Inside Out: Final Conflict

By James A. Gauthier J.D.

Inside Out- Final Conflict is the third book in a trilogy that focuses on holding governments accountable. Domestic and foreign governments absorb countries to become super powers that wield nuclear weapons as tools for imperialistic motives. Jeff and Ann develop what the Department of Homeland Security describes as a super weapon of mass destruction and removes all stops to acquire Seeker for Homeland Securitys use as an offensive weapon. Ann, with her daughters, Annie and Hope, redefine Seeker and the system becomes Destiny, the new sheriff in town. Destiny is selectively used to stop world aggression resulting in Homeland Security relentlessly pursuing Ann and Jeff once again to steal the Seeker weapon. Homeland Security agents drive through the Academy fences crushing Jeff and Ann under the weight of the fence and vehicle while a second vehicle drives through another fence section and kills three Academy children and two parents. The Homeland Security agents make no apologies and hold themselves to be above the law when they act in the name of national security. Jeff and Ann survive and bring an end to world aggression and imperialism by all of the superpowers. Destiny temporarily shuts down the Internet and email capabilities while she uploads herself into the Internet and every computer that accesses the Internet. The seed for further action is planted with the hope that all countries will begin to respect the rights and liberties of other countries. If not, then Destiny will be back.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Trafford Publishing
• Release date: Jun 4, 2014
• ISBN: 9781490738345

James A. Gauthier J.D.

The author is a 71 year-old former teacher who proudly served his country in Viet Nam before returning to college where he received his Juris Doctor degree in 1985.. The author practiced law until 2020 when he retired from everything except for Judicial Arbitrations. The Author moved to Medina, Ohio in 2021 where he describes living in Ohio is just like being on vacation every day. Author has published fourteen books under the pen name of James A. Gauthier, J.D.. His books are available on Amazon and Barnes & Noble

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CHAPTER 1

The Future Guardians

The Castleway campus was a safe haven existing inside of a world that had exploded with madness, imperialism, nation building, and bitter aggression. Inside the safety of the secured campus, we had motivated students from kindergarten through postgraduate school. The children enrolled in our various academies were destined to become the future guardians of our Constitution and individual liberties. Like our own two daughters that were born and raised on the Castleway campus, parents entrusted their children to our care on the promise of a quality education in a safe and secure campus environment. With the technologies Ann and I had developed over the years, we had the ability to remain safe from hostile aggression, and neither Ann nor I feared using our capabilities to ensure the continued security of our campus and the safety of our students.

It was Saturday, and it was a warm, sunny spring day. Ann and I held hands as we walked around the campus and marveled in all that had been created through our efforts and the financial support of the technologies that we had developed. The tree-lined campus walkways had cherry blossoms in full bloom. The gardens were exploding in vibrant colors as spring flowers and shrubs began to bloom. The small pond in the center of the campus had ducks and swans swimming while seeking treats from the many students that had taken up temporary residency around the pond. Ann and I would occasionally stop and listen to students talking. Instead of discussing the latest music video or song, our students were debating what was happening outside of the campus and discussing options needed to ensure continued viability of the US Constitution and the two Bills of Rights.

On this particular sunny afternoon, it was really special because our daughters, Annie and Hope, were joining us on our walk around campus. Both of our daughters were now teaching in the law school and molding minds to do their part when the time came to protect and preserve the Constitution and individual liberties. Annie had blessed us with one granddaughter. Annie carried on the name tradition and named her daughter Ann after her mother. Ann was now four years old and was as tenacious and beautiful as her mother and grandmother. Hope had two children. She named her daughter Destiny and her son Jeff in my honor. Destiny was also four years old and beautiful. Jeff was three and quite handsome. While Destiny was equally as tenacious as her sister, Jeff seemed a little like me—quiet, but decisive. Our grandchildren showed a lust for learning and a love of life. Ann and I were truly blessed walking with our daughters and grandchildren. Sadly, much of our talk centered on the ongoing decay in the world around us. Hope asked me what our plans were if the decay continued to spread throughout our country like the rest of the world. At the time, I wasn’t sure what we would do. For now, I reassured my daughters that we were all safe and secure behind our secured perimeter. Of course, we also had our former navy SEALs, Jake and Ross, at our beck and call. They had become an integral part of our family and assumed some of the babysitter roles for Ann, Destiny, and Jeff while our daughters were teaching. Jake and Ross had served as babysitters for Ann and me when we first entered the academy at age fourteen. Over the years, they were present when Annie and Hope were born, and they stood hand in hand with our entire family during the second revolutionary war against the wannabe king. Jake and Ross now proudly assumed their role as babysitter for our grandchildren and as our bodyguards whenever we left the security of the campus.

The true beauty of our campus life was the mutual respect shared by students of all ages. It was quite common to see college students assisting younger students in academics or reprimanding a student for littering or similar wrongs. Our schools had always taught that you respect your elders and environment and you carry yourself with honor and distinction. In the high school office were lists of students offering tutoring services for any student in need. Finding help was never an issue within our school system. The students lived on campus and became an extended family that cared for each other.

On campus, academic life at the high school hadn’t changed that much since Ann and I began our studies as freshman. Our entire family, meaning Ann, me, our daughters, and grandchildren, ran with the student body every morning for the one-mile fun run. Usually Annie and Hope had to drop back since our grandchildren had great difficulty keeping pace with much older runners. However, our grandchildren always completed their one-mile fun run daily, albeit sometimes in two or three sessions. Fortunately, our campus had separate tracks for each academy, relieving some of the congestion at running time. Ultimately, Ann and I restructured the fun runs into three shifts: 05:30, 06:00, and 06:30. Ann and I needed to rotate our running time because our students wanted to run with us.

I continued to serve as the senior headmaster over the lower academy, middle school academy, and high school academy. Ann was my associate senior headmaster, and Kelly continued to serve as headmaster over the high school programs. At the college level, both Ann and I sat on the board of regents. No one ever questioned our educational backgrounds as academy high school graduates only. Our student body included one thousand elementary students, one thousand middle school students, and twelve hundred high school students. At the college level, we stretched the occupancy load and had approximately 450 matriculated students from college freshman through the senior year of the law school. The philosophy never changed. We had a mission to educate leaders and eliminate followers. We wanted thinkers and doers that weren’t afraid to take action when needed. We wanted freedom-loving guardians of our cherished Constitution. Our student body always stepped up and met the challenge.

The video programs that Ann and I created about the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution continued to be taught regularly in the academies, and no child graduated from high school without demonstrating proficiency in understanding the Constitution and the history of our great nation. Our students learned about how apathy led to the elimination of our individual rights and permitted the self-proclaimed king and his liberal minions to seize control over much of America while disregarding the Constitution. Students were taught to observe the small things. Eating an elephant one bite at a time might go unnoticed. The same holds true about the denigration of individual liberties. Slippery slopes are for skiing, and nothing should be tolerated that seeks to reduce our rights as citizens of this country.

One evening after work, Annie and Hope stopped by our apartment to say Hi and to discuss the changes in the world around us. Annie and Hope left their husbands at their apartments to babysit. As much as our daughters loved their husbands, they retained a small amount of separation between themselves and their spouses when it came to discussing current proprietary software and developing future technology. Annie and Hope asked to discuss Seeker and if Seeker was still viable and able to be used in the event of a defensive emergency. Ann explained that Seeker had been put to bed a little more than six years ago, and as far as the government knew, Seeker no longer existed. Homeland Security had destroyed the program when it unlawfully seized Ann’s computer and back-up drive. Ann then smiled and said, As you both know, Seeker is alive and well and would be available should a real emergency arise. Ann cautioned that once we disclose the existence of Seeker to the government, it would most definitely be seized and no sleight of hand trick would work next time. My family had no trust in our government and the unlawful means that it would use to achieve an end result.

Ann asked the girls why they wanted to know about Seeker. Hope said that she had been thinking about Seeker and how to adapt Seeker to the current happenings around the world. Hope explained that she had been studying the latest in communication technology and had realized that an increased amount of communications originated or passed through satellites instead of land-based operations. Annie jumped in and explained that we should consider modifying Seeker to address the new communication technology and how to access variable wave communications coming from the orbiting satellites. Ann acknowledged that things were going from bad to worse around the globe, but she just wasn’t sure that the time was right to redesign Seeker. Ann feared that the government would acquire Seeker and that would increase the global corruption and greed around the world. Ann wanted to stop illegal acts, not aid in the creation of such acts. Ann promised to give it some serious thought. Both Annie and Hope expressed their confidence in their mother and indicated that they would like to use some of their combined knowledge to better secure ourselves and our academy homes.

CHAPTER 2

Imperialism and Nation Building

To say that over the past six years that the world had gone to hell in a handbasket would be an inaccurate assessment of the reality facing the world community. The aggression began with Iran taking control of Iraq and Afghanistan while threatening nuclear annihilation of numerous Middle Eastern countries like Israel, Egypt, and the UAE, to name a few. In the East, North Korea had begun a campaign to seize control of South Korea. When that didn’t happen, China began consolidating its empire by taking control of North Korea, Taiwan, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam, India, Pakistan, and the Philippines. None of the nuclear countries dared use nuclear weapons for fear of a world apocalypse. In response to China’s imperialism, the European Union reaffirmed their solidarity and included Japan and Australia in the new union. Russia had begun taking control of pieces of the former Soviet Union and had previously taken control of the Ukraine. Russia, which was now emboldened by the lack of response by the United States, began systematically taking over Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus, Romania, and Georgia to become a part of the New Russian empire. Russia threatened armed conflict in order to acquire Alaska’s vast untapped oil reserves from the United States. Our government surrendered Alaska to the Russians to avoid a nuclear war. America’s problem was that the US military had been reduced to pre-Second World War status and lacked resources to defend the mainland and Alaska. Iran continued to control Iraq and Afghanistan and began to acquire other countries like Syria, Yemen, Jordan, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Qatar all under nuclear threats of annihilation. To secure the United States, all countries existing above the Panama Canal were annexed into the United States, as was Canada over the objection of most of its citizens. The newly formed country was called the United Northern States of America.

The net result of the global imperialism was the creation of several superpowers, namely the Russian empire, the European Union of Countries, Nationalist China, Iranian Republic, and the United Northern States of America. Areas such as South America and Africa were left to their own vices once select countries had been annexed by the nation-building activities. Sadly, each superpower had nuclear weapons and became a threat to the stability of other nations. The concept of mutually assured destruction or MAD was again in the forefront as countries sought to defend their assets as they continued to exercise aggression and nation building against other nations.

Mutual aggression and mistrust was the shared understanding between the superpowers. The United Northern States of America began using its space resources to establish a series of mobile satellites that carried six nuclear weapons on each satellite platform. Nuclear-tipped missiles could be fired from the satellite with little obstruction by adverse countries. Once the nuclear missile platforms were placed into service, the military got out the missile defense plan of the eighties and began redesigning a nuclear missile shield that would have the potential of using laser weapon technology to eliminate enemy missiles. The United Northern States of America continued to align with the European Union. The representatives of each country communicated through encrypted satellite communications in order to develop a mutual defense plan. The North Americans began sending defense shield plans to the European Union, as well as the plans for the satellite missile platforms. Unfortunately, neither government recognized that their communications through the satellite system were vulnerable to hacking, unlike their secured communications available through the Phantom programs that Ann and I had created and licensed to all countries. It didn’t take long before Russia and China had acquired our satellite system and laser weapon missile defense shield. Within six months of the initial encrypted communications between the two aligned countries, Russia and China were placing their own nuclear-tipped missiles and satellite platforms into space along with their own version of the missile laser weapon defense shield. The superpowers most assuredly had achieved the status of MAD.

Once the superpowers were armed and nuclear, they began the next step in a plan to control the economies of the world. China began buying up as much gold and silver as could be found for sale or theft from annexed countries. Iran acquired the vast gold, silver, and platinum reserves previously owned by Iraq. The United Northern States of America acquired gold and silver from citizens, declaring that the ownership of gold and silver was now unlawful and the precious metals were to be surrendered to the government. Citizens were given paper money in exchange for their gold and silver holdings. The same practice was implemented throughout the European Union and Russia. The result of the world governments seizing gold and silver was the devaluing of paper money; stocks were tanked, and bonds no longer received favorable ratings. International trade fell off, and on the local front, businesses began to fail; small stores were required to consolidate with larger stores or go under. Small business became a memory of the past.

Citizens began to protest the government’s action in seizing private property, such as gold and silver. Congress announced that certain actions of the government may affect citizen’s rights, but the decisions being made by the Congress and president were necessary for the preservation of the country. The president went on television and tried to calm angry citizens that once held precious metals and now owned devalued paper money worth less than one-third of the value of their precious metals. The president asked all North Americans to tighten their belts and support the government. Anger prevailed throughout North America. Individual liberties were being eroded, and our Operations Center (OC) was back in full operation. Once again, alumni were on an observe and report program to keep watch on an unyielding government. The only conclusion that Ann and I had was that the government had once again earned the mistrust of the people and operated in a manner that yielded contempt and ridicule by the electorate. I began to wonder once again why we had fought to remove one government when the next appeared to be equally corrupt.

It became patently obvious when watching the conservative news stations that the world was at risk of global war and annihilation. North America no longer was the shining beacon on the hill, and we no longer held the respect of our allies, nor garnered the fear of our foreign enemies. The term impotent seemed appropriate for our government and its lack of leadership around the world. Ann and I called for a second family meeting with our daughters. Ann announced that the time arrived to give a rebirth to Seeker. Plans were discussed, and a private development room was created off the OC for purposes of redesigning Seeker to meet the demands of the satellite era technologies. Hope asked if the end product could be named Destiny, which seemed appropriate to Ann and Annie. From that point forward, Seeker became Destiny, and the brilliant minds of my beautiful wife and daughters were going to bring Destiny to life and be ready to protect our small part of the insane world if and when that time arrived.

CHAPTER 3

Where Have the People Gone?

Ann and I avoided excessive travel off the secured campus. We recognized that we still had targets on our bodies because of the revolutionary war and the executions of the governmental traitors. Ann and I never left the academy campus without our bodyguards. The same rule held true for our daughters and their children. Our daughters’ husbands left campus regularly since they were unknown to our domestic enemies and not in much peril.

Ann and I took a drive through her hometown and around our campus. What we saw was economic devastation. Storefronts were shut down. Our fast-food hamburger restaurant was closed, and an entire shopping mall adjacent to the campus sat empty like an old-fashioned ghost town. The jewelry store where we bought our wedding rings was closed, and many gas stations sat empty with once busy fuel hoses now lying on the ground like dead snakes. The image was that of a third-world economy. Both Ann’s and my eyes filled with tears as we saw a once thriving community now resting like a lifeless body in the morgue. Traveling from the campus to town was akin to color versus black and white. I turned to Ann and asked, What happened to America?

Over the past few years, Ann and I took time away from being superpatriots and instead spent our time being good parents and grandparents. Our focus was on our children and grandchildren. Our daughters enjoyed being with us in their early years, but how many times in their young lives had we put our children in harm’s way. During the second revolutionary war, Annie and Hope stood proud on the border of the Free States and steadfastly faced an oncoming army with thousands of soldiers, missile launchers, tanks, and related military equipment. Our daughters didn’t break or run despite their fear of the unknown and the real possibility of their deaths. The only peace we held in our hearts was our belief that the American soldier would never attack our family and citizens of their own country despite the orders of a malevolent king. My daughters cried with joy when the army commander hoisted the American flag over their position and reported to me that they were there to defend free Americans against the corrupt government. That was one of the days that my family felt the most proud of our military heroes. Hope mentioned back then that the colors on her small American flag didn’t run and neither did we. My daughters were leaders and demonstrated the ideals taught by our learning academies in all they did.

Ann and I asked Jake to take us for a drive around our campus a second time. I wanted to see what types of properties surrounded our campus, and I wanted to determine if any risk could be associated with the vacant properties. By my count, we were looking at nearly thirty acres of a vacated shopping center and abandoned storefronts, but little risk was apparent. The local newspaper announced that the local high school was being closed and the students consolidated with the campus on the other side of town. That left an additional fourteen acres abutting our south property line. Castleway Academy and the rest of our schools now sat in the middle of a lost American community. Our campus looked like an oasis upon a sea of devastation and closed businesses. On the outside, life was somewhat black and white, and on campus, life existed in bright, vivid color. It felt good to return safely to campus.

Annie and Hope felt the same pain and disappointment that Ann and I shared. Our daughters wondered how they were going to raise their children in a climate of war and distrust. The only conclusion they could reach was that they would raise their children within the safety of the campus. Hope and Annie indicated that the only way they could protect their families was to get Destiny up and operational. To that end, all of us put the missing storefronts and lost community out of our minds, and we jointly worked to create a superweapon that would have the capability of bringing sanity back into our insane world.

While Ann, Annie, and Hope worked to redesign Seeker, I managed the campus and the OC. I began receiving messages from alumni seeking the ability to return to the security of the campus with their families. I heard everything from how dangerous it was on the outside of the campus to simple requests that our alumni be allowed to return home. As students, alumni lived on campus for four years, and it was their home, and to some, the only home left for the alumni to return too. I received a frantic phone call from Sarah in the OC. I met with Sarah and learned that she was receiving more than one hundred requests daily for alumni and their families to move onto the secured campus. Alumni volunteered to live in tents or bunk in gymnasiums so long as they could shield their own children from the madness going on in the world. I asked Sarah to track the requests and let me have the compiled lists of names of alumni seeking refuge on our campus. That evening, I discussed with Ann the planned exodus of our alumni to the campus, and we both agreed that we couldn’t accommodate the alumni and their families at this time. What little room we did have would be reserved for distinguished alumni, like Gary’s family if they wanted asylum on the campus. Gary was a true patriot. As an alumnus of the academy, he distinguished himself by sacrificing his life in an attempt to prevent a nuclear holocaust against the Free States during the new revolutionary war. The next day, I instructed Sarah to keep a running list of those alumni that sought refuge on campus. In the meantime, I needed to think about what options were available to resolve the present crisis.

I thought about the exodus problem and recalled that the public school system was abandoning the high school adjacent to our campus. There was a chance that the local school board would dump the building and property just to be rid of a no longer needed school building. I contacted the district superintendent and inquired as to the district’s planned use for the vacated school. The superintendent asked if Castleway Academy was a nonprofit institution, and I confirmed that it was. Our mission was to educate children, not make money on them. The superintendent then offered to sell the vacant land and building to our school system for one dollar. It was just that easy. Within a month, the public high school property was fully enclosed within the security fencing of our campus.

I checked with the owner of the shopping center that had been vacated. The owner explained that he had been sitting on the fence trying to decide whether to remodel the center into a different use or sell it. He had concluded that most of the community had relocated to where jobs still existed and food was still plentiful. I mentioned to him that our academies were nonprofit and he could consider donating to the academy. He spun around in his chair and asked, Aren’t you the people that changed the tax law into a flat tax? I replied that I was involved and that I believed a flat tax was a much fairer tax for American taxpayers. He then replied, Then don’t talk to me about donating the building. I don’t get any write-offs because of the tax changes you implemented. I pointed out that I merely made proposed constitutional amendments. It was the majority of the people that implemented the law. He wanted to know what our plan was for the property if we acquired it. I mentioned that we needed more housing to accommodate new students and their families. After answering numerous questions about our academies, the man made me an offer. If I would accept his granddaughter into the middle school, then he would agree to donate the buildings and land to our school system. I smiled and said, Done and shook his hand. One week later, the shopping center was deeded over and secured within the academy’s fencing. We now had forty-four new acres of property to develop as we deemed necessary, be it housing or additional school space. With the exodus of incoming families, we would be looking at more students in our classrooms and more places to live.

CHAPTER 4

Inside Out or Outside In

I met with the school’s architect and discussed the anticipated growth of our academies and the increased need for housing assistance for select alumni seeking a return to the campus. The architect and I took a golf cart ride around the campus. He noted the configuration of the additional forty-four acres of land and said, I see that you have already constructed security fencing around the new properties. You do understand that if construction is necessary, the fences will need to come down. I replied, Of course. Once the tour was over, the architect suggested two options. First, the existing buildings could be retrofitted for basic housing and/or classrooms, but the configuration wouldn’t yield as much usable space as new construction, and second, he would recommend that the buildings be demolished and new construction of multilevel apartment buildings be completed. He estimated that he could get close to 1,250 two-bedroom apartments within the forty-four acres. Each building would be three floors high. The architect also noted that we had no idea as to the condition of the electrical and plumbing for the existing structures, and it would serve us better to start with new construction all around. The estimated price tag was eighty-seven million dollars, which was well within our available funds.

Sarah’s report identified numerous members of our alumni that