuts that we matter,” Galtieri said. “Maybe a protest of some kind to show we stand for liberty.”
“What does that get us,” Bayh said a note of sarcasm in his voice. “That just gives the CVs the right to charge us under that ‘moral decency law’?”
“All those brave souls who went down South in the 1960s to resist segregation had nothing but the clothes on their back and the will to resist injustice,” Galtieri said, his voice sounding serious. “They went up against impossible odds, and they managed to achieve quite a bit. Let us do something to remind people that they need us to govern. I mean, what else can we do?” Bayh and Chafee stared a bit, and then smiled.
“Civil disobedience,” Bayh said, his voice becoming slightly happier. “Well, I’ve always talked about the right to protest injustice. I guess it is time I get taken at my word. I’m in.”
“So am I,” Chafee said, feeling the most hope he felt in weeks.
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In Lafayette, LA, LSU college students and many Cajun people protest the federal government’s attack on Governor Wallace. These protests are brutally suppressed by Louisiana National Guard and Holy Battalions.
Governor Willy Bell, a convert to the CV (and seen widely as a puppet of former Governor John Rarick, who serves as his Chief of Staff) denounces the protests as a “Satanic communist plot”.
Willy Bell: Some would confuse Wallace’s actions as some kind of expression of states’ rights. I say that Wallace’s resistance is pure treason. Not just against America, but against God’s word and all our sacred traditions. And any person who defends Wallace is an obvious fellow traveler of the anti-Christ.
Across much of Southern Louisiana, many protests have broken out against the Willy Bell and his administration.
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Dixie Rising: Southern Resistance in the Second American Civil War, James Carville-2005
Louisiana’s resistance to the rise of the CV, came as a tremendous shock. Louisiana, on the surface, had been a reliably conservative state. But their resistance, like that of the CV, came about as a result of social and economic problems that had been building for the past decade.
Rumsfeldia With A White Hood
While most people claim Rumsfeldia began in 1981, for many Louisianans, Rumsfeldia actually began with the election of John Rarick to the governorship in 1979 on the American Independent ticket.
Rarick had been a former Dixiecrat, and a one-time ally of George Wallace. Unlike Wallace, however, he never fully abandoned White Supremacy. In the political chaos of the 1970s, Rarick was able to be elected governor due to Louisiana’s jungle primary.
From the day of his inauguration, Rarick had a thinly-veiled desire to bring about a return to some form of Jim Crow. He sought to ban interracial marriage, he pushed increasingly brutal criminal justice policies, he expressed a desire to criminalize homosexuality, and he used various schemes to suppress voting rights for African Americans. Many white supremacists would find a home in Louisiana, and more than a few would end working for Louisiana law enforcement. In many schools outside urban areas, 1950s era textbooks pushing the Dunning School of thought were pushed, and attempts were made to introduce them back into many urban areas. This proved moderately successful, outside of Baton Rouge, Lafayette and New Orleans, where there was significant resistance.
But unlike most old-time Jim Crow Democrats, Governor Rarick also applied a very rightist economic agenda against Louisiana. Many of the economic and social reforms of previous Louisiana governors, from education and health care, were cut back substantially, taxes on the wealthy were repealed, and many environmental regulations were eliminated.
The conditions in the state were hidden by a wall of censorship, but by the late 1980s, Louisiana had become one of the poorest states in the Union. Poverty rates were almost as high as they had been by the 1960s. And Louisiana suffered disproportionate rates of infant mortality, heart disease, life expectancy, murder rates, and many other indicators of standards of living.
The massive cutbacks to education resulted in a massive brain drain from the state, further weakening the states’ economy.
The reason for the lack of political response from Louisiana was due to the states’ bizarre political system, combined with political corruption and blatant voting fraud that was tolerated by the Rumsfeld administration.
On Louisiana television and in most media, the Rarick-Bell administration (as the two men were regarded as cut from the same cloth) liked to portray their state as a bastion of free-market economics, but in reality, both black and white citizens were bearing some of the worst economic conditions since the Great Depression.
With the ascendancy of the Christian Values Party, Rarick-Bell eagerly took the ideas of the CV, and switched to them in 1988.
However, they would soon find tremendous resistance in their own states.
The Two Fifth Columns
In Louisiana, there were two groups becoming increasingly opposed to the governorship of Rarick-Bell, but one of these groups was unknown in the rest of the Deep South.
African Americans suffered tremendous poverty and persecution. The greatest source of opposition by African-Americans was the city of New Orleans, by that time a predominately African American city. The city was governed under WTP, and its new leader Marc Morial, who like leftists in America, had abandoned the Democratic Party that seemed unable to stand up to Rumsfeld, and seemed to be copying Republicans in order to stay relevant.
As Rarick-Bell and Rumsfeld began severely cutting back welfare state, the WTP-controlled New Orleans became a de-facto state government, providing whatever welfare and education it could, as Rarick-Bell felt no need to provide those things to the people of New Orleans.
The second poll of opposition, however, became Catholic voters.
Unlike most Southern states, Louisiana had a large Catholic community since the days of European colonialism. Many of these were of French/Cajun and Creole extraction, but this community also included many Irish, Spanish, and Italian Americans.
By the late 1980s, Pope Pius had become a vocal opponent of the Rumsfeld administration and its hyper-capitalist policies. Bell, the uber-extremist, regularly attacked Pope Pius, often indulging in once-outdated anti-Papist conspiracy theories.
“The Pope has proven himself to be a fellow traveler with Communism,” Bell said.
This outraged many Catholic voters, who saw the Pope as a spiritual guide. Even non-practicing Catholics were horrified by a man trying to bring back horrific old prejudices that their ancestors had endured.
Cajuns, in particular, became highly opposed to Rarick-Bell.
Cajuns, in the first part of the 20th century, endured the suppression of their culture and language, as Louisiana’s old French political class was replaced by an Anglo-Saxon political class that look down upon Cajun culture. By the 1970s, Cajuns had won enormous political gains, as the state government invested in Cajun culture and language.
Rarick-Bell cutback these programs significantly. This, combined with the anti-Vatica attitudes of Rarick-Bell, would help turn much of Cajun Country into a source of opposition to the CV.
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Sunday, April 23, 1989
Nebraska Governor Kay Orr (I-NE)* signs into law a bill that will bar the law enforcement in Nebraska from enforcing the Moral Decency Act, and for the immediate expulsion and arrest of any Holy Battalions. She cites the unconstitutional nature of the Moral Decency Act, and the attacks on law enforcement.
Kay Orr: “This bill is not only unconstitutional, but a blatant attack on basic human rights. Many law enforcement officials in Nebraska feel the same way, and have been threatened with violence if they choose not to heed the commands.”
*Kay Orr had been elected to the governorship as a Republican in 1986, claiming to be a vocal supporter of Donald Rumsfeld. However, after Rumsfeld’s impeachment in 1988, she declared herself an independent. She has begun building ties to the states’ Libertarian Party.
The White House
Tim LaHaye: That wretched women does not know her place before God. We must send in-
James Dorman: In due time Tim. But we must deal with these fires as they come. Let us eliminate the perfidy wherever we can.
Monday, April 24, 1989
Secretary of the Treasury Charles Keating organizes a “Literary Cleanliness Campaign”. Working with Young Disciples of Christ, a youth CV group in the nation’s capital, Keating kickstarts a public burning of pornographic material, science textbooks, and other “depraved material” on the National Mall, at the site of the destroyed Washington Monument.
Charles Keating: These young warriors of Christ, with God in their hearts, shall cleanse our nation of sins by ridding us of this depravity.
President Pat Robertson signs an executive order encouraging HBs and CV groups to begin destroying “obscene” material, and that any institution resisting the actions of the HBs will be shuddered, and that the campaign will be used to step up enforcement of the Healthy Education Act.
Soon, other CV institutions begin mass attacks on bookstores, libraries, schools, and universities, destroying other obscene literature. Observers note ironically that Fahrenheit 451 is an especially popular choice.
April-May 1989
Universities and schools across the Midwest and the South begin protesting the attack on their educational materials. Protests are violently suppressed, with many teachers incarcerated under the Healthy Education Act, and many students incarcerated under the Juvenile Delinquency Act.
The most dramatic incident takes place on May 10, when students and faculty (including President Leo J. O’Donovan) of Georgetown University, launch a massive sit down to prevent a Holy Battalion force from burning its library. The HB response results in the death of at least 23 people, including Donovan, the mass arrest of nearly 300 students and faculty, and Georgetown’s occupation by HB forces.
In the Louisiana Legislature, State Senator Fox McKeithen (son of the late 1972 Presidential candidate John McKeithen), introduces a bill calling for the impeachment of Governor Willy Bell. McKeithen begins a vocal campaign to challenge the Rarick-Bell order in Louisiana politics.
Tuesday, April 25, 1989
The Guardian
WHO Reports Reveal Shocking State of Public Health In the United States
There are many ways to measure the impact of Rumsfeld’s policies on the America. Some quantitative, some psychological. But health is one where can see the damage done to the American nation.
World Health Organization report revealing a shocking decline in public health in the United States.
Life expectancy, which was 73.61 years in 1980, has decline to 61.93 years. To understand this staggering statistic for an industrialized nation, we must look at other measures of public health in the report.
The number of 18-25 year-olds with respiratory ailments has quadrupled since 1978. The number of 18-25 olds who have suffered food-borne illness has tripled since that same year. The number of 18-25-year olds who have suffered water-borne illnesses has tripled.
“The dismantlement of product safety and environmental standards has created a severe public health crisis,” writes Dr. Michael Deffreyes, a Canadian physician who has treated American refugees, “as people are forced to breathe tainted air, drink tainted water, and eat tainted food.”
Another serious statistic is the decline of vaccinations. Rates of once preventable diseases, such as measles, chicken pox, and mumps, have risen as poverty, public cutbacks to health, and the declining quality of needle care have reduced the number of vaccinated children. Many nations now require immunization records from American migrants before entry.
“The situation is becoming comparable to a Sub-Saharan African nation,” writes Deffreyes.
Another serious statistic shows the explosion of STDs and other sexually transmitted diseases, including AIDS. This is attributed to the huge cutbacks to sexual education courses in many conservative parts of the United States in favor of abstinence only courses. This has also lead to spike in teen pregnancy as well.
“Children aren’t being properly educated about sex, and this is leading them unprepared for pregnancy and disease” writes Deffreyes.
Tim LaHaye, in a press conference, dismisses the WHO report as “Satanic propaganda”, and only a society of sinners could suffer from those disease.
Tim LaHaye: “Nonsense. This epidemic is God unleashing plagues on a depraved, and morality backward society. Just as God unleashed plagues upon the Pharaoh for his paganism, so he has chosen to unleash plagues upon a Godless society. But once we eliminate moral rot, God will cease these plagues”.
Japanese Culture Minister Masayuki Fujio suggests that the new Emperor Akihito is actually divine – reasserting a pre-war view of the Emperor. Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone tries to dismiss Fujio, but his caucus and party secretariat turn on him, forcing the Prime Minister’s resignation five days later.
Wednesday, April 26, 1989
The Globe and the Mail
Puerto Rico’s Legislature Takes A Bold Step Toward Independence
The Legislative Assembly of Puerto Rico has passed a bill which establishes an independence referendum for the island to be held on July 1, 1989. Puerto Rican Governor Baltasar Corrada Del Rio signed the bill into law earlier that day.
“We no longer wish to be attached to the rotting corpse that is the United States,” Marco Diaz, a New York born Puerto Rican protestor said at a pro-Independence rally in San Juan
The independence movement has gained ground in the last few years as Puerto Ricans have seen their economy weaken due to the loss of tourism and foreign investment. Their desire for independence has been a desire to distance the island from the increasingly crazed policies of the federal government.
The movement has also been attributed to the influx of Puerto Ricans from the mainland US. Since 1985, it is estimated that over 1 million Stateside Puerto Ricans (many of them from New York) have fled to back to the island, escaping not only poverty but job discrimination and political persecution. The movement toward independence has been powered by the influx of Statesiders, and the bitter memories that many Puerto Ricans have escaped from.
“Many friends of mine have been attacked by these Liberty Legion and Holy Battalion scum,” says Hermann Badillo, anger in his face. Badillo had been the first Puerto Rican elected to the US Congress, and was recently elected to serve in the Legislative Assembly. “Many of us have seen firsthand what America has become and now we want nothing to do with that nation anymore.”
The movement has gained strong ground in late 1988, when the US economy collapsed, and the Christian Values Party were on the cusp of gaining power. In the 1988 Gubernatorial elections, Ruben Barrios, the once fringe leader of Puerto Rico’s Independence Party, won 25 percent of the vote. Governor Corrada, the winner of the election and leader of the New Progressive Party, had been a strong supporter of statehood. But the recent attacks on Alabama have left many Puerto Ricans skeptical about Robertson administration’s commitment to Puerto Rico’s rights, hence Corrada’s support for a referendum.
“If a state of the Union can no longer be safe from attack, then what rights do we have,” said Ruben Berrios, the head of Puerto Rican Independence Party. “Those gringos don’t have any respect for one of their own, what makes you think they have any respect for us?”
White House-Oval Office
Douglas Coe: Those Hispanic Papists! I say we unleash the sword of-
Pat Robertson: Douglas, we must desist.
Douglas: But Pat, these Puerto Ricans mock God by trying to leave our Holy Union.
Pat Robertson: I too am displeased with their heresy. But they can be dealt with at our time and choosing.
Douglas: How many sins can we let go unpunished?
Pat: Until we are in a position to deal with them decisively. Our Moral Decency campaigns have netted us many sinners who must work and atone, but we still need to prepare and train for the war on two fronts. Thus patience, or we will start fires that could consume us all.
Coe stormed out the room, his mind reeling for ways to push the Lords work.
Thursday, April 27, 1989
A pro-George Wallace protest in Odessa, TX is crushed by a group of Holy Battalions.
President Pat Robertson establishes by executive order the Federal Agricultural Loan Association, or FALA, to manage and collect on the terms of loans made to farmers under the Agricultural Credit Bill. It has ties with large agricultural firms.
Hughes Network Report:
“Puerto Rico has been taken over by a Castro-inspired Communist insurrection. This insurrection was aided by known Communist-Satanist, Baltasar Rio…”
Geraldo Rivera: These Puerto Ricans are trying to break apart the nation founded by our Godly Founding Fathers. Let’s give them the lesson we are giving the corrupt Cubans.
The Japanese 47,000 ton aircraft carrier Meiji is launched. Also launched around the same time is the 10,000 ton class guided missile cruiser Admiral Togo. The Togo is intended as a prototype for a class.
Friday, April 28, 1989
A group of Holy Battalions aligned with Texas Rangers attempted to raid and shutdown an abortion clinic in Houston, TX. They were blocked by a human chain of women, who depended on it for family planning and contraceptive services. Many pregnant women were among the mob blocking them, possibly in an attempt to deter the Holy Battalions.
The Holy Battalions and a few rangers shot at the mob and killed 12 of the women (half of them pregnant), before the crowd finally dispersed. The Rangers arrested many of the women protestors and the abortion clinic employees.
Hughes Network Report:
Anchorwoman: A mob of homicidal abortionists have been arrested for the death of six pregnant mothers in Houston. The holy forces of the HB have sent the Godless fiends responsible for the death of the unborn to moral decency centers…
Dallas, TX
Ross Perot sat in his office, reading aloud from the newspaper. His guests, Ron Paul and Mickey Leland, barely hid their impatience with his seemingly calm demeanor as he read the so-called “news.” Perot’s “associate”, Mr. Ruiz (a Mexican in an ordinary white dress shirt), wore a completely blank expression as the man continued to read.
“ Governor Taylor gave his thanks to the brave warrior’s of God for stopping those monsters from killing anymore pregnant women. He said the Holy Battalions truly represent what Texas is all about.’” Paul said, nearly gritting his teeth as he spoke.
Perot paused to take his glasses off, and then threw the newspaper across the room in a rage.
“Godamnit,” screamed Perot at the two men assembled. “This can’t continue! The CVs can’t hold that much power to keep doing this!”
“Not alone,” Paul said with annoyance. “They’ve got about one-third of the State Senate, and about 45 House seats.”
“The problem is those Rumsfeld Republicans,” Leland with disgust. “They only got into office because they claimed to love the ‘free market’, without Rummy-,”
“They were a bunch of cowards looking for the easiest tit to suck and the Christian Values gave them that,” Perot finished. Leland nodded, despite the very crude metaphor. “Of course, Taylor was among those cowards,” Perot grumbled. “Bush was a son of a bitch, but at least he had a fuckin’ brain stem and balls. These nuts are killing our state, and that man’s feeding from their trough.” He looked at Paul and Leland. “What do you too have in mind to deal with this?”
“Well,” Leland said, shifting in his chair, “we’re trying to get some of the-,” he paused as Perot seemed to be bristling.
“Try? Try?!” Perot stood from his chair. “I thought you people were supposed to be marching and rising up against the rich white man?!” He yelled at Leland. “Are you sticking it to man, or just some angry little Negro who riots and makes noise?!” He turned to Paul with an equally fierce glare. “And you, Paul. Are you really for freedom? Or just a bitch for the banks like they say you Libs are?!” He sat down with a sigh. “You WTPs and Libs talk about freedom. Start acting like it!”
Paul and Leland stewed for a bit, but then they smiled a bit. They realized then why Ross had gotten so rich. Any man could hurl insults, but a smart man could inspire his followers with invective.
“Mis amigos,” Mr. Ruiz said. “The problem is we are making the mistake that you and your country has been making for the last eight years.”
“What is that?” Paul asked.
“We have played their game even after they’ve mastered the rules.” He narrowed his eyes. “They’ve master them so well, they’ve rewritten them to benefit themselves. You and your Sovereignty keep trying to play by their rules.”
“And if we keep playing their game, we’ll lose because they designed it so,” Leland finished. Mr. Ruiz nodded.
“Senores,” Mr. Ruiz said. “The only way you can take those culos down is if we stop playing their game. Stop trying to play by the rules. We have to acknowledge that they we will keep getting us beat.” He paused as this meaning swept the three men in question.
“But by playing by the rules, we’ve given the CVs a great weakness,” Mr. Ruiz continued with a raised eyebrow. “The CVs gotten complacent with their success. They think we will still play their game. Let us pretend we are playing their game-”
“And then we hit them in a way they’ll never see coming”. Perot finished. He smiled as Mr. Ruiz nodded. “Sun Tzu talked about deception. That’s the best way to deal with a stronger opponent. Hit them at their weakest.”
“Maybe we need to show these nuts that real Texans won’t take their shit,” Paul finished with his own smile.
“Show them that they can’t divide us the way they used to,” Leland finished.
“You guys got some extra homework tonight,” Perot said to Leland and Paul, with some jest. “I’m gonna reach out to my friends.”
“For now, we’ll just act like useless idiots,” Paul said.
“You’re in politics Ron, that’s nothing new,” Leland said. The four men shared a good laugh.
Sunday April 30, 1989
Minnesota Governor Marlene Johnson (D) meets with North Dakota Governor Allen Olson (I) and South Dakota Governor George Mackelson (Lib) in St. Paul. They discuss security issues , CV subversion of local law enforcement, and maintaining unity in the face of federal dispute.
Riots breaks out in San Antonio and Houston over the massacre at the Houston abortion clinic (which, despite government censorship of the information, was spread through Liberty Spark).
Pope Pius gives a speech denouncing the actions of the Robertson administration, calling it “a twisted mockery of God’s word.”
During the speech, a protest by new Catholic group known as the Defenders of Rome against Pope Pius’ heresy. The protest faces a counter-protest by a group of self-proclaimed Communist agitators who claim to have been inspired by the Cuerdans to blaspheme the Church. The riot breaks out between the two (which a later investigations reveals to have been staged).
Masayuki Fujio replaces Yasuhiro Nakasone as Prime Minister of Japan.
Monday, May 1, 1989
Five members of Friends of Dublin, an IRA aligned Group, are arrested in Belfast for attempting a bank robbery. Among the five people are three American teenagers of Irish descent.
Irish Taoiseach Garret Fitzgerald dresses Dail Eireann, and pushes for a reform to immigration laws-namely restrictions and stronger political background checks- to deal with the influx of Irish American migrants from the US, estimated at being well over 300,000.
While Irish Americans do bring skills, several hundred have entered the conflict in Northern Island, which harms the security of both nations (especially as Rumsfeld and the CVs funded Unionist terrorism in Ireland). Irish-American youth and their more liberal culture are also challenging Irish society.
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Interview with David Frost and Michael McKeene
David Frost: Good evening. My guest tonight is Harold Joyce. He is a former reporter for The Boston Globe. He currently works for the Irish Times, covering events involving American exiles.
Harold Joyce: Thank you for having me on David.
DF: Mr. Joyce, can you explain why young American exiles have involved themselves in the conflict in Northern Ireland? The British have proven to be very welcoming of American exiles.
HJ: Well, Mr. Frost, with young people, it isn’t about politics. Joining the IRA is about being young.
DF: How do you mean?
HJ: You forget that these kids have grown up seeing their parents losing their livelihood, or a relative given-um-ah-nervous breakdown, or simply by those Liberty Legions. I left after one of those thugs threw a stone through my window, and my son and daughter stew over it.
DF: But why join the Irish terrorists, who are attacking England?
HJ: It is an outlet of their rage over what happened in their own country. A lot of these kids come from liberal families. Even American kids not joining the IRA are acting rebellious. In Ireland, their indulging in sex and drugs, and this is creating a bit of culture war with native-Irish and their kids. If they didn’t do they, they’d be fighting in the streets of Belfast. If they were back home, they’d be protesting the CV.
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Tuesday, May 2, 1989
American olim protest at an internment camp in the Eilat for Bedouins who were once Israeli citizens. The protests are brutally broken up by Israeli police.
Protests rock Israeli embassies across Europe and Canada. Despite the Israeli government denouncing them “Nazi fronts” the protests are led by Jewish groups in these countries (some of them Soviet and American migrants who chose not to go to Israel, mainly because of Israeli governments expulsion of Arab citizens).
Recife has fallen to forces aligned with the Democratic Republic of the Amazon.
The College of Cardinals calls for the Pope to “deal with the heresies of the Cuerdans before they continue to inspire blasphemers,” citing last week’s protest.
Pope Pius responds with a denunciation of the hoodlums who attacked the Defenders of Rome, but reiterates that they do not reflect the true Cuerdans.
Wednesday, May 3, 1989
Attorney General Edwin Meese appears on Television. To deal with the “rioting and sinful hoodlums tearing up our cities”, Meese pushes the Safeguard Our Cities Program, which becomes known as the Meese Initiative. It gives the Attorney General the power to declare urban neighborhoods, “Trouble Zones”, areas of perceived “moral rot”. In areas designated Trouble Zones, residents are required to adhere to certain restrictions on travel and movement, curfews, face a strong presence of law enforcement, accept security checkpoints, and assist law enforcement in “the eradication of sin and squalor”. Law enforcement must always cooperate with authorities in these Trouble Zones.
Failure to follow the rules of Trouble Zones will result in a charge under the Moral Decency Act.
In five neighborhoods in Milwaukee, Cleveland, Columbus, Chicago, and Des Moines, Trouble Zones are declared. The number will grow before the end of the year.
Glenville, Cleveland
Myron James hopped into his used 1973 Chevrolet CK pickup truck, carefully maintained thanks to his genius of a mechanic, not eager for another day of work.
At least I won’t be getting investment certificates.
To his shock, he saw the road out of Glenville covered by some checkpoint set up by the Jesus nuts. He pulled his car in, only to see one of the CVs approaching him.
“Turn your car around sir,” the CV nut said.
“What is the problem, officer,” James said, forcing politeness in his voice. He knew that acting rude would be a good way to get shot. Cops looked for an opening to kill a black man. His mom said to be careful to pick what battles to fight.
“This area has been designated for sin,” the CV man said, “we are here to contain and remove it.”
“Sin?” James asked, confused. “I try to go to church every Sunday” he said with honest pride.
“Sin can spread if not contained. If the Lord deems you worthy, and you can prove your dedication to his cause, we will let you through.” The CV man gave him a deep glare. “Until then, you must remain.”
James reflected on how his neighborhood was being treated like some kind of leper colony.
“But how am I supposed to get to-,” James objected when he heard a loud gunshot in the distance. He turned to his left and saw the Battalions leading dozens of people onto their trucks. What stunned him was that some of the “respectable people” were walking alongside the dealers and pimps. He could barely make out the cries of the people being lead out of their homes, but they sounded like scared animals trying to escape a predator.
“Turn your car around,” the CV man said with a glare in his eye, “or be considered an enemy of God.”
James turned his car around slowly, walking away from a fight. He flinched at the sound of gunshots and screams.
The American Holocaust-Anne Appelbaum, 2006
While many apologists continue to deny the racial oppression of the CSA, even in its early stages, the CV Government was preparing to wage war on many minority groups.
However, simple racism is not the only reason for what would become the Meese initiative.
The CVs and their eventual violence toward racial minorities was not racial (although political buzzwords that appealed to racists were common in CV work), but often political. While there were a few prominent non-white conservatives like Alan Keyes and Clarence Thomas, most African Americans, Hispanics, and other minorities tended to vote Democratic or other left-leaning parties. Even social conservatives and church goers within these groups, often voted for left-leaning politicians, given that any readily available alternatives had been so badly compromised by the years of association with the failed Rumsfeld Administration.
As the 1980s progressed, the racism and poverty of the period drove many racial minorities to embrace WTP or even more radical groups like the Socialist Party. Rumsfeld used to this anger to divide left-wing opposition. By allowing WTP to gain power in the inner cities, and Rumsfeld was able to shatter the Democratic Party. Of course, the established Democratic Party abetted his program nicely with its Hamlet-like hand wringing over the situation until it was too late.
However, the CV had a very different view of WTP and the people who tended to vote for them, as a sacrilegious fifth column. They viewed the inner-city communities that rejected their message as a group devoid of God-which meant increasingly devoid of political or civil freedoms. They were also obvious political opponents, as very few of the residents had voted for CV or the Republican Party.
A map of Des Moines was uncovered, which showed predominately minority (or left-leaning) neighborhoods marked in Red as “Trouble Zones”. To all but the naïve, this was not coincidental.
This was also reflected in CV Propaganda in the 1988 election often portrayed WTP communities as “controlled by Godless Californians” or “the New San Franciscos.” Other messages, building upon Rumsfeldian propaganda, portrayed these communities as being predominantly criminal organizations. Asian communities were also implicitly labeled “drug-dens”.
One particularly damning memo from February 1989 by Edwin Meese was uncovered in which he wrote “those of darker complexions must be considered as devoid of Godly beliefs.”
The Meese Initiative was the natural outgrowth of this paternalistic and bigoted outlook. The Initiative, which basically allowed the government to lockdown entire inner-city neighborhoods.
This served many purposes. It allowed the CVs to greatly enhance their enforcement of the February Laws (netting more and more sinners), dispose of the most obvious human garbage, and maintain a close eye on a potentially rebellious community, who could be put in their place by the threat of arrest.
The communities where this occurred (mainly in the South and Midwest) had long been racially polarized. The non-white residents of these cities had little problem with the lockdown in these communities. Decades of “Law and Order” policies and racial code words had conditioned millions of these residents that the creation of Trouble Zones was necessary;
But as the country fell into turmoil, the Meese Initiative would turn these armed camps into deadly prisons.
Thursday, May 4, 1989
Mallory Davis, a housewife from Charleston, South Carolina, is convicted for violating the Family Security Act. She attempted to flee from her husband John, whom she claims to had subjected her to repeated rape and beatings and forced her to give up her secretary job.
The South Carolina authorities, dominated by the CV, attempted to arrest her for “violating her role as a housewife.”
Davis appeals the decision to the US Court of Appeals, in Davis v. South Carolina.
Friday, May 5, 1989
Nigerian President Ernest Shonekan, Senegalese President Abdou Diouf, and Ivorian President Félix Houphouët-Boigny meet in Abidjan with other West African leaders for a proposed trade deal among West African nations.
Since the slide of South Africa into pariah status, these relatively stable African nations have received considerable investment from Europe and the Soviet Union. Recently, Nigeria surpassed South Africa as the continent’s largest economy.
Saturday, May 6, 1989
Alabama Governor George Wallace announces on radio that all state-owned and public lands will be turned over “for agricultural development.”
“All gardens must be used for food. Pretty flowers won’t keep us all fed,” he said to the Senate.
It is clear that the limited bombing campaign and boycott is beginning to take a toll. All non-essential transportation (anything not related to military or emergency service) has ceased due to oil shortages. The bombing of transportation centers and roads has led to food distribution weakening across the state. Stores and markets are running low on many supplies. Electricity is shorting out due to a lack of fuel. Still Alabama holds out.
The forces of the Free Zaire Army (AZL), working with Nigerian and Belgian army troops, have captured the city of Kisangani from forces of Laurent Kabila. Despite valiant resistance, Kabila’s soldiers have suffered from the loss of Soviet aid. Zairian President Etienne Tshisekeidi celebrates this major victory for “freedom loving Zairians seeking to build a peaceful nation”.
Since 1981, after Mobutu Sese Seko’s overthrow and execution, the state of Zaire has disintegrated into a series of fiefdoms, as the generals who overthrow Mobutu fought amongst themselves for power. The South African government and the US government also funded many of these militias.
Beginning 1988, Etienne Tshisekeidi, a long-time Zairian opposition leader, has received direct backing from the French and Belgian governments, and some covert aid from the Soviet government, in order to gain access to Zaire’s abundant mineral reserves and not have to rely on South African minerals. These militias have largely fallen to better armed and train European and Zairian soldiers, especially as Malan ended aid for them.
Sunday, May 7, 1989
AP Lutali, Governor of American Samoa, arrives in Sacramento, reaching out to the McCloskey government about a possible annexation of the island territory to California from the United States. The Samoan government and public no longer wishes to be tied to the Robertson government, but wishes to maintain ties with North America, over any independence.
McCloskey sees American Samoa as a useful way for California to project power in the Pacific.
Alexander Farrelly, Governor of the Virgin Islands, speaks before the Legislature of the US Virgin Islands about a possible Declaration of Independence, similar in reason to the Puerto Rican independence movement.
Monday, May 8, 1988
US Armed Forces, backed by the Holy Battalions begin an offensive against Cuban forces in the city of Camaguey. This battle is the first one that involves American defectors fighting in Castro’s forces (estimated at nearly 25,000). This begins to create a morale problem among American soldiers, especially as Holy Battalions execute captured defectors on the spot.
Camaguey
Lester Burns, US Army, had seen many troubling things since he joined the army in 1978. Like the village of the walking dead in China. But nothing sent quivers down his spine like capturing and detaining one of his own.
“You motherfuckers are cowards,” screamed Albert Behrens, the mutinying soldier who was captured before the commies could make their retreat. “You think your tough shit! These commies have more courage in one finger-,”he was silenced by the Holy Battalion who pistol whipped Behrens.
“Commander,” Behrens said to the Holy Battalion Commander Hedges, “we’ve caught the prisoner, what do you wish to-,”
“Send him to hell, where he can be judged by his lord Satan,” Hedges said with disgust.
“Sir,” Burns said with some protest, “he’s one of us. The only reason why he rebelled against us is because the Liberty Battalions were killing some of us, and because Rummy sent him to the island with shit-,”
“And why did he do that,” asked Hedges in a crazed voice. “Because he was clearly a sinner. Only the wicked deserve such a fate. He showed his true colors by joining the Godless communists instead of repenting.” Burns was speechless at that. God didn’t make him defect, but Rummy and his insanity.
“But sir,”-he said, alarmed as the two Holy Battalions carried Behrens away.
“Do you wish to be counted as one of Satan’s agents,” Hedges interrupted. The two Holy Battalions paused to glare at Burns.
“No, sir,” Burns said timidly.
“Good,” Hedges said. “Now report back to your base!” Burns slowly walked away, resisting the urge to run from the Holy Battalion goons. He flinched as he heard a gunshot coming from the direction that the Battalions carried Behrens.
Thursday, May 11, 1989
The Supreme Court rules 6-3 in favor of the state of South Carolina in the Davis v. Carolina decision. Phyllis Schlafly writes the majority opinion stating “that Davis’ complaints are superseded by the need for the stability her family, and that her refusal to pursue her motherly role does greater damage to the stability of the Union. To maintain the stability of the marital compact, Davis must remain subservient to her husband.”
Pat Robertson appears on television praising the Davis ruling for “returning God to the American family.”
Toni Morrison (living in Sacramento): “Susan B. is rolling in her grave now.”
Protests breakout across the US against the Davis ruling. Feminist groups in particular lead the protests. In one notorious protest, a group of working class women dump various receipts relating to the cost of childcare on the steps of the Illinois State Capitol-a mirror to Schlafly’s own STOP ERA protests in the same place over a decade ago. Many of the activists are charged under the Moral Decency laws and deported.
Friday, May 12, 1989
Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young (WTP) and the Atlanta City Council are arrested by Georgia Police, aligned with the Holy Battalions for refusing to enforce the February Laws.
“I praise our police for having the courage to come down on Satan’s forces,” said Georgia Governor Guy Davis (CV), ”Young and his ilk, who must have been compromised by Satan’s forces, refuse to clean up their city, so we’ll clean it up the city, so we’ll clean it up for them. In doing so, we can prevent any attacks like we saw in Washington.”
He also announces a plan to turn much of inner city Atlanta into a vast trouble zone.
This leads to protests, not just in Atlanta, but throughout Georgia. Guy Davis was elected in 1986 as a Republican in what was believed to be a complete sham of an election, beating popular governor Joe Harris (who refused to acknowledge the results of the election, and was locked up in a mental asylum).
Davis defected to CV in late 1988, and has been quick to enforce the February Laws.
Riots breakout across Atlanta, leaving nearly 56 dead, and 300 injured.
Saturday, May 13, 1989
The Hughes Network airs The Feminist Myth.
Plot: Mary Lewis lives happily as a housewife with her husband, Michael, and her two children, Virginia and John. One day, she witnesses a feminist protest, and falls victim to “the myth of liberation.” She decides to leave her housewife life behind, over Michael’s protests that she is abandoning their children.
John ends up shooting himself with Michael’s gun, as Mary was not watching her, and their babysitter was neglectful. Michael blames Mary and storms out of the building. At work, Michael is bullied by his co-workers for “not keeping his woman in line.” In frustration, he drinks away his sorrows and is killed in a drunk driving accident.
Now Mary is forced to take two jobs to care for her children, who are left to fend for themselves as she cannot afford a babysitter. Without Michael to keep her in check, Mary begins engaging in lesbian affairs and experimenting with marijuana (which is labeled “devil grass” in the movie), to deal with the stress of two jobs and two children. Being neglected by their mother, John and Mary start taking heroin to cope with their mother’s “abandonment of them”.
Due to a one late night sex party, Mary comes home late and discovers her children were murdered by a burglar. At their funeral, Mary is disowned by her family for not “heeding her place as a mother.”
Eventually, Mary is fired after her lesbian relations are discovered. She tries to find shelter in a church, but is thrown out after testing positive for an STD. The film ends with Mary dying of hypothermia.
Historical notes: The film is seen as an attempt to discredit feminism. However, modern audiences who watch the movie see Mary as victim of society and its prejudices against working women, rather than a woman who was paying for her refusal to live a life of domesticity. Thus, the film is unexpectedly popular among left-wing, libertarian, and LGBT groups. Roger Ebert, who had relocated to Los Angeles, famously called the movie “the Reefer Madness of feminism, a movie that unintentionally glorified very thing it tried to denounce.”
Sunday, May 14, 1989
California Treasurer Thomas Hayes announces that California will switch over to the new California Dollar, beginning August 1, 1990, and that Californians must contact local banks to exchange their currency by that time.
The new currency is pegged to the value of the yen (which is becoming the currency of the Asia-Pacific region) and features coins with denominations of 5 cents, 10 cents, 25 cents, a half-dollar, and 1 dollar coins. Banknotes will feature 5$, 10$, 25$, 50$, and 100$.
The move is the latest in the Californication movement, a campaign by the McCloskey government to build California’s identity separate from Washington. Calfornia's money has various symbols and figures of importance to the state. Washington is still on the 1 (California still respects the legacy of the Founding Fathers), while James Marshall is on the 100.
Monday, May 15, 1989
Columbia Pictures, once the largest film studio of the 1980s, files for bankruptcy. The studio has largely depended on tax subsidies from the Rumsfeld government and loans from its parent, TRW (which relies on Hughes Network to make films). Its propaganda pieces are not considered to be viable properties outside of non-Rumsfeldian audience.
Many small-time filmmakers (many of them refugees from the rest of the United States) buy up the auctioned equipment and properties. This will lay the groundwork for California’s Cultural Renaissance.
Tuesday, May 16, 1989
The city of Colorado Springs, Colorado (a bastion of the CV movement in the West) rebels against the Colorado State Government for refusing to enforce the February Laws, and attempts an insurrection against the city of Denver. Governor John Arthur Love (I-CO) sends in Colorado State Guard to put down the revolt.
White House
Douglas Coe: Pat we must aid our brothers to stomp out the decadent Denver Satanists.
Pat Robertson (sadly): I would love nothing more to aid our brothers and sisters. But we must allow them to stand on their own.
Coe: But Pat, they are rising up against sin and squalor. We must send forces to them-
Robertson (angrily) But we risk running into a gauntlet of Libertarian forces who do not welcome us. We already faced tremendous resistance to them in April. And whom we are not prepared to deal with.
Coe: But Mr. President-
Robertson: Doug, I sympathize with you. But we must be patient. Patience is what allowed us to deal with that sinner Rumsfeld, and that false believer Jeremiah.
Coe walked away, fuming over Robertson’s weakness.
Thursday, May 18, 1989
A picture of a flattened schoolhouse in Alabama is smuggled out of the besieged state. It is published in the New York Times. It becomes one of the defining images of the Second American Civil War.
Sunday, May 21, 1989
Joseph Franklin Ada, the Governor of Guam, receives Japanese and Hawaiian trade officials in Hagatna on what is officially meeting about agricultural exports. In reality, Ada is negotiating the sale of US Naval Bases to Japan in exchange for support for independence.
Tuesday, May 23, 1989
British and Republic of China officials, along with Hong Kong politicians arrive in Edmonton (at the invitation of Prime Minister Lougheed) to negotiate the status of Hong Kong, Macao, and the territories surrounding the Pearl River Delta. The meeting will lay the groundwork for what will be known as the Alberta Agreement.
Thursday, May 25, 1989
Riots breakout in Manila against the corruption of the Marcos regime, and the deteriorating economic conditions that are the result of economic sanctions. The protests have been fueled by Americans of Filipino ancestry who fled the US after 1985.
A strike breaks out at shipyards in Busan, Korea. The protestors are demanding democratic reforms. The Korean military crushes the protests, killing an estimated 25 people. The protests are leading to international condemnation, especially as the ROK government’s government’s complaints about Communist insurrection are becoming hollow, as Korea trades with the USSR and the DPRK.
Friday, May 26, 1989
A refinery in Beaumont, Texas suffers a catastrophic explosion, killing 25 people. The Exxon oil company refuses to compensate the families of the deceased, nor the survivors, as they claim the explosion was the work of “Satanic-saboteurs” and not due to equipment.
This leads to major protests that are put down by Texas and CV law enforcement. Unusually, the protestors are waving Texas flags, and wearing Texas memorabilia. The impact of law enforcement attacking protestors who celebrate Texas’ traditions is not yet realized by the Taylor government.
Saturday, May 27, 1989
In the Chilean city of San Fernando the carpenters strike against the Cuerdan enforced principles of barter trade and unrewarded labour (according to Cuerdan teaching a man must work for his food and shelter alone, and all other payment is to be denied. Absolute Poverty is not a condition to be conquered, but a necessary first condition to liberation and salvation.). The symbolism of carpenters striking against a radical Christian movement is not lost on many, and perplexes Cuerdan leaders who cannot seem to understand why workers would reject a life of piety and poverty to demand fair wages and a chance to charge for their skills,
Sunday, May 28, 1989
Memphis, TN
Jodi Thomas walked back to her waitress job after a lovely 3 PM lunch break, clad her tacky but fitting pink server dress, her second hand but fashionable sandals, and her small rosary with the wooden cross hidden underneath her shirt.
Since her boss, Allen, could finally start paying her in cash instead of those certificates, she had been more hopeful about the future. The CVs, besides getting rid of the drug dealers, feminists, and pimps, were now were putting food on her table. She would never regret selling her vote to them.
She arrived at work, and saw Allen arguing with some blond woman in his office. Jodi remembered her vaguely. She had served this woman dinner the night before. The lady was polite, but she spent the night giving her and her two sons odd looks. When the woman saw her enter, she paused and saw that same odd look.
She waited patiently outside, waiting for the argument to cease. Allen stepped outside after a minute, and gave Jodi a nervous look.
“Hey Jodi,” Allen said in a nervous tone.
“Allen, is there something wrong,” Jodi asked.
“Um, Jodi,” Allen asked, “How would you feel about going home to raise Bobby and Barty?”
“Are they making too much noise in the diner,” Jodi asked. “I can tell them to hush up if you want-,”
“No Jodi,” Allen said, taking her hands. “It is just that, I feel that Booby and Barty would be better off if you took time off to take care of them.”
“You’re letting me go,” Jodi asked, shouting in a rage.
“I feel that you deserve the freedom to be a wife and mother, and that this job prevents you from taking care of your children-,”
“Was it that nut that told you to fire me,” Jodi yelled, pointing at the blond women. Allen’s face became graver, answering Jodi already. She stormed over to the office, ignoring Allen’s requests to simmer down.
“Hello, sister in God,” the woman said to Jodi as she stormed in. Jodi actually got a good look at the lady. She was sitting in Allen’s chair. She wore a dark business suit, which showed off the generous curves of a woman who had probably never had a child, which was incongruous with her 40-something face. In between her breasts was a rosary with a large, golden crucifix, which glistened in the light. As if she felt the need to show off her faith.
“What this hell is this,” Jodi asked in rage. “Why are you telling Allen to fire me?!”
“Well,” the woman said, a teenage queen-style smirk growing on her face, “we feel that women with children should spend their time raising them, instead of worrying about a job.”
“Well Ms,-“ Jodi paused, waving her hand in the air, as she did not know her name.
“Alice,”
“Ms. Alice,” Jodi finished, gritting her teeth. “I raise my kids just fine. After school, I have one of the high school students drop’em off here at 4 PM. They stay here and do their work until 9PM, when we go home. I can watch’em just fine.”
“Mrs. Thomas,” Alice said, rising from the chair, “God mandated that woman is only truly free in their home. This work is keeping you from your true role as mother.”
“I said I still do that here, between 4 and 8 PM,” Jodi barked.
“I saw how well you took care of your children,” Alice said, with the compassion befitting of a rich turd,” when you couldn’t pay them any attention, they were all their lonesome. Proving that returning to the home is God’s way for every mother.”
“How dare you tell me how I raise my children,” Jodi yelled, almost getting into the woman’s face. “Do you have children yourself, Alice?! Have you ever raised a fuckin’ family?!”
“Watch your language,” Alice said slowly, as if talking to a two-year-old. “I don’t have children. If I did I would be forced to give up my career.” She paused. “My solemn duty in ensuring that women live according to God’s will.”
“It is God’s will that I have to starve,” Jodi yelled. “My husband and I barely make ends meet. Without this job, we’ll go broke!”
“Live according to God’s will, and a plentiful life will come,” Alice said calmly.
“I can’t wait for God’s will to pay my mortgage,” she yelled, but then felt Allen dragging her by the arm out of her office before Alice could reply. She yanked her arm from Allen’s grasping.
“Allen, why are you letting that nut fire me,” Jodi asked Allen in anger in desperation. She could see Alice giving her a smug smile.
“Jodi,” Allen said with regret. “The CVs are the only place giving me reasonable loans. They said, ‘if I don’t run this place according to Christian Values’, I am on my own.”
“So after 12 years, that’s it,” Jodi said, her voice becoming quiet. “I’m finished. Because you want to take the CVs and their silver?”
“Every other bank is run like some mafia cartel Jodi,” Allen said sadly. “I wish I didn’t have to do this.” He pulled out his wallet. “Here’s two weeks pay as a severance.” He placed the cash on the table. Jodi silently stared at it, before knocking the cash off of the table with her purse.
“Goodbye,” Jodi said, running out the door, feeling tears run down her eyes.
“Jodi wait,” Allen said. “It wasn’t personal.” Allen turned around, and saw Alice walking out of the office, a happy look on her face.
“Don’t worry,” Alice said with a frighteningly genuine sympathy. “She’ll learn to live according to Jesus’ will.” She walked passed them. “Or be sent to the eternal fire,” she muttered as she walked out the diner.
Allen returned to office in a daze. He gulped a bottle of Jack Daniels’, and angrily knocked the picture of Jesus off of his desk.
Tuesday, May 30, 1989
In Matewan, West Virginia, mine collapse leaves dozens of miners trapped underground. Authorities claim they are unable to aid the miners, citing budget constraints and-to the anger of the mining community-claiming the trapped miners are “sinners on who deserve to rot”.
Thursday, June 1, 1989
The CV-aligned Representatives and Senators arrive at Capitol Hill, only to find themselves blocked by several armed guards hanging outside, keeping them out.
“What is this,” shouted Senator Mike Huckabee. “Why are we being kept out?”
“Only the representatives of the American people are allowed to enter,” replied the guard.
“You lowly heathen,” Huckabee shouted. “I am ordained by God to legislate on behalf of the American people.
From the roof with a loudspeaker, several representatives read a prepared statement that is later recorded by news camera’s all around the world:
“We, the duly elected members of Congress, do declare that the current administration has defied the stated limits of the executive, defied the Bill of Rights, and defied its responsibility to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution.”
“The Christian Values Party is also guilty of abrogating its responsibility, and we will not serve alongside its members.”
“If you wish for us to open the doors to the Capitol, here are our demands:
1. That you concur in our demand that the executive ceases the enforcement of the Moral Decency Act, the Healthy Education Act, the Juvenile Delinquency Act, and the Family Security Act.
2. That the executive ceases the conflict in Cuba and withdraws all troops from this illegally declared war.
3. That all members of Congress swear their loyalty to the Constitution and declare openly that they will not support the executive in its current unconstitutional acts.
We will not rest until these demands are met.
The White House
LaHaye: Pat, the sinners have taken over Congress, let us obliterate that building of licentious-
Robertson: No Tim. Such an attack would weaken belief in our institutions.
LaHaye: These people don’t deserve mercy, but to burn in the eternal fire!
Robertson: I agree, but they have support still in areas we are not prepared to deal with. So, we cannot march there with extreme violence.
LaHaye: You wish to let these people defy his word?
Robertson: No. (a smile appears on his face) We shall lay siege to them. Cut off food, water, and electricity. They cannot stay in Congress forever without those things. In a few days, they will leave of their own volition, and come to seek out our word. We can arrest them, while portraying them as the weak-willed criminals they are.
Pat Robertson appears on television and signs an executive order declaring that no food or water is to be sent to the renegade senators locking everyone out, under the threat of treason.
The Siege of Congress begins.
June 2-July 4
The Siege of Congress. Non-CV aligned members of Congress barricade themselves in the White House, refusing to leave unless their demands are met. Police officers, Holy Battalions, and others surround the White House, preparing to arrest any Congressman or Senator who tries to leave.
Often times, CV loudspeakers spout religious slogans and bible passages in order to get the barricaded soldiers out.
Saturday, June 3, 1989
Protests breakout across the US and the world in favor of the anti-CV legislators. Many of the protestors are arrested by the CV forces.
Laurie Pritchett, the Police Chief of Albany, Georgia, is arrested by Georgia authorities under the Moral Decency Act for refusing to enforce the February Laws. Pritchett, infamous for having been an opponent of the Civil Rights Movement, returned to his job in 1987, ironically with the aid of the Black Community, as he had come to oppose Rumsfeld.
Monday, June 5, 1989
A student protest at Duke University breaks into a massive riot that is brutally suppressed by Holy Battalions. CV authorities order the school closed until it can "banish the demons of godlessness."
Tuesday, June 6, 1989
A riot takes place in North End, Detroit. Residents are claiming the creation of a Trouble Zone in their community has disrupted quality of life, and the flow of goods, and that many of the arrests have been of a racial bias. Dozens of people, arbitrarily labeled "rioters", are arrested under the provisions of the February Laws.
Detroit Mayor Dennis Archer (MI-WTP) sues the government, claiming "the declaration of Trouble Zones is a gross violation of civil rights, and the violation of Interstate Travel." The case becomes known as City of Detroit v. United States.
An explosion takes place at the Dearborn Mosque. CV authorities claim the attack was an attempt by the Muslim community at "religious suicide," and round up huge numbers of the Arab American community, including Arab Christians.
During the round up, the mosques Korans are burned.
Wednesday, June 7, 1989
A report by the Red Cross indicates that the average daily caloric intake in Alabama has decreased by at least 40% percent do the blockade and the effects of bombing. And that famine is "increasingly likely".
An effort at talks between the Chilean government and Cuerdans break down in a dispute as to whether the delegates should sit on chairs or hard wood stools during the talks. The Cuerdans also object to the government representatives’ unwillingness to wear hair shirts. The government for their part chafes at Cuerdan insistence that the government negotiators perform acts of humility before the talks can begin.
“I will not wash a peasants smelly feet, nor will I dig a latrine, much less give away all my worldly goods, just to have the privilege of talking to these mad monks,” one Chilean general complains.
Friday, June 9, 1989
Alaska Governor Wally Hickel (I*-AK) appears on television to denounce the attacks of the CV, and pushes Alaska toward independence, citing the Siege of Congress and the attacks on the state of Alabama.
Hickel: "My fellow Alaskans. 3 decades ago, Alaska, then a territory, was given the great honor of being allowed to join the Union. Many of us, including myself, desired this, because we desired to be a state in the United States. To partake in the ideals of democracy and liberty. I myself had the great honor to serve in our nation's highest cabinet. However, today I am demanding that Alaska seceded from the Union."
"Some of you, including President Robertson, may think of me as a traitor. Some of you came from the Lower 48, and are apprehensive about. That I am betraying my country. But my fellow Alaskans, we must ask ourselves, is this the United States that we hoped to be a part off? No."
"Over the past 8 years, the America we all knew and love has been slowly eaten away. The Republican Party under Donald Rumsfeld, which I was a member of, became the party of oppression, burning our rights and freedoms on the pyre of greed, imperialism, megalomania, and religious dogma. Some of us had been silent, others indifferent, others celebrating the deterioration of our society. Perhaps we all are to blame for this state of affairs. But I will no longer be silent."
"After Rumsfeld's removal, I believed that perhaps that America could recover and rise to the top once again. However, the members of Congress proved inept to resolving the damages, and that indifference paved the way for the rise of Pat Robertson."
"Robertson, despite being a man who believes in God and states' rights, violates His word and has waged war on the people of Alabama for refusing to endorse his heinous laws. This proves that he sees the various states, not as partners in liberty, as vassals that must provide tribute to serve his glory. He has defied his executive power, and forced our Congressman to barricade themselves in our door.
"We stand where Washington and Jefferson stood over two centuries ago. A far off empire demands our resources and lives without giving us political freedoms. But I will not allow our states mineral wealth to be used to fund and fuel this his mad schemes. All good Alaskans must stand off against this monstrosity."
A debate begins in the Alaska legislature.
* Hickel had been a Republican until 1985. He was elected to the Governorship on an independent ticket (albeit with the support of the states' Libertarian Party."
June 10-15, 1989
In the city of Cheyenne, WY, several Western and Midwestern politicians meet to discuss a united resistance front against the increasingly violent actions of the Robertson administration. This is in response to the continued attacks of the people of Alabama, the arbitrary and unconstitutional arrests under the February Laws, and the Siege of Congress.
The convention, officially titled the Council of Basic Rights, becomes known as the Cheyenne Convention. The resulting documents, officially title Article of Fundamental Rights, becomes informally known as the Western Manifesto.
On June 15, Wyoming Governor Alan K. Simpson (WY-L) reads the text of the document in the Wyoming State Capitol, declaring:
"The rights, as believed by the undersigned, of the Articles of the Fundamentals are enshrined as follows."
1. The right to freedom of travel
2. The right to maintain ownership of property.
3. The right to a speedy trial.
4. The right of an individual to have control over his or her own biology (Seen as a codeword for reproductive rights).
5. The right to elect one’s representatives according to the principle of one person, one vote.
6. The belief that the vote is a fundamental right of the individual, and as such cannot be sold traded to otherwise conferred by one individual to anyone else or to any group.
6. The right to control one’s personal relations.
7. The right to an independent judiciary.
8. The right to consume and indulge.
9. That war and conflict be done only with the consent of the legislature.
10. That no group, religious or commercial, be allowed to influence the governance of a nation.
11. That freedom of religion must be defended.
"It is the statement of this Council that this government is under the control of fanatics who, been given precedent by the abuses of the Rumsfeld administration, have come to regard these rights human rights as a mere triviality, an obstacle for imposing their will on the nation."
"In the past few months, this executive has defied the role by issuing executive orders on sweeping national policies, and the Supreme Court has neglected its duty of limitations by allowing these policies to be put forth. The executive has defied the principles of federalism by waging a cruel war on the people of Alabama, for refusing to enforce this corrupt legislation."
"The undersigned of the Articles will not participate or cooperate with the February Laws, which have trampled over these rights."
"The undersigned shall not participate in the desires of the executive or judiciary until the following demands are met."
1. That the secession of California is recognized.
2. That the enforcement of the February Laws ends.
3. That the conflict against the State of Alabama ceases.
Over 100 Western politicians sign the Manifesto.
Among the signatories are:
Wyoming Governor Alan Simpson
Former Wyoming Governor Wilmard Simpson
Idaho Governor Edward Crane
Utah Governor Norman Bangerter
Nebraska Governor Kay Orr
Minnesota Governor Marlene Johnson
North Dakota Governor Allen Olson
South Dakota Governor George Mackelson
Former California Governor Barry Goldwater (currently a resident of Arizona)
Colorado Governor John Arthur Love
Sunday, June 11, 1989
News of Alaska's move toward independence causes the price of gas to rise by 40 %.
President Robertson signs an executive order on gas rationing, the first such order since 1979, and begins pushing for the development of coal for fuel.
The foreign ministers of the Republic of China, South Korea, North Korea, North Vietnam, South Vietnam, the Philippines and Thailand meet without press coverage at an out of the way villa in the Swiss Alps. This unprecedented gathering of erstwhile allies, foes and trading partners is to discuss their mutual concerns of the Japanese re-armament program and the new militant nationalism of the Japanese government under Prime Minister Fujio.
Friday, June 16, 1989
Alaska's Legislature votes to secede from the United States, becoming the Alaskan Republic.
Sunday, June 18, 1989
In response to the failure of Chicago authorities to participate in the February Laws, a Trouble Zone is placed around
Monday, June 19, 1989
Lowell Weicker, acting as a representative of the Northeastern States, arrives in London to meet with European officials about food and energy aid.
In the decision of City of Detroit v. The Supreme Court rules 6-3 in favor of the creation of Trouble Zones, and their judicial power to control movement in the name of security and defending morality.
Wednesday, June 22, 1989
A mass strike in Charleston, West Virginia, protesting exploitative labor practices, is brutally suppressed.
In Austin, a similar protest of oil workers is also brutally suppressed.
Thursday, June 23, 1989
Coe: Pat, how much longer can we ignore the elephants in the room?
Robertson: Once we have our arsenal, we can begin to punish sinners.
Coe: And those sinners in Congress.
Robertson: They run on sinful desire. That will go away once their food and water does. I assure you when that happens, they will go peacefully.
Coe: But sir, those hedonists in the West, and those pagan Indians in Alaska-
Robertson: Douglas, we are simply not ready. If we go into this conflict half-hearted, we will lose our Crusade in the long term. clenching his jaw). But in the meantime, we will continue to hunt whoever we can.
Coe stormed away, finally realizing that he must take up the mantle.
Saturday, June 25, 1989
A site for human sacrifice is seemingly uncovered by Holy Battalions in the Choctaw Reservation. CV forces begin deporting hundreds of members of the reservation, in connection with their association with "paganism and Satanism".
Friday, June 30, 1989
A helicopter carrying President Pat Robertson crashes over Eastern Virginia. Pat is killed in the crash. Much of the helicopter’s remains are shipped away and sent to scrap yards, so no conclusive cause of the crash is ever put forth. The crash is blamed as an act of sabotage by “Satanic traitors”
Steven Symms in sworn into the office as 44th President of the United States.
President Symms pledges to complete Robertson’s work, and crush the sinners that made him a martyr.
Richmond Times Dispatch
Pat Robertson-The American Lenin
June 30, 2009
Twenty years have passed since the still unexplained crash of Marine One carrying President Pat Robertson’s. Since that time he has gained a very strange and unexpected reputation. The few remaining apologists for the Christian Values Party often claim he was the target of a conspiracy by Douglas Coe and Tim LaHaye, who usurped Pat’s vision.
Though the cause of the infamous crash remains uncertain, such a conspiracy theory adds a sense of potential mystique around the short-lived CV President. For many Christian apologists, Pat Robertson could have successfully implemented the Christian utopia that many of them dreamed off, but that was ultimately destroyed by, in their words, Coe’s Robertson’s madness. This argument also includes the fact that Robertson, as the son of the US Senator, would have had greater respect for the institutions of their country.
Many people say the same thing about Lenin today: that he had a more perfect vision of Communism, and that the vision was ultimately betrayed the individual that followed him.
But even those without much sympathy for the Christian Values often wonder, wistfully, about how things might have turned out differently if Pat Robertson had not died and America had not descended into civil unrest. Perhaps America could have remained a nation that stretched from sea to shining sea. Perhaps millions of lives didn’t need to be lost.
Of course, such wistfulness ignores that fact that both Lenin and Robertson were utterly responsible for the course that followed.
Lenin had set the stage for Stalin, with his acts of terror, and his brutal confiscation of food supply. This so-called defender of workers had brutally suppressed the right of Russians to elect their own leaders. Whatever personal qualities Lenin had, he had as much responsibility for the brutal course Russia took in the 20th century.
Robertson himself had even less personal qualities then Lenin even.
His heritage was that not that of a noble political tradition, but one of bigotry and hate. His father, Absalom Willis Robertson was a member of a corrupt political machine and a supporter of a system of racial bigotry that denied Americans constitutional rights.
Robertson’s “sermons” were little more than coded bigotry. He frequently indulged in what was barely-veiled attacks on reproductive rights, religious freedom, women’s rights, and free speech. In his many of his works, Robertson indulged in antisemitic and anti-liberal conspiracy theories.
This man who claimed to serve God’s kingdom was an unscrupulous man, who took money from odious megacorporations and had business ties with Magnus Malan, the Duvaliers and other so-called allies of freedom barely distinguishable from gangsters.
His also willingly lied about his military service in Korea, which consisted of being a glorified bartender, and sleeping with Japanese prostitutes.
He was also a willing participant in Rumsfeldia, serving and working with Rumsfeld to slowly wear away at American democracy, and eagerly using new business laws to create new “Christian corporations.” He also built schools that were little more than indoctrination centers for children. He also fed from the corporate table, working with Hughes and other corrupt companies for his own goals.
As President, he did in fact plot to bring war to the breakaway regions of America, turned CV corporations into business fronts for drug cartels, and implemented a system of forced labor rivaling that of the gulag, and bullied other state governments into providing him human chattel.
Like Lenin, Robertson’s glowing reputation had less to do with any real quality of the man, and more to do with the horrors that followed them.
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From the Journal of Kiyang Lu
As so many of us had during the years of the Lesser Mao, we learned to create an outer self to hide the truer, inner self. The outer self bowed to the God of Islam in return for rice and for shelter, all the better from the years of living in caves and eating grass and assorted varieties of dung. Even the strange rules of this Islam were better than a diet of dung.
We bowed to the caliphate masters because they gave us life and purpose. We were whole again, in a way we had not been for many years. Even though our wholeness came with subservience to a foreign superstition religion, still bowing to the foreign words – meaningless as their content really was – made us better for the time.
Even empty words had power, though. They helped us to conquer the warlords, those shameless exploiters of our country’s weakness. We all watched eagerly as one ruthless pirate after another was conquered, and his head rightly severed from his shoulders. We took the cities of Chingking, Chendu and Xian in our move further to the west, converting more of our number to this Islam. The people greeted us with great rejoicing and, as I had, eagerly embraced the Islam that had freed them, and gave them rice. Meaningless as it was, this Islam gave us a force – an idea- to bind us together and retake our nation from the foreign devils and the ultimate exploiter warlords, the Nationalists from Taiwan. Soon we would have them all, and their heads would fall from their shoulders.
Even on the northern borders, against the barbarian tribes and the Siberian long noses, our Islam had success, though for different reasons. I watched as an engineer from Poland, one captured by us in one of the many Mongolian raids, was brought into the fold of Islam. He took the name Abu Nuri and became a brother. Soon he was dispatched to spread this Islam in the land of his birth, Poland. I know not what became of him, but I heard that the heathen barbarian Russians soon put a price on his head. Their anger made me believe that Abu Nuri was being very successful in his mission.
Good! Let all the devils rot!
Now, at last, we were in a position to turn our eyes, and guns, on the foreign devils in Hubei and Henan.
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