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Praetorium Honoris

Thursday, September 30, 2021

The Turn Over

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"Goeie more korporaal, I trust you slept well?" Colonel Mzolo looked up from his desk as the provost brought Corporal Jensen into the captain's office.

"Good morning Sir, I slept well enough." In truth, Jensen looked miserable.

"Do you understand why we had to place you under arrest?"

"Well Sir, I did kill a civilian, but I was defending one of my mates."

"Yes, I know that, but do you know the precarious position we are in here? Truly do you understand it?" The colonel stood up from behind his desk and looked out the window of his office.

"The people who are running things behind the scenes think we are being too soft on the locals. Something like this wouldn't bother them in the least. There are those who would have had everyone in that establishment sent to the camps, or worse, had them shot right then and there."

Corporal Jensen's eyes opened wide at that comment.

"You are too young to have known the times when our beloved country was liberated from the rule of apartheid, it was very bloody for a number of years. You whites were hunted, driven off your farms and murdered in cold blood."

"But Sir, my father told me that before that time, the black Afrikaners were treated like dogs, kept in 'townships' which were little more than slums of tin shacks. I understand the rage your people must have felt."

Colonel Mzolo nodded and said, "Then perhaps you can understand the people of this country. They feel as if they are second class citizens in their own country. There have been riots in some of the cities, there are those who are calling for blood. On both sides."

The colonel continued, "You have read of the war in Serbia I trust? I believe it was part of your schooling to join this regiment."

"Yes Sir, do you think this country could go that way?"

"Yes, yes I do. These people have a proud history, but a history littered with bad politicians and greedy businessmen. But I can see them rising up, the deaths of those three men the other day might just be the beginning. So we need to tread carefully over the next few..."

Colonel Mzolo's aide suddenly burst into the room, at the same time the Colonel heard the sound of many vehicles outside, he looked to the compound and saw a number of tracked APCs¹ entering. The troops manning them appeared to be Chinese. He turned to his aide...

"Yes Sir, they are Chinese. We are being replaced..."


Billy had spent the night at Jack's cabin, they had much to discuss. When he awakened he heard Jack talking to someone, was that a radio?

As he came into the living room, Jack gestured at him to "wait one," then pointed to the kitchen. Billy went in there and saw that a fresh pot of coffee had been made. From the looks of things, it didn't appear that Jack had slept at all the night before.

He fixed himself a cup and was stirring it when Jack walked in, a worried look on his face.

"Well, the shit may have hit the fan, Billy."

Billy looked at his old friend expectantly.

"Riots in New York City and in Cleveland, the Feds had the governors in New York and Ohio call out the National Guard, most of whom refused to report for duty. From what I understand, most of the police walked off the job as well. Utter chaos."

"Who's rioting Jack? The usual suspects?"

"Not this time, regular folk in the streets, demanding an explanation for the UN being in the country. The Feds refuse to answer any questions, the ATF office in the Bronx was attacked and burned down apparently. No report of any casualties yet, but I assume there will be a lot."

Billy nodded at the radio, "You got all that from the radio?"

Jack lifted the radio and looked at it, "Secret squirrel model, most people know nothing about them. Encrypted, frequency agile, transmits in short bursts to a satellite. Decrypts the short bursts it receives in seconds. Let's just say, I have friends in low places."

Billy shook his head, "Now what do we do?"

"You haven't heard the worst of it, I just had word that the Afrikaners are being replaced, by a full mechanized battalion."

"What country?" Billy asked, he could guess, but he wanted to hear it out loud.

"The goddamn Red Chinese. F**kers were waiting in Canada, supposedly there to train with the Canucks. In reality it was probably a set-up. In all fairness, my Canadian sources are as mad about this as we are. Their government is no more representative of the governed than ours is. There's a lot of money behind this, international money. I wish I knew who was pulling the strings."

"So we fight?"

"Better to die standing than on our knees I suppose." Jack said, shaking his head. That things had come to this. He felt betrayed beyond belief.


The Afrikaners loaded up quickly, other than their military equipment and spare clothing and ammo, there wasn't all that much to load. Unlike some militaries, they had no personal items with them. It was something their government frowned upon, why did the troops of a fine socialist country need personal belongings?

Corporal Jensen, still surprised that he had kept his stripes, stood in the hatch of one of their APCs and watched as the Chinese took over the compound. But what shocked him most was watching the UN flag being pulled down from the flagstaff in front of headquarters, to be replaced by the banner of the People's Republic of China.

"Nils, look, the bastards aren't even pretending to be here under the auspices of the United Nations."

Lance Corporal Nils Ndaba stood up next to the corporal and looked back at the compound. He shook his head, looking at Jensen he said, "Things are going to get awfully bad, aren't they?"

"Yes brother, they are."





¹ APC = Armored Personnel Carrier

56 comments:

  1. Goeie dag, Ou Lugmag Sersant!

    Refer to the first line:
    "Goeie more korporaal, I trust you slept well?" Captain Mzolo " Captain then became Colonel. Not unknown in the SANDF, but just saying...

    Love the stories, you have a knack for pulling a reader into the story.

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  2. Billy spent the night in Jack's cabin. When he awoke he heard Billy talking? Old Guns

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    1. Argh! Fixed it! (Though Billy might have been hearing voices in his head, I doubt it. The author probably was!)

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  3. Excrement meets fan.......

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  4. And the story is a Chinese general recently acquired a massive tract of land in Texas and is constructing an airstrip. May not have to wait in Canada....

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    1. Fascinating, we're letting the enemy buy our freedom. So they can take it away.

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    2. Been doin that for a while, Sarge? Bill Clinton sold the port of Long Beach to the PRC/PLA when he had the chance. That didn't get fixed till DJT got in.
      Learn from history; our "elites" haven't. Watch Australia for a preview of coming attractions.
      Never give up your guns.
      Boat Guy

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    3. Australia is a place I watch very closely. Notice how the traitors always seem to belong to one particular party?

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    4. Thomas, I worked for a real estate attorney in Illinois. They had an arcane law on the books regarding parcels of land. It could only be sold to a non American with a provision that unless the purchaser became an American citizen within 7 years the land reverted back to the state of Illinois with no compensation due to the present holder. Had never been used but they have repeatedly refuse to strike it from the law. Of course this was back in the mid 70's so who know since then.
      Margi

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    5. That's a great law right there Margi!

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  5. Yup, that is where we are headed. How long do YOU think it will be until they REALLY start the Hunger Games???

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    1. Hard to say, I can't see us continuing to roll over for those idiots in DC.

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    2. My bet is that the shithole hives will ENTHUSIASTICALLY roll over for them. And that "Law Enforcement" will just "follow their orders!!!"

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    3. Let's hope not, especially the latter.

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    4. Aren't we already there? Lessee... Shortages nationwide of critical things like chicken, which we raise enough domestically to feed half the world, things like that. The Gliterati having function after function where THEY get to be unmasked but the dirt-people have to all wear black and wear black masks. And so forth and so on. We've just done a soft-entry into the Hunger Games. The hard entry starts as soon as, well, the mask falls off, which will be around the time Biden is replaced.

      As to cops, there are widespread departures from agencies that are requiring Jab or No Job. Both in law enforcement and in healthcare. Lose those two legs of society, the system falls over.

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    5. We're not there yet, but how close are we? Close, I fear.

      Will we get to the point where the dirt people start putting the elite in the dirt, literally? It could happen.

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  6. Sigh. Your writing is brilliant Sarge; at the same time, just reading this makes me depressed about where the story is going. The Communist Chinese military, at least to date, does not seem to share any sort of restraint the way most other countries might. This is either going to be super short or take an amazing turn.

    (Also, super minor point: Paragraph 8 reads "...in cold bold". Perhaps "...in cold blood"? [says the guy who complete failure to type entire words is legendary.)

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    1. Thanks TB. I'm hoping none of this is prophetic, more of a "what if" scenario.

      As to "cold bold," I may have been thinking about a particular stout I enjoy when I wrote that. 😉

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  7. Chinese buy 130,000 acres in Val Verde Country, TX. https://tinyurl.com/cbyu35jf

    When I was a kid, I read about the guys throwing themselves on grenades in Korea (Pork Chop Hill??). I wondered how they could do that, but I felt my heart swell, and my eyes water. Even then, I realized they were sacrificing themselves for their buddies. I have a feeling we will see something similar again.

    Who was the wise man that said if you stick you foot up a tigers butt, you better have a plan to deal with his teeth? That is a two way street.

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    1. Gotta wonder at the greedy bastard who sold it. Sure nothing "illegal" about it and "muh private property" and all; do these people think they're gonna get eaten last?
      Boat Guy

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    2. STxAR - The Chinese are being very aggressive of late, makes me worry it does.

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    3. Boat Guy - I wonder the same, then again, traitors have ever enjoyed getting their 30 pieces of silver...

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    4. A local front man bought up the land, then turned it over to his Chi-boss.

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    5. Be real interesting if the land was bought on loan, not paid in full, considering the financial collapse that is beginning to engulf the Chi-Coms.

      As to personal land ownership by a ChiCom general? Really? So who, above him, actually owns it?

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    6. Tree Mike - Makes sense, another greedy bastard willing to sell out the country for personal profit.

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    7. Beans - I think his initials are Xi (sic).

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  8. I expect things will be getting kinetically sporty shortly. Nice writing as always.

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  9. " There's a lot of money behind this, international money. I wish I knew who was pulling the strings."

    The same money that has Haitian Refugees show up at the US Border.

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    1. And the rest of the illegal alien terrorist invaders as well. Not to mention BLM and Antifa!

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    2. Same funding source wouldn't surprise me at all.

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    3. Haitians at the Mexican boarder, that was different. I do wonder who's financing it but I am still wondering who financed the pallets of bricks and flammables that showed up in different cities across the country before the "spontaneous" peaceful demonstrations started burning and looting.

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    4. Inquiring minds want to know. Apparently those inquiring minds don't work for the Federal government.

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    5. I am not looking at an ex-Hungarian camp worker. Nope. Not looking at him and his family at all. Must be someone completely different with a last name that starts with the letter before "T." Yup.

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    6. Again, this is my surprised face.

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  10. My suspicion is that Afrikaners would NOT have been the original troops. Zulus, maybe. But the Afrikaners have been the recipient of the world's fine ministrations in the past...

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    1. I use the term "Afrikaners" to refer to the inhabitants of the Republic of South Africa, black and white. That may not be completely accurate.

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    2. I read "Afrikaners" and my mind envisions Boers. Dutch ethnic origin. Historically White. As a group, very apartheid oriented. Fought a hard, nasty, war against the Brits.

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    3. I'm very familiar with the Boers and the history of South Africa.

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    4. We could hope it would have been people of Boer decent. Because most of those without family back in SA would have bailed from the UN forces. We'd get along with the Boer.

      The part of SA that supported Winnie Mandela? Not so much. And that's who the UN would send. Like throwing Chlorine Triflouride onto, well, anything.

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    5. Always bearing in mind that the story is not necessarily set in the current time, I see this as some years in the future. A future in which the various races remaining in South Africa all get along. Well, this is a work of fiction, I hope.

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  11. "And a hard rain's gonna fall"... I pray you're not being too prophetic with this. While I'm more than ready to earn my entry into Valhalla, I won't want to see my sons there for a long long time. They need to give me grandsons first. "If you listen to fools, the mob rules!"

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  12. Yep. And the sad thing is, there are actually Red Chinese in Canada, training in Canada. Why? Because they own Trudeau's arse. And Trudeau is reaching Hitlerian levels of dictatorship, without any of the positive parts of Hitler (no national unity, no pretty parades, no neat uniforms...)

    The only thing that gives me hope is that the Indians (dot, sub-continent people) bitch-slapped, literally bitch-slapped a much larger force of Red Chinese to death and near death last year. Neither side fought with guns and the Indians did a beat down so bad several senior ChiCom army officials were suddenly no longer in the news. ChiComs haven't won an external war since being let into Tibet.

    And, sadly, I can see this happening next year, or maybe even earlier.

    And, sadly, Copulate the UN. We should have kicked them off our shores and taken back the land and done something useful with it, like an open air prostitution park or free drugs or something, would have been less damaging and less expensive to the US than continuing to support that bloated pile of Kleptocrats. I mean, just look at some of the members of the Human Rights Commission over the years... Yikes.

    Foreign troops rolling down the streets of Manhattan. I think that would finally be a tad bit too far for most leftist New Yorkers. ChiCom troops rolling into the land of the White or Green Mountain people? Er... I wouldn't want to be a foreigner, especially a ChiCom troopie. It will be bloody, and the first sign of reprisals against the civilians will cause an eruption not seen since, well, a long time.

    Glad the Nat Guard troops deserted. Hopefully after cleaning out the armories of all the goodness. Especially all the Javelin missiles they can accidentally liquidate (javelins are awesome anti-almost everything missiles. Sure, they can be used against tanks, and APCs and IFVs and Trucks and fixed fortifications and supposedly even helicopters. Very smart little missile with little launch signature and can be fired out of a building with little potential damage to the firing team.)

    Dammit. I wanted this nation to be better. And it was. It was standing up proudly and strongly, even while the leftists kept kicking it in the chin. And now they have us down on our knees, or at least very wobbly.

    I fear for the coming storm. But I will stand, no matter what happens to me. I will not bend my knees.

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    1. Give the UN building back to the turtles. Turtle Bay was better without it.

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    2. Thanks, Beans! I was going to mention the China-Canada 'training agreement.
      I hope I'm wrong, but it could be that Sarge's latest is not set THAT far in the future. I'm too old for this shit--but if it comes, let it come to me, and not some future generation. I'll be dead in a couple of decades or so anyhow -- but that doesn't mean I'd sell my life cheap.
      --Tennessee Budd

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  13. Hey Old AFSarge;

    *Wow* didn't see that one coming.....You done good....Fixing to get sporty....Having the Red Chinese flag hoisted on American soil will rub everyone the wrong way except the hard core lefties, you know fellow travelers and all.

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