This is the first full week in my lifetime in which Rush Limbaugh is gone. Some people loved him. Some people hated him. The simple fact is that he loved this country, and I will share one of his statements here.
“America is worth it, America is worth fighting for, America is worth not giving up.”
Seyla.
Charles Edward Hurst commanded Wolf Fleet through to War’s End. He commanded many famous pilots in his time, including most of the alien pilots who joined the Cowboys. It was a veritable menagerie of different species and random rich or powerful individuals. Christian Mack was probably the most famous of them, due to his many award-winning roles in films and series, and he ran the fleet in every way that mattered. The old sergeant worked with the Tarrant County Sheriff to maintain the Cowboys’ unique nature, and would take command of the fleet when Major Hurst retired. The renamed Ram Fleet would spread throughout the ever-expanding outer colonial regions in the decades that followed, providing peacekeeping and para-military services to anyone in need.
The Tarrant County Sheriff’s Cowboys had long since ceased being a mere squadron by War’s End. They measured three full fleets of over a hundred pilots each, flying off their own starships with hundreds of drone fighters under their command. They helped keep the peace in the Hyades Cluster, providing valuable assistance to the Republic of China administrators. The Cowboys stood be between the local civilians and the need for massive occupying forces, and many credit them with keeping the cluster from going out of control. Those who make a living attempting to discredit the Cowboys are not in that number, and they have tried to hamstring them multiple times in the decades since War’s End.
The Republic of Texas Marine Corps Fighter Attack Squadron 112, the Cowboys, expanded up to twenty, then fifty, and finally hundreds of pilots by War’s End. Many of these were completely new recruits, or transfers from other units or services, but many others belonged to the less-visible units in the Cowboy’s esoteric organizational structure. They flew off starships built by the Cybernetic Families specifically for their use. The Peloran Confederation built their starfighters. And the Tarrant County Sheriff deputized them into his posse, giving them authority to protect the common peace throughout the Western Alliance. They were far outside the norm of American fighter units, and this frightened some people. They sought to regularize the Cowboys. To bring them under more formal control. Neither the Cowboys nor the Tarrant County Sheriff cooperated.
We’ve spent a year watching BLM and Antifa protest during the day, and then burn down neighborhoods at night. Minneapolis. Portland. Seattle. Atlanta. Washington DC. Kenosha. For month after month, we’ve watched the police ordered to stand down to let them occupy buildings or neighborhoods. Even government buildings have been attacked and sometimes burned down. Dozens of lives have been snuffed out, and in some cases we’ve even watched proud Antifa members pull the trigger on camera. Combined with the COVID, it’s been Hell on Earth in a lot of ways, and I really have not enjoyed watching it. But I have watched, because I knew that one day I would have to bear witness to what I have seen with my own eyes.
This week I watched an episode of NCIS Los Angeles and had to shake my head. In their world, even the suggestion that law enforcement officers would be at a peaceful protest was enough to anger one of the agents. The only violence came from police sent to break up their protests, or counter-protest right wing militia members. Police were bad guys kidnapping people in Portland, and the big bads were law enforcement officers who kidnapped, beat, and tortured poor, innocent minorities. Agents lamented the actions of their law enforcement partners and questioned their very membership in the profession. It was like watching Wandavision, only with less basis in reality. At least Wandavision is honest about the deception. NCISvision is broadcast with a straight face and expectation of belief. But I bear witness to what I have seen this last year, and I recognize the deception.
Forge of War on Amazon
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