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While this book is about America in 2028 under a socialist government that no longer provides protection for its citizens and no longer believes public should have the right to protect themselves. That no longer believes our Constitution and Bill of Rights means the same as it did one hundred or even fifty years ago. Then calls this progress with their new ideas of how the nation should be run. While discarding old definitions to replace with their new interpretations. Forgetting past promises to balance the budget, control government spending. Free speech is redefined and limited; gun ownership is restricted to firearms that do not pose a problem against law enforcement. Even then very strict enforcement of very restrictive laws applies. Inter-structure means paying for government programs as well as repairing roads, dams, bridges and all it meant in the past. A time when Citizenship means nothing, and any human with their feet on American soil, all have the same rights. A time when inflation has grown so bad that retirement funds are valueless. Then only a small percentage of Americans are able to maintain a small standard of living in 2028.A time when opposition to the government is treason.

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Publié par	Outskirts Press
Date de parution	26 juin 2023
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781977266088
Langue	English
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1. Self-Defense

2. City Wide Riots

3. Bad for Business

4. Thinking Back

TABLE OF CONTENTS

5. February was a long month

6. Going on the Air

7. The Feds

8. Third Interview on KNUZ

9. A New Life

10. Ever thing changed in March

11. Nancy and her son

12. Bill’s Funeral

13. Under Cover

14. Revenge for Nancy

15. The Thirteen

16. Bill’s Will

17. London

18. New York and Art

19. The Kidnapping

20. Art and Europe

21. The Rally

OVERVIEW

To understand this book, you must understand it was started during the Obama administration. As I watched major changes in peopl e’s minds and in our government. In 2009 I and many others stood with the “tea Party ” movement against many of the proposed plans of the so-called progressives to cha nge our government into their way of thinking. Some of their ideas were good, many we re not. By 2005 I had stopped gathering facts and started writing about America i n the far off year of 2028 , 23 years into the future. Finishing, “Not my house You Don’t ” I tried to get my book publish the “old fashion way” as I had done in the 1990’s with established publishers. Time changes things and a new form of publishing has tak en over most of the new book publishing business. Now the new way is now produci ng far most of the new book. So, I wrote more popular and entertaining books “The Texa s Rangers” and then “A Russian in the American Army”. Both historical novels based on many facts but rounded out into a novel. This new way is called self-publication by most. My problem with the new way is they do not invest any money in the books they p ublish by requiring the authors, or investors, to put up all the money and much of the work the authors have to do. Then you also pay them for the work they do. In 2015 I r ewrote Not My House and updated it but could not afford to get it published. When Trum p got elected in 2017 Many people thought that the idea of America wanting socialism was gone. By 2019 I was not so sure so I started updating again. When the Corona V arious hit, I had to add this as well. Then, it was the same old problem Old liners were n ot interested and I did not have the thousands to spend my self. When 2022 arrived, I determined to raise the funds to push this book as I really wanted to tell my side contrary to all those shouti ng Life is just going to get better and better until everything is perfect. I believe that only the American people can make America better and not a few super brains. Then I w restled over the fact that 2028 might be to close. And we Americans will accept dis aster in the far future and love our science fiction stories. We just will not accept th e fact it might happen soon, Americans will just not accept the fact it might happen soon. Now after over ten years have passed and 2028 is only six years into the future. I thoug ht I should try to change things to 2038 but there was no way I could change the facts and the story so, I going to publish it anyway. I have been told over and over you canno t sell this book as Americans will never accept a book about 2028. If you changed it a nd made bad things happen in 2078 Americans would like it as they love science f iction. Do not tell Americans that bad things might happen in their near future as the y hate to think that way. It is my hope that some will take at least some of this book as thoughts to think about as I am now in my mid 80’s and am working on the other half of this book about the 2030’, 2040’s, 2050’s. Thanks Karl Thomson

SELF-DEFENSE

Hi, my name is Kenneth Thomas and I want to tell yo u about what happened to me in 2028. It all started on a cold but nice Sunday morn ing, January 23rd, 2028, with a light snow that had fallen during the night. My alarm wen t off at 6:30 A M like it always does, but it was Sunday so I hit the snooze button for a few more minutes of rest before pulling myself from under the warm covers. Made my way to my apartment bathroom for a shower and a beard trim. Even though I do thi s every day, today is Sunday and I am looking forward to going to church for another refreshing time for a few hours. Since the quarterly company board meeting is on the eighth of this month things have been very busy. This is a new year and getting everything planed and organized for a large corporation is a lot of work. It is har d to believe that it was only seven years ago that Bill Williams, the C.E.O. of Oklahoma Gas and Oil had called me and asked if I would come to his ranch in Oklahoma to appraise his gun collection. That was before the revised assault weapons ban was installed in 20 25 and Bill had an extensive gun collection. As it turned out it was a so large a co llection that it took several days to finish the job. Spending those days together talkin g guns all day and about sports, business and whatever in the evenings we got to kno w each other quite well. Bill had asked me why I had sold my company in Houston and w as now just traveling around appraising gun collection and other things. We talk ed a lot about company security and other things I had done to control thefts, both fro m inside and outside my company. As I was finishing up his appraisal Bill asked me if I w ould be interested in working for O.G.O. Security. We talked about it and I moved to Oklahoma. At that time, I had no idea that probably the thing that really made him interested in me during our many conversations. These had covered my store ownership experiences in controlling shoplifting, petty crime and my run in with organized crime. These things might make a good security man, specia lly he big loss I had had to organized crime. Even back then Bill had told me th at the reason I had lost so much was because organized crime knew all about me and t he very rare gun collection, I had in my Katy store. He said you trusted the internet and computers and they knew every gun you had in your three stores and your ware hous e and even they knew the serial number of every gun. The look on my face told him I could not believe that. So, he briefly continued, there is no such thing as electr onic security as organized crime owns it all. He dropped that topic and continued that he appreci ated how I had studied and fought back against organized crime in my own ways. The second thing was our discussions on what had happened to the nited Stat es during the year of 2020. Many people thought that the virus that had hurt the Ame rican people so much in health and the economy was the main problem of that year. When in fact it was when the counter political revolution, not of party against party as much as the superrich having so much and the people wanted their share. Then many wanted instant solutions to race, poverty and miss treatment that have gone on from t he foundation of the world and they thought that a form of socialism would do this . This all came to the forefront as riots that as mixed in with simple protesters and t his had partly destroyed the old America way of life. Then the other side got involv ed doing the very same thing. Like all evil it never presents itself as evil. Back then it was called protesting, and it was to start, but the movement was hijacked by rioters and anti-law and anti-government Marxist. Then the other side fought back demanding their way and it all made a big mess. Martin Luther King and others had protested a nd they never threw a rock at a police officer. Must less shot up police stations o r tried to burn up cities. Bill was

already looking for someone to help him and his com pany fight organized crime. I just did not realize it at the time, or fully understand it until after his death. After church today I am going to drive to Bill’s ho use as he has asked me to, saying he wanted to talk about some things. Getting out of the shower and drying off, I wondered what he wanted to talk about, would it be about business. I had told him when we first talked about working for him seven ye ars ago. I had told Bill then that I normally went to church on Sunday but I would work when I was really needed. However, when I did work on Sundays I would not acc ept pay on that day as Sundays were important to me. Bill had looked at me like I was an alien from another galaxy for a long moment then said “OK, if that is the way you want it.” Learning later that from that time on Bill called me Mr. ntouchable to his other friends, though he never said it to my face. Bill seldom asked me to work on Sundays but sometimes when security problems came up it was necessary. Four years ago, the director of security quit and B ill made me director. This put us together even more and we became even better friend s. Crime was steadily increasing so work was steadily increasing, so more and more w eek ends required work. After church today I am driving to Bills house as he said he wanted to talk to me about some things, but did not go into details. Getting out of the shower and drying off I wondered what Bill wanted, well knowing Bill it could be any thing. There had been a lot of problems with theft and vandalism at work. There co uld also be other company business problems as bad as ours was, but I doubted it. Bill’s company came first with him, he was a workaholic just like his dad had been . Bills dad, Harry Williams had doubts about young William ever becoming the son th at would grow up to be his business partner. Someone who could take over the b usiness, like Harry wanted. Growing up William showed no interest in the family business or its history in the oil and real estate business. Harry was a pilot, while flying made Bill air sick and Harry was all business while Bill was all play. Of course we must remember Bill was still young and refused to grow up. As a child Bill liked playing with toy cars, trucks, boats and all kinds of sports. Bill really liked boats, r eally boats in Oklahoma. There was hardly enough water in Oklahoma to drink. As a teenager Bill’s toy cars turned into real cars , very fast cars, and football, basketball, and other sports. Then of course there were girls, lot and lots of girls and this took up all his time. He was an average studen t with a few A’s lots of B’s and a little to many C’s. Harry worried about William’s college, however it was an unwarranted worry as William was smart, very smart. It was just that being young, good looking, and rich did not leave enough time for books. There was far too much fun to be had while being in a great school like Harvard. When Bill was a junior at Harvard, he had a bad hig h-speed wreck in his Corvette sports car and nearly died. Seven months and severa l operations later Bill came home in a wheel chair and had been told he would never w alk again. After many months of therapy Bill proved them wrong, but even until his last days he walked with a limp. Basically, he seemed to be good now for a man in hi s seventies, except for being overweight. As though I have any right to talk, bei ng in my sixty’s and also being overweight. Neither of us are that much over weight just a few pounds but in the wrong place, around the belt line. Bill really changed th rough all his recovery. He did not get bitter or withdrawn as so many do. He accepted it a nd turned to what he could do with a battered body, he put his mind to work. His grandfa ther had been one of Oklahoma’s first oilmen and made millions when most working me n only made a few dollars a week. Bill’s grandfather had used his money to buy farms, ranches, property, banks, other companies and of course oil fields. Then Bill becam e interested not only in the family business, but also the family history with the same enthusiasm that had made him into a great football player. Bill even took interest in all his granddads stacks of old photographs and piles and piles of artifacts that g randdad had stacked in two barns at the family ranch. Harry, Bills dad, was an even a b igger collector than his dad had

been, but in a different way. Being a pilot in WWII he started collecting while s tationed in England, mostly old guns and anything English. After the war ended Harr y was kept in Europe for several months before being discharged. There were collecti bles everywhere in England and Europe back then and the people were hurting for mo ney. Collectibles were cheap and interesting so he was buying so much that his bigge st problem was getting it all shipped back home. In the fifties and sixties Harry made several trips back to Europe specially to buy collectibles. Before the 1968-gun control act, guns were cheap to buy and easy to bring back into the SA. Harry bought a lot of guns along with other things. He had a big building behind his big house that was a reproduction of the main officers building at his air base in England and along with this he had built a copy of the hanger where his P-51 Mustang was housed in England and ye s, he had bought a P-51 and had it painted just like the one he had flown in Eu rope during the war. In that hanger he also had a P-40 War Hawk like he had flown in the f irst part of the war. Plus, a British Spitfire that he had admired so much while in Engla nd. There were several other airplanes as well and as an ex-air force pilot myse lf, I was always very interested in these very old airplanes. As I got out of the shower, I shaved my neck and tr immed my beard and then I realized that it was getting late and I moved faste r to finish getting ready. I still slept with my Colt Cobra .38 revolver on my night stand b eside my bed. Technically this was also illegal after the new socialist government cha nged the law again in 2027, just last year. This had started off with their again winning the democrat/socialist election of 2024 and most people thought the new president was going to change everything when they took over. If people could only realize that a president does not run the government, he is the figurehead that ever one sees . Our government is supposed to be in three equal parts. If two parts lean to the s ame goals, they control the government and can override the other part. We have an elected president not a King, non-the-less in our generation it does look like it. People see our president making executive decisions and signing them in public and we think t hey are all his ideas. Wrong, study history and talk to past presidents and most all of them carefully considered each decision with a multitude of counselors before anno uncing and signing executive orders. Who did and did not we will never know. Som e of our strongminded presidents probably did more than others. If congress does not like an executive decision they can override it, so really who has the power? When Trum p was elected for 2016 ½ of this country had a fit because they knew he was not a po litician of the old school and wanted to change things. For four years he was call ed “a bull in the China shop” because he broke up a lot of special interest thing s. Look at history again, political parties want figureheads that mind the party so the ir agenda can be fulfilled. When Biden was elected for 2020 things slowly slipped ba ck into to the old business as usual of special interest. The 2024 election changed many in congress and some thought that now things will be better. The American people had voted in far too many into congress that believed their ideas were better than what they knew the American people wanted. Such as control of Congressional spe nding, gun control, their idea of civil rights, of national wealth, and others. The 2026 midterm elections strengthened them. Withi n weeks they passed the nationalization of the health care system. They tol d the people this would mean free medical care to every person on nited States soil. In reality it meant that every person working in the health care system was instantly a f ederal employee and the federal government could set their wages, locations of empl oyment, hours to work etc. Doctors and registered nurses started leaving the country l ike their shirt tails were on fire until the government made it illegal for medical staff to flee the country “for the good of the people”. This did not happen instantly just slowly. If they had received any federal funds or help in their education, then, “For the go od of the people” it was illegal for them to leave the medical profession, unless they bought their way out. Socialism writes its

own laws under the headline “This is for the good o f the country” could Americans have ever believed the government could take away the ri ght of an American to leave the country or change their jobs. In simple fact someon e could leave the county, but must surrender everything they owned except what could b e carried in a single suit case and no more than $10,000 in cash and other valuables. ( Sane rules as NAZI Germany had in the late 1930’s) Only now no one could leave a j ob that had any connection to the government without government approval and then the government would assign you a new job at the pay they decided to give. Some of th ese jobs were at large government “freedom work camps” so the “workers” could be taug ht their duty to produce for “the good of the people.” Private ownership of stock in all pharmaceutical and medical companies or supplies was outlawed and the new gove rnment took totally control over them. Working or “common” people that owned stock i n these companies simply lost it all. The billionaires, that were the real owners, w ere compensated for their loss and kept on in many cases to run these companies at sup per high wages. The billions of dollars made by these companies never reached the p ublic it went into the national treasury. In spite of this taxes on the working cla ss were advanced every year, while social programs were decreased slowly. The second big act was to raise minimum wage to $22 .50 per hour and much of America cheered until within two months the price o f a gallon of milk went to $9.80 and gasoline to $11. Interest rates also went to 18% th at year. The big number three change which they passed was the reinstatement of t he Clinton gun ban but with much tighter restrictions. This law was amended seven ti mes in six months. Then every time a gun was used in a crime it was because the public still had guns. Every time a gun was used in a crime the News said the crime would n ot have happened if the gun had not existed. Signs that said “No Guns – No Crime” w ere more common than stop signs. Then they declared hand guns were not specifically mentioned in the second amendment so all handguns had to be turned in to be destroyed or used by law enforcement. Even police officers were not allowed to own handguns themselves. They now carried police issued revolvers as only the fed eral government could own any auto loading firearm or pump action gun of any type that had a removable magazine or tube holding ammunition. This was also when the federal government declared that every police agency that had over twelve officers had to have a federal political officer to oversee their department, “for the good of the peop le.” Many of these were nice people, some where you know what. Another big change came slower, but had drastic eff ect on the whole nation. The new socialist government said our country had not g iven the people the freedom they should have. The war on drugs was basically disband ed, not by legalizing drugs, but cutting into law enforcements ability to enforce drug laws. This also included the court’s ability to enforce or prosecute any drug cases. Gan gs have existed for as long as mankind, but in the last half of the twentieth cent ury. New laws and law enforcement established anti-gang units that really cracked dow n on organized crime conducted by these gangs. Motorcycle outlaw gangs for one had ri sen to large scale operations and openly flaunted the law with drug running and assor ted criminal mischief. Heavy crack down by law enforcement in the nineties practically drove these gangs out of existence. The new socialist government said that was discrimi nation and profiling and would now no longer be tolerated. If teenagers wanted to wear gang colors or signs they could not be looked upon as an organized group and only be lo oked at as individuals with the right to dress as they pleased. To stop and search one of these individuals was totally not allowed as that was profiling. A man in a busin ess suit could be stopped if there was just cause. But a cop had better have proof bef ore stopping a gang member or it was the cop that got into trouble as he had profile d. The age of consensual sex had been dropped to thirt een nationwide. The amount of legal drugs on an individual was increased ten time s before it was called a felony. The crazy thing was big time drug dealing was still ill egal. But the right of the individual to