New American Holocaust

A play/ screen play I wrote about 9/11, the death of freedom in America, and the coming New World Order and Orwellian society; which is taking over not just America but the world!

NEW AMERICAN HOLOCAUST 

 

 

ACT ONE

SCENE 1

 

September 2001

Center stage An American family is sitting down watching television in their living room; the screen spills the familiar neon glow into the darkened room the two faces of the actors glow green in its pallor.

 

 

 MOM:  Anything on?

 

DAD: (not moving) dunna, u tried CNN?

 

 MOM: Tried it, watched it, sick of it!

 

The character of mum sits slumped in her chair frustrated look across her face

 

 MOM: Sheena from the office was saying how her little Michael isn’t doing so good, kind of mopes around the house, it’s not that I don’t care it’s just you know people’s problems are their own, I mean what does she think I can do about it?

 

DAD: And what do you expect me to tell you after hearing that tripe?

 

MOM: That you love me and you care and……                         

 

DAD: To go get breakfast.

 ham and eggs over easy and don’t spare the ketchup oh and my paper.

Gotta get off to work in a bit.

 

The character of mom laughs and goes off stage to the kitchen a little more cheerful with a smile on her face.

Mom is off stage but calls back to Dad

 

MOM: I’m bored, perhaps we should go out, u know like we used to maybe paint the town red, go to the park catch a show something like that?

 

DAD: Na Wheel of Fortune will be on in a bit and you wouldn’t wanna miss that now would you? Come on down the price is right its comedy gold.

 

Flicking idly through the channels character of Dad freezes Motionless in his seat as a news report flashes across the television.

 

NEWS REPORTER: We interrupt this program to bring you breaking news; the Twin Towers have been attacked! I repeat the Twin Towers have been attacked! Sources are speculative at the minute but I can say with some impunity, we’ll get the b******s who did it.

 

 DAD: s**t hunny u seein this?

 

The character of Mom sheepishly walks back into the living room

 

MOM: I’m scared

 

DAD:  Don’t worry I’m here the kids are in bed and we live in the land of truth and liberty, justice will prevail!

 

SCENE 2

 

Stage revolves to reveal a different house with 4 individuals watching a television screen mist blows around their feet to symbolize clouds. Truth watches the television entranced, her gaze never leaves the screen.

 

NEWS REPORTER: The Twin towers a symbol of our trade cooperation and our enduring sense of financial liberty was hit exactly ten minutes ago, this reporter still can’t believe it sources now indicate that this was indeed no accident and that the United States is under attack from terrorists.

 

 TRUTH: I feel unwell!

 

JUSTICE: Ah hunny I know it looks bad but I’m sure they’ll pull through the human race has a history of it, deep down they know left from right, right from wrong I’m sure everything will be fine.

 

TRUTH: This time feels different, I’m cold I’ve never been cold my Promethean torch has never been extinguished but now I feel although the rains are dampening my flame out of malice and indignation.

 

JUSTICE: Jees babe you’re sounding all mystical and biblical you must be sick! Here I’ll take your temperature”

 

Reaches for a thermometer and places it between Truth’s lips.

 

NEWS REPORTER: News just in, the second tower has been struck by another aircraft, we believe to be a commercial jetliner American Airlines has confirmed that at least one of its aircraft has deviated its flight path, we go directly now to our reporter in New York for the latest.

 

 

 

SECOND REPORTER: Thanks Dave; The scene here is one of panic and confusion, people are being evacuated from the towers as we speak, clouds of smoke billow into the sky, and you can see tiny black specks waving frantically as the flames consume them. I can’t begin to describe it and oh my god there’s been an explosion in tower one and holy f**k its falling!

 

The screen goes black static on the television

 

NEWS REPORTER: We appear to have lost our feed there; folks uhhh… the network apologizes and will resume normal service as soon as possible.

 

Truth weakens and visibly becomes frailer and more sick

 

SCENE 3

 

The All American family is still sat in front of the television watching President Bush’s reaction to the attacks. They have now all got TV dinners and are currently eating with the dinner on lap trays.

 

PRESIDENT BUSH: On September the 11th, enemies of freedom committed an act of war against our country. Americans have known wars, but for the past 136 years they have been wars on foreign soil, except for one Sunday in 1941. Americans have known the casualties of war, but not at the center of a great city on a peaceful morning.

Americans have known surprise attacks, but never before on thousands of civilians.

All of this was brought upon us in a single day, and night fell on a different world, a world where freedom itself is under attack.

Americans have many questions tonight. Americans are asking, "Who attacked our country?"

The evidence we have gathered all points to a collection of loosely affiliated terrorist organizations known as Al Qaeda. They are some of the murderers indicted for bombing American embassies in Tanzania and Kenya and responsible for bombing the USS Cole.

Al Qaeda is to terror what the Mafia is to crime. But its goal is not making money, its goal is remaking the world and imposing its radical beliefs on people everywhere.

The terrorists practice a fringe form of Islamic extremism that has been rejected by Muslim scholars and the vast majority of Muslim clerics; a fringe movement that perverts the peaceful teachings of Islam.

The terrorists' directive commands them to kill Christians and Jews, to kill all Americans and make no distinctions among military and civilians, including women and children.

This group and its leader, a person named Osama bin Laden, are linked to many other organizations in different countries, including the Egyptian Islamic Jihad, the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan.

There are thousands of these terrorists in more than 60 countries. They are recruited from their own nations and neighborhoods and brought to camps in places like Afghanistan where they are trained in the tactics of terror. They are sent back to their homes or sent to hide in countries around the world to plot evil and destruction.

The leadership of Al Qaeda has great influence in Afghanistan and supports the Taliban regime in controlling most of that country. In Afghanistan we see Al Qaeda's vision for the world. Afghanistan's people have been brutalized, many are starving and many have fled.

Women are not allowed to attend school. You can be jailed for owning a television. Religion can be practiced only as their leaders dictate. A man can be jailed in Afghanistan if his beard is not long enough.

The United States respects the people of Afghanistan " after all, we are currently its largest source of humanitarian aid " but we condemn the Taliban regime.

Assembled crowd applauds.

PRESIDENT BUSH: I will not forget the wound to our country and those who inflicted it. I will not yield, I will not rest, I will not relent in waging this struggle for freedom and security for the American people.

The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.

 further applause

Fellow citizens, we'll meet violence with patient justice, assured of the rightness of our cause and confident of the victories to come.

In all that lies before us, may God grant us wisdom and may he watch over the United States of America.

Thank you.

DAD: I tell ya, that mans got the right idea, we gotta make these fuckers pay! bomb our country and geta away with it!  Jerkestan or wherever, we gotta teach these goddamn rag heads who’s boss.

 

SON:  Yea dad I agree, but like how did they get round Norad? I mean the guy in charge is a camel jockey man, I want nothing more than their country to burn as you do pa, but there’s something that don’t quite add up.

 

DAD:  Now you listen son, these fuckers started this thing off, not us! so don’t get any funny ideas about your conspiracy whatumacallits!”

 

SON: Theories

 

DAD : Ok let’s just see this thing out, do what’s right! Patriotism is the order of the day in this house, got it!

 

Son leaves the room as the lights dim gradually

Lights down

Son’s voice is heard through the blackness.

 

SON: Ok dad, Patriotism.

 

 

 

SCENE 4

 

All four characters in the American family appear to be sleeping in the living room The television turns itself back on and the family re-animates.

 

MOM: News again honey! looks like the senate is approving some new act to combat terrorism at home their callin it the Patriot act.”

 

DAD: Great! That Tim Mcveigh and all those nutter extremists camped out in some damn wood thinkin their own government is against them finally got what they deserve, sounds like this country is finally waking up nail-em that’s what I say. Turn it up I can’t hear a damn word.

 

NEWS REPORTER: The Patriot act in its entirety will be ratified this afternoon the legislation will also be adopted under the home grown terrorist act and the homeland security bill,

It will allow the detention of suspected terror suspects.  In an unprecedented and unpopular move The Government has also constructed a camp in Cuba for dissidents to be held indefinitely. The name of this camp is so far unknown but sources indicate that Fidel Castro has sold an area of land in Guantanamo bay.”

 

DAUGHTER: Is that like my band camp daddy?

 

DAD:  No darling it’s where we put the bad people who want to hurt our country.

 

The curtain comes down and the family’s switch the second family is gathered round the spluttering fitting body of truth she is writhing around and talking in tongues the rest of the family look horrified as she becomes more and more ill she is visibly fighting for her life.

In the background the television is still on.

 

NEWS REPORTER: The war in Afghanistan against Bin laden and the totalitarian Taliban government started today, so far official figures suggest 272 enemy combatants have been destroyed and that we have taken some key strategic points in the city of Kabul itself some collateral damage was sustained when a bomber accidentally destroyed a school confusing it for a Taliban outpost American casualties are reported to be light.

 In other news the President has drawn up an axis of evil with the country of Iraq as its main target the government believes that the Iraqi president Saddam Hussein actively supports terrorists and has weapons of mass destruction capable of attacking the United States or our allies in Great Britain The president urged the people the necessity of a preemptive strike against Iraq saying that.

 

Bush’s voice heard from offstage

PRESIDENT BUSH: We have experienced the horror of September 11th We have seen that those who hate America are willing to crash airplanes into buildings full of innocent people. Our enemies would be no less willing -- in fact they would be eager to use a biological, or chemical, or a nuclear weapon.

Knowing these realities, America must not ignore the threat gathering against us. Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof -- the smoking gun -- that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud.

Coughing from the couch off stage as truth utters her last word before dying.

 

TRUTH " Lies

 

 

ACT TWO

 

SCENE 1

 

It’s mid September The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq are raging unabated, the year is 2008 it is 7 years since the September 11^th attacks against the United States, since this time George W Bush has been re elected London was attacked in 7/7 and the world truly understands that we are in a truly Orwellian scene perpetually at war with terrorism but ultimately ourselves, life for the typical household largely carries on as before.

 

 

MOM: how was work hunny

 

DAD: (answering from the front room) what?

 

 DAD: Work how was it?

 

DAD: Uhh ok you know same s**t different day babe why’d u ask

 

 MOM: It’s nothing really just been watchin the news while I was tidyin,

 

DAD: Yea

 

MOM: Yea, it was talking about the housing crisis and some mortgage problem, which might affect us!

 

DAD: Howdya mean,

 

MOM: Well I’m probably just worrying but I heard Sheila tell sue about it, she bought her house last year and prices have already dropped so much she now can’t sell it, or afford the mortgage

Her and Gavin are gunna have to go rent a place out at the north shore.

 

DAD: Serves em right for bieng so damn stupid, I mean they hardly had a bean to rub together anyway, so which idiot gave them the cash to buy a house.

 

MOM: Come on that’s not fair, they were only doing what they thought was right for the family at the time. Anyone could have easily made the same mistake.

 

DAD: Yea I guess but the bank shouldn’t have given them the f****n mortgage in the first place.

 

Enter son now grown up into a young man 

 

SON:  Dad! (breathless)

 

DAD :Yea, what is it? (noticeably Irritated)

 

SON: Me and some of the guys at college have been looking into September 11^th we reckon it wasn’t Bin Laden that did it, nor the Pentagon, there's loads of evidence to suggest the Bush administration did the whole thing!

 

DAD: (visibly irritated) now listen, If you expect me to believe that hogwash u got another thing coming you hear me. We got attacked by rag head camel jockeys and that’s the end of it, you’re a good kid so why dya fill your life with conspiracies; fly right go get a girlfriend or sumtin like a normal guy your age. Our government looks after us that’s its job.

 

SON: Some days dad I wish you could maybe see what’s in front of your eyes rather than inside them your blinkered, brainwashed by that f*****g box, (points to the television, tears in his eyes) the opinion your giving me is based no more on truth than the bullshit tax law.

 

DAD: (getting out of his chair and standing upright.)

 

DAD: Listen here u little s**t, if you think for one second you can come into my house spouting garbage like that insulting my intelligence, making me feel bad about my life, your god damn wrong, f**k you!

 

SON: Ok dad if that’s the way you want it.

 

DAD: Yea it is get outa my house you unpatriotic loser!

 

SON: fine, see ya later mum, much later.

 

Son exits the house and is off stage. his thoughts are heard by audience.

 

SON: Why won’t they listen, are they really so blind, do they not care, I know I’m right something is happening, I need to find others who understand.

 

 

SCENE 2

 

It’s now November 2008 the family hasn’t seen their son for some time the U.S elections have come and gone with Barrack Obama becoming president elect. The so called credit crunch is starting to bite and businesses all over the USA are starting to feel the pinch. Recession is the word on people’s lips as the economy begins to plummet

 

FOREMAN: I’m sorry man my hands are tied there just isn’t the business.

 

DAD: there must be something you can do!

 

FOREMAN: Afraid not. Business has been slowin down these last couple of months and the big wigs say that plants in Denver and Detroit are gunna close come the New Year! Look you got 6 months, I’m sorry but there it is, to be honest you’re lucky some of the guys I gotta speak to today gotta pack their s**t up in just two weeks.

 

DAD: But…

 

 FOREMAN:  You have been a valued worker and an asset to the company and we respect that. The redundancy deal being offered is pretty sweet, and I said u still got six months, I suggest you use them wisely, maybe look for other work.

 

 DAD: But I just…

 

FOREMAN: Listen bud I’m pretty busy today as you can see you got off light just be thankful! if you want take the rest of the day off ?

I understand this is hard but we gotta do it, the whole company is on its knees; come April I doubt we’ll even have the cash to make nuts and bolts let alone cars. it’s all on black and white in there! 

Foreman hands dad a sealed envelope

 

FOREMAN: If you could send the next guy in that’d be appreciated

 

Dad closes the office door and leaves the building to go home, the envelope in his hand.

(STAGE BLACK)

 

SCENE 3

 

Lights up- Stage reopens in the American family home the table is the only object lit on the table are two objects one, a sealed envelope, and the second a postcard

Enter daughter now nine years of age reads the postcard to herself.

 

SON: Dear all

 

You wouldn’t believe me, so I have found people that do, I miss you guys and hope that you are well. I can’t say too much apart from the fact I am with some people who are fighting for our freedom from tyranny. Gotta go we got something big planned in the next couple of weeks, you’ll see.

 

I’ll be in touch your son of liberty.

 

                                                                                  

MOM: What’s that you got darling?

 

 DAUGHTER:  It’s a postcard.

 

MOM: Let me see that. (goes visibly white and shaken)

 

Reaches over to the table to steady herself sees the other letter but ignores it instead walking in a mesmerized state towards the television and the images of her son playing across them.

 

 

 

NEWS REPORTER: the so called sons of liberty extremist group were arrested on various conspiracy charges by CIA officials in the early hours of last night, the group were believed to have links with Al-Qaeda and other factions and will be held indefinitely under the homegrown terrorist act.

Details about the group’s activities are at present restricted though sources claim that they may have links with other student terror cells primarily the ones responsible for terrorism against U.S. Citizens and the Oklahoma bombings conducted by Timothy Mcveigh.

 

Mom drops to the floor her head in her hands she is sobbing uncontrollably

 

 

SCENE 4

 

Justice is sat playing with her Lego bricks in front of their television set she watches the television in a trance as her father mourns the loss of his wife, she is unaware her mother is dead but is aware that something is wrong and that she is feeling unwell

 

JUSTICE: Daddy I feel sick

 

LIBERTY: (Through tears) honey just go lie down over there I’ll be over in a minute, I gotta see to mummy.

 

Justice walks towards her bedroom the television in the background

A news report flicks across the screen

 

NEWS REPORTER: The sons of liberty are under the new constitution illegible for trial for their crimes. Instead the homeland security office states “They shall be held in Guantanamo bay until such time that they are deemed fit for release.

The homegrown terrorist act introduced by the president just after 9/11 was designed for just such an event. Good news for the suspects may come in the form of President elect Obama’s crusade to close Guantanamo when he takes office early next year.

 

JUSTICE: Daddy I don’t wanna be sick like mummy

 

LIBERTY: You won’t be darling, everything’s going to be fine, you will prevail! This new president will sort things out, close that awful place and make you and the world well again. Now go to bed and things will be better in the morning I’m going to go see to mommy ok?. Night, night baby sweet dreams. (Visibly shaken)

 

 

 

 

SCENE 5

 

Center stage is set on a plane heading to Guantanamo bay  Son is in an orange jumpsuit handcuffed and you can see bruising on his face. He is sat next to a guard who is reading today’s copy of the Washington post, and craning his neck to read what it says. The headline reads: Financial crisis worsens banks in economic collapse as millions set to lose their jobs.

 

 

 

GUARD: hey

 

Shoves the sons head back and locks his hood over his head with chain and padlock 

 

GUARD: Dunna why your reading, it aint gunna concern you where ya goin!

 

SON:  muffled by his hood I just wanted to see, I gotta family, mom dad etc

 

GUARD:  yea no kidding, they’ll get there’s soon enough!

 

SON: yea I know, the people at the top running the whole evil affair, robbing the public blind until there’s nothing left no democracy, no history, only control. It doesn’t matter who’s in power democrat republican, it’s all a sham, just remember who founded our country, they were slave owners turned politicians were all gunna be their slaves again, that’s what they want but instead of being shackled were tied into a self generating debt slaves to the corporations and the banks.

 

GUARD: Dunna bout that but I do know that you and your little freedom fighters aint gunna enjoy the bay,. I’m gunna personally make sure of it, Abugraib’s gunna look like Disneyland to you by the time I’m done.

 

 

(Stage Black)

 

 

ACT 3

SCENE 1

 

January 22^nd the reigns of power are handed over to a resolute president Obama, he is under no preconceptions about the task he faces as America slips further still in recession, and in the eyes of the world .Over the next months He follows through on his promise and starts to dismantle some of the worst elements of the Bush administration including Guantanamo Bay the character of Son is sent to England to be put into a minimum security prison with a release date of April 2009 Obama starts a systematic rebuilding process including all Americans, and ushering in a new era of equality, naturally this doesn’t last long.

 

The American family are watching the news in horror, dad has now only three weeks left in employment and the family is starting to suffer they huddle round their television for security and watch in fright the unfolding drama playing across their screen.

 

NEWS REPORTER: the shots were fired from within the crowd, reports suggest that Muslim extremists are once again to blame for the attack. Arrests have already been put into place the president’s condition is described as critical and the vice president has declared a state of emergency while the crisis continues.

 

Our reporter on the scene Dave Tucker has the latest.

 

DAVE: Shock is the words on most people’s lips here Tom, this assassination was clinical and it seemed from where I was standing that the bullet came from within the president’s own entourage, CIA officials are swarming all over the crime scene and subsequent shots have been fired, though through this mass of people it is impossible to determine who by.

The president was making a visit to a state hospital here in Florida and was greeted by adoring fans, but as he exited the building less than ten minutes ago shots were fired from behind him, I can’t speculate but it seems like an assassin slipped through the presidents security and shot him at close range no less than four times before being tackled to the floor, I didn’t see the man but you’ve got to ask yourself how the guy got through the bodyguards and rooftop snipers.

 

NEWS REPORTER: So you saw the president go down?

 

DAVE: Yea Obama was halfway down the staircase when the first shot struck. By the time the fourth bullet hit he was already out of my sight

 

NEWS REPORTER: So what’s the mood there Dave how are people reacting?

 

DAVE: I can tell you now the mood here is one not only of shock but also anger, there has been some unease amongst the crowd and a band of them seem to be making their way towards the cavalcade and the vice president who was also with Obama for this state visit, this particular band though appear to be wearing what looks like yea its some kind of black uniform and also each one of them is carrying what appears to be a briefcase of some description. The CIA men are moving towards them and appear to be putting on gas masks.

 

NEWS REPORTER: Can you tell us any more Dave?

 

DAVE: Oh my god

 

NEWS REPORTER: Dave?

 

DAVE: The uniformed crowd approaching the president has also put on gas masks and have been handed weapons by the CIA men I can’t believe what I’m seeing! Holy s**t they’ve all now got gas masks and vials or something in their hands, they’re facing their weapons into the crowd and yes they appear to have dropped the vials on the floor

 

DAVE: S**t I, I, can’t breath

 

NEWS REPORTER: Dave!

 

Camera pans to news reporter

Writhing on the floor in agony

 

DAVE: Let the world know. They’re killing everybody (Whispered labored breathing)

 

The television screen goes blank to the sounds of screaming and automatic gunfire.

News Reporter shocked by what he has just seen is looking blankly ahead of him a soldier is visible by his side in the same non nondescript black uniform and helmet the soldier hands the news reporter a gas mask puts it on News Reporterand a prepared speech.

 

SOLDIER:  Read it!

 

The United States has been attacked by terrorists in Florida. The terrorists have used biological weapons against the people many are dying or infected along the coast In the event of a declaration of a National Emergency and both the president and vice president are unable to assume office; executive power is given to FEMA the Federal Emergency Management Agency until such time as the country is deemed safe to be handed back.

The United States is now under Martial law and all civilians are required to adhere to certain rules for their own safety. We will implement quarantine areas in Florida and its neighboring states to stop infection this means that all citizens must in the next 48 hours report to train stations airports and all major government buildings for identification and screening.

Failure to comply is unacceptable.

 

The news reporter is now replaced with an American flag and the national anthem

Dad is first to speak his bottom lip trembling slightly as his brain processes all the information he has just seen.

 

DAD: They…. I mean they can’t…. Surely they

 

MOM: sobbing it’s so horrible, why did this happen?

 

Dad looking at the floor now seeming ashamed of himself

 

 DAD: I guess my son was right I saw it for myself those gas masks the CIA they’re in on it they’re all in on it and the news reports I been believing the wrong guys all along

                           

MOM: What do we do? (MOM In between tears)

 

DAD: well I been listening to this god dammn idiot box too long walking toward the television arms outstretched its time I started to wake up

 

Dad hurls the television out of the living room window  Mom runs over and hugs him and he comforts her in his arms

 

MOM: Oh hunny What’s going to happen?

 

DAD: I don’t know babe, but what I do know is that we’re not going anywhere near a train station or any other place where they can herd us up like cattle! Grab some things and get in the car were getting outta the city right now!

 

They hurriedly pack the basics of their belongings and dad goes offstage to get the car running noise of running engine heard off stage

           The family disappears in a hurry from center stage all carrying a small suitcase.

 

 

SCENE 2

 

Liberty sits in a crumpled heap on center stage he is holding in his hands the body of Justice and weeping. Into her garments she is wearing a white nighty

 

LIBERTY: Why o lord why is this what you wanted, are these people to be doomed do you want them all to suffer Is this what you want?

You wish my family to die? You wish to see your greatest work destroyed? And for what

Why do you punish those you love silence

answer me.

 

There is a knock on the door Liberty gets up to open it and finds his son freedom in a heap covered in blood he drags him inside and lays him down on the couch wiping the blood with his robe

 

FREEDOM: Father I….. I am sorry

 

LIBERTY: What for my boy what for?

 

FREEDOM: For not being good enough

 

LIBERTY: For what your scaring me where have you been

 

FREEDOM: Trying to stem the tide

 

Liberty examines the boy and finds deep cuts lacerating his body his robe is also torn

 

LIBERTY: What have you done?

 

FREEDOM: They tried so hard to grasp me climbing in the razor wire they glimpsed me through those evil fences they cried as children not men. all of them cutting into me as they ripped their flesh in futility the ones that did make it were dragged back their hands bound as they were led into the sealed rooms. Choking

They are with me forever now and I with them

I understand now this is our destiny it is inescapable.

 

LIBERTY: My son you were there?

 

FREEDOM: Yes but now no longer, one reached me a son fighting in your name but now I am done no man on earth can see me anymore.

I shall be with the truly free.

 

 Freedom coughs gasps and his eyes roll back in his head

Freedom dies and Liberty holds his hands up towards the audience in surrender

 

LIBERTY: If this is your design then take me for I cannot bear to live with ought my family, my heart is broken you have done all you can why not just kill me?

Kill me now and we shall both be at peace your will done and mine destroyed if it is what you want then take it for it is better to die in the arms of those I love than from the pain of knowing I will remain while they walk a path I can never follow.

Silence The American family is in the car they have been stopped by a roadblock laid straight across the highway two soldiers are advancing on the car there guns raised at the occupants.

 

SOLDIER:  Out of the car!

 

DAD:  What’s the problem

 

Soldier fires a warning shot into the air.

 

SOLDIER: Out now!

 

Dad steps out of the car his hands in the air

 

DAD: Ok u got me but leave my family out of this, what do you want?

 

SOLDIER: Identification! Show me your identification!

 

Dad pulls out an old oil cartel membership card and keeps his other hand behind his back

 

SOLDIER: What the hell is this? (Soldier Scrutinizing card)

 

Dad Punches the soldier and dives back into the car its my fist the screen goes black as the car noise is heard tires screeching and shots being fired

 

SCENE 3

 

Lights up to show the family in a rural cottage in the middle of nowhere they are exhausted after the escape and are sleeping, this is dads parents old house and has been left unoccupied since they died there is dust everywhere and there is little food the house is miles from any town or city and they are blocking up the windows so as not to show light in the evenings.

 

DAD: Gimme a hand with that box would ya babe my backs killin from the drive

 

MOM:  Sure don’t worry lifting a box of fabric

 

MOM: Do you think this place is safe,

 

DAD: Who knows but it’s better than the alternative, that doesn’t even bear thinking about, all those sheep flocking to the stations they have no clue what they’re letting themselves in for, neither do I but judging by what went down in Florida you can expect it to be pretty damn nasty.

 

DAUGHTER: Daddy why are we here, have we done something wrong?

 

DAD: No sweetie were just playing a little game of hide go seek mommy and daddy and you were hiding while some other people are seeking

 

DAUGHTER:  Will they count to ten?

 

DAD: Babe I hope they count to infinity

 

The character of Son is in an English prison he is sat in the rec room watching television and gazing astonished at the scene unfolding in front of him, all around the prisoners are entranced as the events in Florida are on view for all to see.

The guards are getting edgy as they sense the sea of panic running through the inmates; helicopter noise is heard above the prison.

Soldiers in black uniforms appear on the main staircase they are talking to the guards.

 

SOLDIER: We got orders

 

GUARD: So have we

 

SOLDIER:  Listen you limey prick, I don’t know who you think’s gunna be running the world but I got news for ya it won’t be your precious government.

 

GUARD: Ok let me see that paperwork you want the sons of liberty back is that right?

 

SOLDIER: Yea they’re to face trial for war crimes in America

 

GUARD: Is that so? Well I’m sorry but the prisoners are now on sovereign British territory and until I receive personal instructions from my superiors here is where they stay.

 

SOLDIER:  If that’s the way you want it

 

The soldier then turns to leave his hand by his waist line the guard watches him for a few seconds then turns around, the soldier then pulls out his gun and shoots the prison guard in the back.

The prison guard sprawls on the floor and the soldier steps over him

 

SOLDIER:  All sons of liberty are to be extradited back to the United States for war crimes by order of the FEMA executive

 

SON: F**k you man were not going anywhere!

 

Soldier calls to three others

 

SOLDIER Gag Him!

 

Fight ensues but the soldiers fire shots into the air and the sons of liberty are tazered and quickly overwhelmed and bound

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SCENE 4

 

Dad and mum are snoozing when the knock comes on the door,

Door is knocked as normal

 

DAD: Its four in the morning who can that be? (DAD sleepily then realizing what had happened and where they were)

 

DAD: S**t it cant be!

           

             Heavy knocking on door

Sound of splintering wood, Dad wakes Mom up and then runs to the room where his daughter is sleeping, he is instead greeted with the figure of a soldier in a black uniform wearing a gas mask knockout gas is seen creeping up the staircase the soldier smacks dad in the face with the but of his weapon.

            The family is placed under arrest for evading quarantine and ignoring a direct order,

          they are taken to a train station and awake to the sounds of crying.

 

MOM: Oooh my head where are we?

 

DAD: I dunna hunny, looks like some kind of train the real question is where are they taking us?

 

They look around the darkened room and are confronted by the sight of masses of people in lines shackled to a single rail on the floor.

 

DAD: God there must be hundreds of people here, simply hundreds, well we tried god knows what they’ve got planned for us, but I’m glad we had that little bit of time together as a family.

 

MOM: I’m sure they just want to check us for exposure to that horrible bug

 

DAD: Yea I’m sure. (DAD trying to reassure her with his voice)

 

DAUGHTER: Daddy I’m scared I don’t want to be on this train it smells funny!

 

DAD: I know hunny you’ve gotta be a brave girl you hear me and mommy are right with you.

 

The train comes to a stop and the doors are slid open on the sides the prisoners are looking around at each other and the surroundings, soldiers are all around the train and have their weapons trained on the people

 

SOLDIER:  Out! (barked order)

 

They are all led through a massive complex what appears to be an old train repair facility, the place has many buildings dirt floor and massive inward facing electric fences topped with razor wire and watch towers every 40 meters or so, after a ten minute walk they are led to a long queue of other people being pushed through a turnstile into the inner area of the complex the whole facility seems built to keep people in rather than out. Above the entrance is a large panel reading FEMA disaster containment camp. The soldiers at the entrance were separating men from women and sometimes punching and beating people who didn’t comply with their orders.

 

DAUGHTER: Daddy I want to go with you

 

DAD: I know babe but it’s for the best trust me

 

DAUGHTER: Please daddy (DAUGHTER now crying)

 

SOLDIER: Ok you two through here you over there

 

MOM: You cant do this!

 

SOLDIER: Don’t question me you b***h!  You and the brat over there

 

DAD: Hey jerk off, don’t talk to my family like that!

 

Rifle but hits Dad in the chest and he falls to his feet winded

 

SOLDIER: Is that right pops? Well I’m gunna make sure they get extra special attention get em outta here. (SOLDIER grinning menacingly)

 

Two soldiers drag the women away and dad is kicked through the turnstiles The scene continue when the son finds himself in a drafty room he is with his  colleagues and is crudely chained to the wall and wearing a blue band over his wrist

 

SOLDIER, time for you to find out what liberty means you f***s!

 

SON: how would you know? All you understand is cruelty

 

SOLDIER: yea and guess what, it sets me free! back in line boy were gunna make a show of you!

 

The soldier opens a barn style door and leads the remnants of the brothers of liberty onto a platform, it is then that son realizes where he is, his entire life has been working towards destroying such a place he is four or more stories up in an all American concentration camp. Bellow him are massive penned in fences full of thousands of people, the men and women are separated and behind the character is a camera crew recording the scene

 

LEAD SOLDIER: They thought they had it all figured out, well guess what they did, they thought they knew the truth of what you now endure guess what they did, they thought they could save you, guess what they couldn’t! Today a new order emerges a true world order  or law and total security you will all help build it too long you have grown fat and content slaves to your own greed and indolence now you are to learn the true meaning of sacrifice you useless eaters will work or die. America is no longer and it ends with the death of liberty. (Said into microphone)

 

Soldier puts gun to the head of son and pulls the trigger

 

 

DAD AND MOM: No!  (Simultaneously)

 

Liberty stands facing the earth his hand is clutching his head as it bleeds

Liberty falls to his knees

 

LIBERTY: Fate help them but I can do no more I can but in my dying seconds watch the end of this show though the future is not determined one truth rings clear

 Whispers in his dying breath (weekly muttering)

 

By Kingdom come thy will be done be it on Earth or in Heaven.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tobias J Brown 04/10/2008