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When John Ross wrote his seminal Unintended Consequences, people accused him of being overly dramatic. After all, ATF agents wouldn’t frame people or commit murder., right? When Matt Bracken wrote Enemies Foreign and Domestic series, most readers thought the idea of ATF committing and facilitating mass murder far-fethced, and certainly didn’t expect militarized TSA roadblocks all over America.
The trouble with fiction is that it has to remain plausible. Stupidity and abuse of power have no such restrictions. We have plenty of examples from other countries to suggest that this misconduct will escalate until they either run out of victims (Rwanda and Burundi in 1993-94), get killed by people acting in self-defense (the fate of quite a few redcoats around 1780s) or rescued by foreign invasion (as was the case with Pol Pot’s Cambodia, 1979). I wonder how this will play out with ATF and TSA. It’s already disturbing that the only reason their depredations came to light was the killing of another Fed. The press paid no attention while only regular people were being murdered or wrongfully imprisoned.
Great links. Thanks for sharing!
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ReplyDeleteMore reference than fiction but Jefferson Mack's "Invisible Resistance to Tyranny" 2002 was after 9-11 but before its time.Joseph P. Martino's "Resistance to Tyranny" 2010 dedicated to Patrick Henry is a great read as is Michael Bunker's "Surviving Off Off-Grid" 2011. I received the Matt Bracken series for Christmas.
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ReplyDeleteAmerican zombies are "punch drunk" from the barrage of blows against their sensibilities, the repeated assaults upon their intellects, their wallets, their bodies, their property, their liberties and their children's future. They just want to stumble forward in denial, oblivious to the terrors reigning all around.
ReplyDeleteoblivious to the terrors reigning all around.
ReplyDeleteSounds familiar.