As much as I enjoyed your story, Jeff, I am afraid that you are now stuck
in my list of the fools here who think that if they have a gun and you don't,
that if they are prepared to engage in brutality and you aren't, that they will
automatically be able to impose their will on you.

That is just bunk.

The people I am with have existed right here on Lands that Americans think
they control for over 30 years, with no weapons and no brutality. The laws
of America mean nothing to us and we just ignore them.

Yes, our existence is well-known to your secret police and your military.
But they can't really do anything about people that are spread out all over
hell in tiny groups and don't need any of your stuff to live. You just don't
have any way to track us. None at all.

A friend of mine will be speaking to a group of young people outside of
Seattle in a week or so. The party just left here and will WALK there.
No American will ever even see them until they arrive, and then only a select
few.

Americans  are incredibly arrogant and unable to comprehend the fact that
people don't have to play by their rules.

So a bunch of people waltz right into your country and bomb the pentagon.
and the wtc. How much good did all your firepower do you there?
Why didn't all your grand hi-technology protect you?

But these people at least play the game of war, which makes them very much
like you.

We don't. We aren't like you at all and  our world is not yours. Out here, it
just makes you stick out like the proverbial sore thumb.

Your heroine wouldn't have a chance. Not a single one. She would have been
driven from the area in a flash if that was what was called for.

alanc