Tom's Story

[papaof2]

If the page was "Message for Mr. Clifford Hanger. Mr. Hanger to a white house phone.", we'd have possibly a half dozen people running to the phones ;-)

[ydderf]

Cliff-get thee behind me!

[iamnobody]

Tom and his family got a visit from the members of the new town council from the town 20 miles away from him..He could hardly believe that they were still wearing face masks to show their solidarity with the dead presidents agenda. The members started talking and Tom could understand them but he wasn't tolerating their disrespect. He held up a hand to stop their talk and told them to remove their face diapers so that he could see who they were and understand what they were saying.They balked but Tom told them that any person coming near him with a face mask  he would consider them to be a robber and respond accordingly.  His 3 wives came up behind him and spread out with their rifles in the low ready position and the children displayed rifles from the cabin windows.

The town council members quickly removed their face diapers and started speaking. They identified themselves as the newly appointed council members from town. Said that they voted and now Tom's place was in the town limits and that Tom would have to give his supplies so that it could be equally shared with the needy. Tom just looked at them in disbelief and then started laughing. He said we just went through these years in fighting against such garbage and here you are trying to start it again.

Tom told all 5 members to raise their hands and not to move. While his wives covered the members, Tom searched them for weapons, then tied each one to a different tree. Once done he called for Adam to bring him the “snake” The “snake” was a 10 foot long black snake whip. They had been bound facing the tree and he used his knife to cut the shirts open to expose their backs. Tom told them that each one would get 15 lashes and then they would be turned loose. That then they would leave the area and never come back, upon the penalty of death, they would be shot on sight.

From years of rough life, working daily to survive, Tom had muscles and endurance. When he was done, their backs were filled with the welts and blood from the whip. When done, Tom released them from the ropes and again warned them to leave and never come back. He watched them staggering away, supporting each other in their pain.

[iamnobody]

A few weeks later a man drops off an envelope for Tom and leaves. Opening it, is property tax notice. Before the war, his property tax was $400 per year. The new bill was for $5,000 payable in 30 days. Tom was livid. Him and 2 of his wives geared up and headed to town, leaving Lindsey behind with the children. Getting to the court house and going to the tax assessor's office, Tom demanded to know what was going on.

An older woman about 70 years old came up to the desk counter. Tom showed her the notice and asked why it went up. Her response was that there were so few people living in the area and money was needed for all the social programs and to pay for all the employees needed to administer the programs. That if Tom didn't pay the tax in the 30 days, his place would be confiscated to use for the social programs. He asked who was responsible for this idiotic mess and she said she was in charge and for him to shut up and leave.

Fuming mad, Tom took a rope from his backpack, tied it around a solid room pillar and the other end formed a noose. Grabbing the old woman, he placed the noose around her neck and pulled her to the window which was on the 2nd story of the court house. Opening the window, Tom pushed her up on the sill and out the window. Her screams were cut short as her body reached the end of the rope. He left her dangling there as he and his wives left the building. No one tried to stop them.

[gipsy]

Takin out the trash

[papaof2]

I can provide Tom with a list of Congresscritters - easy to locate: they smell like skunks and most of them have green and yellow stripes down their backs - and 1000 feet of rope...

[iamnobody]

Next month there is a notice about a school board meeting and school tax increase. Tom, Lindsey and Stacy attend this one. Upon entering the room, some pimply faced rent a security man tried telling them there were no weapons allowed, then tried taking Stacy's rifle. Big mistake. Stacy knocked his hand away, then trapped his hand, twisted and threw him onto the ground where he landed with a loud thud. Then a big wet spot puddled under him when he tried to get up, only to encounter Lindsey's riffle muzzle under his nose. Tom bent down and growled in the the guy's face and was rewarded with the smell of manure as the guy soiled his pants. No one else tried contesting weapons in the room.

The meeting started and the school board of 3 people started talking about the need of raising school taxes from $100 a person per year to $2,000. They went on saying the increase was needed for putting in new sports fields swimming pools, safe spaces and many coaches to be in charge. The school board then tried to hurriedly adjourn the meeting but Tom strode forward and started talking.

He said that he just listened to 30 minutes of gibberish from them. He said that they never once mentioned actual education classes. Tom told them that school should be for getting an education needed for life, not how to play with a ball and not have any knowledge of real education. Tom went on to say that he was not paying any school taxes because him and his wives had no children using the school. That parents should join together and hire a teacher for their children if they wanted. As for parents that wanted their children to play sports, fine let those parents pay for the costs associated with that and to charge admission to the games to help cover the cost. But to try to make everyone pay tax to cover the sports that only a few played in was wrong.

The 3 school board members started yelling at Tom while the audience was cheering Tom. The school board tried saying it was for the common good for everyone to pay for the wants of a few. Tom recognized the one school board member as being a history teacher so his next question was directed at him. From history, isn't that saying “for the common good” straight out of every Communist country? BUT, BUT, BUT!

Tom looked at his wives and rolled his eyes. The 3 of them walked right up to the members, unslung their SKS rifles and put a bullet between their eyes. Tom turned and said “meeting is over” as the crowd cheered.

[iamnobody]

Tom looked out the window one day when the alarm went off. Sees a town cop trying to open the gate across his lane. He and 2 of his wives go out to see a town cop and the county District Attorney now inside his property. Tom says that they are on his property trespassing and also breaking and entering because the cop had cut the padlock on the gate. The cop said he was there with an arrest warrant for Tom, Lindsey, Ashley and Stacy for murder of peaceful Chinese troops trying to restore the peace and for kidnapping the children Adam and Deb.

Tom is absolutely flabbergasted. The DA has a big smirk on his face as the cop says for Tom and his wives not to try anything as there are also 4 more cops in the woods, 2 on each side of them. About that time Adam and Deb come running out of the house and each head towards a different side of the yard screaming “Help us! Save us!” All 4 of the cops come out of the woods to grab the children when Adam and Deb slam to a halt just feet from them, pull up their rifles and shoot the 4 cops. The DA's smirk on his face disappears and both his and the cop's face turn white as they realize they are alone and looking down the muzzles of Tom and his wives rifles. Tom says that scum like them are not worthy of bullets and uses his rifle bayonet on both of them. They load all 6 bodies up and drive them into town and dump them.

[iamnobody]

Everything was quiet for 2 months, then 2 women appeared at the gate and hollered at the house. They wanted to speak with Lindsey, Stacy and Ashley. Tom hung back to watch around them. The one woman said she was a member of the WWOA and the other woman was a lawyer. WWOA- the 3 wives looked at each other with questioning eyes. The 1st woman said it was Woke Women of America.

The woman looked at the 3 of them and told them she and her friend were there to help them out of their repression by Tom. The woman looked at Ashley and Stacy and told them that Tom was being a racist against them. She looked at Lindsey and said he was a sexist against her. That her friend the lawyer would represent them against Tom and get them lots of money from Tom for his oppression against them. The lawyer spoke up and said that she would only take 10% of what Tom had and the 3 wives would each get 30% and never have to put up with him again. Ashley, Lindsey and Stacy looked at each other and said wow! We would get 30% of what he has. The lawyer said that was correct, she would teach Tom for being a racist and sexist.

The 3 wives said to the WWOA and the lawyer that they were idiots. That Tom loved them and they loved him. That they were already getting 100% of everything now. Why would they want to betray him. The 3 wives grabbed the 2 and bound their hands behind them. Made them walk all the way back to town while Tom and his wives rode in the truck and the wives kept encouraging the 2 with a whip.
Once in town, Tom gave both women 10 lashes more and told them to leave and never come back upon the penalty of death.

Once the WWOA and lawyer left, Tom got on the loudspeaker in the truck and told the townspeople they were done handling all these scum problems. That the townspeople would have to clean the trash up. Tom told them that if he and his wives had any more scum from this town, he would call in a favor from a military guy and have the town leveled with bombs. Tom and his wives went back home.

[iamnobody]

2 months later Tom has a group of men and women at his gate. He and his family go into defensive mode, everyone has their SKS rifle and ammo pouches. The group hails the cabin Tom walks out on the porch with his rifle and all the people in the group raise their hands and say they are unarmed and want to talk. He slowly walks towards them as his wives and children spread out to watch the sides and back.

With about 20 feet between them, Tom stops and asks what they want. They say that they did what he said and cleaned the garbage out of the town and they now only have about a ¼ of the population after that. Some had been killed in the battle to get them out but they were now gone. Tom said that was good to hear but what did they want of him. The group said there was no money in the town and little supplies, they wanted to see about a business proposition with him. He said he was listening, to start talking.

1st they wanted to see if they could WORK for Tom for food. Then they also remembered Tom had many skills and would he be interested in teaching them so they could start local businesses. Tom said he was open to them WORKING for food and that no 1 person or family could make and do everything for themselves so he was open to them learning trades. He told them he had educational materials in different trades and he was willing to sell that knowledge at a set price plus 10% of their earnings over the following 3 years. For them to go back and decide who wanted to learn what while he talked with his family about what trades they wanted to keep for themselves. Anyone that wanted to WORK for a meal, to show up in 3 days and he would have work for them. He stressed that it was NOT FREE but in exchange for work. The group agreed and left.

[iamnobody]

Tom was still monitoring the shortwave radio in the evenings. 8 months after the Chinese had been kicked out and the US was still in a mess. Cuba and Mexico had been driven out. The west coast was still under Russian control. In fact California was an eager participant in being part of Russia. The major east coast cities were completely under Muslim control and sharia law. Women in those cities had tried getting out but few succeeded. All those women were now required to wear long black dresses and a veil over their face and hair. In those cities the call for prayer could be heard 3 times a day and everything came to a halt as people knelt on their prayer rugs and faced Mecca.

Locally things were starting to go good. People had took Tom up on his offer of skill trades and were making the needed supplies and repairs locally. Tom and his family were prominent members of the area. There had been a few stray “woke and entitled” people come into the area and they were quickly told to leave. Most did but the ones that wouldn't leave, they remained permanently – under a few feet of dirt. People were growing their own food. With the west coast under Russian control, no longer was food being trucked across country to reach store shelves.

[iamnobody]

Tom was doing basic medical because the nearest doctor with a clinic was 100 miles away. No longer running to the hospital every time you sneezed or had a bad case of gas. Adam was learning wood working / carpentry. Lindsey, Stacy and Ashley went into businesses cooking, baking and dehydrating food. Deb was into sewing. So the whole family was into needed services and products. The local school was following the outline that Tom provided and the students were excelling in their studies. Other areas of the country were sending people to look and see how to set up similar things in their area. A few of the entitled areas tried showing up and demanding changes so that everyone was equal and got their own fair share without working. Those people were quickly sent on their way with a boot in their back side.

[ydderf]

Thank you

[iamnobody]

As far as the west coast and Russia, 6 months later and they still have control. The new president tried using the existing “woke” military and it was a total disaster. When they got orders to deploy, most of them ran off to the nearest “safe space” and curled up in a fetal position crying about the unfairness. So far the people near there were holding the Russians at the Rocky Mountains. Russia in a bid to keep the west coast started importing Russian civilian families to settle the land. In just 3 months there were 500,000 Russian people in the area and more coming in weekly. From Alaska to southern California, it was now a part of Russia.

Now Tom couldn't see how there would have been much change because most of that area was already socialism. The bad part is that before, a lot of food was grown there and shipped to the rest of the country. Now the food was being shipped back to Russia. And the Alaskan pipeline was pumping oil for Russia. 

[papaof2]

I'd think the food would have to be processed (canned, frozen) before ship transport. A reefer semi can cross the US in 2-3 days (San Fran to NYC is 43 hours of road time) but ships are much slower so California to Russia would take too long for refrigerated transport - best ship time Europe to US is about 10 days and it takes longer to cross the Pacific.

[iamnobody]

Nov 8, 2021 14:46:07 GMT -6 papaof2 said:

I'd think the food would have to be processed (canned, frozen) before ship transport. A reefer semi can cross the US in 2-3 days (San Fran to NYC is 43 hours of road time) but ships are much slower so California to Russia would take too long for refrigerated transport - best ship time Europe to US is about 10 days and it takes longer to cross the Pacific.

There are several canneries in California so that would be doable.

Potatoes, carrots, fruits could easily be shipped “fresh” by boat to Russia.

At the food warehouse I work at, we always get “fresh” grapes, apples, pears, etc from South America and that produce is fine when it arrives.

[ydderf]

Thank you

[iamnobody]

Most of the country had basically told the Federal and State governments to go “pound sand” when they tried levying excessive taxes on the people to raise funds to get back to the old way with all the social programs. The remaining people were independent minded ones that had survived on their own. The only real government was the local county governments where the people could keep a watch on them and get their hands on them to remove them from office if they showed even the slightest sign of socialism. No more was their taxes being used to support lowlifes spending it on alcohol and drugs or women having a bunch of children to many men and expecting the tax payer to pay the cost of raising them.

There were a lot of rough times for a lot of people till they realized that other people weren't going to give them money to sit around. As the bible says – you don't work, you don't eat. Now there were some genuine cases of people needing help, but the local people could see that the need was real and helped out as needed. A person that couldn't do physical work due to age or handicaps, there were still tasks they could do like helping watch young children, teach, etc. There is always work for a person to do that wants to work. No more sitting around collecting money from the government and demanding steak for supper and new BMWs for them to drive. It also saved a pile of money due to the fact that money collected for the “needy” - 90% of the money was spent on “administration” fees to oversee the money handouts. What a rip off.

[iamnobody]

As the years went by, the surrounding area developed into a thriving community of tradesmen. Everyone grew food, including the townspeople. Sure they had small gardens but traded with farmers from the rural area. There were bakers, cooks, boot makers, carpenters, herbalists, black smith, etc. There were town “politicians” but no longer were they paid full time and secretaries. They were paid for the 1-2 hours a week they actually did that job. The rest of the time they did regular work. No longer were there 1,000s of regulations and statues saying how high your grass could be or how high your fence or no vegetables in your front yard. A lot of the other areas of the country were now following this way of life.

Russia was firmly entrenched on the west coast. As long as they stayed west of the Rockies, they weren't attacked. What used to be the US was now basically several smaller countries. Adam and Deb were in their 20's and were married to each other and were doing well in their life. Tom and his wives were still deeply in love. Tom's fortune was increasing yearly. Looking back, Tom knew his life had been blessed. Sure there was the low point of Rita and what she had done, but if that hadn't happened he would never of had Lindsay, Stacy and Ashley as his wives, nor had Adam and Deb. Things continued to become the new normal. Tom ingrained in Adam and Deb not to become complacent, that there would be more bad times in the future and to always have stockpiles to be ready.

THE END.

[sniper69]

iamnobody -thanks for another excellent story.

[ydderf]

I thank you for sharing your story I enjoyed it immensely.

[cavsgt]

Thank You so much for the fantastic story.

[gipsy]

Thanks for a fine read

[9idrr]

Go ahead, take a break.


Okay, that's long enough. Bring on the next story!

[texican]

Nov 12, 2021 18:43:59 GMT -6 9idrr said:

Go ahead, take a break.


Okay, that's long enough. Bring on the next story!

I,

Good story.

Now what will happen to the Russians on the west coast?

Texican....