enemy of the people
"Enemy of the People"
By
Cosmos
© Cosmos 10-27-2004
Word count: 5,782
My name is Jake Mc Laird. It is 2055 and this is the story of how I became an enemy of the people. Last winter I just a nobody, merely a high-school senior who had a part-time job as a janitor/city street cleaner in Berkeley, California. Now I am on the run as an "enemy of the people." This is how it all went down. As I said, I was a high school senior, preparing to take my mandatory tests soon and I was worried about my future as my grades don't seem to be that high. I didn't want to be swept away into the army as a military conscript to fight overseas in one of the many wars that seem to happen all the time, but I would "Do My Sacred Patriotic Duty as an American" as the propaganda signs across the street proclaimed in bright flashing red white and blue lights. And I was not looking forward to it, but would get the implant that everyone over the age of 18 was required to have.
The implants tracked your every movement, and fed you constant news and propaganda as well as allowed you to be in contact with almost anyone at any time. You heard a voice all the time in your ear and saw in front of you a video display. You could only turn it off when you slept but even then it was never really off. You could not live without them as you needed them to have credit and to buy or sell almost everything that cost more than a few dollars. In the old day’s people had credit cards and cash. Now we have implants and some still used cash. I hated the idea but what could I do?
And some darkly muttered that the implants monitored your thoughts. If you had disloyal thoughts, they would know and drag you off into the illegal unconstitutional reeducation camps that did not exist officially. Funny thing was those who were reeducated came back missing something. Never the same – as if someone had taken every inch of their personality and reshaped it into a boring clone that appeared barely human any more. Avoiding getting the implants – ah that was the question that consumed my young mind that fateful week. I had heard that some people did not get the implants because having the implants implied that you had passed a security test of some sort. For those who had criminal records or were deemed unworthy they had no implants and no steady employment or access to credit or bank loans. Sort of a trade off so to speak. My parents had implants and insisted that I would do as they did not want me to slip further into the underground.
"Jason Mc Lair, you are not paying attention. God what are we going to do with you?"
I replied, sardonically to Miss Black, my high school English teacher, "Well you could send me to the re-education camps. BTW where are they and what happens there?"
Miss Black, was a black woman about 50, who had the attitude of someone who has seen some serious shit in her life. She seemed to have taken a special liking to me. She looks at me as if I were out of mind and in a sense I was. Those were one of the questions that should not be answered and remained unquestioned. I could tell that it registered on her implant as little red lights were flashing on her neck where the device was imbedded. I knew I could be in serious trouble, but what the heck. I persisted in my folly.
"And why do you know so much about something that does not exist, I mean officially?
She sighed, and told me that I would be the death of her one day. She said,
"Jason, you have got to learn your place in this world of ours. You need to know when to not ask questions. Continued asking these types of questions will get you into trouble and probably everyone in this room. I have to report you now and fill out loads of paperwork. So if I were you, I'd get lost for the day. I can't protect you forever as this damned implant records conversations and some body might have been paying attention."
Sure enough, we heard an ominous announcement. "Jason Mc Lair please report to Security immediately. The rest of your class stand by for further questioning."
The teacher looked at me and my classmates all told me "Get the fuck out. We'll cover for you. Get." So I got.
Since it was 12 noon and I was in effect being suspended or worst, I decided to skip school that afternoon and do some reading. But, I needed to go have lunch first and I needed some money for the bus-subway. So I went looking for my sister who worked for the bus company. She might have been able to comp me a free ticket if her boss was not looking too hard. Besides it was lunch time. I wanted to find a new Chinese restaurant for lunch.
Berkeley was filled with Chinese, Koreans, Japanese, Vietnamese, Indians, Pakistanians and other Asians as was the entire State of California which was about ½ Mexican, ¼ Asian and ¼ white with some native peoples and a few blacks as well. Most of the blacks had long since left California and moved back to the Deep South which was now majority black. Most of the country was majority non-white except for the Mountain states which were almost all white and perversely proud of it. In fact, some white racists were calling the mountain states the Aryan homeland of the White race. What a bunch of balderdash!
Most whites thought that they would be selected for college, and after military service as an officer, would enter the corporate world, continue in the military as an officer or enter the government service. Some of us though were unfortunate to be mixed race and in our Pure Republican American National Country only people of pure white descent could aspire to senior management positions, or political careers.
Everyone else – well there was always need for cannon fodder for the military, low level employment for the government or a corporation, and the county government had a large work force for projects like the endless urban renewal that was to create better cities but just seem to create more luxury housing and fewer options for the 70% of the population who were minority or poor (and that was most of the minorities and lots of whites and almost all the mestizos as we had started calling ourselves.) And there were hundreds of small, illegal business every where serving the majority of the population who could not afford to shop in the fancy shopping malls that ring the edges of the cities. The fortunate few worked for the corporations as grunt workers, but most of the population worked from time to time in one small establishment or another for low wages, under the table cash payments, and occasionally worked for free to pay off debts or to pay for hospital treatments. Medical insurance - forget about it. Only white people received it.
I was part Cherokee, part black, part Spanish, part German and Irish and looked it. I was tall, thin, with dark skin, but intense blue eyes. Some suggested a career in the movies/TV where that pan-ethnic look was perfect for roles as villains. But I wanted to be a leading man and that would never happen as I was not "Aryan".
Funny how that term had come back in fashion about a decade after the Department of Homeland Security had taken over the government and dissent was effectively outlawed. Sure the constitution was the law of the land and the bill of rights were paid lip service to but everyone knew that no one was free to speak out against the system, and the media were owned by the corporations. Speaking freely merely meant you would be free to spend some time as guests of the government - ending up in prison, or the military if you were lucky or if you were really unlucky or had pissed off some one by saying something that was true but politically wrong, might lead to you being disappeared into the "reeducation camps" that did not exist and never had existed according to the official history and the media.
Those who persisted in talking about such nonexistent camps were deemed to be mentally ill and were usually quickly and quietly disappeared themselves. Those who disappeared were declared dead and no one ever heard of them again. Asking questions about what happened to so and so would call attention to yourself and you might also find yourself disappearing some midnight. Funny how the midnight knocks at the door has also come back in fashion in a big way. I suppose it had never really died out. The good old days were not that great after all. So for most of history from what I could gather the rich got rich, the poor got screwed. Seemed to the natural order of things.
No free papers existed anywhere except in cyberspace and those were always monitored and shut down when they got too far from the "mainstream." And anyone foolish enough to read them risked being picked up by the new Gestapo – the Homeland Security's Internal Security Police. And funny, how that word, Gestapo had also come back in fashion. Perception Management, Reality Control was the name of the game. Reality was whatever the government said it was at that moment and it was always true. Any alternative view was not possible. If someone persisted in questioning the obvious lies all around them, they were quickly declared mentally ill and again disappeared never to be heard again. And everyone knew what that meant was you never said anything that could be construed as being disloyal to the Party. Making cynical comments, making inappropriate jokes, pointing out absurdities in the lies that surrounded us all the time – guaranteed one-way trip to oblivion. And the government's agents, double agents, counter agents, informers and rats were everywhere and nowhere. You could trust no one, not even yourself. God forbid you speak in your sleep. And those damned implants were always on filling your mind with slogans and fake news about this crisis and that crisis. No wonder everyone was paranoid and no one trusted anyone. If everything is a lie, then this is a lie too.
I had recently begun to read history but not the official propaganda they subjected to us in school. This worried my parents who had grown up in the old world and remembered what really happened. My father if he was good and drunk would regale us with stories of the old days and curse the National American Republican Party (NARP) for turning the old U.S.A. into a dictatorship of the rich for the rich. Only white people who owned property whose parents were members of the old Republican Party could vote or hold office. If any of your ancestors were minorities, or were homosexuals, or were atheists or were members of something called the Democratic party, you would be labeled as "Politically Unreliable," ("PU") - and forever denied access to higher education, a good job, decent housing but you still could enlist in the military as they always needed people, including minorities, and "PU" people.
According to the official history, the NARP had come to power about 50 years ago after the collapse of communism which led to the growth of Islamic terrorists. The terrorists all hated America for our freedom and our way of life and they were determined to destroy liberty and freedom for the White Race. They were destroyed in a series of wars around the world and peace, freedom and liberty were renewed for the United States of America. The US now consisted of the old USA and part of Canada (which had always been part of the USA according to the official history). Mexico was one of our enemy nations and controlled most of Latin America along with Brazil. Chilitina was a lone outpost of White Christendom in the South and we were always fighting either Mexico or Brazil over some insult or another. According to the official history, the USA under the glorious leadership of the NARP always won after a quick and short military police action against the Catholic Roman-Islamic controlled forces of evil.
Canada had a rump state known as KZY Republic which was filled with crazies, drug taking freaks and free thinkers. The USA government had surrounded it with tanks and troops and had it contained but for the most part left it alone. There was a substantial underground of KZY supporters in the USA. They maintained that the KZY republic was the last real free republic left on earth and they had recruiters looking for new people to join them in revolution. I had met one of those recruiters and was on my way to lunch to join him and some of my high school friends. Hence the search for a new Chinese restaurant (Chinamen were known for being KZY sympathizers).
Quebec was also an independent nation, but was allied with Mexico and we had to invade it every so often as they keep shipping arms to the Mohak and other native people who had become terrorists demanding that the White Man be kicked out of the Continent.
Europe was split between the New European Federation of old Russia, the former Soviet states, which resembled the USA – run by the Russian Slavic Peoples Party, dedicated to promoting the interests of the White Slavic nation against its Islamic enemies - and Germany, France, and Italy. Scandinavia were independent countries after the NATO and EU fell apart.
Official history says that the old structures were unworkable and that there was a popular desire for freedom from the corrupt bureaucrats. A worldwide revolution led by the NARP led to the establishment of freedom and liberty across the world. Freedom was always on the march, yet always under siege by the Islamic or Catholic or Socialists enemies of freedom. Germany and Italy were friendly countries run by their version of the NARP.
France was one of our enemy countries. The UK was now known as the British Empire and controlled most of Africa, and parts of SE Asia. The UK was run by their version of the NARP. The NARP even had an international union of democratic republican parties which met every year to coordinate policies, but the USA was always in charge. Funny how that works too.
China was the dominant player in Asia and was sometimes with us, sometimes against us. Korea, Japan, Vietnam were nominally independent but was controlled by China. Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore were allied with the UK. India dominated the South Asian republics and was allied with the US although their Hindu-nationalism grated on some in the Christian community in the USA. The United Nations according to the official history ceased to exist when it was taken over by Islamic terrorist sympathizers who destroyed the UN building in an act of Nuclear Terrorism in 2010. According to the real history, the UN had become a center of anti-American anti-imperialism and was organizing against the U.S. The US kicked the UN out of the U.S. after a few years after WW111 had ended and then simply destroyed the UN.
WW111 had been an epic war between the US/UK and the Islamic world. The European countries split, some joined the US, some the Islamic world. Africa joined the Islamic world. Much of the Islamic world and Africa was destroyed by nuclear bombs. The Islamic world eventually recovered and was now run by violently anti-western regimes. They no longer had much to offer the west economically as the US had finally developed alternative energy and no longer needed oil. The oil was almost all gone anyway.
That's the world I live in middle part of the 21st century. As you can see I don't fit in – I am not pure white, my ancestors were Political Suspect on both sides, I grew up in the projects in Berkeley, which still has a reputation as being out of touch with mainstream America, and I did not go to church. There is only one church left in the USA.
The American Patriotic Church of Jesus. This church according to the official history came about in the early 60's as a revolt against the attempt of the secular humanists to destroy Christendom. The Secular humanists were defeated around 2010 when the NARP declared the end of the corrupt old republic. Since then we have lived in peace, and happiness under the enlightened leadership of the NARP. Elections still happened every couple of years but who cared? No one I knew could vote as only white people who owned property whose ancestors were members of the Republican Party could vote. And that was 20 percent of the public. But the mass media still made it a huge farce and the implant news accounts played it up all the time. One could not get away from it. Constantly in your face and in your ear.
The real history says that the American Patriotic Church of Jesus was founded by the NARP as a means of keeping the Christian community in line. It brought together the conservative evangelist churches and put them under the control of the Southern Baptist Convention which renamed itself the APCJ. They self-appointed an American Church leader to serve as the "anti-pope." The APCJ declared it to be the savior of white Christendom and was constantly on war with the Catholics, minorities, secular humanists, Islamic terrorists and the "unchurched."
Catholics, free thinkers, Jews, Buddhists, Hindhus and Muslims are still free to worship. As I said the bill of rights and the constitution still are revered as sacred patriotic texts but of course the government ignores it in practice. If you were to be so foolish as to openly proclaim you belong to a minority faith, or were god forbid an atheist you would be visited by your pastor and if you persisted in your folly, the government would slap the PU label on you, enter you in their secret data base and you would find yourself in lots of trouble, for yourself and your children. These alternative churches are not allowed to advertise, use the mass media, have schools, or own property. Members of their clergy are also not exempt from the occasional mandatory military service that most men face, nor are they allowed to have a salary from the church. They are essentially unpaid part-time priests. And it is amazing that there are any of them left given the constant anti-minority faith propaganda in the mainstream media and TV and in the implant news services.
Being a Muslim is particularly dangerous as most of the Mideast is controlled by radical Islamic states who have vowed to destroy the modern world. They bomb things here and there and there are always crackdowns. The Muslims tend to live in ghettos along with the Mexicans, Blacks, Asians, PU whites and mestizos. I live in a ghetto called West Berkeley. I am one of the few blue eyed chaps around. I have had to learn to fight from my first birthday and now I have a grudging respect for being a tough mother and for being a brilliant speaker and thinker. That gets me in trouble at school where they want people to learn the party line and not question things. I have been threatened with being shipped off to the non existent never existed rededication through labor camps every week. I have not yet gone and I think these camps in the dessert are mostly empty now. Few people openly discuss their hatred of the NARP; you never knew who was an informer or a true believer. Funny how it worked, even though the NARP was openly hostile to minorities and to dissidents, there were still people in the Ghetto who were supportive of the NARP. Why I never knew. Like I said, no one ever wanted to discuss these things openly as who knew was listening especially if you had an implant on. And bugs were everywhere except deep in the heart of the Ghetto. They had other kinds of bugs to deal with if you know what I mean.
Life for the majority of the population is difficult – housing is lousy, few can afford private cars, crime in the ghetto is violent and rampant and often random as angry people go off for no apparent reason. Most people have been to numerous funerals by the time they turn 18. The authorities are simply not concerned with crime in the ghetto; rather they are terrified the chaos will spread to ""Real America"" where the white minority lives very well indeed.
In "Real America" you live in gated communities with servants who are not paid much. You have private schools, and you will be going to college now that college admission is reserved for white people and rich foreigners. No minorities other than rich foreign Asians and foreign Europeans are allowed to attend college. If you are minority, or PU – forget about it; although they do admit 1 percent of their student body from among the minority communities to promote diversity. But those Uncle Toms as we call them are usually the sons or daughters of some servant to some rich asshole and who knows what they had to do to get their child into one of the diversity admissions slots.
In the "Real America", Fathers and Mothers both work hard in huge offices downtown and in suburban office parks. The middle class commute by trains that are too expensive for the majority of the population who commute by bus, or walk the streets. The upper class commutes by limo driven by drivers who are all minority members. The biggest problem the rich face is finding reliable help as all domestic helpers must pass stringent security screening and most of the population would fail a polygraph when asked, "Do you loyally support the government of the American National Republican Party?" And finding a minority member of the party – forget about it. Only whites are allowed.
Every so often a white person falls from grace as the local saying has it and ends up in the Ghetto. It is usually because they meet up with a KZY recruiter, read suspect literature, asked inconvenient questions or have a sexual affair with a minority or outside of marriage. Adultery or even premarital sex was tres major league no no's in the puritan New America. Those who fall from grace end up loosing their college scholarship and are subject to immediate drafting into the army. The army is all minority or PU and they hate the draftee white boys and torment them and sometimes frag them. The officers are all white but lower middle class white and usually are sympathetic to the troops and hate the draftees as well.
Lower middle class whites live a difficult life – housing is expensive as the rich own most of it. The rental units available usually front the Ghetto or are in the ghetto and white people are afraid of the Ghetto or Chinatown. And for good reason I might add. One of the favorite past times in the Ghetto is harassing the white people who wonder into the Ghetto on business or to buy drugs or illicit sex. Yeah, drugs and sex outside of marriage are illegal as hell in "Real America" but are everywhere in the ghetto. And funny how some guys are still lusting after homosexual sex even though that is tres maximum illegal squared in the "Real America". Supplying drugs and sex to the tourists is big business in the Ghetto or Chinatown. Funny how that has not changed since the old days either.
Chinatown has decent Chinese restaurants for the tourists, but these are all on the edge of Chinatown. Most of Chinatown is off limits to non-Asians. Even non-Asian minorities are afraid of wandering too far into Chinatown. Chinatown occupies most of old Oakland as the SF Chinatown was closed down when SF became an enclave for white people. East Oakland was now known as the Mission East and was all Mexican or mestizos. West Berkeley, where I live, is mostly black, Mexican, Asian, Mestizos, and PU whites. Richmond is all black. Albany is lower middle class white, with some minorities living there as well. The Berkeley, Richmond and Oakland hills are all rich white enclaves, heavily guarded by the police who check ID's of all minority visitors. Walnut Creek and the Concord valley is mostly white with a few ghettos areas here and there. The Bay Area stretches up to Sacramento and east to Stockton. Stockton and Sacramento are mostly ghettos with areas of white areas here and there.
In Berkeley and Palo Alto, the students live in huge guarded dormitories inside the walls of the campuses. Heavy guarded gated off campus housing is for the grad students and junior faculty. The University and the city exist in an uneasy truce with the University behind a huge gate.
I meet up with my sister, Inga. She is happy to see me but worried that my developing interests in the real history as it is called will get me into serious trouble and her family as well. She is only a few years older than me and already has children. Her husband is also mestizos as marriage is prohibited across racial lines. It is illegal and considered rape for a minority man to have sex with a white woman, and the penalty is public execution. It is also illegal for a white man to have sex with a minority woman. The penalty through is simply that the white guy is expelled from paradise and falls from grace as the saying goes and ends up in the Ghetto with the other PU whites. The girls usually end up in the sex trade if they were not already so employed. Some of these guys actually do the right thing and marry their minority girl friends.
Most do not as they are still married to a white women and divorce in "Real America" is also tres maximum no good and illegal.
Once a week there are executions carried out on TV. These programs are among the highest rated programs. They always start off with a clip from the trial, a short reenactment of the crime, and pronouncement by the judge. Local politicians line up to be on the show to re-read the pronouncement, followed by the execution – usually by firing squad. Funny thing though – the criminals are all minorities and the judges all white and the crimes were all committed in white areas. The ghetto is filled with violent criminals but the police never show up after you call in the crime so most people never bother to report the crime. Sometimes reporting a crime leads the police to arrest the reporting person so they can show that they are tough on crime!
Once arrested, you will be convicted as no one can afford a lawyer and the old concept of Miranda rights was long ago eliminated. No right to a jury, no right to a free lawyer, etc. And no lawyer in his right mind would ever want to defend a criminal as the criminals had no money.
So in the ghetto we have our own people courts. The real violent mothers are usually stomped to death after a quick trial by some of the elders. I have attended many of these trials which are usually held on Saturday night deep inside the Ghetto.
I tell my sister that I thought I was in trouble and told her what had happened. Inga tells me, "Brother I love you but you have got to learn to keep your big mouth shut at times. You know it is going to be difficult for you as you are not white and that is the way of the world. I don't like it but what can we do?"
I tell her, "Sister, we have got to do something about the world and change it for a better world. I can't just accept it as it particularly since I've read the real history and know what has been happening. "
I leave my sister with my weekly bus pass, and two tidbits of info – there is new Chinese restaurant that is both good and cheap, and my friend Ricky is urgently looking for me.
I go to Ricky's house and find the door open. Ricky is also a mestizo’s half Mexican, Chinese and part Irish. He is 6 feet 4 inches tall and works out every day. He is on the football team which is one of the few avenues left for minority men to make it big in the real world. - Though salaries are way down since they liberalized importing athletes from other countries. The day of multi-million dollars’ salaries are long gone. But then tickets are still cheap now a day although going to the stadium is usually difficult as they are located in the white areas and public transit sucks in that part of the city. The whites all have cars or drivers. Only the poor take the bus. And the police look askance at any minority person who manages to get to the game anyway. The audiences for the games is mostly white, the poor watch on TV or don't pay attention anymore.
Anyway I digress. I walked in on Ricky and find him tied up, with his father, mother and sister all tied up. Five mean looking white men in black suites are beating them up asking for information about me! Jake. Ricky sees me and motions me to get the fuck out. I jump out the window moments before it is blown away by a military issued AKZ. I think perhaps the fact that I am becoming known as an advocate of the real history is starting to piss off the NARP's private army known as the "Defenders of the Truth".
The "Defenders of the Truth" don't officially exist and are not paid for by the government or the party. Right. They are just local white people who get it in their head that they have to go chase down and terrorize upidity minorities and dissidents from time to time. And of course they did not take orders from the Gestapo either as the DT did not exist or never existed either, just like the non-existent reeducation camps. I did not want to wait around and find out what they wanted from me or even if they really existed.
I mean I saw with my own eyes that they were mean mothers and were beating Ricky's family to death. I knew if I stuck around, it would not be good for my karma or my health. And I did not want to be drafted into the army or find myself in a reeducation camp, even if they also did not exist.
I can't go home so I wander into Chinatown which is well known as a no go zone for white people. I reach the restaurant and tell them of my troubles. They assure me that they will help me. They feed me and offer me a job as a runner – a passer of information and underground lotto results. In the New America gambling is illegal but illegal gambling joints are all over the ghetto.
Many white people went slumming to check out the illegal casinos and underground sex and drug clubs. These places all existed on the edges of the ghetto or Chinatown as the tourists did not want to venture too far into the Ghetto. Working for one of these places were lucrative but somewhat dangerous jobs. Working as an underground courier was also dangerous. People were always jumping you to try rob you or just because they were having a bad day. That's why the Chinese dude hired me, my reputation as a tough as nails white mother had reached him. The Chinese guys were wired, had their ears to the ground and never forgot who their friends were.
The couriers were hired by white people and companies as well as by minorities and the criminal elements. You see you can't trust the electronic medium as everything is bugged. You can't trust phone calls, cells, and the net. The only way to get confidential messages or packages across is to hire a messenger boy. We ride around town on cool bikes and are usually allowed in white zoned areas as the white owned businesses use us a lot as they don't trust the government at times. Why I can't figure out - they own the god damned government after all.
The advantage: it is off the books, tax free, and allows me to say goodbye to my former life as a future slave in the new world order of the NARP.
The disadvantage: I will now belong forever to the Ghetto and never be able to escape my fate as a member of the disadvantaged majority. So I vow to make the most of it, and read as much as I can, and maybe light out for the KZY republic if things get too hairy. Mr. Chen, the Chinese owner of my new restaurant says that I am now an "official enemy of the people" and if I am caught I would be "disappeared."
He gives me a fake ID taken from a dead white dude who died from too many drugs and illicit sex. He tells me it will work as long as people don't try to verify it. He also tells me he can give me a fake implant that would help me pass into White areas. He also says that can get me on the underground railroad to KZY but only if I work for him for a year or two.
I say, why not? What else do I have to do? I mean it ain't as if I was born a rich white boy living in the "Real America" just outside the Ghetto. So that day, I began my life as an "Enemy of the People."
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