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into Nail’s memory.
    Oh, God! Jamie!
    Nail charged down the granite steps, his hand darting for the Glock at his belt, ignoring the helicopter as his eyes searched for his daughter. Let the bodyguards protect Baer.
    The scumbags in the chopper opened fire, the sound of their weapons like the magnified ripping of sailcloth. Stunned silence in the crowd for two or three heartbeats, people trying to digest what was happening. Then panic set in. Hellish screams of terror and tramping feet as people ran over each other in sudden blind flight.
    Nail raced downrange past the hood of Baer’s suburban, toward where he had last seen Jamie. Bullets clanged into the vehicle, gouged a line across the pavement ahead of him, and ricocheted in all directions. He heard a shout of pain and surprise as Baer slammed to the ground, his writhing body spewing blood, painting a pinkish stain in the air.
    Nail dodged to one side and emptied a full clip from his Glock at the helicopter as it darted around the sky like a dragonfly. At least it gave the assholes in it something to think about.
    Salvos from the helicopter cut a swath through the massed protesters. Nail glimpsed Jamie’s yellow shirt. A long-hair next to her went down hard, leaving another little pink cloud where he had been. Nail lost sight of Jamie when she dropped to her knees to help the wounded man.
    So desperate was he to reach his daughter that nothing else mattered. He sailed over Baer’s convulsing body and dodged around one of the bodyguards. A gunman in the chopper opened up again in his direction.
    “ Jamie!”
    She popped up out of the protestors to look directly at him just before he collided with Baer’s panic-stricken wife and knocked her to the pavement. He stumbled and fell on top of her. Lead sprayed the pavement around them, chipping concrete, ricochets shrieking. Something slapped against his head.
    “ Jamie!”
    Everything went black.
     

Terrorist Attack in The Homeland
     
    (Tulsa)— Eight people were slain and seven wounded by automatic weapons fire in what federal authorities are calling a domestic terrorist attack. Among the dead are Rightwing TV personality Jerry Baer and one of his bodyguards. Federal authorities say they do not believe Baer was the primary target since five of the dead and two of the wounded were there to protest Baer’s appearance at Tulsa’s ORU Center.
    “Baer was collateral damage,” said Anthony Kimbrell, Regional Director of Homeland Security. “This was Rightwing terrorism from what we believe to be the same anti-government band that lynched one of our people in the Akins’ cemetery. Baer just happened to get in the way.”
    The helicopter attack by machineguns occurred as an estimated 10,000 appeared to hear Baer’s usual harangue against the U.S. Government. The helicopter was later abandoned at privately-owned Riverside Airport; it had been reported stolen earlier that day.
    President Anastos issued a statement from the White House condemning the shooting and describing it as “abominable, a disgrace, proof that certain violent elements in our society who disagree with the progress we are implementing will stop at nothing... There must be recognition on the part of every American that change toward social justice and a more fair and equitable society will not be won without struggle. We are going to have to change our conversation, we are going to have to change our traditions, our history, we’re going to have to move into a different place as a nation.. .”
    The U.S. Congress is calling for increased gun control and further restrictions on hate speech, on large assemblies that might threaten the peace and stability of communities, and on inflammatory talk radio and TV. Senate Majority Leader Joe Wiedersham (D-Ill), a former Anastos campaign advisor and author of the Fairness of Airwaves Doctrine (FAD) Bill, said he and Speaker of the House Barbara Teague (D-CA) will support bills to temporarily restrict First