The Last President: A Novel of an Alternative America by Michael Kurland & S. W. Barton

Author:Michael Kurland & S. W. Barton [Kurland, Michael & Barton, S. W.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Fantasy, General, Science Fiction, Alternative History
ISBN: 9781479409938
Google: OqD0AAAAQBAJ
Amazon: B00BZWCGOU
Publisher: Wildside Press
Published: 2013-03-22T07:00:00+00:00

“I expect the inspector sent us around to the safe end of things,” Kit said.

A line of students appeared at the edge of campus and quickly became a crowd. More of the hard-helmeted policemen ran forward to join the line separating the students from the street.

One of the bullhorn-equipped student leaders came to the front of the group. “All right, let’s hear it!” he screamed through his horn. The shrill words echoed off the buildings until they seemed to have been torn from some inhuman throat.

“Baby butchers!” the crowd yelled. “Baby butchers! Baby butchers! BABY BUTCHERS! BABY BUTCHERS!”

“It looks like we’ll get some action over here after all,” Vandermeer told Kit.

“I’d say so,” Kit agreed. “You want to stay?”

“Of course. Where the hell are those cameramen? They should be getting this. This is just what we need.”

“Need?” Kit asked.

“Sure,” Vandermeer said. “You can mold public opinion without tools. This rioting gives us a handle.”

“BABY BOMBERS! BABY BOMBERS! BABY BOMBERS!” chanted the students.

“What good does this do?” Kit asked, gesturing toward the screaming youths. “How do they fit into your plan?”

“Middle America,” Vandermeer said, “that great silent majority, is not altogether sure that we did the right thing in bombing Hanoi.”

“And this will convince them?” Kit asked.

“Of course. Middle America does not understand or like the young sex-crazed, drug-freak, rock-and-rollies that they brought into the world. If you want them to be for something, just tell them that the college students are against it. Particularly in Berkeley or New York.”

Some people from the back of the student mass were throwing rocks and bottles at the police, and now the police responded by lobbing tear-gas cannisters into the crowd. The students scattered to avoid the tear gas. Some of them picked up the hot cannisters and tossed them back down the street.

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