Land of Oz

Nightmares

Scenario: You and your neighbor don't get along - his dog craps on your lawn, he parks forty-eleven cars on his front lawn and you've called the cops on him in the past for 3am parties. He wants to get even. You are an electronics hobbiest, amateur machinist, woodworker and general tinkerer.

He calls and reports you to the Department of Homeland Security as a possible terrorist threat. He claims to have seen you move suspicious objects into your garage and he's heard you threaten to blow up the world.

The FBI comes along and enters and searches your house without letting you know. The find your firearms, electronics test gear and a large collection of nuclear weapon related books. Further searching reveals texts about military fortifications and weapons systems along with aerial maps of large areas of the world.

Taadaa!! They determine you to be a terrorist threat. You aren't accused or arrested or brought to trial. The fact that they determine you to be a threat is enough for you to be picked up and dropped into one of the blackholes of Homeland Security. You see no lawyer, no evidence and do not even hear the charges against you. Eventually you're "renditioned" to some rathole of a country's jail where you're questioned again - not being tortured, mind you, since you don't suffer organ failure or death, but spend hours in a frigid cell soaked in water, with savage dogs inches from your face and loud music and lights playing and shining 24/7.

You don't wakeup and it's not 1984 the movie and that's the nightmare.