Goings on in Washington, D.C.: version 2.0

[Mark Rand]

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why is that?

 

Someone high up in the British government decided that was a good idea to do so in order to keep a certain unstable American President from going after the Slayers and their associates..

[Guest Major Tom]

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Which "certain unstable American President" are we talking about here?

 

 

 

Major Tom

[sinanju]

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More to the point, an American President (unstable or otherwise) is not going to be deterred from dealing with American citizens on American soil because the Brits claim to have granted them citizenship.

[Mark Rand]

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Which "certain unstable American President" are we talking about here?

 

 

 

Major Tom

 

Dubya

[Mark Rand]

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More to the point' date=' an American President (unstable or otherwise) is not going to be deterred from dealing with American citizens on American soil because the Brits claim to have granted them citizenship.[/quote']

 

True, but the only Slayer the Initiative can identify is Buffy, and she's in Scotland, along with her friends.

[bubba smith]

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Dubya

i think that storyline would be obolete as of last tuesday

[Mark Rand]

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i think that storyline would be obolete as of last tuesday

 

Either that or when Jim Collingsworth became President.

 

Now, back to the history. In late 2004, shortly after the Initiative files were released by the British, Dubya gave all British nationals 48-hours to leave the United States and threatened to have any that were still in the country declared enemy combatants and tossed into Gitmo. He also said that military personal that left the UK even if that country ordered all Americans to leave. If they didn't, they'd loose their American citizenship. He had, of course, forgotten, that the United States had no military bases in Great Britain. Instead, they had fighter wings at RAF bases.

 

In response, Americans in the UK were given 72-hours to either leave or placed under house arrest.

 

They also revealed that England had recently been plagued by a rash of temporal anomalies and information gathered was given to the United Nations and other international agencies. A press conference was to be held at the Anomaly Research Centre, or ARC, the next day.

[Guest Major Tom]

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Oh, to be a Global Hawk flying over Scotland when the Pres sends his boys

out there for Round #2... followed shortly thereafter by something along

the following lines:

 

"We are not amused... Prime Minister, would you be so kind as to dis-

patch some of our SAS lads to Scotland to express Our displeasure."

 

(I'm assuming that, if it was indeed the NID behind the first attempt,

Kinsey is working behind the scenes and would be egging Dubya on.)

 

 

 

Major Tom

[Mark Rand]

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At the press conference, we meet Sir James Peregrine Lester, who is in charge; Professor Nick Cutter, an evolutionary zoologist; Connor Temple, a computer and dinosaur geek; Abby Maitland, a zoologist and reptile expert; Jenny Lewis, who handles P.R.; and Captain Becker, the team's military leader. They also meet a Colombian mammoth, and Rex, an iguana-sized flying lizard. As Sir James asks for questions, Abby's cell phone rings.

 

It's Animal Control. They have a snake in someone's toilet, and, since their reptile expert is sick, they ask her for help. Everyone goes. The snake's 18-feet long. According to Abby, it's a Burmese python and, apparently, in good health. Nick thinks it could've been someone's pet. As Animal Control takes the snake away, Abby's phone rings again, along with Sir James's. There's an anomaly at London's zoo.

[Guest Major Tom]

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At the press conference, we meet Sir James Peregrine Lester, who is in charge; Professor Nick Cutter, an evolutionary zoologist; Connor Temple, a computer and dinosaur geek; Abby Maitland, a zoologist and reptile expert; Jenny Lewis, who handles P.R.; and Captain Becker, the team's military leader. They also meet a Colombian mammoth, and Rex, an iguana-sized flying lizard. As Sir James asks for questions, Abby's cell phone rings.

 

It's Animal Control. They have a snake in someone's toilet, and, since their reptile expert is sick, they ask her for help. Everyone goes. The snake's 18-feet long. According to Abby, it's a Burmese python and, apparently, in good health. Nick thinks it could've been someone's pet. As Animal Control takes the snake away, Abby's phone rings again, along with Sir James's. There's an anomaly at London's zoo.

 

 

As if they needed any more weird critters at the London zoo...

 

 

 

Major Tom

[Guest Major Tom]

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I just had an evil thought...are you familiar with the movie Doomsday?

 

Basic plot: horrifyingly lethal virus hits Scotland, killing thousands; British

government declares martial law and quarantines Scotland, enforcing it by

means of a huge armored wall and automated sentry guns. 25-30 years

later, the same virus breaks out in London, and a team is sent into Scot-

land to find a cure.

 

Now, just out of curiosity, how likely would those elements of the Dubya

administration being influenced by the NID be to resort to a biological

rather than a military "solution" to the problem of Buffy and friends (re-

member, these are the folks who think nothing of indiscriminately using

biotoxic anti-Goa'uld weapons, and delivering them by means of the

Stargate)?

 

 

 

Major Tom

[Mark Rand]

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I just had an evil thought...are you familiar with the movie Doomsday?

 

Basic plot: horrifyingly lethal virus hits Scotland, killing thousands; British

government declares martial law and quarantines Scotland, enforcing it by

means of a huge armored wall and automated sentry guns. 25-30 years

later, the same virus breaks out in London, and a team is sent into Scot-

land to find a cure.

 

Now, just out of curiosity, how likely would those elements of the Dubya

administration being influenced by the NID be to resort to a biological

rather than a military "solution" to the problem of Buffy and friends (re-

member, these are the folks who think nothing of indiscriminately using

biotoxic anti-Goa'uld weapons, and delivering them by means of the

Stargate)?

 

 

 

Major Tom

 

I'll look for the film. I suspect that someone has been hacking into the NID's computers and giving information on what the rogue agents, later, The Committee, and still later, The Trust, are doing. If the British had this information, they just might destroy the vehicles carrying them, then deliver the information they received to the press and the U.N.

[Mark Rand]

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At the press conference, we meet Sir James Peregrine Lester, who is in charge; Professor Nick Cutter, an evolutionary zoologist; Connor Temple, a computer and dinosaur geek; Abby Maitland, a zoologist and reptile expert; Jenny Lewis, who handles P.R.; and Captain Becker, the team's military leader. They also meet a Colombian mammoth, and Rex, an iguana-sized flying lizard. As Sir James asks for questions, Abby's cell phone rings.

 

It's Animal Control. They have a snake in someone's toilet, and, since their reptile expert is sick, they ask her for help. Everyone goes. The snake's 18-feet long. According to Abby, it's a Burmese python and, apparently, in good health. Nick thinks it could've been someone's pet. As Animal Control takes the snake away, Abby's phone rings again, along with Sir James's. There's an anomaly at London's zoo.

 

As if they needed any more weird critters at the London zoo...

 

Major Tom

 

An adult Colombian mammoth and several small ones come through the anomaly, which is in the zoo's parking lot, before it closes. Sir James decides to let the zoo keep them and agrees to give them the ARC's, once all animals clear quarantine.

[Mark Rand]

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Before I forget, the British government also gave information on anomalies to the British military and the various emergency call centers throughout the country.

 

In the states, late in 2008, Dubya and his advisers were discussing their problems. One adviser stated that the British government would now allow U. S. flag airlines to land there in order to deliver their citizens and pick up American ones. The NID's director mentioned that his people were becoming the victims of a rash of minor attacks. One had "TERRORIST" sprayed onto his lawn.

 

The agency did its best to make friends. One way was by claiming that fighting demons was the government's job, not that of a vigilante who eventually formed her own terrorist organization. Two nights later, the bodies of a top NID official and his family were found in his pool, the victim of an attack by a particularly nasty demon. He then added that he'd come home from investigating the attack to find the head of one of those demons on his front porch. One of their experts said that whoever did it removed the head with a single stroke.

[Guest Major Tom]

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I'll look for the film. I suspect that someone has been hacking into the NID's computers and giving information on what the rogue agents' date=' later, The Committee, and still later, The Trust, are doing. If the British had this information, they just might destroy the vehicles carrying them, then deliver the information they received to the press and the U.N.[/quote']

 

 

Just make sure that there aren't any small children around if you do find and

watch this film. There are parts of the movie (at least in the version that's

being run on cable/satellite TV) that are positively graphic.

 

 

 

Major Tom

[Guest Major Tom]

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An adult Colombian mammoth and several small ones come through the anomaly' date=' which is in the zoo's parking lot, before it closes. Sir James decides to let the zoo keep them and agrees to give them the ARC's, once all animals clear quarantine.[/quote']

 

 

I have to wonder... how would the Roto-Rooter man (or whatever the British

version is called) react to being confronted by a rather large and highly likely

perturbed snake in the loo?

 

 

 

Major Tom

[Mark Rand]

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I have to wonder... how would the Roto-Rooter man (or whatever the British

version is called) react to being confronted by a rather large and highly likely

perturbed snake in the loo?

 

 

 

Major Tom

 

I think he'd freak out.

[Guest Major Tom]

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I think he'd freak out.

 

 

As "Murray" would say (in his usual deadpan style): indeed.

 

Still, better an 18-foot long python than a genetically-engineered 30+-foot

long Crotalus adamanteus/Ophiophagus hannah hybrid.

 

 

 

Major Tom

[Mark Rand]

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In the real world, Barack Obama succeeded Dubya as President. However, in the campaih world, Vice President James Collingsworth became President after Dubya was assassinated. Except for the fact that Jim Collingsworth is a Republican, he and President Obama are the same.

 

One of his first acts as President was to have the United States Marshals' Service, or some other appropriate agency, get search warrants and get information from the NID's computer system on the raids into Scotland. Those who arrested were either arrested or killed.

 

Kinsey, who was on the Senate floor, objected vigorously. Collingsworth stated that the agency had committed criminal acts and did their best to ruin relations between the United States and Great Britain and that those responsible would be punished to the full extent of the law.

[bubba smith]

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In the real world, Barack Obama succeeded Dubya as President. However, in the campaih world, Vice President James Collingsworth became President after Dubya was assassinated. Except for the fact that Jim Collingsworth is a Republican, he and President Obama are the same.

 

One of his first acts as President was to have the United States Marshals' Service, or some other appropriate agency, get search warrants and get information from the NID's computer system on the raids into Scotland. Those who arrested were either arrested or killed.

 

Kinsey, who was on the Senate floor, objected vigorously. Collingsworth stated that the agency had committed criminal acts and did their best to ruin relations between the United States and Great Britain and that those responsible would be punished to the full extent of the law.

shouldn't that read"those who resisted wre either arrested or kiled?

[Mark Rand]

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shouldn't that read"those who resisted wre either arrested or kiled?

 

Yes. That's what I get for typing before thinking and not proofing what I type.

[Mark Rand]

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Senator Kinsey isn't the only senator to have a dirty trick or two pulled on him.

 

Once Senator Roark's propane grill flared up when he lit it. An examination showed that gunpowder and magnesium had been sprinkled on the bottom. Another time, his car, and his wife's, were filled with expanding foam.

[Guest Major Tom]

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Senator Kinsey isn't the only senator to have a dirty trick or two pulled on him.

 

Once Senator Roark's propane grill flared up when he lit it. An examination showed that gunpowder and magnesium had been sprinkled on the bottom. Another time, his car, and his wife's, were filled with expanding foam.

 

 

Holy Canole, Randman!

 

 

 

Major Tom

[Mark Rand]

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Holy Canole, Randman!

 

 

 

Major Tom

 

I have three of the Paladin Press revenge books written under the pseudonym George Hayduke. Some of the tricks are from them. The expanding foam trick, though, is from an episode of MythBusters.

[Guest Major Tom]

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I have three of the Paladin Press revenge books written under the pseudonym George Hayduke. Some of the tricks are from them. The expanding foam trick' date=' though, is from an episode of [i']MythBusters.[/i]

 

 

It was also used in both Demolition Man and Doomsday. In the first

film, it was the future's version of an air-bag; and in the second, it was used to

protect the occupants of an elevator from the impact of a rapid descent to

the garage level of a hospital.

 

As to the tricks pulled upon the Senators: was either one the recipient of the

Banana-In-The-Tailpipe stunt made famous by Eddie Murphy in the Beverly

Hills Cop films?

 

 

 

Major Tom