by Naomi Rifkin
Today the President got his way. Six Alpha kids went to school in Coney Island, soaking the city for millions to keep them safe, and turning Hylan High School upside down. Before it had even opened its doors, these nonhuman students had started a riot predicted by this columnist and everyone else with a brain. Two thousand police from all over New York, as well as thousands of National Guard soldiers, tried to keep order as thousands more came out to protest this bogus plan. One hundred and four people were arrested, and there were scores of injuries.
The cost to taxpayers for the beefed-up security promises to be mind-boggling.
“No one’s sure how much it will cost, but it’s going to be a pretty penny,” said an insider in the mayor’s accounting office who wished to remain anonymous. I don’t blame him. I wouldn’t want to be held accountable for the money we’re wasting on kids who don’t even want to learn. The man-hours that went into planning this, the overtime—it’s going to shock people when it all comes out. And this is just the first day.
But the real costs come at the expense of the people living in Fish City. Bloody brawls between police and the activist group the Coney Island Nine are almost a daily occurrence. I say the cops need to back off. The Niners are the real locals in lower Brooklyn, a group of community organizers memorializing the nine U.S. soldiers who were butchered in a confrontation with the Alpha. We should put our trust in a group that is trying to make sure that never happens again.
“These creatures may walk around like people, but they aren’t people,” said Mitchell Parker, a lieutenant in the CI9. “They’re animals. We don’t put wild dogs in school. They’re dangerous.”
Governor Bachman, who in my humble opinion is the only elected official who hasn’t lost her mind, was on hand to give a voice to the thousands who want the Alpha to swim back to sea, and what did it get her? A trip downtown in handcuffs.
“We’re going to keep working to stop this plan, and if I have to be arrested every single day, then so be it,” she says. Good for her.
In the meantime, New Yorkers should plan to pull out their checkbooks. This little experiment is going to break the bank.
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NYC MAYOR HEDGES OVER SECRET MEETINGS WITH THE ALPHA
Spokespeople for both the mayor and Brooklyn borough president were tightlipped when pressed about secret meetings between city officials and members of the Alpha. Accusations continue to mount that the mayor’s administration strong-armed the city school district into opening the schools to the Alpha children. Despite last week’s release of phone records revealing lengthy conversations between the mayor’s chief of staff and the Red Cross, no one wants to admit they happened. Speculation continues that the Alpha were threatened with police and military action if they did not agree to assimilate into our society. The mayor was elected largely on a campaign promise to get the Alpha off the beaches of Coney Island.
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Activists Sue for Information About Missing Alpha
by Molly Belden
The Red Cross, Human Rights Watch, and the New York Civil Liberties Union have teamed up to file a lawsuit against the federal government, charging that it has kidnapped members of the Alpha and their human families. According to the filing, the suit also claims that officials know the whereabouts of nearly fifty-two missing individuals, all of whom are connected with the Alpha. The suit demands their immediate release.
Lawyers representing the State Department call the suit baffling and claim to have no knowledge about the missing individuals, but NYCLU lawyer Andrea Quindlin says she has proof, including a witness who claims to have been inside a secret camp where the Alpha are being held.
“The government has been singing this song for three years. They throw up their hands and claim they’re in the dark. It’s a lie, and we can prove it,” said Quindlin during a press conference held this morning at the Washington Memorial Arch. “They can’t pretend they don’t know anything anymore. We’ve got a witness who was there. He saw what is happening.”
Quindlin declined to identify the witness for fear that it would compromise his safety but said his testimony would be “damning.”
Speculation has swirled since the first member of the Alpha vanished three years ago, along with his human wife and two young daughters. Charles Sands and his wife, Kathryn, as well as Belle, age twelve, and Lara, age eight, were reported missing less than a month after Charles confessed to being a member of a group popularly known as “the originals,” who arrived twenty years earlier and masqueraded as human.
Seventeen of “the originals” and their human families have been reported missing. Another is rumored to have died in a car accident. Two others are believed to remain at large.
Chapter Five
Dead catfish is impossible to get out of your hair. It’s gummy and tacky, and all I have are a handful of soggy paper towels and a bathroom sink that doesn’t have a hot-water knob. It’s hopeless. Stupid fish.
Bex finds me mid-sob and gives me a hug.
“You smell like Manhattan clam chowder,” she says.
“Bex, don’t!”
“You’re right. It’s definitely New England clam chowder.”
And despite it all, I laugh and she laughs, and for a moment we’re free, just two normal teenage girls in a normal high school in Normalville, USA, suffering an embarrassing indignation. But it doesn’t last. The door to the bathroom swings opens, and a female SWAT team member enters. She’s wearing a black bulletproof vest and matching fatigues. Her helmet has a plexiglass visor that my father says is designed to take a brick. She nods to us—not a hello, more like an I have cataloged you along with all the other dangerous objects in this room, then stalks the floor in her polished boots, each step a click on the marble tile. She shoves a stall door open so hard, it crashes against its steel frame, then peers inside. Once she’s satisfied it’s empty, she moves on to the next. Step. Click. Slam! Step. Click. Slam!