Linked by Gordon Korman

Author:Gordon Korman [Korman, Gordon]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 2021-07-02T00:00:00+00:00

From the YouTube channel of Adam Tok

Interview with Sheriff Bennett Ocasek

REELTOK: Thanks, Sheriff, for taking time from your busy schedule to share your insights with TokNation.

SHERIFF OCASEK: Spare me. I think you’re a loudmouth and a troublemaker. If it was up to me, you’d be run out of town on a rail.

REELTOK: Too bad that pesky First Amendment keeps getting in the way. Something about freedom of speech? So tell me, why are you here with me today?

SHERIFF OCASEK: Because I took a look at your fancy YouTube channel, and God knows why, but a lot of people tune in to hear what you’ve got to say.

REELTOK: Seventeen million subscribers and growing.

SHERIFF OCASEK: And I want them to know—and anybody else who might be listening—that we’re good people here in Chokecherry. Yeah, we’ve got our cranks. Who doesn’t? But anything that happened here in the past is exactly there—in the past.

REELTOK: So you’re confirming the Night of a Thousand Flames.

SHERIFF OCASEK: Don’t put words in my mouth. I’m not confirming anything. I’m not denying anything either. I was a kid back then.

REELTOK: But you can’t deny the swastikas that are happening now, practically every day. What progress has your department made identifying who’s responsible?

SHERIFF OCASEK: We’re working on it.

REELTOK: Are you working on it? You don’t seem to have much to show for your efforts after all these weeks.

SHERIFF OCASEK: There are six hundred kids in that school. You know how long it would take for one of them to pull a marker and scribble a few lines on a wall or a locker? I may not be some big-shot New Yorker, but I’m smart enough to know what you’re implying. You think we haven’t found the culprit because we’re not really looking. We think it’s fine to have swastikas all over the place because we’re the same bunch of rednecks and racists we were in 1978.

REELTOK: Your words, not mine.

SHERIFF OCASEK: If it’s racism you want, you should have a look at your own followers. Do you even read your comments section?

REELTOK: Are you kidding? TokNation are Chokecherry’s biggest supporters. Where do you think that art supply company found out about your paper chain? Schools all over the country are working on their own chains to send here to help you get to six million!

SHERIFF OCASEK: I guess you don’t read the ones that are not so nice. The lady who thinks it’s so terrible to waste learning time cutting and gluing paper. And by the way, she wants to know what’s so bad about swastikas? They’re just little pictures. Or the guy who says it’s a crime to waste forests of paper to commemorate something that “never happened.”

REELTOK: Free speech applies to everybody, even people who are mixed up.

SHERIFF OCASEK: Just to be clear, that’s the Holocaust he’s talking about.

REELTOK: You’ve got cranks; I’ve got cranks.

SHERIFF OCASEK: Yeah, so this message is for your cranks. Leave us alone. If you think that swastikas are fine and the Holocaust never happened—you couldn’t be more wrong.

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