Orange Tempest
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Even in the event of a nuclear war between India or Pakistan, no nukes would be launched at the United States, for the simple reason that no U.S. territories or possessions lie within range of Pakistan's nuclear delivery systems (Pakistan does not possess ICBMs).
My idea for Igor going worse: have the hurricane go west of Boston, and all that fallout from the Pilgrim meltdown spreads to the northeastern United States and Canadian shores.
Basically, your reply in this post: https://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showpost.php?p=9843307&postcount=133.
Or, better yet, have it land in New York City.
The death toll from that will top Galveston in 1900.
Basically, your reply in this post: https://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showpost.php?p=9843307&postcount=133.
Or, better yet, have it land in New York City.
The death toll from that will top Galveston in 1900.
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Will Kürlich Kerl
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Another idea for making Igor worse: Have it land in Washington DC and succeed in destroying the Capitol Building, the White House, and the Judicial Building and have it take a number of Senators' lives, as well as the life of Barack Obama, Joe Biden, and a few cabinet members.
guinazacity
Banned
Damn, that suspense is killing me!My lips are sealed. You'll have to wait till the requisite update comes...
But I think even a nuke glassing Belo Horizonte right before the GER/BRA game would be better for the national Psyche than the game result.
Except then you'd murder my favourite team, and I will have to hunt you down.
Speaking of which, how's the German public reacting to the Nuremberg attacks? AIUI they've been wary about military deployments since the end of WWII, but given new realities, will we finally see Bundeswehr troops abroad for combat missions?
Marc A
Except then you'd murder my favourite team, and I will have to hunt you down.
Speaking of which, how's the German public reacting to the Nuremberg attacks? AIUI they've been wary about military deployments since the end of WWII, but given new realities, will we finally see Bundeswehr troops abroad for combat missions?
Marc A
Yes, yes you will.
Also, I've got to go to work now, but the next update should finally be up this afternoon or tomorrow.
From Sword of Jesus: The Rise of Christian Extremism in the United States, by Edith Janko:
...Contrary to the claims of most notably McBrian and his many readers, the Crusade of God was not founded until September 2014, by radical Christian fundamentalist Patrick Mellitone of Colorado Springs, Colorado; Joseph Gautier, the perpetrator of the BA217 bombing, was entirely a lone wolf, and never even met Mellitone, let alone conspired with him. Mellitone, however, did hold Gautier in very high regard, considering him to be the new movement’s first martyr and his actions to be a beacon lighting the way for the “true Crusader” (as Mellitone called those who obeyed his message to attack secular Western culture and institutions in the name of the Lord), and it is thought that Gautier’s declaration of having been the one who destroyed BA217, together with his repeated statements during the course of the trial that he was on a mission from God himself, were the crucial factor that finally persuaded Mellitone to organize the Crusade of God. The degree to which Mellitone was inspired by Gautier’s actions is especially evident when one reads his “Crusader’s Declaration”, with several sentences and even occasionally longer excerpts copied almost word for word or adapted with only minor changes from the transcripts of Gautier’s statements during his trial; the best example of this is possibly Mellitone’s “America and its empire is the Babylonian Empire of the modern day, with its capital, the great Babylon itself, at Washington City”, as compared to Gautier’s “Washington is the new Babylon and your American empire is Babylon’s empire reborn”...
...Although Mellitone denounced the United States and the liberal Western world in general as an immoral, anti-Christian empire, he had no trouble using its openness and freedom against it, using social media sites, including both Twitter and Facebook, as recruitment posts with which to swell the ranks of the Crusade; it is estimated that, of the 82% of its members not originally from Colorado Springs or the surrounding area, approximately 65% first heard about the group online and a further 21% learned about it when a friend or relative came across it on the Internet and then told them about it. Using social media to recruit fighters can be fairly risky for a rebel or terrorist group, as it is extremely easy for governments to monitor what goes on the Internet and to use this information to nip would-be terrorist recruiters in the bud. However, the sheer size of the Internet and of its more popular websites can help to partially cancel this out, as even a single moderately successful social media site, let alone multitudes of hugely popular ones like Facebook or Twitter, has such a massive volume of posts and messages in even a single day so as to make it utterly impossible for government surveillance agencies to check through all of them in a year, let alone in real time; as a result, though they do catch many would-be terrorists on a daily basis, many more undoubtedly slip through the cracks, even if the sites have means of flagging potentially dangerous or inappropriate posts. This is almost certainly one of the reasons that the Crusade of God was not raided or broken up prior to the Yorba Linda bombing…
...By April 2015, membership in the Crusade of God had reached 676, distributed among dozens of cells scattered across the United States. The reason this point in time is significant is that this was when the Supreme Court granted certiorari to Hadley v. Nixon, a case which would decide whether the remaining few states continuing to ban same-sex marriage could keep doing so or whether any and all remaining such bans in the United States would fall as unconstitutional. Mellitone feared and hated the possibility of the latter outcome, his radical version of Christianity viewing homosexuality (or, as he called it, “sodomy”) as a mortal sin for which only death could be an appropriate punishment, and when the Court made his nightmare into reality and invalidated all remaining state and territorial bans on same-sex marriage, he gave 19 of the 62 cells of the Crusade the order, via dead-dropped audiocassette (he could not risk telling them via the Internet and potentially tipping off the authorities), to begin planning attacks, with the other 43 lying low for the moment as “sleeper” cells…
...Although one cell, in Miami, was raided on 5 July after a landlord concerned about some of his tenants (he had threatened to evict them due to nonpayment of rent, upon which they verbally abused and threatened him) called the police, and another (this one in St. Cloud, Minnesota) on the night of the 10th when one of its members accidentally dialed 911 on his smartphone while discussing their plans with his co-conspirators, resulting in their intentions being transmitted to the 911 dispatcher and soon afterwards in their arrest, the remaining 17 attack cells were all active on 11 July, when the Los Angeles eastern cell struck the first blow with the Yorba Linda bombing…
...The police reaction was immediate and severe. Multiple witnesses all agreed on having seen a gray-haired, official-looking man park the Excursion and leave the scene not long before it exploded, and law enforcement was quickly able to trace the approximate path that he had taken away from the park; they promptly cordoned off a large area of Yorba Linda where they believed him to be, and he was captured late in the afternoon, having been spotted attempting to hide in a disused shed. When interrogated, he identified himself as Seth Gamarot, but gave no further useful information, instead declaring himself, in a pattern that would soon become quite familiar, to be a crusader for God. Nevertheless, he was carrying a smartphone, and when this was confiscated and its contents analyzed, it provided links to both his Facebook and Twitter profiles, allowing the police to use Facebook’s location data from his posts to find the building where he had been staying, an apartment complex in Chino. A search warrant was requested and duly obtained, but the remainder of the cell had fled the apartment and done their best to destroy the evidence in it, resulting in the deaths of eight officers and serious injury to fifteen more (three of whom subsequently died in hospital, raising the total death toll from the booby trap to eleven) when one of them triggered a large pressure-sensitive mine concealed under the floorboards of the apartment, the explosion from which was so powerful as to cause the partial collapse of the building containing the apartment…
…As the remaining nine members of the cell fled east along CA 60, they hoped to get clear of the Los Angeles metropolitan area before it was cordoned off by police and, following the issuance of federal arrest warrants for the members of the cell, U.S. Marshals; however, these hopes were dashed just west of Beaumont when they encountered a hastily-assembled police roadblock, and, with more police hot on their tails, they decided to fight it out with the hope of breaking through the roadblock and running for (relative) safety…
...The first shot (as opposed to explosion) in what would become popularly known in law enforcement circles as the Battle of East L.A. was fired by one of the Crusaders as their two SUVs sped at close to 120 mph towards the roadblock near the Dowling Fruit Orchard; within a few seconds, nearly everyone on both sides had opened fire. Almost immediately, a policeman was hit in the chest by an armor-piercing rifle bullet, killing him instantly, and the police returned the favor by putting a bullet through the forehead of one of the Crusaders, although unfortunately he was not one of the drivers and therefore the SUV, instead of careening out of control, turned slightly to its left and made a beeline for the center of the roadblock, where, in stark contrast to the police cruisers on either side, only two sawhorses and a handful of policemen and -women stood between the Crusaders and escape…
...Contrary to the claims of most notably McBrian and his many readers, the Crusade of God was not founded until September 2014, by radical Christian fundamentalist Patrick Mellitone of Colorado Springs, Colorado; Joseph Gautier, the perpetrator of the BA217 bombing, was entirely a lone wolf, and never even met Mellitone, let alone conspired with him. Mellitone, however, did hold Gautier in very high regard, considering him to be the new movement’s first martyr and his actions to be a beacon lighting the way for the “true Crusader” (as Mellitone called those who obeyed his message to attack secular Western culture and institutions in the name of the Lord), and it is thought that Gautier’s declaration of having been the one who destroyed BA217, together with his repeated statements during the course of the trial that he was on a mission from God himself, were the crucial factor that finally persuaded Mellitone to organize the Crusade of God. The degree to which Mellitone was inspired by Gautier’s actions is especially evident when one reads his “Crusader’s Declaration”, with several sentences and even occasionally longer excerpts copied almost word for word or adapted with only minor changes from the transcripts of Gautier’s statements during his trial; the best example of this is possibly Mellitone’s “America and its empire is the Babylonian Empire of the modern day, with its capital, the great Babylon itself, at Washington City”, as compared to Gautier’s “Washington is the new Babylon and your American empire is Babylon’s empire reborn”...
...Although Mellitone denounced the United States and the liberal Western world in general as an immoral, anti-Christian empire, he had no trouble using its openness and freedom against it, using social media sites, including both Twitter and Facebook, as recruitment posts with which to swell the ranks of the Crusade; it is estimated that, of the 82% of its members not originally from Colorado Springs or the surrounding area, approximately 65% first heard about the group online and a further 21% learned about it when a friend or relative came across it on the Internet and then told them about it. Using social media to recruit fighters can be fairly risky for a rebel or terrorist group, as it is extremely easy for governments to monitor what goes on the Internet and to use this information to nip would-be terrorist recruiters in the bud. However, the sheer size of the Internet and of its more popular websites can help to partially cancel this out, as even a single moderately successful social media site, let alone multitudes of hugely popular ones like Facebook or Twitter, has such a massive volume of posts and messages in even a single day so as to make it utterly impossible for government surveillance agencies to check through all of them in a year, let alone in real time; as a result, though they do catch many would-be terrorists on a daily basis, many more undoubtedly slip through the cracks, even if the sites have means of flagging potentially dangerous or inappropriate posts. This is almost certainly one of the reasons that the Crusade of God was not raided or broken up prior to the Yorba Linda bombing…
...By April 2015, membership in the Crusade of God had reached 676, distributed among dozens of cells scattered across the United States. The reason this point in time is significant is that this was when the Supreme Court granted certiorari to Hadley v. Nixon, a case which would decide whether the remaining few states continuing to ban same-sex marriage could keep doing so or whether any and all remaining such bans in the United States would fall as unconstitutional. Mellitone feared and hated the possibility of the latter outcome, his radical version of Christianity viewing homosexuality (or, as he called it, “sodomy”) as a mortal sin for which only death could be an appropriate punishment, and when the Court made his nightmare into reality and invalidated all remaining state and territorial bans on same-sex marriage, he gave 19 of the 62 cells of the Crusade the order, via dead-dropped audiocassette (he could not risk telling them via the Internet and potentially tipping off the authorities), to begin planning attacks, with the other 43 lying low for the moment as “sleeper” cells…
...Although one cell, in Miami, was raided on 5 July after a landlord concerned about some of his tenants (he had threatened to evict them due to nonpayment of rent, upon which they verbally abused and threatened him) called the police, and another (this one in St. Cloud, Minnesota) on the night of the 10th when one of its members accidentally dialed 911 on his smartphone while discussing their plans with his co-conspirators, resulting in their intentions being transmitted to the 911 dispatcher and soon afterwards in their arrest, the remaining 17 attack cells were all active on 11 July, when the Los Angeles eastern cell struck the first blow with the Yorba Linda bombing…
...The police reaction was immediate and severe. Multiple witnesses all agreed on having seen a gray-haired, official-looking man park the Excursion and leave the scene not long before it exploded, and law enforcement was quickly able to trace the approximate path that he had taken away from the park; they promptly cordoned off a large area of Yorba Linda where they believed him to be, and he was captured late in the afternoon, having been spotted attempting to hide in a disused shed. When interrogated, he identified himself as Seth Gamarot, but gave no further useful information, instead declaring himself, in a pattern that would soon become quite familiar, to be a crusader for God. Nevertheless, he was carrying a smartphone, and when this was confiscated and its contents analyzed, it provided links to both his Facebook and Twitter profiles, allowing the police to use Facebook’s location data from his posts to find the building where he had been staying, an apartment complex in Chino. A search warrant was requested and duly obtained, but the remainder of the cell had fled the apartment and done their best to destroy the evidence in it, resulting in the deaths of eight officers and serious injury to fifteen more (three of whom subsequently died in hospital, raising the total death toll from the booby trap to eleven) when one of them triggered a large pressure-sensitive mine concealed under the floorboards of the apartment, the explosion from which was so powerful as to cause the partial collapse of the building containing the apartment…
…As the remaining nine members of the cell fled east along CA 60, they hoped to get clear of the Los Angeles metropolitan area before it was cordoned off by police and, following the issuance of federal arrest warrants for the members of the cell, U.S. Marshals; however, these hopes were dashed just west of Beaumont when they encountered a hastily-assembled police roadblock, and, with more police hot on their tails, they decided to fight it out with the hope of breaking through the roadblock and running for (relative) safety…
...The first shot (as opposed to explosion) in what would become popularly known in law enforcement circles as the Battle of East L.A. was fired by one of the Crusaders as their two SUVs sped at close to 120 mph towards the roadblock near the Dowling Fruit Orchard; within a few seconds, nearly everyone on both sides had opened fire. Almost immediately, a policeman was hit in the chest by an armor-piercing rifle bullet, killing him instantly, and the police returned the favor by putting a bullet through the forehead of one of the Crusaders, although unfortunately he was not one of the drivers and therefore the SUV, instead of careening out of control, turned slightly to its left and made a beeline for the center of the roadblock, where, in stark contrast to the police cruisers on either side, only two sawhorses and a handful of policemen and -women stood between the Crusaders and escape…
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I've got part 44 going in Google Docs, and it should be up sometime this weekend.
Just so you know, I haven't forgotten this!
Just so you know, I haven't forgotten this!
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From Sword of Jesus: The Rise of Christian Extremism in the United States, by Edith Janko:
...As the SUV charged towards them, the police manning the roadblock concentrated all their fire on it in the hope of taking out the driver and thereby sending the vehicle out of control; however, with it approaching at 120 mph and with their own forces suffering attrition from the Crusaders’ gunfire, they did not manage to kill or incapacitate the driver before they were forced to dive away from the speeding vehicle. Although they raked it with fire as it shot past and down the road away from them, its occupants did the same to the police cars, and it passed out of sight still under control. It was hoped that the second SUV, this one not charging nearly so fast as the other, would prove easier to stop, but its occupants, seeing the stiff fight put up by the police against the first vehicle despite its fast and presumably terrifying charge, decided not to bother with trying to run the gauntlet and instead pulled out their trump card: as the second SUV approached the roadblock from a distance, one of its occupants leaned out of one of its windows and let loose with a rocket launcher, which hit and completely destroyed one of the police cars and badly damaged the other with its blast, killing everyone in the first car and killing or seriously wounding everyone in the second. None of the survivors were in any way capable of further resistance, and they expected to all be summarily shot when the second SUV pulled up; fortunately for them, the Crusaders had more police on their tail and knew it, and as such did not stop for an execution, instead proceeding through the strewn wreckage of the roadblock at high speed (and in the process taking full advantage of their vehicle’s run-flat tires, which they had installed to deter spike strips but which also worked perfectly well for shattered fragments of roadblock and police car)...
…When the pursuing police cars pulled up to the shattered wreckage, they, not being equipped with run-flat tires, instead came to a screeching halt. Their occupants jumped out with guns drawn, but seeing no Crusaders in the vicinity, instead went to the aid of the two badly injured policemen and single policewoman in the non-destroyed car and put in calls for ambulances, backup, and road-clearing personnel. Meanwhile, the Crusaders had raced ahead on Interstate 10, and managed to slip by the police manning the Banning roadblock, who had heard the rocket explosion at the West Beaumont roadblock and immediately drove to the scene; in a stroke of extraordinarily bad luck, their cars, going west, passed the Crusaders in their SUVs going east on the other side of I-10, and did not recognize them or their occupants for who they were…
...We now know that the remaining six Crusaders did not have a preconceived plan of where they were going to escape to after fleeing Yorba Linda; as a result, they turned off of I-10 and took CA-62 north and then northeast before turning into Joshua Tree National Park. With its fairly open desert landscape, Joshua Tree was far from the best choice for even a temporary hideout, further underlining their lack of preparedness for the aftermath of a successful escape. Nevertheless, after they drove off into the desert to hide their SUVs, stashed their weapons under the seats, and hiked to Cottonwood Campground, where they filled their water tank (which, though it provoked a few inquiring glances, did not ring any alarm bells, the campers at Cottonwood not yet having heard about the Yorba Linda bombing and the West Beaumont engagement) and wheeled it back along the road and then off into the desert; after hauling it into the back of one of the SUVs, they discussed strategy long into the night. Although one of the six staunchly favored heading north into the Sierra Nevada, and another proposed that they should continue east into Arizona for an attack on targets there or further east (his own favored targets being Hoover Dam and the Glen Canyon Dam, the destruction of either of which would cause massive flooding along the entire lower Colorado; he apparently had wildly inaccurate assumptions as to how much explosive would be required to take down either of the dams), the option that finally won out was to zigzag south and make for the Mexican border…
...They started out at dawn, getting, with some difficulty, the two SUVs back onto the road, and immediately hightailed it south out of Joshua Tree National Park and then southwest to Mecca. At this point, the Crusaders turned onto CA-86 and headed south along the western shore of the Salton Sea, before jagging west and then south on the backcountry roads through Borrego Springs to CA-78. At Julian, they turned south onto Highway 79, and followed it all the way to the junction with Old Highway 80. This they did to avoid I-8, which by now was crawling with police cars and studded by roadblocks, and in this respect they were successful; they encountered only one roadblock, which they got through with one round from the ever-reliable rocket launcher. Unfortunately, the launcher’s use drew the attention of all those police along I-8, and they quickly picked up the trail as the Crusaders hurried south on S1 to the junction with CA-94; as the Crusaders approached Campo, one of them glimpsed a police APC lumbering onto the highway half a mile on, and they therefore made the very risky decision to run down Forrest Gate Road to the border. They must have thought they had gotten away clean, for they slowed down as they paralleled the border, allowing a sharp-eyed policewoman included among the forces combing Campo to spot them approaching the border crossing into Mexico; as police cars started racing down Forrest Gate towards them, the Crusaders forced their way through the crossing, increasing the death toll of their mad dash of an escape so far to 32 police officers and 6 Border Patrol agents, and fled into the Baja California desert…
...The Mexican Army played the major part in the hunt for the fugitive Crusaders, having gained considerable experience taking down drug lords all over Mexico, and acquitted itself extremely well in tracking down the fleeing terrorists. The Crusaders initially drove east along Mexican Highway 2, but east of Puebla they found their path blocked by Mexican infantry, and attempting to use the same formula that had gotten them through two roadblocks and a border crossing, they found out, only got four of the six remaining Crusaders killed and one of their SUVs wrecked. Critically, the destroyed SUV was the one containing their water tank, and by this point, despite having several jerrycans in the back of the remaining vehicle, they were running low on fuel as well; two of the jerrycans had been holed in the firefight, and their high-speed flight west to Mexican Highway 5 and then south down it was using up fuel at an alarming rate. However, in the end, it was not lack of fuel that brought an end to the Crusade of God’s Los Angeles eastern cell, but instead the competence of the Mexican Army; slightly more than halfway to Delta Número Uno, they ran headlong into another infantry detachment. Knowing that they had no chance of escape, they instead opted to fight it out, and so the two remaining Crusaders, outnumbered nearly 20 to 1 and badly outgunned as well, fought and died in their version of a glorious last stand. Within 90 seconds of the start of their battle, the last two members of the L.A. eastern cell breathed their last...
...As the SUV charged towards them, the police manning the roadblock concentrated all their fire on it in the hope of taking out the driver and thereby sending the vehicle out of control; however, with it approaching at 120 mph and with their own forces suffering attrition from the Crusaders’ gunfire, they did not manage to kill or incapacitate the driver before they were forced to dive away from the speeding vehicle. Although they raked it with fire as it shot past and down the road away from them, its occupants did the same to the police cars, and it passed out of sight still under control. It was hoped that the second SUV, this one not charging nearly so fast as the other, would prove easier to stop, but its occupants, seeing the stiff fight put up by the police against the first vehicle despite its fast and presumably terrifying charge, decided not to bother with trying to run the gauntlet and instead pulled out their trump card: as the second SUV approached the roadblock from a distance, one of its occupants leaned out of one of its windows and let loose with a rocket launcher, which hit and completely destroyed one of the police cars and badly damaged the other with its blast, killing everyone in the first car and killing or seriously wounding everyone in the second. None of the survivors were in any way capable of further resistance, and they expected to all be summarily shot when the second SUV pulled up; fortunately for them, the Crusaders had more police on their tail and knew it, and as such did not stop for an execution, instead proceeding through the strewn wreckage of the roadblock at high speed (and in the process taking full advantage of their vehicle’s run-flat tires, which they had installed to deter spike strips but which also worked perfectly well for shattered fragments of roadblock and police car)...
…When the pursuing police cars pulled up to the shattered wreckage, they, not being equipped with run-flat tires, instead came to a screeching halt. Their occupants jumped out with guns drawn, but seeing no Crusaders in the vicinity, instead went to the aid of the two badly injured policemen and single policewoman in the non-destroyed car and put in calls for ambulances, backup, and road-clearing personnel. Meanwhile, the Crusaders had raced ahead on Interstate 10, and managed to slip by the police manning the Banning roadblock, who had heard the rocket explosion at the West Beaumont roadblock and immediately drove to the scene; in a stroke of extraordinarily bad luck, their cars, going west, passed the Crusaders in their SUVs going east on the other side of I-10, and did not recognize them or their occupants for who they were…
...We now know that the remaining six Crusaders did not have a preconceived plan of where they were going to escape to after fleeing Yorba Linda; as a result, they turned off of I-10 and took CA-62 north and then northeast before turning into Joshua Tree National Park. With its fairly open desert landscape, Joshua Tree was far from the best choice for even a temporary hideout, further underlining their lack of preparedness for the aftermath of a successful escape. Nevertheless, after they drove off into the desert to hide their SUVs, stashed their weapons under the seats, and hiked to Cottonwood Campground, where they filled their water tank (which, though it provoked a few inquiring glances, did not ring any alarm bells, the campers at Cottonwood not yet having heard about the Yorba Linda bombing and the West Beaumont engagement) and wheeled it back along the road and then off into the desert; after hauling it into the back of one of the SUVs, they discussed strategy long into the night. Although one of the six staunchly favored heading north into the Sierra Nevada, and another proposed that they should continue east into Arizona for an attack on targets there or further east (his own favored targets being Hoover Dam and the Glen Canyon Dam, the destruction of either of which would cause massive flooding along the entire lower Colorado; he apparently had wildly inaccurate assumptions as to how much explosive would be required to take down either of the dams), the option that finally won out was to zigzag south and make for the Mexican border…
...They started out at dawn, getting, with some difficulty, the two SUVs back onto the road, and immediately hightailed it south out of Joshua Tree National Park and then southwest to Mecca. At this point, the Crusaders turned onto CA-86 and headed south along the western shore of the Salton Sea, before jagging west and then south on the backcountry roads through Borrego Springs to CA-78. At Julian, they turned south onto Highway 79, and followed it all the way to the junction with Old Highway 80. This they did to avoid I-8, which by now was crawling with police cars and studded by roadblocks, and in this respect they were successful; they encountered only one roadblock, which they got through with one round from the ever-reliable rocket launcher. Unfortunately, the launcher’s use drew the attention of all those police along I-8, and they quickly picked up the trail as the Crusaders hurried south on S1 to the junction with CA-94; as the Crusaders approached Campo, one of them glimpsed a police APC lumbering onto the highway half a mile on, and they therefore made the very risky decision to run down Forrest Gate Road to the border. They must have thought they had gotten away clean, for they slowed down as they paralleled the border, allowing a sharp-eyed policewoman included among the forces combing Campo to spot them approaching the border crossing into Mexico; as police cars started racing down Forrest Gate towards them, the Crusaders forced their way through the crossing, increasing the death toll of their mad dash of an escape so far to 32 police officers and 6 Border Patrol agents, and fled into the Baja California desert…
...The Mexican Army played the major part in the hunt for the fugitive Crusaders, having gained considerable experience taking down drug lords all over Mexico, and acquitted itself extremely well in tracking down the fleeing terrorists. The Crusaders initially drove east along Mexican Highway 2, but east of Puebla they found their path blocked by Mexican infantry, and attempting to use the same formula that had gotten them through two roadblocks and a border crossing, they found out, only got four of the six remaining Crusaders killed and one of their SUVs wrecked. Critically, the destroyed SUV was the one containing their water tank, and by this point, despite having several jerrycans in the back of the remaining vehicle, they were running low on fuel as well; two of the jerrycans had been holed in the firefight, and their high-speed flight west to Mexican Highway 5 and then south down it was using up fuel at an alarming rate. However, in the end, it was not lack of fuel that brought an end to the Crusade of God’s Los Angeles eastern cell, but instead the competence of the Mexican Army; slightly more than halfway to Delta Número Uno, they ran headlong into another infantry detachment. Knowing that they had no chance of escape, they instead opted to fight it out, and so the two remaining Crusaders, outnumbered nearly 20 to 1 and badly outgunned as well, fought and died in their version of a glorious last stand. Within 90 seconds of the start of their battle, the last two members of the L.A. eastern cell breathed their last...
Orville_third
Banned
This is rather shocking. How would the federal and state law enforcement react? How would other religious leaders?
Here's the table of contents as of the latest update:
1: Weather Bulletins
2: Hurricane Igor
3: Category 5
4: Igor STRONK
5: Maximum Intensity
6: Look Out, Bermuda
7: Let's Get Annular
8: Too Late to Run
9: New Atlantis
10: Oh Crap
Interlude 1: Presidential Address (by Unknown)
11: WHAM
12: Out to Sea
13: Damage Control
14: Donegal Express
15: What the Hell, Harper?
16: Euro-TCWO
17: God is a Democrat
18: DIE CONSERVATIVE PARTY DIE
19: Sideswiped
20: This Makes Thrice
21: New Season Started, Old Season Still Going
22: Action Reaction
23: I Defy Thee, Forecasters
24: Justice At Last
25: We Are NOT Screwing Up Again
26: From Bad to Worse...
27: ...And Then to Even Worse
28: Ebola Ho!
29: WMD Party Platter
30: Vaccinate Or Die
31: Gaza and Grizzlies
32: The Great Connecticut President Shoot
33: Take Me Out to the Ballgame (by packmanwiscy)
34: Afghan War, Part Umpteen
35: Burn Syriaq Burn
36: Stuff Blowing Up
37: Alas, Poor Taylor
38: North Africa Aflame
39: Counterstrikes
40: Oh No, You Don't
41: The Grim Reaper
42: Shattered Rainbow
Interlude 2: 438121 Arisia
43: Cops, Killers, Cop Killers
44: Crime Never Pays
1: Weather Bulletins
2: Hurricane Igor
3: Category 5
4: Igor STRONK
5: Maximum Intensity
6: Look Out, Bermuda
7: Let's Get Annular
8: Too Late to Run
9: New Atlantis
10: Oh Crap
Interlude 1: Presidential Address (by Unknown)
11: WHAM
12: Out to Sea
13: Damage Control
14: Donegal Express
15: What the Hell, Harper?
16: Euro-TCWO
17: God is a Democrat
18: DIE CONSERVATIVE PARTY DIE
19: Sideswiped
20: This Makes Thrice
21: New Season Started, Old Season Still Going
22: Action Reaction
23: I Defy Thee, Forecasters
24: Justice At Last
25: We Are NOT Screwing Up Again
26: From Bad to Worse...
27: ...And Then to Even Worse
28: Ebola Ho!
29: WMD Party Platter
30: Vaccinate Or Die
31: Gaza and Grizzlies
32: The Great Connecticut President Shoot
33: Take Me Out to the Ballgame (by packmanwiscy)
34: Afghan War, Part Umpteen
35: Burn Syriaq Burn
36: Stuff Blowing Up
37: Alas, Poor Taylor
38: North Africa Aflame
39: Counterstrikes
40: Oh No, You Don't
41: The Grim Reaper
42: Shattered Rainbow
Interlude 2: 438121 Arisia
43: Cops, Killers, Cop Killers
44: Crime Never Pays
EXTERMINATE!
They condemn it. One specific and rather extreme religious leader is going to go somewhat beyond that, tho...
You're welcome!
There's also a copy on the wiki page, and the TvTropes page has a link to it, in case anyone was wondering about those.Waiting for the sons of Igor!
I think he means more storms...
Excerpt from Governor Deval Patrick's address on Hurricane Igor, held at 10:30 a.m., EDT, September 20, 2010:
"...This is a serious emergency. I am telling those residents living in low-lying areas and on Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard, and Nantucket to get out of there, right now. This storm is not something to fool around with. If you stay, you will likely not survive. To deal with this storm, I have called up the National Guard..."
Excerpt from Governor Deval Patrick's address on Hurricane Igor, held at 10:30 a.m., EDT, September 20, 2010:
"...This is a serious emergency. I am telling those residents living in low-lying areas and on Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard, and Nantucket to get out of there, right now. This storm is not something to fool around with. If you stay, you will likely not survive. To deal with this storm, I have called up the National Guard..."
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guinazacity
Banned
There will be heads rolling inside the state police offices, no serious government can let such an incompetence streak go unpunished, by now the media must be all around it.