Changes by Barry B. Longyear

Author:Barry B. Longyear [Longyear, Barry B.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Enchanteds Publishing
Published: 2020-01-24T21:00:00+00:00

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Ever since Texas Independence, agitators in Texas who opposed the separation, as well as agitators imported from the States, TV and vid teams in place, put on demonstrations of various kinds designed to show the brutality and “Nazi like” performance of various freeland security personnel by assaulting the security personnel with such non lethal approaches as blocking roadways, loud demonstrations outside the homes of officers, and reviving what was called “pig soaking,” the baiting of security officers with false calls for help, then throwing milk or water upon the responding personnel.

It was widely known that the point of the demonstrations was to provoke the security officers into eventually responding with lethal force. Such an event could place a shadow over the White Diamond for good, it was theorized. In any event, as agents of their security company or association, such wrongful death suits could bankrupt such entities.

Once Freeland Texas was up and running, however, those who blocked roads and walkways, and those demonstrating outside security officers’ homes all were standing on the property of either the officers in question, or on some road or street association property, and doing so in violation of the owners’ normal terms of access. The first cases that went through arbitration cost the defendants so much, subsequent cases were settled between attorneys, and then they ceased save demonstrators whose anti-freeland organizers had very deep pockets.

They put all their efforts into “pig-soaking” in front of cameras, but the security services had a two-pronged response. First was apprehending and charging those who made the bait calls with fraud, endangering responding officers, and denying responses for legitimate calls for help.

Second was the employment of old technology. Major Blaster Barrage Squirt Guns that could send a stream of liquid out up to thirty meters, and could flash soak up to eight meters, became standard equipment among motorized patrol units, the liquid contained in said weapons of mass repulsion was a suspicious dark yellow. It was, I was assured, only food coloring, but the rumor that it was officers’ urine or diseased livestock urine held sway.

There was a brief escalation with a few protestors in Houston using Major Blasters filled with a corrosive solution of formic acid. The security officers burned with this solution responded with firearms, killing two acid attackers and wounding four. The security officers were brought to arbiter’s court by the protest organizer and major financier, Anthony Sobey. The Houston Security Officers Alliance (HSOA), Houston City Association (HCA) and Servicios de Seguridad Indigo (SSI) joined SO Chen and six other security officers for the defense.

Henry Nixon, attorney for the plaintiffs from Nixon, Storch & Wallingford of New York, insisted on a jury. The defense, in the form of David Colt from the Houston office of Casillas Servicios de Justicos, acquiesced. The arbiter in the case was Amelia Nunn from Degas & Nunn in Houston appointed by the Houston office of the Justice Association of Texas (JAT).

Plaintiffs’ argument was that “pig soaking” with squirt guns filled

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