Nouno the Vigilante Episode 28 Cowardly Attack

                Kate Steinle is a 32-year-old woman in San Francisco, California.  Her father calls her and asks if she wants to go down to the pier as it is a nice day.  Kate agrees and meets up with her dad.  They grab something to eat and then walk down Pier 14 talking and catching up.  Although Kate is an adult her dad will always look at her as his little girl.  Kate actually likes this and cherishes her time with her father.  Little did each of them know this would be the last time that they would walk down a pier together.

                Jose Inez Garcia Zarate is a Mexican national that snuck into the country illegally.  He is unemployed and enjoys the welfare programs and free things that America, especially California, provides.  Jose had a tough road to San Francisco.  As he tried to make his way to northern California, he’s been caught by ICE and deported five times.  Now, he has finally made it to the sanctuary city and knows he is protected from the San Francisco authorities and won’t be deported anymore.  He enjoys his new city as drugs are prevalent all over the streets, which gives him some recreation.  He stumbles his way to Pier 14 and has acquired a gun.  As he’s walking with the gun, he sees a white girl.  He has been taught by the people that run the barrio he was given housing in that white people are to blame for all his problems.  He sees the girl and aims the gun.   The gun goes off and ricochet off the concrete striking the girl in the back.  Kate will be rushed to the hospital as her father looks on at something a parent should never have to see; their child’s unresponsive and bloodied in front of their eyes.  All the elder Steinle can think is why hadn’t the bullet hit him instead.  He wonders why he wasn’t on the other side of her while they were walking.  As he sits in the hospital with his daughter’s blood still on his hands, he slouches down preying that he’ll hear his daughter’s voice again.  His prayer will not be answered as Kate only has two hours to live.

 

                Sitting in Arizona, Abby is on her cell phone checking her various social media accounts while her husband Nouno watches TV.  There is a nine year age difference between them but neither one cares.  Both of them have occupations that allow them to work remotely, which helps with their hobby of travelling the country as vigilantes for people that the system ignores.  Abby shakes her head and calls out, “Hey babe, we got a case?”

                “Where to?”

                “I’ll give you one guess”

                “California”

                “Yup, I’m really beginning to think that all these illegal alien criminals just concentrate in one state.”

                “Well, that is what our data would suggest.”

                “What data? I just troll the internet until something pops out.”

                “That’s data, when we randomly keep going to the same state; that’s a pattern based on data.  where we have been.”

                “I guess”

                “Who’s the villain?”

                “A Mexican named Jose Inez Garcia Zarate.  He killed a woman and at first the courts did the right thing by convicting him.  He’s been deported five times but they weren’t going to deport him this time. “

                “Alright, so justice worked.  Where do we come in?”

                “A trial judge overturned the conviction”

                “Why?  Was it because ICE was asking to deport him so they wanted to protect him and maintain their status of a sanctuary city?”

                “No, it was a technicality.  The judge forgot to instruct the jury on the rules of momentary possessing a firearm.”

                “What?  The judge messed up so they let him out of jail?”

                “Yes”

                “How do you momentarily possess a firearm?  Is that different from possession?”

                “He claims he found the gun and it just went off.”

                “Yea, I don’t believe that.”

                “Me neither”

                As Nouno and Abby were preparing to go to San Francisco, the TV was on and President Trump came on to give a speech.  Nouno listened intently but Abby ignored it and kept tracking Jose’s patterns.  To Nouno’s surprise, President Trump mentioned Kate’s story as support for the immigration law to be reformed so it would be less likely for it to happen again.”

                Abby perks up shocked that the President just mentioned the case they were working on.  She smiled and then went back to her work.  That was about as much time as she would give the president. 

                Abby and Nouno board the plane and head towards San Francisco.  Abby is watching TV on her phone and then nudges Nouno.  She knows that he follows the goings on more than she does.  She asks, “What’s going on with this impeachment.  First, they’re not going to vote now they are going to vote but Pelosi says it’s not an impeachment.  I’m just confused.”

                “Pelosi called for a vote because there is criticism that they are doing the impeachment inquiry in secret.  She’s realizing it’s making them look bad.  The Republicans constantly crashing the hearings isn’t helping.”

                “Don’t you think that’s kind of childish?”

                “Turnabout is fair play”

                “What do you mean?”

                “I think the Democrats are acting like children by not letting Republicans into the hearings or cross-examine witnesses.”

                “Well, they say that’s how it’s done and they don’t have to.”

                “There is no precedent to not vote.  Both impeachments there were a bipartisan vote of the entire House.  Before he resigned, the house voted on whether they would impeach Nixon.  Therefore, every single time it has happened, they voted.  That’s called precedent.”

                “Don’t talk down to me!  Pelosi claims it’s because Trump is obstructing the house investigation.”

                “They always say that.  That’s what they said when they couldn’t find any Russian collusion.  Trump has left them alone.  She knew she was being sued to be forced to stop the inquiry if she didn’t take a vote and she was going to lose.  She wants Trump to produce a bunch of documents but Trump refused unless there’s an official impeachment.  The ball is in her court and she has refused to act so far.”

                “She has to have a reason to think that Trump obstructed.”

                “Really IG Horowitz obstructed.  You see he’s going to release his report soon and it’s supposed to be very damaging to the Democrats.  If Pelosi takes a vote, she can distract the country from what’s in the IG report.”

                “No, she specifically said that Trump obstructed.”

                “They lied about that with the Russian probe, why do you believe them now?”  Nouno took on a large sly smile and continued, “Well, I guess he did obstruct.  When he killed Baghdadi it helped him because it’s an obvious good.  Pelosi couldn’t have that and the media had to spin it because heaven forbid you have anything positive to say about Donald Trump.”

                “She got the information, and now she’s going to impeach.  It’s a process?”

                “Really?  Then how come when a reporter asked her that in the hallway today, she turned around and declared, ‘this is not an impeachment.’”

                “I don’t know but if it’s not an impeachment then what is it?”

                “The narrative will be that they didn’t vote for impeachment but they voted for information.”

                “Maybe that’s true” Abby replies shrugging her shoulders.

                “That’s not how it works. “

                “Look, I don’t know.  I’m way too tired for a conversation like this” she snapped back

                Nouno put his hands up and leaned back, “Whoa, alright then.”

                They land in San Francisco and deboard the plane.  After they rent a car, they go to the hotel to soundproof the room.  After they are done, they hang out in San Francisco appalled at the high prices of everything.  No wonder there were so many homeless people and excrement on the street; nobody can afford anything here.  They find a dive bar that Jose likes to frequent and sit down and order a drink.  Jose is supposed to be there already but he is not at the moment.  Nouno buys a drink and waits.  He gets a strange idea and texts Abby to come in with him to make sure he’s not getting outflanked.  He knows this is paranoia but he doesn’t care.  As Abby joins him a man in his mid -20s raises his glass of beer and screams out, “Fuck Trump.”
                Abby rolls her eyes as she knows Nouno will respond.  They’re supposed to remain in the shadows and not make a scene but that’ exactly what Nouno does.  He turns to the kid and states, “How dare you say that?  Why do you hate him so much?”

                With obvious annoyance in his voice, the kid fired back, “Are you a Trump supporter?”

                “Yes I am.”

                “How do you feel that he’s going to get impeached?”

                The boy’s tone was accusatory and he had a smug smile on his face.  Nouno calmly replied, “You mean the fake impeachment on a quid pro quo that never happened.  The transcript is public so anyone can read it.  Read it yourself, there’s no quid pro quo.”

                “That’s not the transcript. “

                “Then what is it?”

                “Something else.”

                “Even the Whistle Blower and the Ukrainians said it was a word for word transcript.”

                “Whatever, making deals while leveraging aid they need is wrong.”

                “Did you say that when Biden did it?  If you don’t want to talk about old shit; how about Bernie Sanders saying that he’d sit down with the Palestinian people and negotiate an agreement with Israel.  Bernie admitted he’d threaten to withhold $ 3.8 Billion dollars from Israel as leverage.  Bernie claims he has a right to do that as revenge for refusing us.  So, Bernie Sanders has the right to do it but not the President?  How does that make sense?”

                “ We’re not talking about Bernie Sanders, we’re talking about Donald Trump.  Another person has come forward to say that he made threats in the transcript.”

                “Yea, he’s a lawyer for the CIA officer that worked with Joe Biden in Ukraine in 2007.  He helped the whistle blower write the complaint.  Before that, he was the same lawyer that lied about Bush withholding life saving equipment from the troops.”

                “I don’t remember that.”

                “You were young.”

                “That’s true.  Bush was president from when I was 3-11, not exactly an age I knew what was going on.   But, if there really was nothing to it, then why bring up the phone call?”

”They need to constantly put negative stories out and make Trump look bad and set up his supporters as ‘deplorables.  The Mueller report ended on July 24, 2019.  Laurence Tribe knew they had to do something.  Robert Mueller just testified to congress.  Based on the somber tone of the Democrats, they were beginning to get good.  Now that the collusion hoax just finished with no obstruction and no collusion so they had to find another way to yell at Trump.  The next day was the phone call with the new Ukrainian president.  That seemed like a good thing to lie about since it’s hearsay, which is hard to prove.    They never thought he would release the transcript.”

While Nouno was arguing in the bar, Abby walked outside.  As she did, she saw Jose and gave him a charming smile.  Jose noticed and looked at the 26-year-old Abby and smiled back.  Abby pursed her lips together and kissed the air.  While doing this, she texted Nouno, without looking, to come outside. “

Jose walked over to Abby and confidently declared, “Hola MamaCita”

Abby responded by stabbing him with a syringe releasing a sedative.  She sidestepped Jose knowing that she wouldn’t be able to catch his dead weight unconscious body.  As she waited for him to fall, she noticed he hadn’t.  Nouno had come out just in time to see her deliver the blow and he caught Jose before he fell.  He brought him to his car and threw him in the back seat making sure it looked like they were just taking care of him after he drank too much. 

When Jose woke up, Nouno was in a bad mood as Abby and he were fighting about Nouno drawing attention to himself on the day they were going to kill someone.  He kept saying it was no big deal as they did a good job disposing of the body and then they leave town.  Jose struggled with his constraints and Nouno simply expressed, “Hola”

Jose fired back a lot of Spanish obscenities and Nouno gave him a bored grin.  Jose calmed and asked, “Do you speak Spanish”

“Si”

“What am I doing here?”

                “Since you killed that girl, I’m going to kill you.”

                “That was an accident.”

                “I don’t believe you.”

                “You don’t want to make the same mistake the government made with that Muslim guy.”

                “What mistake?”

                “The guy that blew himself up.”

                “Al Baghdadi?”

                “Yea, he was the head of a Middle East company and a professor and the army just chased him into a tunnel and he blew himself up.”

                “He was the head of ISIS and raped, murdered and tortured people.  He was one of the biggest killers the world had a week ago.”

                “Oh, I didn’t know that.”

                “That’s because the media will not acknowledge the threat of Islamic terrorist because they don’t want to give America’s right emphasis on the importance of national security.” 

                “Why would the media say that in America?”

                “They are against people who are against communism.”

                “Fine, so he needed to die but Trump should have notified Adam Schiff.”

                “No, he shouldn’t because Adam Schiff would warn the terrorists and tell the press about it.  Adam Schiff is the most corrupt politician in office.  Even the President said that.”

                “So, you think that the media is trying to save the legacy of Al-Baghdadi?”

                “Yes, MSNBC talked about how we can’t know what Al-Baghdadi was like before he died because only the dog went into the tunnel and the dog probably didn’t have a microphone.”

                “Why would they mention that?”

                “They don’t like that Trump said he was crying and begging when he died.”

                “Who cares what sounds he was making before he died?”

                “Exactly”

                “What do you think?”

                “I think he’s a coward.  I think it’s very cowardly to kill yourself and take women and children with you before you do.  Just how I think it’s cowardly for you to shoot a girl in the back.”

                “That seems true.” Jose was trying to distract him from the reason he was there.

                “Except Matt boot, a former foreign policy adviser defended him that he wasn’t a coward because he killed himself instead of being captured.”
                “You have a strange media”

                “I agree”

                “I still don’t know why they’re doing it.”

                “Three reasons.  First, they are against anything that helps the president.  Second, his death complicates things because they were saying last week that if we pull out, they will grow and be strong and attack us at home.  We showed we can cripple them with quick missions rather than long drawn out wars.  Lastly, the Trump foreign policy successes undermine media impeachment drive.”

                “Yea, they’ll lose”

                “You won’t know because you’re going to die.”

                “Why?  It was an accident.  I picked up the gun and it shot.”

                “I don’t believe you.”

                “I’ll make you a deal; I’ll go back to Mexico and never come back.”

                “You’re going somewhere but that’s not for me to decide” Nouno explained as he stabbed him in the chest. 

                Abby was always curious why Nouno felt the need to have long drawn out conversations with them before he did it.  She didn’t mind though.  At first, she thought it was to practice his Spanish but not everyone was Hispanic.  They wrap the body and break into a crematorium to dispose of it.  They go around San Francisco until it’s time to return to clean the ashes and bones in the proper way. 

The next day, Abby and Nouno are on a plane back to Arizona.  Abby poses, “Why do the Democrats keep getting excited about these accusations?  Shouldn’t they wait till they actually get evidence?”
                “They are convinced that there’s really bad information out there.  They hope that someone will come forward to tell them.  They learned from Mueller that drawing it out for years will annoy the public.  Now, the Democrats have changed their tactics to do things quickly to not wear down the public.  So no, she’s just lying.”

“Do you think it’s going to work?”

“Not really, but Trump keeps getting in the way because good news comes out faster than they can generate the hoax narrative.  Trump always does things to help himself and every time he looks good, the press and Pelosi look bad.”             

               

                As they land in Arizona, they get their stuff and head back to their house.  It was a successful mission and now it was time to act like normal people.  They get back into their routine as they await their next mission.  Despite Nouno’s loose lips, they saw no reports that they were looking for Jose’s killers.  They actually didn’t even see anything indicating they knew he was missing in the first place.