“He’s alive, all right. He’s got a job as sheriff, up in Potlatch. It’s a small town about twenty-five miles northwest of here.”
Blanca sang out, “We’ll have to go vee-zeet him, someday soon.”
Todd and Mary then spent a full hour describing their experiences at the retreat in the past five years. Todd ended this by detailing how half of the retreat members had recently relocated to Kevin Lendel’s property. After listening to others, Rose Trasel told her story, including an account of her shooting incident and surgery.
It was after dinner that Ian Doyle approached Todd and asked, “Would you mind if Blanca and I stayed here? We could even help you out with your reconnaissance patrolling, using the Larons. What do you say?”
They were voted into the Northwest Militia the next evening, and their tactical training started the following day.
CHAPTER 24
Incursion
“Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force! Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.”
Some bad news came over the CB only two weeks after Ian and Blanca arrived. Todd immediately relayed what he had heard to Kevin’s house, via field telephone. A meeting of both companies was scheduled for 7 a.m. the next day, in Todd’s barn.
The members of the two nascent companies sat in a semicircle in the hay that was scattered on the floor of the barn. Most had their rifles or shotguns lying across their laps or propped up against the wall of the barn within arm’s reach. Everyone was there, except for Lon, who was on LP/OP duty just up the hill, and Lisa Nelson, who was handling the same duty back at the other retreat. Lisa had her baby girl, Rachel, with her at the LP/OP. Little Jacob, who was now three years old, sat in Mary’s lap during the meeting. The boy sat patiently and politely, saying nothing. Rose had her baby daughter in her arms. She quietly nursed her during the meeting.
Goats wandered in and milled around during the briefing. Chickens scratched the dirt at the open doorway. Gray began, “Thanks, Mike, for getting your folks up here so promptly. You’ve by now all heard bits and pieces of this, but just so there is no confusion, let me start at the beginning. Here is what we know, based on what we’ve heard from ham radio operators and Radio Free America on shortwave, from what has come over the CB relay net, and—taken with a grain of salt—what the Federals are putting out on the shortwave.
They’ve taken over WRNO and WWCR, and some of the fifty-thousand-watt eastern AM stations and turned them into their exclusive propaganda tools. We get the other side of the story from Radio Free America, in Maine and The Intelligence Report, in Michigan.
“The provisional Federal government now has partial or full control of nineteen states east of the Rockies. They’ve brought in a lot of foreign troops, Belgians and Germans mostly, under some bravo sierra ‘Presidential Decision Directive.’ Our national sovereignty went out the window when the UN troops came in. Since we are so far removed, we can’t tell exactly who is actually running the show back there at Fort Knox. But whether it’s President-for-life Maynard Hutchings and his crowd, or the Europeans, or some supra-national world government, it doesn’t make any difference. Martial law is martial law. A moose turd pie still tastes like a moose turd, no matter how much sugar you put on it.” There were titters of laughter.
“The bottom line, in my estimation, is that since the U.S. is bankrupt, and our creditors—the international bankers, that is—have sent their bully boys to collect on the debt. They consider every square inch of real estate, every capital asset, and even your labor and the future labor of your children to be surety for that debt. It’s sort of like when people buy cars on credit and then stop making the payments. The bank sends a repo man to tow the car away. If you can picture that on a global scale, what is going on is ‘kingdom towing.’ The Federals may think that they are still in control, but in reality they are just errand boys for the banksters—the Rothschilds and Bilderberg Group fat cats of the world.
“There are some folks—like Kevin Lendel—who have researched this more than I have. They go so far as to claim that we’ve actually been forestalling this situation since 1933, when Roosevelt first declared the nation bankrupt. Perhaps they’re right. Perhaps what we are seeing is just a delayed reaction from something that started way back then. Think about it. We took out the loan in 1933. We let the debt get totally out of hand in the 1980s and 1990s. We stopped making the payments all together after the stock market crash, and then the banksters sent the ‘tow truck’ two years into the Crunch. If that is indeed what happened, it would explain a lot of things. It would explain, for example, how our courts began mixing law and equity in the 1930s, and started treating us all as 14th Amendment “persons” rather than as full state Citizens. It could explain why the courts haven’t overturned laws like the National Firearms Act, and the 1994 Crime Bill, the 1996 Immigration Bill, and the USA PATRIOT Act, even though they are clearly unconstitutional. It could also explain where this make-believe animal called ‘statutory jurisdiction’ came from, effectively replacing the Common Law. Oh well, these are all issues that won’t get clarified for several years. For now though, we’ve got to worry about a more immediate problem. It’s coming at us like a Mack truck.”
Todd continued, “The Federals are on the march, expanding their territory. They are handing out favors to any Quislings that go along with them, and whomping on anybody that doesn’t play along. In at least five states, they’ve executed the governors on the spot and put their puppet governors in place. Instead of talking in terms of states, the UN likes to talk in terms of ‘regions’ as an overlay to the existing governmental structure. There are still state governors in the pacified states, but they are essentially subordinate to the regional administrators. And here’s the kicker: The regional administrators report to, and get their direction from, the UN headquarters in New York, not the so-called Federal government at Fort Knox.”
Todd waited for his words to sink in, and then went on. “The Feds have big detention camps set up in several states, at least one in each of the old FEMA regions. They are supposedly ‘refugee camps’ or ‘relocation camps,’ but everyone living around them knows the real story. The camps are to house any malcontents that they think they can ‘reform through labor,’ and for any high-profile types that they are afraid could be seen as martyrs if they wax them right on the spot. They just whisk folks away and shut them up behind concertina wire. The real hard cases are put in the old Federal prisons like El Reno. Lower security risks are put in the slave labor camps.
“Regardless of where they go, virtually all of the prisoners are poorly fed, beaten, and worked eleven hours a day. It is essentially a huge gulag system with a one-way door. The only way you come out is dead. In all, a lot like the laogai system in China.
“The Feds have made a few friends by getting the power grid restored in places. And, over a year ago, they conquered Texas and Oklahoma, where a few oil fields and refineries were already back in operation. So now they have plenty of fuel, oil, and lubricants for their campaign of conquest.