[net.politics] Short Story Contest

pollack@uicsl.UUCP (09/05/83)

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uicsl!pollack    Sep  4 15:39:00 1983



   Write a short story explaining the downing of the KAL flight.
Political leaning doesn't matter, but creativity does.


Here's mine:


			    Viking Funeral
			    --------------


Larry MacDonald was dying.  His doctor diagnosed a terminal illness and
granted him a matter of months to live.  Rather than dying hairless in
a hospital, our leading member of the John Birch Society wants a hero's
death; he wants to sail into the stinking ocean of communism to meet
his maker.

  "Give me a Man's way to die: behind commie lines. The other 'mercans on
  my plane will be sacrificed to the "Holy Cause of a White America, and
  the rest are only Chinese - there are enough of them in the world."

Having a fellow "Freedom-Loving" agent switch the navigational tape,
the 747 proceeded into Russian Territory.  "We don't talk to
communists, and we don't follow behind communists," the hijacker said
as he pointed a gun at the Korean Pilot.

As the Commercial Airliner silently flew deeper and deeper into the
Military Installation, Russian Airforce Captain Nokom Offski had no
choice under regulations, but to shoot her down...

.......


Widow:
  "My Husband was the best communist fighter in our country. Those dirty,
  evil, godless Russians shot down a whole plane just to kill him..."

"Freedom-loving" Senator:
  "I think it is clear to all God-Fearin Americans that the Russians are
  an evil, lawless empire, bent on world conquest. If they can shoot down
  an innocent passenger plane, think of what they'll do to the poor
  democratic people of Central America..."

"Jerk in Netland"
  "Nuke the Russians"