“We ran as outsiders, Jeff. And the people who voted for you want things done. They don’t want to wait.”
They stared at each other for a long moment. Gerry could already see this bogging down into a quagmire of court cases and public relations battles. That was bad. But the whole thing could be cured if war with China broke out. What public figure wanted to be seen as in bed with the enemy?
“Listen, here’s how I see it,” Gerry said. “There is long precedent for detaining possible enemies of the state, especially during wartime. We put more than a hundred thousand Japanese in internment camps during World War Two.
“Much more recently, there was REX 84 and REX 97, Readiness Exercises 1984 and 1997, respectively. In the event of a national emergency, both plans called for the suspension of
