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Life and Its Little Oddities
By: TheSearch4

Chapter 18

The human is driven by all kinds of things. In the current world it is the
more basic items like food, clothing, shelter and time without fear. Before
life was running so fast nothing was real. Communications that existed
allowed many to present lies as truth. That happened often and was
laughingly called spinning. The media did not report facts as that might
lose them a viewer. That world was nothing but rumors and lies.

The two young people sitting in front of John's desk were watching and not
speaking. David and Carlton were filling John in on the transmitter and
radio station set up they had the techs build.

"The station sounds nice guys, but will there be enough radios out there to
make it worth doing?"

"Each military base has power going to it so they have radios. Some cities
they are in or close by have power or at least parts of them do. There are
homes and businesses that had solar power before the crash and they can have
radios. Each person we reach will share what they hear." David was really
into this.

John sat back and thought about this. "How far can we reach out?"

"It is fifty thousand watts and from what I was told some could pick it up
in Asia, but most of the old US could hear it. We will broadcast only
starting at dusk until midnight here. There are digital files of music for
everyone to enjoy. But news will be done each hour on the hour. This will go
out AM and FM that way we can get almost any radio."

Some how this worried John. "I see us putting a radio beacon here for planes
to follow in on."

"I hope they do it will make for beautiful fireworks. We have the tower well
away from us here. To make things look real it has auto firing guns and
missiles. They are slaved to the radar we have and we can fight them from
here."

"If they get the tower what happens?"

"Other than the mountain blowing up completely nothing. It will be the
largest pile of rock man ever made."

You could feel the good humor in the two men. No fears or concerns where
showing at all.

"I am getting the feeling you have something going on I don't know?"

"You know the GPS system requires adjustment all the time. So our techs have
changed it just enough to show that mountain as our base location. It is
just a mile away by air. Anyone traveling on the ground or in the air would
get there and find nothing they were looking for. We have all satellites not
needed now by us turned off to save them for later."

"It seems you two have been busy and done a lot for our protection."

"We did what needed to be done to protect us all as best possible. Now what
about these two doing the news on the hours at night?"

John looked at the two youngsters and like what he saw. Both were calm, just
observing and not stepping into the discussion. "First of all what are your
names?"

"I am Jenny and this is Nathan. We were part of one of the many slave groups
brought here and given a home. So there is nothing out there we have not
seen for ourselves."

Now Nathan took over. "We want to make sure young people know we know how
bad it is. There are many stories we can tell that will fit how they have
and are living. The fear, anger and hate a human feels out there needs to be
seen and known. We have been there and done that John. As a group the youth
counsel said it was a good way to reach out to some others who need our
help."

John liked the way the kids took this serious and wanted to help. "What do
we call the station?"

"Radio Shangri-La is what we voted for. You left the clues for people under
that name and have called here by it. So it seems to fit our idea of where
we are." Jenny was serious and clear now.

"Please don't take this the wrong way. But why you two?"

Kelly had come from her cube. "It was my experiment daddy. I know people on
radio, TV or book done on audio sound different from their normal voices. So
we tested everyone to find the two most pleasing voices. They had to be able
to read like they were talking with you also."

"Seems like a lot of thought was put into this?"

"Yes we did and you need to understand kids are not going to trust any adult
now out there or here. So we must build some small trust factor to bring
them to us. We will have the plane dropping radio signal numbers, with
pictures of Jenny and Nathan over cities and that should start some finding
batteries and radios. There really was not any use for them before now. If
they find a car that they can add gas to and start the radio will play.
Children are smart dad and they will find ways to listen to us."

John could see both David and Carlton agreed with Kelly. "In that case Kelly
it is your project. If she asks for it be sure she gets it guys. Now if it
is more than we can deliver come and talk with me and we will find a way to
do it."

Kelly ran to John and hugged him. "Thank you daddy this is one of our youth
counsel projects and it is a good one. One girl asked if we could do this
and I went to David to find out. The troops have really gotten into this and
made it happen. On the air Jenny and Nathan have great voices and will be
enjoyed by many kids out there. But I bet we will have a far larger audience
than you expect."

That hit him as her knowing something he did not? "OK why do you think
that?"

"Kids once they know the station exists and that someone will be
broadcasting will find a way to listen. We are a lot smarter than adults
give us credit for. If that is not true why is it the kids are surviving and
adults are not? I have talked with a lot of our young people and they say
adults just tend to give up. Kids fight to win and they keep fighting until
they die or reach their goal. That is what Special Forces people do. So they
are kids that never grew up."

As strange as it sounded that answered his question of what made Special
Forces people so different? "I don't see David and Carlton arguing with you
so they must believe that also?"

"It is the best answer either of us have had John." Carlton was grinning
now.

"Well set her up an office at the radio station to run it from. It is her
project and she will handle coordination of news and information sent out.
Just remember Kelly to think things through, as we are all at risk from
mistakes."

The group left his office and he now was thinking a lot of this through. He
knew it had to be done and planned by young people and not adults. Kelly was
right mostly adults had died over the period after the crash. Kids and young
people survived this mess at an amazing rate. That indicated a softness in
older humans he would have never expected to find.

David brought him copies of the flyers that would be dropped over cities.
The pictures of Jenny and Nathan showed how young they were. Short bios of
their time out there were also covered. A suggestion of how to use a bike
and car alternator to charge a car battery was included, with pulley
configuration to get the speed high enough.

This shocked John that the kids had considered it this far. "They really did
a job here David."

"We have a list of seventy cities to drop these over. The way they have set
up is fifteen minutes of news and fifteen minutes of music. News will be on
the hour and half hour. Music will be on the quarter hours. The news cast
each day will be recorded and played each time so it will not change. The
counsel will meet each week and decide the topic for each days broadcast.
They will research it and provide personal data for it."

"Where are the cities?"

"Virginia, North Carolina, West Virginia and Tennessee right now. They are
not going to close to the river or far north at all. Most spots are south,
east or west from here."

"I assume we have the fuel without a problem?"

"Yes and we will use the gun ship as some military bases are close to drop
points. Have to stay away from possible missiles off a base."

"Hold off those until last and may be sent a couple choppers with them. They
can use their thermal night abilities to defend the gun ship. That is if you
do those as night flights."

"I'll talk with the flight planners about that and see what they think. I
know they were worried about just the gun ship in those areas. But we have
been talking about using those units without pilots. They have bomb bays and
could be sent up to drop leaflets over those cities. They can't be seen on
radar or heard either."

"How many do we have of them? I did not know we had any."

"When the plane was sent back from Bragg with new weapons for us, they were
on that large cargo plane. The general sent two pilots for them and a mobile
control center. It just looks like a trailer for a semi. They use very
little fuel and can stay up for hours. The units are drones with no pilots.
But they can be armed and would do a lot of damage to say a convoy heading
in here."


"Another Special Forces play toy?"

"I guess boss as I have not see one operate before where I was at. Of course
the news has been reporting them now for years. They were considered unfair
ways of winning for some reason?"

John had to laugh at this, as he well knew the medias liberal leanings. "In
the new government a lie is still a lie David. So we could end up with many
media types with no tongues. That could be very pleasing for most who are
left today."

Now David was laughing and enjoying the thought of this. "It should create a
media that has never been seen before. They must just report honest facts
and not hot air and bullshit."

"That goes for any media and that will be enforced to the letter. Now I have
a meeting to get my tail to. Talk to you later David. Just handle the
dropping of Kelly's leaflets as you see it best to do. That is why you have
four stars on your shoulder."

When he walked into the meeting room he was surprised at how many had come
to this. Jackson was moving around and being talked to by everyone here. He
came to the head table and sat beside John.

People found their seats quickly now. "Ladies and gentlemen I am just the
organizer here for John. What I have done for you was directed by him. Some
of you have been attacked and it was his gun ship and choppers that saved
your butts. The scouts patrolling much of the safe area was his idea to
start and operate. Now we have some decisions to make and you need to think
about a larger picture." Jackson sat down now.

John stood and looked over the people here. "Today is a day I have looked
forward to. Those of us here have no people starving or lacking food or
clothing. We have in many ways become brothers and sisters. If a neighbor
needs a hand they get it from their friends. We have provided help to start
some plants for production of needed items and gotten some power plants
working once more. We are still far from where you were at one time, but
headed a good direction now." The applause was loud and people cheered.

"John waited for things to quiet down. "Now each of you has read the laws
and the plan for building this new country. The government operates like a
corporation and makes its own money to operate. There are no taxes on people
or incomes. Cities cannot tax more than a given amount and it is a sales
tax. The Federation government pays cities and counties to collect electric
bills, communications bills and run stations for rail service where needed.
It allows you more income for services you need to provide. There is no more
mail service and that will not be resumed." He paused to see how this set
with them.

"The Federation government will run the banks, as we have the money people
need to borrow. We will take the risks and use the rewards to grow the
government services we need. No service will be offered that cannot be
financed long term." Here people knew the value of this and applauded.

"There will be no laws made at local levels that abridge the Federation
laws. Doing that will bring military people in, arrest and trial based on
the laws you have agree to." He could see people thinking this through.

"The only paid jobs in government will be judge, police, firemen and workers
needed to run your town or county. There will be no elected paid job as
those are an honor to serve in. Understand my board and myself get paid
nothing for running the Federation." That shocked many here and it showed.

"Don't be shocked as it is my gold that will bankroll this that I get paid
for. I will get one half percent per year on all gold loaned to the
federation. That is my income and I need no more. But if you as managers of
cities and counties cause inflation, it will cause that rate to go up. You
will be in deep trouble paying your bills and failure to do that is a
criminal violation. Government is now responsible to the people and there is
no wiggle room."

One woman raised her hand slowly. "Yes, do you have a question?"

"I don't agree with some of the laws I have read and want to know can we
change them?"

"What laws in particular are bothering you?"

"The age of consent at 12 and marriage at 16. That is just not right."

Pam and Rhonda walked into John and he back away from the microphone. "I am
Pam and this is my sister Rhonda. I was captured at 14 and Rhonda at 9 and
made slaves. We have been raped many times and used by both men and boys.
Now my problem is I just heard one stupid woman saying, I am not old enough
to make decisions. She may have a religious background you say. Well in that
case why did Saul, David and Solomon have brides of as young as 8 years of
age? You know they had to consummate that and show the people she was a
virgin. No blood on the sheet and no marriage. The girl had to be examined
by the court physician as well. For him a lie was a trip to hell." People
were now laughing at the woman. She stood and left the room red faced.

John walked back to the podium and waited for things to calm down. "I am
sorry the lady took that the way she did. But people tend to forget these
laws were mans creation and never a religious one. The liberal who crashed
the old nation did it just like she tried to start here. They chipped away
small things piece by piece until the real law was gone. That will never
happen again!"

People went nuts and he now had them in his hand. "We need a vote here by
you to decide if we start this new Federation or not. I hope there was more
than one from the ladies community."

"Another woman stood and raised her hand. "Yes?"

"There were two of us because of her attitude and she was warned she would
be turned out if she could not behave. So she will not be a part of this new
country."

John knew some would have to make hard decisions on people who just did not
fit into the country. How this happened and was handled he really did not
want to know. "You each have ballots to fill out and place in the locked
boxes. We will have ten of these meetings before everyone has had their
chance to vote on this. Most of our laws can be changed by a Federation vote
of two thirds of the people agreeing to the change. So it is the peoples
country and not any politicians." The applause was loud as the girls and
John left.

He led the girls to the diner and they took a seat. "Thank you both for
coming as I knew that was going to happen. There will always be some who
wish to dictate others rights. Both of you know this was discussed between
many groups, before final decisions were made. To be honest my grandmother
got pregnant with my father at 12. She always said she and dad grew up
together."

Both girls now looked at John very differently. "Is that why you agreed to
that?"

"I am sure it was part of the reason. But I did listen to what was said by
the young people. Most of our citizens are going to be young and they must
be treated as adults. So I had to do things for people to understand where
that age was." He drank his coffee and the girls ate ice cream.

"Kelly said you did not think like most adults and she was right. Your much
more like Jackson than any adult I have seen."

"There is little Jackson and I don't agree on. But refusing to let him go
back out and lead a team was one item. I need his experience and voice here
now. He represents the youth wherever they are on the counsel."

"We both could not agree more John as to where he can be the most help."
Rhonda now was laughing and that was nice to see for John.

"Little one your doing much better now with talking. That laugh I just heard
was beautiful also."

The beaming smile was lighting the room. "I worked hard and Jackson helped
me."

The girls headed back to their home and John went to the hospital now. He
walked the area and finally went to Dana's lab. She looked up and smiled at
him. "What do I owe this visit to?"

"If I wanted to get my butt whipped I could say I came to spank you. But my
body is old and needs protection from aggressive females. So how about I
love you and just came by to tell you?"

Dana was now chuckling and loved the way he always played word games with
her when he could. "Well I am done for today so how about us walking home
together?"

As they walked he talked with her about the meeting and other events of the
day.

"You have had a busy day and one I am glad I did not have to face. My life
in the lab is odd enough without the intrigue you have. It seems everyone
wants the brass ring as long as they can steal it?"

"That pretty much fits the picture I get. But it is really the military that
wants it the worst right now. They know there will be little need for a
large military once a country is assembled. We don't have the ability to
operate aircraft any more and most ground vehicles are now obsolete, as we
just don't have the fuels for them. Cars and trucks will be restricted as we
can't use oil based fuels like we did before."

"Do we have options to oil based fuels?"

"We will shortly after a massive research program gets off the ground. We
are going to have to use electricity and hydrogen based fuels. This will
require a lot of research and money at first to make it happen. But with
determination we can find ways to mobilize the new country."

She now could see some of the problems in front of them. "This is going to
be a real mess at first."

"That love is all too true. The only way the military could do it is enslave
the population. That would shortly cause fighting between the people and
government."

"They would cause civil war?"

"I don't see how they could stop it from happening. They would look at what
was important to them first and not the needs of the people. Business would
take a back seat to their projects. Military law is very structured and
punishment harsh. So how are the young people going to react to that? Dana
today is a new young world and people like me are the minority."

They got to the house and headed up to shower before dinner. Once changed
they headed down to dinner.

Shelby looked at the two and saw happy people. "Well you two look almost as
happy as Kelly did when she went flying out of here."

Dana now wanted to know more? "What was she so happy about?"

"Her new job John gave her. That girl was flying so high she needed an
oxygen mask not to die." Shelby was laughing hard now.

Dana looked at John. "She is over seeing the new radio station to broadcast
between sundown and midnight each night. We need to reach out to people
still left out there and provide news for them."

"It sounds like she is more than over seeing it?"

Shelby had to answer this. "She is the manager and will be sure that the
right message gets out. There were several items she wanted toned down
before they were recorded today. The first youth counsel script was a little
propaganda and some news. That she wanted to rewrite before they sent it
out."

Dana looked somewhat perplexed. "I don't see how propaganda would hurt us."

"The young people out there know exactly how things are. Try to bullshit
them and you will lose them. Be honest and they will know your being that
way. We will need older people out there to rebuild this country. We need
engineers, teachers, judges, police, fire and many city water, sewage and
trash workers who all know how the city works. They have knowledge that it
would take years to relearn. So how do we protect those that are left? We
need the young people to make that happen."

Shelby was clapping and knew John got it as well. "The man sees the only way
to rebuild a city without a lot of pain. But police that were not the good
ones will never see the new country. The counsel has a list of known abusers
of children from police forces. They have asked your counsel for warrants
for these people."

"Already signed them Shelby and they will stand up in the light of day. I
was able to find documentation for each one of them. Our people did a good
job of downloading many police and federal files before the crash."

Dinner was a lot of talk about the new radio station and Kelly running it.
Dana felt the job placed too much pressure on her. Shelby felt it was a good
move. They were listening when the station signed on.

"This is Kelly the station manager for radio Shangri-La. Yes, I am young and
no that is not going to change. Our world today is full of young people who
are going to have to step up and do an adult job. So adults get used to it.
Young people be ready to step up to the needs at hand. This message will be
played each night when the station comes on and when it goes off. Today's
world is very different for each of us and we need to adjust to that new
outlook. We will do news on the hour and half hour and music in between
that. If your looking for happy news then your wasting your time. Life is
hard today and has been made worst by the old governments. So welcome to the
new Federation and we hope you like the ideas we offer you."

The rest of the news was professionally done and very good. Both Jenny and
Nathan were excellent newsreaders. The way the news had been put together
worked well also. It started a story for people to follow. That seemed like
a smart idea to John.

"I think Kelly did very well tonight. She did some fast planning to make the
changes I know she did." John was pleased with his girl.

That Dana could not argue with. "I think she is more grown up than I saw
before now. God I wish I had been that professional at her age."

Shelby really cared for Kelly and you could tell. "She is sooo smart and
makes many adults I have known look stupid. Of course she would be on my
case for calling anyone stupid."

"Shelby she just uses a different words for that. She calls them
educationally challenged. It sounds nice, but means stupid dear. If she
jumps on you any more just tell her that mom spilled the beans on her." Dana
was now enjoying this.

The start to the radio station was a good one. The first of the leaflets had
been dropped today. None near bases but in places they needed to reach. Each
small craft handled five cities and they had covered ten today. No small
towns had been covered yet, just the larger cities.

That next day Kelly came into the office and smiled at her dad. "Thank you
for seeing what I did yesterday. Shelby told me what you said."

"I gave you a job and knew you would do it right. You did not see me at the
station making sure things happened that should have did you? When you have
confidence you give people you trust jobs and get out of their way. I do
that all the time with Carlton and David. As you learn who to trust at what
jobs you will need to do the same thing."

"I know how you do it and that works for me. Now I have class work to get
done, as we are going to record today's news by four and it needs to be
written yet. We have good technical people to do the broadcast and just need
to give them the audio copy. So I really don't have to be there except for
the first hour."

"Sounds like you have it figured out. You had ten cities the leaflets were
dropped into yesterday and today ten more will get them. In two weeks you
will have one hundred cities that know your on and they are all big ones."

"How do we get the smaller towns involved?"

"David is working on that issue now and will have some answers today for us.
But he will come to you first on this one. If you have a problem agreeing
then come see me."

It was a longer day than he had expected. There had been several
conversations with some military people and complains about Kelly's
programming. Her honesty about the military attacks angered many in the
military. But there had not been one lie or misspoken word in her broadcast.
They knew this station was going to be trouble.

"David how many radio towers do we have ready to send out our signal?"

"We set up five as we were sure some would get taken down. But we also set
up a satellite that will broadcast on those frequencies if needed. It does
not have the 50,000 watts of the station, but where it is does not need
them."

"I am sure we are going to get hit tonight. There were six generals calling
and complaining today. They did not like that the head of the JCS was
reported to be a Russian and that the attack on us was reported. Of course
it was all true and that they could not deign. But they were pissed off. Now
I did get about ten calls asking if it was true and from officers that were
shocked. But tonight they need to hear the attack and it needs to go out
live."

David had two slicks up with parabolic mikes to set up at the towers. He
knew the direction that planes would have to take to make a bomb run or to
machine gun the tower. They would use the main tower until it came down.
Then the four others would kick in and keep running. He also had ECM pods
set up to confuse the aircraft.

"If they come it will be interesting tonight.  Am sure I know where they
will come from. This time it will be the Air Force out of North Carolina I
believe. The Navy learned their lesson before I think. Remember they think
they are coming in here boss."

"I warned each general complaining today we would bring down any craft
attacking us. I have copies of those calls and gave them to Kelly to use as
she sees fit. I know she was going to cut a news flash for if an attack
came."

"Did she believe you when you told her it was coming?"

"Yes, but she was not so sure about the timing I felt it would happen in."
Now John was laughing.

"Boss she will learn to trust your gut. We know it will be between sundown
and midnight."

"I don't think so David it will be before sundown. They don't want it coming
on the air at all. But need the first signal of the power up to lead the
planes in. Just watch the radar and they will be high to start and come down
fast as we power up. They will come with the sun behind them as well. They
need to see the ground if they wish to attack us as well."

David considered John's statement and agreed it made sense. "I see where
that could be possible boss."

"Possible is it could be a nuclear weapon if some have their choice. What I
said before is sure bet David and I will give you two to one odds on this
evening."

"We took over several of the old star wars satellites that have lasers on
them. Any craft coming in at that tower will never make it there. There were
a lot of adjustments needed to make them work. Coming into the atmosphere is
not easy as light bends. We will have their radio transmissions, as they
will be stopped from going out to their base. Our receivers will handle
their messages as well as ours. Those will be able to be broadcast as well
tonight. Carlton and I will do a report after the attack and use our names
and old US ranks in it. These people are really pissing me off."

"Just be ready and expect it to happen fast and with zero warning. We are
not what the military wants for a government. Our Napoleons want to rule the
world and not just this piece of land."

David flew out of the office and you could almost see his after burners
running. He was really pissed and it showed.

Shelby had brought John some coffee and a piece of cake she had made. "What
was wrong with David he blew by me and never answered my hello?"

"I think he is just a mite ticked off dear. The old military are going to
play with us once more tonight. We have become a thorn in their sides. But
they are going to get hurt and surprised at the response."

She just shook her head and walked back out. She was glad she did not have
anything to do with the fight between John and the old countries military.

John just sat and drank his fresh coffee and ate some of the cake. All
things considered they were in better shaped than he had expected. Carlton
and David's people had done a remarkable job resurrecting much of the space
satellites for use by them. They had taken over a large group of Russian
satellites that had nuclear weapons on them.




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John
Old age is the most unexpected of things that can happen to a man.
 - Leon Trotsky
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