From:	Avenger <Avenger@*******.DEMON.CO.UK>
Subject:	Re: Let there be /LIGHT/ !!!
Date:	Tue, 3 Feb 1998 01:16:08 +0000

PRIVATE: 1lt J R W Lynch
>>>>>[Don't worry about the delay. I'm not offended. But I think we'd
better review the armour you've been wearing if a set of pigstickers are
giving you a hard time. Chris has this wonderful suit of armour on a
stand in his office. One of his ancestors wore it on the Crusades, it's
a little gaudy but does offer excellent protection from sharp objects.
<smirk> Alternatively, there's always the A74 series of PA the military
are desperately trying to bury in a deep hole.


Hey, it's OK, I know - you're laughing on the inside, right?


I'll mention the UN clean up team next time I'm talking to the Director,
maybe something _could_ be arranged. Though it's likely that the UN will
condemn it and request a thermonuclear clear out.


It appears that today's series of events has made life a little sticky
for Lone Star. Their failure at Kings, the bus incidents, a jewel heist
in Everett resulting in five fatalities, two of them officers, plus the
usual spate of lootings and robberies, muggings and killings that are
staple diet for Seattle seems to be having a detrimental effect on their
popularity. We've had the Commissioner, the Mayors of six districts,
Seneca, and half a dozen other politicians on the phone demanding to
speak to D'Arkan, damn I wish I was a little more - diplomatic, seems
that my attitude is not too savoury. They're all screaming for blood,
miracles and someone to take the heat. You didn't help matters by
steaming in and saving the bus, but I'll get onto that later. The long
and short of it is, that we now have permission, direct from DC to do
what we damn well please when it is necessary. As a naval captain once
said shortly before he was blown out of the water. "Full steam ahead,
and damn the torpedoes." Chris should return tomorrow, which means
there'll be someone here capable of dealing with this, and the incessant
screaching of political careers on shaky foundations.


We can't do a lot about the media coverage, free speech and all that
shit. However, there is something in the pipeline that may take the heat
off Lone Star and leave us with a favourable result. Seems that Chris
is going to suggest to the Mayor that LS are allowed to train teams with
the military for "urban clearance". Create a few special response
squads of their own. Hell, we might even be able to sell them some of
the artillery we bought in from ILS, and make a profit on it.


No, I've not read the file. It's been a while since I was present in
DC, though I'm, due to go up there for promotion assessment and exams
next month. If I make it, I should earn a few more cents for a days
typing. <g> We've had the autopsies back on some of the bodies and
they've proved most interesting, you're not far wrong on the
psychoactive drugs and an interesting coctail of other chemicals,
including a small control chip that works much like the pleasure/pain
experiments the lab coats put rats through. Seems like when these
people get something right their pleasure centre is stimulated with just
the right amount of endorphins. They virtually orgasm from the
pleasure, when they do something wrong, the pain is excruciating. Small
unit, very nicely put together by a large company from Japan that
specialises in simsense - I'm sure you can guess which one. The ones
we've recovered have been modified by some private hack, we presented it
to Fuchi and they denied it was their work - but would I like to leave
one there for analysis. Yeah right, and in six months they hit the
market, I don't think so. An unwritten warning has been placed at the
feet of Fujiyama Kensoto that if anything like these articles is found
on the streets with their stamp on it, certain diplomatic immunities
might be revoked. I think they heard.


Not sure on the involvement of your Doctor though. this work is a
little to dramatic for that particular fish, or his buddies. But, one
never can tell with these meglomaniacal types. We've checked the usual
channels, and nothing. So, it's time to go stir up the poor schleps on
the street again. Kick a few snitches, play hard man with the fences
and some of the dealers. Maybe we'll turn up something that way, though
somehow I doubt it, there's something very strange with this current
spate of lunacy. It's so pointless.


Lookit. First some dork takes a fire tower in SeaTac, then some bombed
out bimbo starts making demands in the departure lounge, both wind up
dead without actually achieving anything. Another attack destroys a
couple of buildings and injures a bunch of people, again, not actually
achieving anything. We get a memo from DC saying, go out and find
something to do but leave the bombings alone. Then a bunch of
Greyhounds get themselves taken, the suppressive systems mounted on
these beasts of the road forgotten or bypassed or ineffective - I mean
what the hell is the point in CS gas and the other shit if the driver
can't operate it? On top of this, someone calling themselves Jason X
Goldsmith - cute huh? Not only that, but if you watch the trid take of
this loon, he's close, oh so very close, that certain people in City
Hall are seriously crapped out. (From what we can gather he and two
others escaped from Kings during the slaughter. What does he want?
You, in front of him, on trial, and he's convincing and charismatic, and
he's Thunda's fucking twin brother. So guess what I got on the phone
this evening. The governor and Seneca street demanding the footage of
the cluster fuck at the steel works, and hard evidence that Thunda's
dead. They got it, but it wasn't easy. Firmly convinced that J R W
Lynch is a fraggin fraud and that he didn't kill Thunda, and all that
reward money that Chris forked over to the shady characters helping us
was misappropriated. Jeez, was that a fun time. I want to know how the
fuck Chris stays so cool at these times. All I wanted to do was start
breaking bones. Damn but they're short minded ungrateful buggers.


Now, I don't know about you, but it's all a little suspicious. I'm
curious to know why DC was so insistent that we don't get involved in
the damned bombings. Isn't that one of the reasons for our existence?


I tend to agree that you're being set up. For several reasons. First,
everything is a little too pat. You're absent and can't defend yourself
so accusations start muttering their way into the media. Achilles gets
hit, hopefully to... well we figure it was an attempt to cut the head
off a proactive force, you come steaming into the picture - convenient
huh? Then we get a series of crazies demanding that you are put to
trial for the illegal killing of a rabid dog. OK, they've got a case.
thunda was beaten, was it necessary to kill him? It might take a couple
of months of court time but we can provide sufficient evidence that
"yes, the action was necessary", but what's that all going to achieve?
Well, it'll tie up a hell of a lot of resources for some time. Now we
get a bunch of hijacks that make no sense at all, wholesale slaughter
for no reason other than they can, and finally, to cap it all off, we
get Mr. Lookalike. But does he start indulging in the great rant of his
ancestor? Nope, he demands your presence at a kangaroo court, then
proceeds to entertain Lone Star in one of the most brutal firefights
I've seen in quite a while. What happened? Lone Star forgot the
lessons they learned with Jaxon T Goldsmith and repeated them with Jason
X. What happens next. The politicians get all uppity, suddenly their
nice, secure, well padded backsides are on the slipperly slide to shit
creek. They want someone's ass to chew out. Guess who that's going to
be. Well, we prepared for an onslaught of accusations last year, so it
was a simple matter to dig all that out of the closet, brush off the
dust and lay the whole kit at the feet of the wobblers. Certain CEO's
of concerned corporations have been lighting up the switchboard at
Seneca, they've been passing it down to us, and then the Director calls.
he wants an explanation, a situation analysis and projections, and at
the same time transmits a nice cute little message saying we are to go
fully active. "Go out there and get some bad guys for me." Jeez, who
does he think he is, John Wayne?


We've got very little to go on for any of these events, we've got a
whole bunch of corpses sitting down at city morgue, the coroners office
is working overtime hacking the stiffs apart to find out who, what,
where, when, why, and maybe give us something we don't know. The
governor wants Seneca to flood the streets with agents and get the
murderous scum who killed the innocent citizens in the buses and then of
course there's the bombs. First of all we aren't allowed to do
anything, then, when it's virtually over bar the shouting, they scream
for help, and let us loose on what - the debris. Well, I've got some
news for these people, there's going to be more debris. And not all of
it is going to come from the terrorists we're entertaining. Some of it
is going to come from the public, and it's squishy, brown and smelly,
with an inexplicable affinity for cooling fans, and should land around
about election time. The media circus that's occuring at the moment,
would be amusing if it wasn't so damned hostile. We've had twleve crews
camped outside for nearly 18 hours now, demanding results, demanding
information, and after that one loon shot a couple, demanding
protection. I can just see it now. We leave the compound, move into
the streets to sort out the bad guys, followed by media teams with dinky
little cameras and light sets to show the adoring public exactly how
they're being protected.


If one of those women turns up, and we get to her before the wildlife, I
promise you, we'll get the bastards that took them. I personally want
to speak to the gentleman with the HVAR, who killed a camera crew out of
sheer petulance and appears to have toasted the whole damn busload of
people. Regarding your other comments, have you looked at this another
way?


Tacoma was a setup. OK, let's work from this. The /infamous/ Lynch is
involved in it, courtesy of the FBI/SIGA, "...federal agents
successfully prevented a fourth slaughter..." blah blah. Everyone is
happy, until some reactive newsie looks at things and asks "Was this
staged by the FBI/Lynch/SIGA/Governor/whomever to grab attention and
justify Achilles. Or did someone simply misjudge. If we extrapolate a
little, and assume that the Sons of Freedom were hired Shadowrunners,
that might explain the similarity of escape routes and the varied
amounts of reactionary killings. It strikes me that if this was a valid
group of terrorists, then some things would have been vastly different,
including the release of certain radical extremists. This was not a
standard terrorist operation, it didn't follow the classic lines of one,
it didn't adhere to certain paths and regulations they all follow, and
there was no coherant demand followed by slaughter as a result of those
demands not being met, there was also no negotiation - none. And that
doesn't follow the great psychological book of terrorism.


Whether the point of the exercise was to drag you into the limelight or
to cover another operation, or simply to create mayhem in the political
and corporate ranks I can't even begin to guess, but the buses at least
were not normal terrorist actions.


In order to obtain the maximum results from the psychological operations
in terrorist actions, every combatant should be as highly motivated to
carry out propaganda face to face as he is a combatant. This means that
the individual political awareness of the terrorist of the reason for
his struggle will be as acute as his ability to fight. Such a political
awareness and motivation is obtained through the dynamic of groups and
self-criticism, as a standard method of instruction for the terrorist
training and operations. Group discussions raise the spirit and improve
the unity of thought of the terrorist squads and exercise social
pressure on the weak members to carry out a better role in future
training or in combative action. Self-criticism is in terms of one's
contribution or defects in his contribution to the cause, to the
movement, the struggle, etc.; and gives a positive individual commitment
to the mission of the group. The desired result is a terrorist who can
persuasively justify his actions when he comes into contact with any
member of the "People", and especially with himself and his fellow
terrorist in dealing with the vicissitudes of terrorist warfare. This
means that every terrorist will be persuasive in his face-to-face
communication - propagandist-combatant - in his contact with the people;
he should be able to give 5 or 10 logical reasons why, for example, a
peasant should give him cloth, needle and thread to mend his clothes.
When the terrorist behaves in this manner, enemy propaganda will never
succeed in making him an enemy in the eyes of the people. It also means
that hunger, cold, fatigue and insecurity will have a meaning,
psychologically, in the cause of the struggle due to his constant
orientation.


Now, what part of that fits the events over the last few days?


I'll tell Chris he wins the bet. He's likely to want to attend a
debrief anyway, you know what he's like, he prefers to hear people talk
about incidents than read about them - he seems to get more from it that
way. For what it's worth, Achilles has been officialy launched, and
we're now cruising on our maiden voyage. Thank god the diplomat is
coming home, I am no good at this negotiation. Placating politicians
and irate corporate fat cats doesn't sit too well with me, when it's
their greed and negligence that causes these situations. Wooo, listen to
me, anyone'd think I was a dissident.


Did you know that Schultz renegotiated the Lone Star contract back in
56, and LS reduced the cost to the city? It's amazing they can carry
off any kind of policing at all. Why not pay these guys sensible money
for their time and get a decent effective force on the streets? hell,
why am I asking you? You've probably asked the same thing yourself a
few times.


Have fun in the hospital, goose a nurse for me - a pretty one.]<<<<<
-- SASIC T. Johnson <00:30:09/02-03-59>
FBI, Achilles Project
Fort Lewis, Seattle