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04/08/2003: "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes"

The picture on the television was grainy and choppy.

Smoke rose from the rubble--the domed top of the bombed-out Capitol Building in Washington D.C. now just an empty shell. Pennsylvania Avenue was full dirty, uniformed invaders, cheering at their victory. After more than a decade of rule by the Republican guard, the states are now free, according to reports from foreign journalists.

The soldiers marched through the streets unopposed. Former Republican soldiers and minor politicians hid their guns, uniforms, and bureaucratic suits and melted into the crowd. Americans, not knowing whether to welcome the invaders or spit on them, stood by silently as columns of victorious soldiers trooped by.

You could read their minds through their stone faces. Most wanted a return to the normalcy that preceded the dictator’s "inauguration" so many years ago. But they didn’t expect it. They feared even to hope for it. Not years after interpretations of the Patriot Act stripped so many of them of their so-called Constitutional rights--the right to free speech, the right to privacy, the right to speedy, fair trials.

America's masses cheered these changes, which the Republican regime carefully couched in the name of patriotism and national security. Daunted by the prospect of losing their seats in Congress because of an unpopular vote, Doormat Democrats let the Republicans steamroll through these attacks on American civil liberties.

By the time the mobs realized what had happened, it was too late. Many protesters languished in jails around the country, not charged with any crime. The poor got poorer and the rich got richer off tax cuts and the elimination of public services. The Republican guard had established itself firmly in American society.

A reporter said the scene was repeating itself in every state around the country, as puppet governors were removed and executed or jailed, and provisional governments set in place.

The broadcast cut back to hometown news. In Austin, Texas, Congress Avenue was bumper-to-bumper, not with morning rush-hour traffic, but with tanks and soldiers. On Town Lake below, swans paddled serenely in the smoky, early morning light, unaware of the sea change.

The Texas capital was one of the first to fall. Invaders came in from the Gulf of Mexico and marched up the coastal plains to the gateway of the Hill Country.

While Texas once again was the largest state in the union, the battle for Austin was largely a symbolic victory. The former dictator first rose to power in this cowboy state. (Alaska and Hawaii seceded soon after he took office, stacked Congress and the Supreme Court with like-minded cronies, and started repealing state and individual rights.)

The fate of the dictator was unknown. The reporter said that intelligence sources thought he was at his rural Texas ranch with his war planners and elite Secret Service bodyguards. But bunker-buster bombs dropped on his compound yesterday rendered it a mere hole in the ground. Soldiers were searching through the ruins today. Some pundits have said that, if any remains are found, only DNA testing will be able to tell for certain whether he was there.

The invaders pronounced Operation American Freedom a success.

Posted by timbrat @ 04/10/2003 12:00 AM CST