Cult Smashers: Part Four

 

Kelly wasn’t happy about what he was hearing from his sources. It appeared that President Blunt was doing everything he could to hamstring the police in their attempts to deal with the mob in the Capital Building and the militia groups creating chaos across the country. Luckily, his powers were limited at the state and municipal level. Democratic and the odd rational Republican state governments were letting their police forces deal with the problems. Places like Missouri, Florida, and, Texas were not doing so well, however. Their relaxed gun laws and culture of “freedom poisoning” were making it hard for police to identify and round up the groups and individuals who were bent on bringing down law and order. In a growing number of states there had been attempts to attack elected officials. There had been several close calls and one fatality---in Michigan the governor had been shot dead during a botched kidnapping. The worst problem was in the District of Columbia. Some unknown official had repeatedly stonewalled any attempt to call out the National Guard until the Governor of Virginia had had to break the rules and call up the General in charge personally to tell him to get his troops on site no matter what he was being told by the official chain of command. He was hesitant at first, but eventually relented and brought in his people. They were able to contain things in the Capitol Building, but were no help with the hostage situation.

One message Kelly received said that the Joint Chiefs of Staff were in secret meetings. Even more disconcerting, he heard that elite forces had been dispatched to augment the Secret Service protection for both the President and President Elect. In a hardly surprising development, a very secret connection told him that Delta Force units had been deployed in the D.C. area. He strongly suspected that they were getting ready to act. Things had gone really bad already, and, the stand-off was encouraging problems around the country. They needed to act fast or else things would probably go South real quick.

Kelly was concerned about this. He knew that this sort of hostage situation was hard to resolve without a lot of deaths. And the hostages and kidnappers both would become martyrs to whatever faction they represented. Moreover, he suspected that the Commander in Chief would forbid any action aimed at resolving the situation. President Blunt probably felt he had nothing but good to come from the situation and his interests lay in stringing-out the whole situation as long as possible.

Hughson wouldn’t have long to wait before his fears began to materialize---.

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