Storyboard:
2013, into 2014.
intro: man and his girlfriend are shopping at an outlet mall for some home goods they can barely afford. they want a baby. there is a protest outside against the occupation and tibet and constitutional abuses. mall security confronts the couple and takes them to a holding room where they are searched and questioned abusively until [1]3 hours later, the next morning, the real suspect is discovered, and they are released. there were no charges filed and privacy was violated. what if she was pregnant? or if they had a child with them? without water and food for that time the baby would suffer. they are given a parting document showing that they have no right to redress.
they go home and call her family. on the machine they need to hear a phone message or get an email from basically V from the protest, someone they brushed by and met, or took the flier of, but then it was surely stripped from them, inviting them to a meeting in person and to take them into a safe community away from the cities, on the 'fronteir'. the people in these out towns reenact liberty with gusto.
Center theme:
hippie farm in upstate Vermont.
the couple is "32".
the story will be written as blog on the days it happens.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Rowlandson
They had read about and seen on the television these kinds of abuses, but hadn't thought of giving up their passports and leaving the seaboard and safetowns, or even known much about the outworld, until recently. The state media focused on more important matters much of the time.
Is the divide between these two areas so great that one cannot freely emmigrate? It is like entering Indian territory. Just walk in. Just walk out.
Fronteir.
Backpack. They have a lot of reasonable stuff. Much of it plastic or that new plastic...
They leave on November 5, 2013. In their hatchback car with a few bags of their prized belongings and provisions, after talking on the phone to their family in Free San Francisco. The place V talked to them about, the number he gave them, if only they had it. But they knew that it was near Uncasville. They left the City.
this is also a captivity narrative. modified to voluntary captivity being abandoned for semi-anonymous freedom and a promise...
about three hours away from the city, approaching Albany, a contested city, they stop in a town and ask for directions, to V-land, basically. There is the choice to go to Free New England Minus Hartford, which seems funny to me. Going to Minus Hartford as they call it will be funny for me and an odd story. Or they can go to the upstate areas. V is working on Albany, which is fundamentally tied to Hartford and the control bases at Yale and the Grenwich.
The couple are not at home in this town, but they have decided to flee. The plan they had was to go to Albany, which they felt would be safer, and freer, and to find people and a place to go there. A job would follow, a house would follow. The conditions were terrible. Friends, family, and this V and the protestors should play a bigger supporting role in their flight. They will conceive a baby on this trip.
This is being compared to King Philip's War. Protestors and freetowners here play a special role. They are oppressed by the controlling Federated United States. As we are or were becoming.
So these fleers should meet V at a restaurant in Albany where they would dine and discuss things. V is a confident individual and has the time here to meet with and discuss things with them over some clean burritos in the north of the city, the wild side as they call it, past the 787, which is basically a trading post to the outlands for technical and manufacturing goods it would be tough to get at a camp or small township. Night goggles are big.
The pedestrians meet with V and his girlfriend and cousin at a friendly restaurant, surely watched and maybe bugged by CIA forces. They tell him their story of being arrested and badgered and leaving the city. V tells them while enjoying organic burritos about these fantastic machines that they had never heard of, about massive wide townships and parties in the wilderness, farming hydroponics. He gives them $10V which are Vermont dollars. They're minted coins, and says that they can buy what they need with them, but they won't take them at the Federal Reserve.
Friday, May 2, 2008
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