By: Les Dunaway

A Scary Story

A scary story is being written. It’s about a country, with a long and proud history of being an example of all that’s good in man. This country was infiltrated, many years ago, by people who preach victimhood, envy and entitlement. In the story they are called BooHoo’s, from their practice of couching each attack on freedom as needed because someone had been harmed. Unhappily, but not unexpectedly, their do-gooder efforts have focused on symptoms rather than problems and have created more problems than they have solved.

These people have been sly, mostly working like rats in the walls, quietly chewing away at the structure. It’s been a slow process, because the BooHoo’s have never been more than a small percentage of the population. The large majority of the population is too smart, despite the BooHoo’s efforts to destroy the educational system, to buy into the rubbish of victimhood, envy and entitlement.
A few years ago, the BooHoo’s decided it was time to take over the country. They had succeeded in reducing nearly half of the population to government dependency and they felt that give them the leverage to enslave the rest. The BooHoo’s followers, capitalizing on an economic crisis created by a combination of government misfeasance and malfeasence, were able to elect with the help of the fools present in any population plus the apathy of those who knew better, a well programed, extremely intelligent and personable but totaly clueless pawn to “rule” the country. This person was nurtured and trained in an environment where everything was for sale. No matter what you wanted, all that was necessary to pay the required bribe or use intimidation and violence.
When the pawn was elected, he began rewarding the masters and the dupes through a program, disguised as efforts to repair the damaged economy, which doubled the country’s debt and placed it on a downward spiral toward the hell currently endured by many other countries in the world.
Another election is coming soon and the pawn’s prospects don’t look good. The fools, many of them anyway, have figured out that they don’t want to go where the pawn is taking them. The apathetic, enough of them, have gotten off the couch and are getting involved in the process. Even many of the BooHoo’s have realized that they got on the wrong train, because this one is going to a bad place. This realization has come about, interestingly enough, from seeing millions of their fellow BooHoo’s badly harmed by the pawns programs.
However, the pawn drawing on youthful experience, has created or allied with at least four groups, perhaps more, in order to prevent being thrown out of office. Some of these groups have been long-time allies of the BooHoo’s, others are newly created by the pawn and the pawn’s co-conspirators. These groups vary but have common movitations – hate and envy. They also share the pawns belief in the efficacy of intimidation and violence.
The pawns plan was inspired by heros in other countries who, when faced with loss of power, solved the problem by “postponing” elections.

The pawn’s gameplan is to use the groups to start riots across the country – riots which burn down cities and are beyond the capabilities of local law enforcement to handle. This will allow the pawn to declare martial law and “put the elections on hold until order is restored”.

The story has several periods of suspense. When will the riots start? Will local heros stop the riots in their area? How will the country react to the declaration of martial law? Will heros arise to save the country?

Of course, this is just a story – isn’t it? I hope it’s just a story, but it sound possible-enough to be really frightening. How possible is it? I see several parts to that question: Do the groups exist? Would the pawn see the chances of success good enough to start the plan in motion? Would the groups follow orders to start the riots and the fires?

If the answers to those question are “Yes”, then the possibility is very, scarily high.