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what’s coming now.  This has gone too far.  Even he is running out of friends and influence.”
     
    Carol Denny then looked back down at me.
     
    “If you are planning to transmit your program from here, to try and use this place as some kind of example to the rest of the world, if you engage in any kind of anti-N.U.N. propaganda, you WILL be getting these people killed.  Are you aware of that?  They will send the counter-compliance teams up here and wipe every last one of you out.  None of you will have ever existed.  Don’t you get that?  Women, children, all of you, dead.”
     
    Mac stepped between Carol Denny and I, gently pushing Officer Denny back a few steps. 
     
    “Carol, you have been giving us the doom and gloom report for…hell…it’s been at least three years now hasn’t it?  I suppose sooner or later they are going to try and shut us down up here, and there isn’t a one of us who doesn’t know that and isn’t prepared for it.  The question is, which side of that conflict are you going to be on?  Which side do you want to make your stand?  Them?  Or us?  The New United Nations, or what used to be the United States?”
     
    Again Officer Denny raised himself to his full height, looking up into Mac’s eyes.
     
    “I am a sworn compliance officer of the New United Nations.  I took an oath to defend the mandates for the betterment of society.  That won’t ever change Mac.  You and me, we ain’t so different.  But when…when it comes to my job, doing what I swore to do…I’m keeping that obligation.  If it comes down to it Mac, I’ll take you down.  If that’s the order, I’ll do it.  Won’t take any pleasure in it, but I’ll do it.”
     
    Mac shook his head slowly and looked down upon Carol with tired sadness.
     
    “We are VERY different Carol, you know that.  I’m living day to day a free man.  You?  What you have chosen to do is something else entirely.  C’mon, you sold your soul when you signed on to this New United Nations compliance officer bullshit.  You know that.  What were you before this?  Alaskan State Patrol?  Wasn’t that it?  How many years was that?  Fifteen – twenty years?  And then what?  The mandates come down, D.C. sells us all out, and you take this job.  Why?  For safety?  For the paycheck?  What was that oath you took when you signed on as a patrolman Carol?  Wasn’t it an oath to uphold the constitution of the State of Alaska?  To protect its citizens – its laws?  When did it become acceptable to you to break that oath and put on the uniform of the New United Nations?”
     
    Each of us in the tavern watched and waited for Carol Denny’s response.  The two men at the bar had turned around, while the other man in the corner had risen to his feet, his eyes looking intently in the direction of Carol and Mac, his right hand poised to remove the sidearm he likely carried.
     
    Carol lowered his eyes to the floor briefly, before looking back up, his mouth contorting into a snarl, his right hand grabbing his weapon back from Mac, which he then returned to its holster.
     
    “You’ve gone crazy up here Mac, all of you have.  You hear me?  Damn crazy!  How do you see this ending for you?  You really think they’re gonna just let you live on like this?  Breaking the mandates over and over again?  Now you think we will let you transmit your propaganda from here?  To stir the people up?  Where do you think this is going to end Mac?  I’ll tell you where – DEAD.  And not just you, but everyone you’ve taken in up here.  The women, the children…what about them Mac?  It’s their blood that will be on your hands.  Their blood.  Are you really that willing to accept that?  To accept their deaths along with your own?”
     
    It was Mac’s turn to rise to his full height, standing nearly half a head taller than Compliance Officer Denny.
     
    “If I die today, if I die tomorrow, or anyone else who has made