Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Time Traveler, 2001

B-Chan posted this rather out of date 'fable:'
I was born in 1998 so I do share some childhood memories with all of you. I remember going to Disney World at Christmas and I remember going to the beach in Daytona. When the civil "conflict" started and got worse, people generally decided to either stay in the cities and lose most of their civil rights under the guise of security or leave the cities for more isolated and rural areas. Our home was searched once and the neighbor across the street was arrested for some unknown reason. That convinced my father to leave the city.

From the age of 8 to 12, we lived away from the cities and spent most of our time in a farm community with other families avoiding conflict with the federal police and National Guard. By that time, it was pretty clear that we were not going back to what we had and the division between the "cities" and the "country" was well defined. My father made a living by putting together 12-volt electrical systems and sailing "commodities" up and down the coast of Florida. I spent most of my time helping him.

There is a civil war in the United States that starts in 2005. That conflict flares up and down for 10 years.

Outright open fighting was common... and I joined a shotgun infantry unit in 2011. I served with the "Fighting Diamondbacks" for about 4 years. (Hearing in my right ear isn't as good as I would like it).

In my 2012, I was 14 years old spending most of my time living, running and hiding in the woods and rivers of central Florida. The civil war was in its 7th year and the world war was three years away. Yes, there are unusual events in 2012 but they do not cause the world to end. Unfortunately, I have decided not to discuss events that you or I can do anything about. It is important that they be a surprise. Perhaps you are familiar with the story of the Red Sea and the Egyptians?

The civil war ended in 2015 when Russia attacked... the major cities in the United States (which is the "other side" of the civil war from my perspective), [along with] China and Europe. The United States counter attacks. The US cities are destroyed along with the AFE (American Federal Empire)...thus we (in the country) won. The European Union and China were also destroyed. Russia is now our largest trading partner and the Capitol of the US was moved to Omaha Nebraska.... The [nuclear] war is a result of faulty politics and desperation from Western leadership during the US civil war... I suppose you could stop it.

[Q: Are some areas of the United States safer than others?]

Take a close look at the county-by-county voting map from the last elections.

[Q: Were biological or chemical weapons used in the war? Were any weapons used that effected [sic] people's minds?]

Yes there were biological and chemical weapons used. No mind control weapons but there are new "non-lethal" weapon systems that turn out to be quite lethal.

On my worldline, life is not easy. We live in a world recovering from years of war, poison, destruction and hate. All of it, courtesy of the thinking and actions of people that live right now in the same world you do, worrying about which stocks to buy or whether or not a stranger is lying to them on the Internet.

I believe that hardship and challenge develop character and community. My first experience with war came when I joined a shotgun infantry unit at the age of thirteen. In the 4 years I served as a "rebel", I watched hundreds of people get shot, burn and bleed to death. I know exactly where I was and every detail of the exact moment the first nuclear warheads began falling on Jacksonville. I know the pain and regret of not acting soon enough to enjoy a relationship as a loved one dies of brain cancer from a war that gained nothing.

How can you possibly criticize me for any conflict that comes to you? I watch every day what you are doing as a society. While you sit by and watch your Constitution being torn away from you, you willfully eat poisoned food, buy manufactured products no one needs and turn an uncaring eye away from millions of people suffering and dying all around you. Is this the "Universal Law" you subscribe to?

Perhaps I should let you all in on a little secret. No one likes you in the future. This time period is looked at as being full of lazy, self-centered, civically ignorant sheep. Perhaps you should be less concerned about me and more concerned about that.

Imagine you are Jewish and you are able to travel back in time to Germany in 1935. All around you are the patterns of thinking and action that will lead to a great deal of harm, death and destruction in just a few years. You have the advantage of knowing what will come but no one will listen to you. In fact, they think you're insane and the situations you describe could never happen.

What I feel is not anger, it is sadness that you cannot see what I see.

[Q: What would you say to any world leaders who might be reading this right now?]

Revel in your confidence today because you will not win tomorrow.

Wow, so maybe Freepers haven't gotten more crazy over time. They've always been this insane.

15 comments:

  1. Wow, that was written by an 11-year-old?

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  2. I read it as someone posting from the future, especially since he mentions 2015 as being in the past. This is a Freeper fantasy where they get to say, "See, we were right all along!" In their minds, all Americans will some day see the light and never vote for the Democratic party ever again and the U.S. will be under the "benevolent" rule of the Tea Party. Scary, isn't it?

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  3. My charitable assumption is that this was written in 2001, pruporting to be written in 2015. Which goes to show you that Freepers' fantasies about a new civil war and RED DAWN etc. have been around since well before Obama was around.

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  4. the person who wrote this, either
    (a) thinks everything he mentioned will or might probably happen. In that case he needs serious help
    (b) hopes everything he mentioned really happens. In that case, he should just move to Congo or Somalia and have all his war-cravings satisfied.
    (c) bored out of his mind

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  5. B-Chan, as his name suggests, is dedicated to 2 prinples: Conservativism and spreading internet memes

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  6. This is an old, old conspiracy-theory thing. Look up "John Titor" for the whole sordid story. Note that he talks about the civil war starting in 2005 - That's because when this thing first cropped up (late 90s / early 00s) that date was still well in the future. The hook is that they guy claims to have a functioning time machine, and even has pictures of The Device that he posted along with his stories.

    Basially, this is a cut-and-paste from the JT posts. Some red-stater thought it was a nifty little narrative and posted it without knowing what it was.

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  7. Thanks. Should have done a bit more research.

    I am just amused that the date is 2005, but Freepers think it's relevant anyhow.

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  8. check out his fr page http://www.freerepublic.com/~bchan/

    FR accomplishments
    Created the term "presstitute" (by accident) and introduced the term Schadenfreude into general FRusage.

    Career
    Author, illustrator and writer since 1987. Anime voice actor since 2006. Currently writing for a living.

    Books by B-Chan
    Draw Manga (ISBN: 1843401886)
    Juku: a Comics Album (ISBN: 0970383703) [et al]

    Writing published in: Animerica Magazine (1993-1995), Star Blazers: The Magazine of Space Battleship Yamato, (1994-1997), Anime UK/Anime FX Magazine(1998), Prestonwood Baptist Church Profile (1999), Wired Magazine (Letters, 2000), Wizard Magazine (2001), Manga Max Magazine (2001-2002). (Plus a whole bunch of comic books, including Robotech and Star Blazers.)

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  9. Very confusing indeed. B-chan is so reactionary he claims to be a monarchist and opposes democracy, pornography, capitalism and division between church and state.
    Strange already, but I guess he would have been in the mainstream, in say, 18th century Europe.
    What makes his profile really bizarre is that he names himself after the most lurid porn website, quotes Ozzy Osbourne and draws japanese manga !
    WHAT ????
    You can say its satire, but he seems pretty serious to me.

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  10. http://www.books-by-isbn.com/0-9703837/0970383703-Juku-A-Comics-Album-Shaindle-Minuk-Dan-Baker-Ed-Hill-David-R.-Merrill-Bruce-Lewis-0-9703837-0-3.html

    apparently he's one of these guys

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  11. Guys, I'm right here. If you have questions, I'll do my best to snswer them.

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  12. so can you explain why you posted the john titor story when it is well past its credibility phase ?

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  13. Huh. I did a search for some of the language in the story and didn't find it, so I assumed it was original crazy.

    Ah well, I guess it's merely copied crazy. It still encapsulates Freepers' cold war paranoia quite well, beyond credibility phase or no.

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  14. actually i was asking B-Chan himself for an explanation !

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  15. I'm still here, though no longer on FR. How may I help you?

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