Another Step Back

During a search of my hard drive I found this and I made some changes based on what learned about some people:

New Years Eve 1975
New York City, United States of America

For William Burke there was nothing to celebrate.

One of the consequences of Black Monday was the open publication of the full text of The Concept of Government by Al Keller.  And with the publication Burke’s influence on the Republican Party came to an abrupt end.  Ayn Rand and her followers in the Objectivist Movement were now fully welcomed at open gatherings, and especially the National Conventions, of the party.

Burke sat silently and contemplated the three objects on his private desk.

A revolver chambered in .38 Special, a single round of ammunition, and a copy of The Concept of Government. 

Mission Commander Boatman had sent the three items by courier and there was nothing special about the book except a passage underlined in red ink.

Burke’s virtual dance on Rand’s grave at the time of her death was nothing less than disgusting and his continued influence upon the Republican Party was nothing less than toxic.  Beneath the apparent virtue of being a conservative he held the fundamental belief in the Primacy of the State.  A principle he shared with Hitler, Stalin, and Mao, the three most lethal mass murderers who’d defiled the face of the Earth.  His malign influence on the Republican Party caused it to reject Reason and to continue its descent into a virtual joke.  Which in turn allowed the election of the open Socialist candidate Laurence Null as the President of the United States and the resulting onset of our Second Civil War.  Burke would've done a greater service to our nation and to Humanity if he'd taken the final exit.

Burke continued to sit in silence.


East Rutherford, NJ

The mortal remains of Jimmy Hoffa remained undisturbed in the newly built foundation of the New York Giants football stadium.


Atlantic Ocean Off Of Maryland Coast

The mortal remains of Edward Kennedy were tied up in the back seat of an used Oldsmobile attached to an airdrop pallet and remained undisturbed on the floor of the Atlantic Ocean.

On the day after Black Monday Senator Kennedy was dropped there by Mission Commander Boatman from a lander.


Washington, D.C.

At the New Years Eve party held at the White House Vice President George Bush stood by a window and quietly thought about the coming year.  Governor Ronald Reagan of California had announced his intent to run for President in the next election.  In the history of the Primary timeline he was held in very high regard and especially after the disaster of the Carter Administration. 

Given all this the idea of running for Governor of Texas was looking good.


Plains, GA

Jimmy Carter had received a package identical to Burke’s.  But in his case the two different passages were marked in red.

As the administrations of Wilson, FDR, and Johnson were clearly malignant.  But President Carter was simply incompetent.  His moral posturing opened the path for the rise of one of the major adversaries of the Omaha Pact in The Final War and the resulting loss of millions of lives.

And quite frankly I’m at a complete loss as to how Admiral Rickover could allow such an idiot anywhere near a nuclear reactor.

For Carter there was no question that the Uptimers were evil beyond belief and they had to be stopped.


Havana, Republic of Cuba

For Tomas the public celebration was absolutely obscene.  It was the fifth anniversary of the day that the Yankee Imperialists had taken the city of Havana and murdered the leaders of the True Revolution, the Castro Brothers.  Once again Tomas vowed that the Yankees and their Cuban collaborators would pay the ultimate penalty for their crimes.


Minneapolis, MN

One of the consequences of Black Monday was that the remnants of several families had moved out of the Northeast neighborhood of Minneapolis.  The house at 1918 Washington Street had been owned by the parents of one of the victims of the Black Monday.  And on their departure a black family from the North Side of Minneapolis had moved in.

The City of Minneapolis had been dominated by the Democratic Farmer Labor party for several decades and some of them were very old school Democrats.  In the dark of this night several men clad in dark clothes with their faces obscured set fire to the house with Molotov cocktails.  Two were used to block the exits and the others were tossed into broken windows.

There were no survivors.


United States Penitentiary
Leavenworth, KS

Even after lights out Lafayette Ron Hubbard continued to sit upright on his bunk.  The truth about the Church of Scientology was published by the Uptimers.  The Uptimers were "fair gamed" by Hubbard and the church.  The ships of the Sea Org now sat at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.  And many Scientology orgs were destroyed by laser fire from orbit.  The Uptimers and Mission Commander Boatman wanted to crucify Hubbard with a crown of barbed wire.  But Hubbard was subsequently arrested by the Feds.

It had to be a criminal conspiracy with the Uptimers, Hubbard thought.


California Penitentiary
San Quentin, CA

On this night Patricia Krenwinkle would be the last member of the Manson Family to be put to death for her part in the Tate-LaBianca murders.  Although the United States Supreme Count had ruled against the use of the death penalty the state government under Governor Reagan had defied the ruling and executed the leader of the family Charles Manson.  President Nixon had refused to enforce the ruling.

Mission Commander Boatman wrote:

The ban on cruel and unusual punishment was clearly a prohibition on the use of torture.  If the Founders wanted to ban capital punishment they would have come out and said so.


Los Angeles, CA

That Samuel L. Jackson remained alive on this night was due to luck and a bit of greed on the part of a producer for Universal Pictures.  Not that he was complaining about it.


Peking, People’s Republic of China

The mortal remains of Colonel Tsien remained undisturbed along with the others in the mass grave of those who were denounced as traitors to the People’s Republic.


Amman, Kingdom of Jordan and Arabia

As far as he knew Talal was the last male member of the House of Saud.

He remembered the chorus of laughter when the American government had passed along the note from Mission Commander Boatman:

Should the kingdom of Saudi Arabia proceed with the threatened embargo of oil to the United States and other Western nations we'll erase the Grand Mosque of Mecca from the face of the Earth.

This threat was seen as ridiculous.  What could any infidel do against the power of Allah?  The threat was seen as empty and of course the kingdom had gone ahead with the embargo after the Yom Kippur war.

Talal remembered seeing the glowing mushroom cloud rising above the horizon where the holiest site of Islam once stood followed by the razor straight laser beams that destroyed the armed forces of the kingdom.  Especially the National Guard, the force specifically created to protect the House of Saud.  What had once been the holiest site of Islam was at the center of a two mile wide glass lined crater.  And the Hashemites, the former protectors of Mecca and Medina, swept south after five decades of exile to retake the land of Arabia.

The door of his cell opened, it was his turn.


City of Suez
International Canal Zone

Major General Anderson of the Swedish Army waited in the command post of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force.  As the new year was an infidel holiday it was normally marked by one or more attacks by jihadists. 

The governments of Egypt and Syria had been told by the Uptimers that their planned attack on the State of Israel on the day of Yom Kippur would fail.  President Sadat had actually backed down but was assassinated and his successor proceeded with the plan.  When the Arab armies had reached their jump-off points for the attack they were destroyed by laser fire from orbit.

It would be nice, thought General Anderson, if the damned Arabs would just grow up.


Moscow, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

Mikhail Gorbachev stood silently at another social gathering of the Soviet Politburo. Their intent was to celebrate another new year but in fact there was nothing to celebrate.  The fact was that the Soviet Union was another year closer to it’s ultimate demise.  And there was nothing that could be done about it.

Except, of course, to step out of the way.

Even though Gorbachev was now a full voting member of the Politburo he still wasn't welcome.  To the older members he represented the locomotive of history that was still approaching.  Though the act of stepping off of the rails of history was still unthinkable to them.  But it still had to be done.


London, United Kingdom

At the age of ten John Andrew March felt a bit out of place at this gathering of adults, even in the presence of Uncle Francis and Aunt Elisabeth.  Along with the new year the Conservative Party was celebrating the fifth year in power under Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.


Starship Eagle
Geosynchronous Orbit

Although it was called the sick bay the medical facilities of the starship were in fact a fully functional state of the art hospital.  This included the facilities for performing the recorporation procedure.

Doctor Alice Boatman watched as her current patient, who resembled a twelve year old girl, opened her eyes. 

Doctor Boatman spoke.

“Miss Rand, can you hear me?”

“Yes.”  She replied.