It is amazing how some authors can write "fiction" that within a few years comes to life in our own time! DonnaLee Wheeler has done just that in her novel "The Golden Path". This quote pretty well sums it up: "Life is good in the Algoran Federation and The Leiknoss Alliance until a strange group of people who have suddenly appeared, seemingly from nowhere, makes an outrageous demand backed with threats of violence. Who are these people? Where did so many of them come from without anyone really noticing?"
For over twenty years, we have seen illegals crossing the southern border of the United States. At first, it was just a trickle as the farm workers came during the harvest migration. Then, more came as news of the better conditions in the U.S. filtered back south of the border. Now, it is a veritable tidal wave of down-trodden humanity seeking the American dream because of the world-wide economic crisis. Now, suddenly the unknowing (didn't want to see or know?) citizens of this country are being forced to recognize that there are "illegals" among us. We, as a country, may be feeling some pain, but much of the rest of the world is in much worse shape than we are.
Suddenly, or at least in the last few years, the cry of "stop the illegal immigration", "how dare they break our laws", "force those (illegal) criminals out", and "forget amnesty" are heard all over the country. At the same time, other countries are faced with the same situation described in DonnaLee's book, where the foreigners are demanding a seat at the table of governance (forget the fact that we showed up illegally and uninvited). They go even further and demand that if your citizens do not bow to our demands, we will terrorize you with random killings until you cave in to us. Doesn't that sound very much like what some of the radical groups are doing in Europe, Asia, and the East?
You can find her paperback books at kinfolktrails and electronic versions at Amazon and Smashwords.
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