Captain Johnston

This incident would not be forgotten, it would be avenged, it didn’t matter what the real issues were that caused the rebellion, the only thing that mattered now was the perception of how the government handled it. Captain Johnston surveyed the remains of the gas station. The shop was burned down, the tanks emptied, the pumps destroyed and the two bodies swaying from ropes tied to their feet. The carrion insects were already swarming about the men.

Johnston looked with disgusts. Charlie and Keith were not rebels, they could only be counted on for support if you could pay for it, and they were a couple of grease monkeys trying to scratch out a living in an oppressive environment. They had no politics other than what the register held. What ever had gone down here was the work of the Feds. Overkill, it was a hallmark of the oppressors. Put fear in the local populace and they would cower and not rise up. He shook his head as he took in the waste. Charlie would not have resisted, something had gone on, even accounting for the blood at the edge of the parking lot, someone had fired on a solider and the feds in turned shot both of the men in the back and strung them by the feet for the locals to see.

“Eversman, take some pictures of those bodies and upload them as soon as possible, Psy-ops will want that. Take a few of the station too.” Johnston hated using people he knew like this, but he had to show the rest of the country what the Feds were capable of and if that meant taking some pics of good men shot in the back so be it. “Let them know that the Feds can in demanding his stock and when they asked for payment the feds shot them in the back then burned the station. Also put in the dispatch that Charlie and Keith accounted for at least three of the enemy.” It was all bull, but support was wainign, people cared more for reruns of reality shows than they did about the government suspending their rights. At least the trains ran on time was an old Russian quote referring to life under Stalin, and it held true today. People didn’t care about politics since the other side had stolen the government.

The sad thing, Johnston thought to himself was that the majority of people would just shake their heads and feel bad until the news break was over and Fat slob and his hot wife came back on with lame jokes that relied on sexual innuendo instead of being clever. Johnston could not remember the last time when watched TV when it wasn’t news. “Lets get them down and burry them and then get the hell out of here.” He had a bad feeling about this.

The uprising was not going well for the rebels, they had lost a lot of ground in pitched battled and now were be forced deeper into the country. They needed the promised foreign aid and soon or the feds could over run them. The rebels needed to strike hard and fast, they needed some victories and again they needed them fast to help keep the peoples support