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have his fingers in his mouth all the time. "Johnstone, Carrie Johnstone," she said. "The closed military
tribunal cleared her of any wrongdoing. The file is sealed. She's
I heard my parents and Darryl's dad take a step away, drawing being returned to active duty. They're sending her to Iraq."
the curtains around us. I put my face down next to his on the
pillow. He had a straggly, patchy beard that reminded me of Zeb. Carrie Johnstone was Severe Haircut Woman's name. It came
out in the preliminary hearings at the California Superior Court,
"Hey, D," I said. "You made it. You're going to be OK." but that was just about all that came out. She wouldn't say a word
about who she took orders from, what she'd done, who had been
He snored a little. I almost said, "I love you," a phrase I'd only imprisoned and why. She just sat, perfectly silent, day after day, in
said to one nonfamilymember ever, a phrase that was weird to the courthouse.
say to another guy. In the end, I just gave his hand another
squeeze. Poor Darryl. The Feds, meanwhile, had blustered and shouted about the
Governor's "unilateral, illegal" shutdown of the Treasure Island
facility, and the Mayor's eviction of fed cops from San Francisco.
Epilogue A lot of those cops had ended up in state prisons, along with the
guards from GitmobytheBay.
This chapter is dedicated to Hudson Booksellers, the booksellers
that are in practically every airport in the USA. Most of the Then, one day, there was no statement from the White House,
Hudson stands have just a few titles (though those are often nothing from the state capitol. And the next day, there was a dry,
surprisingly diverse), but the big ones, like the one in the AA tense pressconference held jointly on the steps of the Governor's
terminal at Chicago's O'Hare, are as good as any neighborhood mansion, where the head of the DHS and the governor announced
store. It takes something special to bring a personal touch to an their "understanding."
airport, and Hudson's has saved my mind on more than one long
Chicago layover. The DHS would hold a closed, military tribunal to investigate
"possible errors in judgment" committed after the attack on the
Bay Bridge. The tribunal would use every tool at its disposal to
Hudson Booksellers ensure that criminal acts were properly punished. In return,
http://www.hudsongroup.com/HudsonBooksellers_s.html control over DHS operations in California would go through the State Senate, which would have the power to shut down, inspect,
or reprioritize all homeland security in the state.
Barbara called me at the office on July 4th weekend. I wasn't the
only one who'd come into work on the holiday weekend, but I was The roar of the reporters had been deafening and Barbara had
the only one whose excuse was that my dayrelease program gotten the first question in. "Mr Governor, with all due respect:
wouldn't let me leave town. we have incontrovertible video evidence that Marcus Yallow, a citizen of this state, native born, was subjected to a simulated
In the end, they convicted me of stealing Masha's phone. Can execution by DHS officers, apparently acting on orders from the
you believe that? The prosecution had done a deal with my lawyer White House. Is the State really willing to abandon any pretense
to drop all charges related to "Electronic terrorism" and "inciting of justice for its citizens in the face of illegal, barbaric torture?"
riots" in exchange for my pleading guilty to the misdemeanor Her voice trembled, but didn't crack.
petty theft charge. I got three months in a dayrelease program
with a halfway house for juvenile offenders in the Mission. I The Governor spread his hands. "The military tribunals will
slept at the halfway house, sharing a dorm with a bunch of actual accomplish justice. If Mr Yallow or any other person who has
criminals, gang kids and druggie kids, a couple of real nuts. cause to fault the Department of Homeland Security wants
During the day, I was "free" to go out and work at my "job." further justice, he is, of course, entitled to sue for such damages as may be owing to him from the federal government."
"Marcus, they're letting her go," she said. That's what I was doing. Over twenty thousand civil lawsuits
"Who?" were filed against the DHS in the week after the Governor's announcement. Mine was being handled by the ACLU, and they'd
filed motions to get at the results of the closed military tribunals.
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