VL-IV (150 There Was A Weirdness Here, pages 340/343

[rich]

On 4/13/09, Robin Landseadel <robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:
> 	There was a weirdness here that Hector recognized, like right
> 	before a big drug bust, yes, but even more like the weeks
> 	running up to the Bay of Pigs in '61. Was Reagan about to
> 	invade Nicaragua at last, getting the Home front all nailed
> 	down, ready to process folks by the tens of thousands into
> 	detention, arm local "Defense Forces," fire everybody in the
> 	Army and then deputize them in order to get around the Posse
> 	Comitatus Act? Copies of these contingency plans had been
> 	circulating all summer, it wasn't much of a secret. Hector knew
> 	the classic chill, the extra receptors up and humming, gathering
> 	in the signs, channels suddenly shutting down, traffic scrambled
> 	and jammed, phone trouble, faces in lobbies warning you that
> 	you don't know them. Could it be that some silly-ass national-
> 	emergency exercise was finally coming true? As if the Tube
> 	were suddenly to stop showing pictures and instead announce,
> 	"From now on, I'm watching you."
>______________

considering this is in part, emerging from the wacked mind of Hector,
this take on paranoia seems pretty satirical  to my ears.

tho daniel ortega is back on the scene in Managua and is even more
corrupt than he was before

rich