Game Log – Week 25 & 26

Aside from normal activity at camp, there is extensive planning for the mission. Major Stone having experience at this sort of thing becomes project leader. Three main jobs have to be done as part of the planning; 1. getting maps of the area and the building, 2. getting special equipment to neutralize the security systems, 3. getting the explosives. Mary the hacker and Kateri the civil engineer handle point one. Mary also works with Marko the electronics engineer on point two. The explosives are home made by Stone and  John, based on two liter pop bottles full of napalm.  

The mission plan requires three cars; the first two will be borrowed, as they will be used for drop off and pick up of the assault team – they are most likely to be seen. The third car will act as look out and pick people up from the emergency point if necessary. Doc and Marco volunteer to be in this car. Although Doc does not want to be involved, he thinks it best to be near by incase anyone gets hurt.

The assault team will be in the first two cars, driven by Major Stone and the Grunt. The DARPA kids will act as gunmen, armed with tazers, they will sweep the building for any security guards, take them down, then drag them to a safe location. ( tied up and left next to the dumpster ) It is highly stressed that no one gets killed. John, Mary and Kateri will make up the second part of the team, they will neutralize alarms and cameras, then plant the explosives.

The mission is scheduled to take place late Sunday night, about 4am, with an on-target time of 3 to 5 minutes. The bombs are set with 15 minute timers. Other activist cells around the city will be working with a similar time frame, so that a lot of shit will happen right around 4:30am.

After exiting the building the cars will be driven to a near by parking lot, one that is known to have no cameras. There the teams will switch back to their own vehicles.       

One of the concerns is that with all the troublesome recent events the police force will be on high alert. Of course they are, but they only have so many officers in a small town, even though they took on 20 new men a few weeks ago, they are still short staffed. More importantly their main concern on this Labor Day long week end is drunk driving, not radical anti-corporation terrorists.

Sunday - September 2.

Marko asked the question “Do you really think this will do any good? Even if it works and if all the other cells hit their targets too, wont the companies just collect their insurance money, close their doors and go away, leaving even more people out of work?”

John answered “I hope they go. We are better off with out them. In fact getting rid of foreign owned corporations is a big part of the battle. But that’s only half the story; we also need to get government to totally rebuild the business laws. We must put an end to the idea of the corporation as a legal person, who in everyday actuality enjoys superior rights to a real human person. Small local companies are fine, what we need to destroy are the huge monoliths, the international conglomerates.”   

Doc then made an intellectual comment that went over the heads of many of the people involved in the discussion around the dinner table. “Its like what that French guy Sieyès wrote during the French Revolution. He argued that the Third Estate – the common people – would be better off without the dead weight of the privileged orders, the First and Second Estates of the clergy and aristocracy.”

Executing the mission

To the great excitement and surprise of everyone involved, it goes perfectly. 

The assault teams have a party when they get home.  

Monday – September 3 ( Labour Day )

The local news reports 11 acts of arson overnight, 5 being minor fire bombings that were quickly put out, while 4 others were serious, the remaining 2 fires got out of hand and were still being fought at sunrise. The targets were a mix of business offices, banks and industrial location.

More importantly was the national news, which reviled that similar acts were taking place all over Canada. From a hand full of attacks in small towns, the numbers escalated to nearly 1000 in the Toronto area. News reports for the USA were more scattered of course, because of the ongoing civil war and censorship.

The most dramatic story was in Alberta, where two attacks on the oil pipe line were launched. The first - resulting in a huge explosion and fire, with the attackers escaping. The second -  resulting in a confrontation between terrorists and the American security firm Black Water, who was protecting the pipe and the refinery. The incident would have been open and shut, if not for the arrival of the RCMP, who tried to arrest everyone. The Americans fired on the Canadian police, with out any attempt to negotiate. Thus a major political incident started.

Although it was not labour day in Britain, a sympathetic series of organized arson attacks occurred in London’s financial district. “Thieves should burn” was the graphite found near several of the burning banks.