posted on March 13, 2003 06:26:51 PM new
Booking Desk - L.A.P.D. - March 13, 2098
Cop in cool suit floats in door on a saucer about the size of a garbage can lid. Robot that
looks like a motorized wheelbarrow follows with prisoner wrapped in net from a tangle gun.
"Sarge I gotta strange assault case here. You wanna help me with this? My compad
doesn't have anything about what to do with this."
Older cop with VR spex and feet up on desk stops making motions in the air with his
index finger and slides spex down his nose examining prisoner.
"An arrest and you used your tangler both? Do you realize what that is going to do to
your conflict resolution and community respect index for the month? That will probably knock
you down two tenths of a pay grade next month."
"Sarge this is a tough one. I talked myself blue and nothing made a dent. I even offered to
take him down to the corner and we'd talk it out at Starbucks and he spit on me."
"Let's see your video. You didn't have any accidents with your EYE did you? pointing at
the fish eye lens on the cops shoulder.
"No, it's not like that," the cop protested blushing. Sometimes if a cop really messed up
he'd have some technical difficulties with his camera. That was pretty hard since the damn thing
had a self cleaning naofilm lens, and you couldn't bust it by shooting it.
The Sarge keyed the camera off his uniform and popped it in his desk terminal. He made
some mousing motions in the air and the prisoner made a gesture to ward off the evil eye under
the net.
In his spex the cop sees the prisoner beating a neighbor over the head with a meat loaf.
The young cop intervenes and questions the man.
"The infidel brings me foul food. He told me it has pork in it. And he destroys my faith. He
said he is doing it because 'It's the right thing to do.' He can keep his humanistic charity.
If he brought it because of his faith I'd accept it, but not his corrupt motives."
A tough broad in shorts and a t-shirt comes out of the house. She obviously has been
moving the peg way up on the exercise machine.
"You keep your hands off my Herman or I'll wring your scrawny neck!"
"Harlot! Filthy woman! Go inside and cover yourself up. You'll give the officer impure
thoughts."
"Jeez guy it's 115 degrees out. If you don't wear a cool suit you have to show some skin man!" the
cop said. “If you think she’s bad you should see what’s on the street over in Hollywood.”
"Allah commands modesty! Jesus has nothing to do with it.”- Prisoner goes into a
rambling explanation of theology and leaves the cop looking bewildered.
“Hey, why don't we go down to the corner and get an iced latte and you can explain all
this to me and I'll set up a web conference with a community conflict counselor, and we'll make
everybody happy,” the officer offers. I'm sure the neighbor didn't know your have dietary
problems. Most everybody has genemods if they have allergies nowadays. And don't worry the
lady didn't cause me any problem. I'm gay anyway.”
The robed man throws himself at the cop with his hands in claws and the cops blasts him
with the tangler net in mid-leap.
The older cop pushed his spex down again and looks at him. "Pretty damn fast there fella.
You buy that mod you were talking about for faster reflexes?"
The young one just grinned, but got sober again.
"What's with this guy? Data shows he just moved here from Yemen and I have no idea
what this Allah he is talking about 'willing' everything is."
"Don't worry. I saw this way back. Crap it was before my first rejuvenation. They used to
have a lot of these.
It's a mental disorder by proxy. They believe in somebody else’s delusion. Can you believe
that? The used to call then priests, preachers or Imman for this guy. We can do a 72 hour
commitment on him, but sorry to say they don't have much success with these. By the time they
strip the delusion out there isn't much left, because if they get it young they never form much of
their own personality."
"Wow that's horrible Sarge. What's the disorder called?"
"Oh, the broad classification is called religion."
posted on March 15, 2003 05:05:41 PM new
Isn't Armageddon supposed to happen in the vicinity of Iraq? I remember a lot of talk about it before the Gulf War.
Using the names by which these nations were known during Biblical times, today we know these countries as Iran, Libya, Ethiopia, Egypt, Turkey and the Moslem Republics known as Magog. These will form a confederation to invade Israel and the Middle East, for the specific purpose of conquering the Jews and destroying their country. Theirs will be a religious crusade, what in Islam is called Jihad, with the sole motive of proving that the prophet Mohammed and his god Allah are superior to Moses and his God Jehovah.
And you have to remember that this is just one persons interpetation
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posted on March 15, 2003 05:41:19 PM new
Near the Sea -
Yeah I knocked it off on a whim. I just finished a 300 page SF book and have it in editing so thanks for the kind words - maybe it will sell. But the style is a lot different because I had to make this move along. If it was in a book I'd have milked it for a whole chapter.
Things are so surreal now we may mix Armageddon and Humpty Dumpty and have the Gog of Eggnog.
posted on March 16, 2003 11:13:13 AM new
Yeah, gravid - let us know when it's done!
I'm almost done on my second novel, and down the stretch, Bennett Cerf's quote keeps coming back to me;
"I hate writing. I love having written."
Hang in there!
posted on March 16, 2003 02:11:44 PM new
Thanks - I will make a grand announcement.
I am aiming it square at Baen and hope I can peddle it to 'em.
They seem to like their authors to do series so I'll tease 'em with the first few chapters of the sequel ( I mean first sequel) when I send them the first.
I'm sending cover art too.
