"Visa or passport, please."
"Sure, here's my passport."
"Reason for coming into the States?"
"I'm just going to check my post office box."
"Where do you live?"
"In Montreal."
"Is this your car, Mr. Faster?"
"Yes."
"Do you have the registration?"
"Sure, it's here in the glove compartment. I'll get it."
"All right, Mr. Faster, just pull your car over to that parking area by the building and go inside."
"Is there a problem?"
"Just a spot check."
[Regret ting that this short, obese, gruff man with a badge and gun wasn't the taller, younger guy who, in the past, always beamed when he saw me and often asked me about my days in Austin. I parked and went inside. There was a uniformed man behind the desk.]
"May I have the keys to your car? We will need to take a look inside."
[After turning over my car keys, I was immediately ushered into a small, windowless room with a table and three chairs. After almost an hour, the door opened and in strolled a tall, muscular man in a dark suit which barely concealed a holstered pistol.]
"We are so glad to see you, Mr. Faster. We were anxious to have you come back and visit your home country."
"Why is that?"
"Well we don't normally take so much time with cases like yours -- living out of the country, as you do."
"What do you mean, '... cases like mine?'"
"We usually just need to remove the offending web sites and issue a warning. However, in your case we have decided that since you are living in Canada it is going to be more efficient to just remove both the sites and you."
"What are you talking about! Who are you?"
"Although it is of no consequence, I'm from a special department within Homeland Security and we are taking all of your web sites off line, as we speak."
"You can't do that, I want to speak to a lawyer!"
"Faster, you'll never have need of a lawyer again."
"What are you talking about? I want to call my wife"
"I'm afraid that also will never be allowed."
"What do you mean, '... NEVER ...?!'"
"In most cases like this, all we need do is put some pressure on a local citizen; usually by simply explaining how they may lose a close family member, sometimes we can just buy them off. However, in your case, you don't seem to have any close family ties and don't seem to be very money motivated. On top of that, because you are currently residing in Canada, we don't want to create an 'incident' by going across the border to 'deal with you.' So, you see, we can't allow you anymore contact with anyone. It was so very convenient for you to elect to come 'visit us,' today."
"Are you telling me that you are going to arrest me because of my web sites? Are you implying that I'm being taken into custody!?"
"We have to take action against your web sites because we have noticed that one of them is beginning to go viral and when that happens, the public can become too agitated for us to readily calm. So, we have found that it is simply much more expedient to just 'remove' the sites and, if need be, the individuals, as well. When you started including links connecting The Bilderberg Group with Obama in the various comments you were posting to those political sites, you became another of our 'targets' and had to be dealt with."
"You mean I was right? Back toward the end of the primaries The Bilderberg Group co-opted his vote on the FISA Bill?"
"Yea Obama, like ALL you soft leftys, quickly got with the program. All we had to do was 'explain' how we controlled the Secret Service Agents that watch over him, his wife and his little girls and he quite readily caved. A real wimp, that one."
"You've been doing this for a long time, haven't you ... at least as far back as John Kennedy?"
"Now there was a major case of stupid arrogance. From what I've been told, we leaned on him pretty hard, but he just didn't believe us, so ..."
"Who else? Paul Wellstone?"
"Oh, that bastard! Another hard-head who wouldn't listen. Anyway there's no need to get into what would be a rather 'confidential' and long list of hard-heads. Anyway, I guess that we have chatted more than we should. It's time to go."
"Where are you taking me?!"
"Probably not very far, since I doubt that you will need any 'enhanced interrogation' . I think they said that they are going to just 'disappear' you ..."
"NO ... NO, I HAVE RIGHTS! YOU CAN'T DO THIS!!"
"Oh yea? Well just WHO do you think is going to stop US?"
[TARRY! Wake up Tarry ... WAKE UP, you are having a bad dream. All that shouting and kicking ... what were you dreaming, darling?!]
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NOTE: Text in brackets ( [ ... ] ) were added for clarification, after the nightmare.