Freedom Earned. Ronald Price

would have been a threat to them. All State National Guard levels had been reduced to token levels, so pick up would be easy to accomplish.

      All members of the council were determined to restore democracy. It was thought by many that America would have fought to earn her freedom from the political chaos it had fallen into. With the country converted into a service nation with a foreign-controlled industrial base, it placed the political control of the nation in the hands of foreign nations.

      Through their corporate structures in the United States, Americans were retrained from high-technical jobs to service industries and at half their former salaries and wages. Since the base realignment and the exit of essential defense companies, the Chinese out stripped the country in warship production. The country was unable to build any at all, and the replacement vessels were built in foreign countries. The Chinese navy was larger than the North American navy. The Chinese submarine fleet was less sophisticated but larger in boats, and the Russians had made billions from them.

      Despair and destitution had taken its toll on all. The time was now. The time is right to regain America. It would be a struggle. The bases were gone and the military had been depleted. The war in Afghanistan and Iraq had pulled the National Guard out of the country, leaving the states unable to support themselves in an emergency. Hurricane Katrina and massive wildfires with high levels of storms and floods devastated whole states. With the lack of troops at home, it necessitated help from other countries allowing other countries and the Mexican army to enter this country with aid. Many Americans asked, Where is that fast, deployable military that the secretary of defense had promised? It appeared it was a smoke screen to lull the people into an inert weak force that permitted the merger of America, Canada, and Mexico and the sell out to the United Nations and the European Union. Waiting in the wings was China, building, completely trained, and ready to strike. Russian Special Forces had done their job well.