Garand summoned me over the intercom to the command room, where Billy, the boar, the Tatars, and the smoke were there. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info called up the video to show me: "Someone was snooping around just now, and you can see that he used a telescope. Finally they tried to break in, and I let the smoke drive them away. ”

"Can you be sure who it is?" I asked.

Garland shrugged: "Not yet. But when they tried to break in, our men made contact with them when they stopped them. Pogarde put the tracker on their car to see where they would go. ”

I said, "It looks like we still have a lot of people here who are worried about it." We're going to step up security. ”

Garland shrugged: "Yes." But that's not the most important thing, the important thing is that there's also the bad news that I just got. ”

As he spoke, he turned on the TV for a replay and said to me, "Look at this news." ”

In the news, several lawmakers spoke to the camera about their joint proposals. They said that militias played a role in stabilizing law and order in the midst of the nationwide riots, and they called for a bill to give more authority to militias, to allow them to have more offensive weapons, and to allow militias to assist the police in policing in the face of a lack of police presence and a large number of troops in Europe and the Middle East.

"More than 20,000 people were killed and injured in the Ravona riots alone, and the people were terrified," Garland said. In the aftermath of the riots, many district councillors and chief executives expressed on television the idea of letting the people form their own militias in order to appease the local people, but at the time I thought they were just talking casually as before. It seems that this time they are here for real. ”

The boar asked, "Cake seller!" It feels like the heads of these councillors are in water. Will they succeed? ”

Garland said, "Yes." Ordinary people demand security, and organizing a militia seems like a good idea. Since politicians are unable to improve law and order, they have to pander to public opinion. Arms dealers can also make a fortune. Everyone is satisfied, and there is a good chance that this proposal will pass. What do you guys think? ”

I blurted out, "If this bill passes, they open the gates of hell." Once the various militias are established, the different ethnic groups and sects can take control of the armed forces, and they will fight each other. There will never be peace in the United States. ”

The Tatars said: "I don't think it's as serious as you say, the war of independence is won by the militia, right?" Americans have a tradition of organizing militias. But the rich will rightfully have private arms. ”

I said, "The British were defeated by the Europeans united, and you should read more real history books." Americans may have a tradition of organizing militias, but note that the U.S. population at that time was almost exclusively white Europeans and Protestants. But now you look at the various ethnic groups around them, they are divided, so that these divided ethnic groups are armed, is it possible that they will not attack each other? ”

The boar asked the smoke, "What do you think?" ”

"I think it's terrible to let ordinary people have the rights of the police," Smoke said. But I think it's just the arms dealers trying to make a lot of money. What do you say, Lieutenant Colonel? ”

Garland said helplessly: "I agree with James. Today's America is a multitude of ethnic groups, and attention is paid to kneading rather than blending. It's like the exterior of a building, and from a distance it looks like a whole, but if you look closely, you can see that it's a patchwork of mosaics. The more poor and uneducated people are, the more accustomed they are to living in the mosaic of their own community. At the same time, the more these people become accustomed to the use of violence. Militias may become instruments of their mutual vendettas. Maybe we can see the United States become like Afghanistan. ”

The smoke said, "Is it really that serious?" ”

Garland said, "Please trust the instincts of an old staff officer. These politicians can do anything for the sake of profit, so they don't care about the consequences. Those arms dealers have money and can organize private armies, but ordinary people are dangerous. But those of us who don't want to be beaten to death like dogs one day have to act. ”

The boar asked, "How?" We also engage in militia? ”

Garland said, "Do you have a better way?" In the face of violence, we can only resist violently, and we need to gather more people and stock up on more weapons and ammunition. Hopefully, we won't one day find ourselves bare-handed at gunpoint. ”

The boar said, "You want more people to join the gang?" I don't know if the lighthouse will agree. ”

I said, "As long as he doesn't take the initiative to stop us, we'll do it!" It's just that we have to raise a lot of people. ”

Garland said, "yes." We need to think of more ways. The proposal from these councillors gave me an idea to make money. ”

I hurriedly asked, "What's the idea?" ”

"If the bill for militias is passed, people are not safer, they are more dangerous," he said. People with a little money will not only buy weapons, but also turn their homes into fortresses, just as people built shelters underground in case of nuclear war during the Cold War. Surely many people need to convert a single-family house made of wooden panels into reinforced concrete, or get a more solid basement. We could have a construction team dedicated to this. ”

"None of us know how to build," Billy said. ”

Garland was confident: "Anyone who understands architecture can find it." It is believed that many Chinese Americans in the construction industry will be unemployed. Why didn't James start a predominantly Chinese-American construction company? You Chinese people can build houses faster than in the world. ”

That's a good point, not to mention that there are a few architects in the security cooperative of the Barley Field community. It seems that this can be considered.

There was a knock on the door, and Garland shouted "Come in". The female attendant in one of the monitoring rooms handed the walkie-talkie to the boar and said, "Mr. Pogard wants to talk to you." ”

The wild boar took the walkie-talkie and asked, "I am, what's the matter?" ”

"Those two men drove into the Grey Fort area," Bogard said. We found out that this is the territory of a guy named Popeye Simpson. This guy is the one who hunted down the crow and the big-eyed one a few days ago, right? ”

Ah, Popeye Simpson. Doctor Wang and I just talked about him, and I really said Cao Cao Cao.

The boar looked at me, and I said, "Let Bogard come back." I already know what's going on. ”

The boar told Pogard to come back and said, "It seems that this Simpson won't give up easily." Shouldn't we do him just in case? Then he looked at Garland.

Garland said, "Don't rush. It was impossible for Simpson to make a big move while the army was under curfew. We have time to scout a little bit more and then make a plan to take out Simpson when the right opportunity arises. Now let's go back to what we just discussed......"