A Patriot Act
In this off-shoot of George Orwell's 1984, set in modern-day USA in a small Florida town, Tony is a young waiter who is going through life not doing anything out of the ordinary. The War on Terrorism has been going on for a few years now. A little curious of current events concerning terrorists, he goes to a few Internet websites and checks out their Jihadest agenda, political views, Aljazera web TV broadcasts, and on-line beheadings.Tony goes through life as usual, once in a while covering a shift for a friend at work, once in a while hooking up with Kaleam, an Arab co-worker with a great connection to hash that Tony likes to smoke once in a while. Problem is that Kaleam is on the terrorist watch list. His cell is tapped and since Tony has been talking to Kaleam for a while, he is watched as well by unseen Homeland Security agents.One night, Kaleam phones Tony with something special, something that will take him to paradise. Some of the best hash & some killer X for he and his girlfriend to have a great long weekend together. Listening in on this phone conversation, this sets off the alarms. Later that night as Tony sleeps, the TTF (Terrorist Task Force) does a sneak and snatch of his apartment.It's a long holiday weekend. The apartment is raided and Tony and his girlfriend, Jessica, are bagged and swept, drugged and taken away by Homeland Security soldiers. Tony and Jessica are seperated and they go through CIA style questioning from threats of drug charges to the edge and what some would consider torture of beatings since Tony visited Internet sites supporting terrorists and because of his association with Kaleam. Days pass as the interogations continue.The TTF (terrorist task force) realize that Tony is just someone in the wrong place at the wrong time and indeed has no connections to terrorists. The couple are drugged, "programmed" and placed back at home.Tony wakes up the next day, knowing something is wrong but his girlfriend is convinced that they did too much partying. Still thinking something is wrong, he goes to the bathroom to shower and knock the webs out of his head. While shaving, he notices a small needle mark on his neck. He leans into the mirror for a better look. We spin around looking back at Tony through the mirror following a cable up the wall to a blinking box with an antenna attached to a hidden camera on the other side of the mirror.Cut to a plain white van sitting on the side of the road. Going through the blocked out window, we see a man sitting in a surveillance van watching a monitor showing Tony looking at himself in the bathroom mirror. Pulling back, we see the man watching Tony as well as many other people also on surveillence video screens.US Library of Congress register / WGA register 2005
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