"Tom Kratman - A State of Disobedience" - читать интересную книгу автора (Kratman Tom)

Briefly, things seemed to be on the road to improvement. National political and philosophical differences
seemed cast aside one terrible morning in 2001 amidst the shrieks of thousands of bombed, battered,
burning victims of a vicious terrorist attack that threw all awry.

With the screams of the dying in their ears, the vision of the flames seared onto their eyes, no one, not
Republican, not Democrat, not the man or woman on the streets resisted for a moment the most severe
curtailing of civil liberties in the history of the Republic. Thus when, seven years later, the United States
emerged victorious from what was known in some circles as "The Arab War," in some as "The Moslem
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War," in most as "The War against Terror," not only were all the previous differences found to be still
largely intact, the mechanisms of control had been much improved and enhanced.

Worse, as it had been in 1860, the balance was near perfect . . . and perfectly precarious. The slightest
shift left or right could tumble the entire shaky edifice into ruin, even into civil war.

Fortunately, at that time the right person, the right woman, appeared at hand.




Chapter One
From the transcript at trial: Commonwealth of
Virginia v. Alvin Scheer
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DIRECT EXAMINATION

BY MR. STENNINGS:

Q. Sir, Please state your name for the Judge.

A. Scheer, Your Honor, sir. Alvin G. Scheer.

Q. And where do you live, Mr. Scheer?

A. Well, the past several months, at least, I've been living if you could call it that, at the Fairfax County
Jail. Before that? I lived in Texas, little town called White Deer, not too far from Amarillo.

Q. Mr. Scheer, please tell the judge your story.

A. Yes, sir. Your honor, I understand from Mr. Stennings I need to tell y'all everything. I don't mind. But
where to begin?

If it 'tweren't the worst of times; surely 'twern't the best, neither.