IBO - Brian R. Lundin (100 books to read in a lifetime .txt) 📗

agent and with Senator Warren’s help, was in line to be appointed Special Agent in Charge in the Little Rock office. Warren had met Mark when he was the case agent on his parents killing. Mark parents were also killed in a carjacking shortly after Warren’s parents were killed.
Dennis Williams was a graduate of Illinois Institute of Technology and was the Director of the Astro-Physicist Department at NASA. Dennis younger brother overdosed on crack cocaine when he was nine years old.
Roberto Torres was the Deputy Director of the National Security Department and a good friend of the president. He graduated from Princeton Law School and was a special advisor to the president. He was a frail looking Hispanic man, but handsome in an odd way. The dark smudges under his eyes spoke of many sleepless nights and exhaustion. Torres grew up in Los Angeles and as a youth was a leader of one of the most violent Hispanic gangs in the city. When he tried to get out of the gang his mother and two sisters were raped by, it’s members and he was shot three times. The offenders were caught and he testified against them and they were sentenced to fifty years in prison. Because of the death threats, Torres and his family moved to Connecticut. After the men were seated with their coffee, tea and snacks, Senator Warren addressed the group.
“Gentlemen, good morning. I called this meeting to address the growing problem of gangs and violence that is plaguing our great nation and the president to find a solution has mandated me but I will need your help. Shortly I will sponsor a bill to speak to this problem. This bill will only be the first step in ridding our society of this plague and pestilence that is destroying our young people. The bill I will propose will require the cooperation and of all of your departments in dealing with its technical, legal and logistical complexities. I have already discussed the bill with the president and he agrees that it is a step in making our nation safe from these urban and homegrown terrorists. The bill will require that all blacks and Hispanic youngsters between eighteen and twenty-five years of age register with their local police departments and failure to comply will result in severe penalties, after registration they will be transported to camps.
There will be three categories of camps; the Re-Education Camp will be for young men with no gang affiliations and be located within a hundred miles of the state from which they come that will allow for visits from family members and parents. The Re-Indoctrination Camp will be for known gang members and will be located in isolated and undeveloped areas of the country, probably in the North and Southwest and they will not be allowed visitors except once a month. The Disciplinary Camp will be for the hard core gang bangers and troublemakers and be located on abandon military bases. This will be a tremendous task for the government; according to the latest census, there are over five million young people who will be affected. What I need you to do is assess your department resources and at our next meeting come up with suggestions on how we can better implement the bill, any questions?”
Mark Hill was the first to speak.
“Senator you said this was the first step, what is the second step?”
“I’ll let you all know in due time.”
Roberto Torres asked, “What will these youngsters do at these camps and what will they be like?”
“At the Re-Education Camps they will take basic education classes, live in dormitories and be allowed visits by parents and family members, at the Re-Indoctrinations Camps they will live in barrack style housing and the educational emphasize will on learning some type of trade or skill, at the Disciplinary Camp they will be housed in military type housing. The emphasize at these camps will be discipline and control, not education. As time go on I’ll let you know more details.”
The meeting lasted for about an hour; afterwards tuxedoed waiters served a catered lunch of smoked salmon, shrimps, bar-b-que ribs, potato salad and coleslaw. The men gathered in small cliques to discuss the senator’s plan. When the meeting concluded Senator Warren, Jr. was sure that he had the cooperation of his confederates and his concerns had been laid to rest that the many contentious and competitive government agencies would work together smoothly. He was confident that that these men who had all suffered terribly at the hands of these outlaws would overlook petty jealousies and realize that the solution to their common concern was higher in priority than any individual ambitions.


Chapter 40

The entire clan stayed with Diki for the summer. Eli and Maggie would go fishing on Mack’s pontoon boat or sometimes; they would all just go for a boat ride. Whenever Maggie caught a big bass she would laugh heartily and say, “This one is for you Mack.”
Eli felt so sorry for her for he could understand her love for her husband because that was the same kind of deep unconditional love he had for Yolanda. It was a cool pleasant evening; the sky was full of clouds, which slowly walked across the wide expanse and a sudden opening allowed a shooting star to briefly illuminate the starry beautiful night sky, as the sky grew darker. The moon seemed brighter and the stars clearer to Eli as he sat on the boat with his wife. Eli put his arm around Yolanda and pulled her closer to him as he kissed her on the forehead. Their two little girls were playing with a lion cub that had been found in the bush. The tribe men found the cub trying to nurse its dead mother; there were no gunshots or arrows or spears wounds on the animal so they assumed the mother died of natural causes.
“It is so nice here, in Cabrini that sky never looked this clear, it seems like you could reach up and touch one of those bright stars,” Eli said
“Yes it does,” Yolanda said snuggling closer to him.
“Seems like the girls like it also, would you want to move back here?” Eli asked Yolanda.
“Of course I would, this is my home, but why?” she asked. “Things are so bad in the states, the gangs, the drugs, and the violence, even Warsaw, that little hick town has changed.
I remember the first big federal narcotic case I had. It involved drug dealers from Chicago who was trying to get established in Indiana. By now I am sure they have and that plague is moving into other small towns in the area. I am worried about you and the girls, I don’t want them growing up as I did, afraid to go or play outside or having to deal with gangs at school, I want them and you to be safe.”
“I have seen the changes also, when I pick up the girls at school I have seen the young guys, white and black hanging around the school with their hats turned backwards or sideways and their pants draped around their butts, giving gang signs. Yep, I am ready to come home. It too bad, Warsaw was just a nice little town,” Yolanda sighed.
“Ok, well it settled, I will go to Warsaw next week and put our house up for sale and I will tell Maggie about our plans and see if she wants to stay with us, if so, I’ll put her house up for sale also, and close the law office.”
”I am sure Maggie will want to be with us and the girls,” Yolanda said.
The next day Eli told everyone about his or her plans to move to Africa. Diki was very happy and Maggie agreed to sell her house.

Chapter 41

President Tolland told Mrs. Lorine Barnes, his National Security Advisor about Senator Warren plan. Mrs. Barnes was black and had a Ph.D.and International Politics from the University of Chicago and she was the president closest advisor. She was the widow of United States Army General Clarence Barnes, a close friend of the president and a Congressional Medal of Honor recipient, for his actions in the Gulf war. The president consulted with her before making any major policy decisions.
”Well it is bold and could be risky. You know the minority community and the civil right leaders are going to demand your head, but there is a positive side. Your opponent Governor Newton is having a field day with this gang and violence issue and he is getting a lot of press coverage. The recent polls are showing him with a slight lead. Step one of the senator’s plan was the “Fireside Chats” and media blitz might diffuse some of his thunder. Right now, we are on the defensive; we must go on the offensive. This would show the American people that we do have a plan to curb this violence and that is what they want. They want to know what you are going to do now, not next month, or next year, but now.”
After a long silence Mrs. Barnes said,” let’s see what happens with the senator’s plan?”
“Ok, I’ll have Bob set it up with the networks,” the president said.
The president began his fireside chats. Robert Winslow, Bob, his press secretary got graphic tapes of gang violence from the media, which usually censored out of their broadcast, the gory scenes of little children lying shot and bleeding on the sidewalks but the president used this footage. Color pictures were shown of their little bodies sprawled out on the dirty sidewalk laying next to discarded beer cans and needles, blood pouring out their wounds, he got video tapes from law enforcement officials showing shoot outs between them and the drug dealers and gangbangers. As Senator Warren had predicted these graphic scenes enraged the public. The president assured the people during his chats that the government was aware of their concerns and plans were under way even as he spoke to address this problem with the resources of the federal government. Details would be made public very soon.
The president numbers started to rise in the polls. Mrs. Barnes decided it was time for another meeting with the senator and this time she would be present. Senator Warren met with Mrs. Barnes and the president in the Oval Office.
“What you think about the “Chats” and the television coverage?” the president asked the senator.
“Very good, gory but good,” Senator Warren said.
“Let’s discuss your next step,” Mrs. Barnes said.
“The next step is proposing a new law requiring blacks and Hispanics youngsters to register for the camps at their local police station, after registering they will be loaded on buses and taken to the train stations to the camps,” the senator said.
“Suppose they don’t come to the police stations to register,” Mrs. Barnes asked.
“All the police stations will be issued a copy of the latest censor taken for their area, which will show the family makeup; the censor can be used as a guide to assist the police in identifying the youngsters. Anyone who does not report will be