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ck4829 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-15-05 01:36 PM
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A person wakes up one morning in the not too distant future.

"I found myself with a headache already. The words of Rush Limbaugh are streaming into my head. I try to press some button to turn off the racket, but I remember that the R-Chip causes all Television and Radio devices to do RW Spin 24/7. So, quite disgruntled already, I unplug the radio.

The place is Central Ohio.

The time is October 15, 2010.

As I get ready, I see the letters 'L' and 'M' tattooed on my forearm and another force of sadness rips through my soul. The 'L' stands for Liberal and the 'M' stands for Muslim. I was lucky, some people have long strings of letters on their forearms.

I then go downstairs, and I hear marching outside. But, it is no parade. There is an Ohio Brigade doing their rounds in the street with statues of George W. Bush and Ken Blackwell on opposite sides of the street. One of the end results of the 'Ohio Restoration Project' was to create these 'Brigades'.

George never left office. He holed himself inside the White House. The word is that cackling and hysterical laughter can sometimes be heard a street away from the White House. Occasionally, a figure in long black flowing robes can be seen around the House. Karl Rove himself is the voice of the White House, and Bush actually hasn't made any Media appearances since he became Dictator.

After Bush became the President for Life, he declared the 'war on terror' over but said terrorists and those opposing moral values were inside the United States, and that he would have to keep us safe, and he said he would keep us safe even from ourselves.

Pat Robertson, James Dobson, and Jerry Falwell are members of a Triumvirate council called the Commission for the Annihilation of Immoral Values (or CAIV). Sometimes people with 'H' or 'A' vanish and are never seen again, and it is believed it has something to do with CAIV.

David Horowitz is now the head of the Commission for Political Equality on Campuses. Horowitz has the power to shut down Universities and Schools that he deems are too politically biased. To date, Horowitz has not found a single school with a Conservative Bias.

In 2006, Bush made sweeping victories. The State levels were really important, though. He had loyalists, not just Republicans, but people like Ken Blackwell win all over the nation. Bush not just had power over the Federal Government, but he had power over most of the State governments too.

The Television is automatically coming on now thanks to it's R-Chip. It is ordering me to go to a 'Pro-America' Rally at a Church where a Televised speech of Tom DeLay will be played. CAIV has already asked me once why I have not attended a Church Rally, so I have to go now."
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YOY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-15-05 01:53 PM
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1. Make it longer and write some more stories
You may have the makings of a great author!

Science Fiction is, after all, only a dream/nightmare of what could and may be.
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katmondoo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-15-05 02:03 PM
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2. Makes me think of the PBS series "The Prisioner"
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YOY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-15-05 02:09 PM
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4. The original BBC Series?
http://www.rotten.com/library/culture/the_prisoner/

Actually, it reads a bit more 1984 put up to modern speed for me. I'd like to see the details fleshed out. Then again that's just my opinion.
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Orrex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-15-05 02:08 PM
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3. Hmm...
This scenario has some overlap with PK Dick's Radio Free Albemuth.

It this treatment represents more than a brief fictional diversion for you, I'd be interested to read more. Post it in the Writing forum.
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