Just the other day the New York Times wanted to cancel the midterm elections so Andy wondered if they wanted to cancel the fire department since fire trucks were an old fashioned idea.

It was for sure a very big fire, many more fire engines were responding so Andy jumped up from his favorite chair and prepared to run down seven flights of concrete stairs.  Under different circumstances Andy would of just kept watching T.V. but the sirens kept coming and he couldn't see anything from his apartment window.

To be honest the fire engine siren sounds were exciting as it meant something was happening so he grabbed up his digital camera and hit the first step inside the emergency exit stairwell.

Andy was a per say part-time photographer for the New York Street Paper called "PROPERTY" which was a very exclusive newspaper for the very rich people around the New York City area. 

It was for sure a conservative newspaper for all the skillfully rich builders, contractors, engineers and brokers that build very tall buildings and then stuff them with people like Andy.

Andy knew more about the fire as he descended past the third floor as there was a scent of smoke in the air.  It wasn't an offending smell but a more pleasurable scent like a nice campfire fragrance. 

As Andy pushed open the fire escape door the smoke fragrance turned to odor and hundreds of people were running up and down the street.

He clicked his first picture at the exact same time a police officer knocked him down running to the burning building.  Andy sat on the curb for a couple of seconds as his surroundings no longer made sense.

His mind went right back to 9-11 when the towers were hit and some outright fear moved through his entire body.  He looked down the street and starting taking more pictures.  The New York Times was down the street but, with all the smoke and fire companies responding and the cops pushing and shoving Andy was just making educated guesses at this point, the New York Times building was on fire.

Just the other day the New York Times wanted to cancel the midterm elections so Andy wondered if they wanted to cancel the fire department since fire trucks were an old fashioned idea.

Andy turned toward the fire even though he could not see any flames.  Most people were running away from the smoke but Andy would never pass up the chance for money pictures.  His newspaper press-pass for the "PROPERTY" should get him past the cops as he watched the whiter, wealthier and older fireman and cops doing their jobs.

Andy started jogging toward the New York Times building and thought about the NYT article about killing off the midterm elections, because they no longer made any sense at all.  They argued that the midterm elections were all about whiter, wealthier and older smart people taking their revenge against the regular people.

Andy could see the business men running away and noticed the NYT press-pass employee badges on dozens of the runners.   Once the most respected newspaper in the world the New York Times couldn't even pay their bills at times.  Andy could see the men and women of the New York Times running past him and away from the fire and smoke as Andy thought he could see the burning building.

Whatever was burning it was receiving no mercy from the fire God as the flames were doing their crude work of destruction. 

What Andy saw next would cause legitimate terror to spread across the United States.  Good people were burning down one of the most famous corporations in the world and the firemen were not fighting the fire, they were stoking the flames with anything that would burn.

The police officers were shooting the firemen and the firemen were fighting back with their own tucked away pistols and the record would show it was revolution, the Spartan wars Andy wrote about just last year.

The fireman had been clever and the fire at the base of the building was growing larger and larger and the fire trucks were blocking all access.  It was almost artistic Andy thought, the little people were taking over just like they had threatened for several years.  They had said if things didn't change, they would burn down the city.

Andy saw the cops in sharp competition with the fireman and shots were being fired and more police cars were arriving.  For some odd reason Andy wondered if insurance companies would pay the claims of our shifting morality. 

Andy had the temptation to cheer them on but he saw a cop get shot and Andy watched as the cop dropped like a hot match that suggested that New York was in a desperate fight.

The fire, smoke, lights and sirens temporarily paralyzed his conscience as he watched people get even with the big corporations.  He paused to take a few more pictures of the great crime in front of him.  The law would not be lenient as the menacing corporations were repugnant as the smoke Andy was now breathing.

Scared and white, tense and eager, the cop that had been shot was glad to see Andy as they were now both crawling feebly inside a deli store across the street.

The horrors outside were flames and bullets and the police bright lights were looking for the terrified eyes of the criminals that started all this.

People were still running, garments on fire, handkerchiefs covering smoke black faces, many dropping to their knees trying to breath and trying to run away at the same time. 

The cop looked up at Andy and told him the government center was on fire and their next target was the New York Times and then on to Wall-Street