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began to unstrap me. They flipped their visors up and smiled at
me. They had red crosses on their shoulders and helmets. "You're still under arrest, Marcus. Everyone here is. They can't
just sweep in and throw open the doors. Everyone here is going to
Beneath the red crosses was another insignia: CHP. California have to be processed through the criminal justice system. It could
Highway Patrol. They were State Troopers. take, well, it could take months."
I started to ask what they were doing there, and that's when I "I'm going to have to stay here for months?"
saw Barbara Stratford. She'd evidently been held back in the
corridor, but now she came in pushing and shoving. "There you She grabbed my hands. "No, I think we're going to be able to
are," she said, kneeling beside me and grabbing me in the longest, get you arraigned and released on bail pretty fast. But pretty fast is
hardest hug of my life. a relative term. I wouldn't expect anything to happen today. And
it's not going to be like those people had it. It will be humane.
That's when I knew it Guantanamo by the Bay was in the There will be real food. No interrogations. Visits from your
hands of its enemies. I was saved. family.
"Just because the DHS is out, it doesn't mean that you get to just
Chapter 21 walk out of here. What's happened here is that we're getting rid of
the bizarroworld version of the justice system they'd instituted
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Long a fixture on the bleedingly trendy Queen Street West strip, open trials and lawyers.
Pages is located over the road from CityTV and just a few doors
down from the old Bakka store where I worked. We at Bakka "So we can try to get you transferred to a juvie facility on the
loved having Pages down the street from us: what we were to mainland, but Marcus, those places can be really rough. Really,
science fiction, they were to everything else: handpicked really rough. This might be the best place for you until we get you
material representing the stuff you'd never find elsewhere, the bailed out."
stuff you didn't know you were looking for until you saw it there.
Pages also has one of the best newsstands I've ever seen, row on Bailed out. Of course. I was a criminal I hadn't been charged
row of incredible magazines and zines from all over the world. yet, but there were bound to be plenty of charges they could think
of. It was practically illegal just to think impure thoughts about
the government.
Pages Books http://pagesbooks.ca/ 256 Queen St W, Toronto, ON
M5V 1Z8 Canada +1 416 598 1447 She gave my hands another squeeze. "It sucks, but this is how it
has to be. The point is, it's over. The Governor has thrown the
DHS out of the State, dismantled every checkpoint. The Attorney
They left me and Barbara alone in the room then, and I used the General has issued warrants for any lawenforcement officers
working shower head to rinse off I was suddenly embarrassed involved in 'stress interrogations' and secret imprisonments.
to be covered in piss and barf. When I finished, Barbara was in They'll go to jail, Marcus, and it's because of what you did."
tears. I was numb. I heard the words, but they hardly made sense.
"Your parents " she began. Somehow, it was over, but it wasn't over.
I felt like I might throw up again. God, my poor folks. What "Look," she said. "We probably have an hour or two before this
they must have gone through. all settles down, before they come back and put you away again. What do you want to do? Walk on the beach? Get a meal? These
"Are they here?" people had an incredible staff room we raided it on the way in. Gourmet all the way."
"No," she said. "It's complicated," she said. At last a question I could answer. "I want to find Ange. I want to
"What?" find Darryl."
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