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still occurring at an alarming rate.”
    General Walls spoke up, “Mr. President, we got played by the Iranians.
    Walls knew that this would piss the president off, but someone had to reach the arrogant bastard and shake some sense into him.
    “There never was a plan to use EMPs on our own country. The nukes were more than enough to accomplish our objective of cleansing the riffraff, but the EMPs destroyed the grid and took away our ability to maintain our cities. That is why our people are starving, rioting and killing each other. We need to nuke the Iranians and the rest of our allies in this debacle before they nuke us.”
    The president replied, “General Walls, the President of Iran has sworn that his country did not launch any EMP devices at the USA and in fact claims that our own bombs caused the EMP destruction.”
    “Respectfully, the Iranian president is a liar and a traitor to our cause. Mr. President, we tracked the missiles from their launch to the blasts. They came from ships off our coast. That bastard and some of his friends intend to take our country from us and you were played a fool. Iranian submarines and surface craft are staged in the Gulf of Mexico waiting to join in an attack on our country. Friends in South America tell us that there are major troop movements taking place and they are all heading towards the border with Mexico. The Mexican president is on TV telling his fellow countrymen that it is time to help the USA by giving support to what was once the northern part of Mexico.”
    The president pushed a hidden button and suddenly the room was full of DHS troops.
    The president told them, “Please remove General Walls from this meeting, place him under house arrest and have Field Marshal Williams join us to finish the meeting.”
     
     
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                  Port Arthur, Texas was much better off than most cities in the USA after the bombs fell. The Mayor, Police Chief and several other high-ranking officials were ex-military and most were dedicated preppers.
                  Since they were on the Gulf Coast, the town was well prepared for hurricanes and flooding. Under the guise of getting better prepared for hurricanes after Katrina, the Mayor and city council spent a fortune for backup generators and survival supplies. The generators were EMP proof, as was the main power plant for the city. They had seen what happened to New Orleans and more importantly the small towns around it when the starving people and gangs moved to higher ground.
    Chief Charlie Adams had been in Army Special Forces and carefully selected his policemen from honest ex-military police and Special Forces when he could find them. He was always first in line to get surplus military arms, ammo and equipment. He had five armored cars and three armored personnel carriers plus hundreds of M4s and side arms. Besides protecting the civilians, his team’s major job was to seal off the town when TSHTF. There were only three major roads and a handful of small two lane roads coming from Houston and Beaumont to block off from the outside. In a pinch, he was prepared to blow a dozen bridges and make Port Arthur a safe island with virtually no way to get in or out of the city.
    Port Arthur’s most significant asset was that the majority of its citizens were ready to fight to protect their town if push came to shove. A large number were also preppers and had at least a year's worth of food, arms with ammo survival supplies.
    Chief Charlie taught a course in survival and self-protection at the local college. The police in New Orleans taking guns from its people sickened them and Obama’s attempt to take away their weapons only stiffened their resolve. They had become believers in the Second Amendment and most were armed and ready. Chief Charlie knew that he could have a small army in a matter of hours.
    Crime was not an issue in Port Arthur since Charlie and the Mayor decided that criminals had to leave