Rogue Reporter Comes Under Censorship From An Unexpected Quarter (The Home Front!) by Alfred.N.Muggins

By David Kirtley
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2/8/25
And so they arrived in distant Dawlish Warren, a tiny part of Devon, which they had visited twice before in recent years. This time they took different members of the family, to share in it's pleasures and pleasantries; namely Mrs Muggins' daughter, and her two daughters. It would be an interesting trip, Alfred was sure, although he did fear that he and Mrs Muggins' first son might be seriously outvoted and outmanoevred by 3 generations of ladies young, old, and in between.
The day began as a fairly early rise, to a man who had still been making sandwiches at 11.30 pm the previous night, with a little bit (a lot of!) help from his comrades (mainly Mrs Muggins' first son), with plenty of advisory interjections from his dictatorial wife (who he feared might be becoming more, not less, authoritarian as the years swiftly passed them by! (Just like the revealed Big Man in the White House, across the pond!) Like the poor Americans Alfred thought the easiest way to deal with this was to be relaxed, and have a good British sense of humour, so he could ride it out as peacefully as possible without inviting undue stress!)
3/8/25
She had instructed him, not just because she feared he would one day be arrested for his wayward writing, and his incautious criticisms of the great buffoon across the pond, and his many (too many!) minions, catamites(?), bootlickers, frightened and bullied congressmen and women, and fellow fascists, billionaire buddies, co-conspiritors and stupid voters, to stop writing about Trumpenstein. She had been worried he might get into trouble one day soon about that, but also now she said he had committed an even greater crime - that of being BORING!
To a man, like Alfred, who tried very hard not to be boring, in his writing, by freely following his passions and interests, it was a sad indictment of his latest attempts to merely defend democracy and decency, but he had felt impelled, ever since the American election last November, and particularly since the hot aired inauguration of 20th January 2025, from which time the American nation had descended into madness, sadness, cruelty, and desperation, to at least to try to document and share the news and interpretation of what was going on in America with as many fellow citizens of the West, and beyond. At the end of the day, like thousands/millions(?) of peace loving, kind people, 'progressives'(?) all over the world he felt it to be his duty to be concerned, to warn, and to observe, and record the progress of this dangerous movement of dissolution. What would happen to the West if everyone kept their heads in the sand and just assumed that everything which was going on on the other side of the Pond would somehow 'sort itself out', and 'we need not worry'?
Just because until now, over the last few decades, most of us had had a relatively peaceful, and reasonably prosperous life, didn't mean that this would go on forever, automatically. Mr Trumpenstein was just such a character who could well upset everyone's life! (The spanner in the works of western/modern civilisation!)
Along with a large number of crimes, and sabotage of the American State, and betrayal of its people, as well as of its erstwhile allies, and many people in those countries, the additional crime of causing Alfred Muggins to be BORING could also be laid at the buffoon's door. To Alfred this was a very sad crime to add to all the others, although some might have said it was a relief rather than a crime!
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