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Threats were made. The declaration of martial
law caused some states to form mutual alliances, to deal with the emergency
themselves. Some of the alliances began to behave, in some ways,
like independent nations. The legislature of one unaligned state,
in a fit of frustration and bravado, passed an ordinance of secession.
Another state legislature followed suit. After that, several of the
alliances declared independence.
Governments around the world feared an international domino effect. In an effort to guarantee stability, and at the urging of a majority of its member nations, the UN Security Council authorized a peacekeeping force of United Nations Special Service Units, manned mostly by Russian troops. It then issued a binding resolution that gave the peacekeeping force complete administrative authority in the United States. In an emergency special session, the UN General Assembly backed the move. Under the authority of the binding resolution, the Russian administrative authorities, supported by UNSSU troops, divided the United States into several administrative regions and then began a years-long campaign of attempted pacification. Endnote If the conclusion of my fictional speculation seems familiar, that's because it's intended as a prequel that blends seamlessly into the miniseries Amerika. This is all fiction but sometimes fiction can be very informative. Anybody who's curious can get a copy of the miniseries, watch it, and see how the story ends. —Author
Selections from the Miniseries Amerika •Your young people [are] attacking the symbols of power they can see.... They resist in ways that make them feel good, not those that actually accomplish anything. Actually, it's a controlled provocation. Our agents stir them up so that we can let them release their frustrations. At the same time, we keep track of them, give them a scare, arrest some. •Totalitarianism doesn't need armies. It only needs to control a couple of things. The media, and the ability to dispense privilege to some and to withhold it from others. But of course, a weak and divided people helps. Letters to the Editor I loved your latest Frontiersman [August issue], especially the blond jokes. By the way, I understand the mask requirement is to protect others, not yourself. Thanks for a great newsletter! —Tom, from Redwood City
If you're correct that forcing me against my will to wear a mask is to protect other people, then the reasoning is flawed. That is, if the other person is already wearing a mask, then he's already protecting himself, and I don't need to protect him. If he isn't wearing a mask, then maybe he's made a decision to forgo protection. In general, you wear safety equipment to protect yourself, not to protect other people. A surgeon wears a mask during surgery, but he has an obligation to protect a patient who can't protect himself. It isn't legitimate to impose on me a requirement to protect other people who can so easily protect themselves. If the other person doesn't protect himself, then that's his problem. The reasoning that you propose burdens me with an obligation, without my consent. I believe that the "protecting other people" notion is a ploy to trick us into accepting additional control of our behavior. Recall my observation that there are only three categories of behavior in the USA: mandatory, prohibited, and regulated. Wearing a mask will be brought under government control not to protect other people, but because freedom of choice is intolerable in a police state. —editor
Dear Sam, What up man, I hope you're doing well. In your Frontiersman, July 2020, the article "Probably So, Probably Not" [page 2] is an issue you and I have spoken about before. You're right when you say you've never seen a "White Lives Matter" sign. Shit, let a white person holding an "All Lives Matter" be seen and they're attacked and called racist. And honestly, by approaching the problem of "police brutality" from the black perspective only, you're minimizing the problem immensely. I get it. 395 black people were killed by police last year in 2019 and blacks represent 13% of the population so they're 2 time likely to be shot. etc. But here's something people aren't told. 923 white people were killed by police last year. Now keep in mind, these are only unarmed people shot by police. There are more deaths, being choked, etc. that aren't in these stats. But I do agree with you Sam, special interest groups rail and cry out their own cause. They only want "change" for themselves. It reminds me of the "pigs" in Orwell's "Animal Farm." A good example of how groups only want for themselves is women's basketball, W.N.B.A. They're always whining how they don't get equal pay. But have you ever seen one of their games? Slow paced. Empty arena. No excitement. They whine about equal this and that, but they're playing on a smaller court, play
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with a smaller ball, and do nothing but stand
around. But back to "Black Lives Matter". If everyone would
join forces and point out over 1,500 unarmed people were shot and killed
by cops last year, maybe something could be changed.
Also, on your "Stray Thoughts" [page 3] about how hate crimes legislation punishes a man not for what he does, but for what he believes, the real question? Who gets to decide what constitutes a "hate crime"? Generally, the "majority" can decide anything they want. What if the gay, Jew, liberals decide that a child must suck a dick and eat a pussy before the age of 18, if they don't they're branded "gay basher" and charged with a "hate crime"? I know that sounds extreme but in reality, we aren't far away from that sort of extreme thinking. More and more it's becoming criminal to be a poor, white male. Well brother, I shall close for now. Peace and be well. Sincerely, —S. H., a prisoner
You've raised an important point about the numbers and proportions of the deaths. According to your numbers, last year the cops killed more than twice as many white people as black people. Maybe the protestors can't count. Of course, they like to base their complaints on the proportion of black people killed, as compared to the size of the black population. It has to make you wonder. Is it okay for the cops to kill white people, just so long as the proportion of white people killed is less than the proportion of black people killed, as compared to the respective populations? I don't know, but that seems to be what they're suggesting. If so, then it seems kind of crass to me, maybe even racist. If they're not suggesting that, then why do they keep bringing up the proportions? The cops killed twice as many white people as black people. If black lives matter, then why don't white lives matter? You're also right about the women. They've used their tired old "equal pay for equal work" story to divert attention away from "unequal pay for unequal trouble". Workplaces are more complicated and expensive to operate when women are working in them. —editor
A Quick, Impromptu Survey Sam Aurelius Milam III I recently did a quick, impromptu survey. Notice, I didn't say that it was a scientific survey. It was a quick, impromptu survey. I just wanted to check a thought that came to mind. I receive my television signals through an antenna. So, the number of channels that is available to me at any given moment can vary from one moment to the next. During the time of my quick, impromptu survey I had, variously, from about 15 channels to about 19 channels available. So, I'll say that the number of channels that I surveyed was about 17, close enough for a quick, impromptu survey. I conducted my survey at what amounted to a randomly selected time. It was shortly before 10 o'clock on Sunday morning, on the ninth of August. The idea popped into my head about then and I just turned around and did the survey. What I did was to click around all of the channels. I watched each channel for just long enough to see who was on the screen. That was usually only a second or two. In a few instances, I had to wait longer, if they were showing scenery, for example. Other than that, my survey included whatever programming happened to be on at the moment when I clicked to the channel. That included all kinds of programming, news, comedies, commercials, everything. As soon as I saw who was on the screen, I clicked to the next channel. I did it four times. What I discovered was that eight times, then six times, then six times, then six times again, the very first thing that was on the screen was at least one black person, and sometimes more than one black person. Even the kid's cartoon channel had a cartoon with black kids in it. For what it's worth, probably nothing, I didn't see any black people at all on the Christian channel or on either of the two Spanish language channels. But, on the American commercial channels and on all four PBS channels, it was black people first, almost half of the time, 6 to 8 out of about 17. My survey doesn't prove anything but it does make me wonder. Black people are a minority of the population. Is it really possible that they're using almost half of the screen time on American commercial and public television? I don't know. Maybe it's just a false impression, but it does seem to me that most of the time when I look at the screen, there's a black person on it. If that's actually true, then does it even matter? I don't know. If it matters, then is it a good thing? Again, I don't know, but if black people have really been that successful at getting themselves on television, then maybe their problems aren't really so much worse than the problems that other people have. Maybe the problems that black people have just get more exposure and publicity.
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