Introduction: Operation: Keep PT Down

Steve Patina was a guy I met by accident. He was a great concept designer. Specifically, he designed cars but modestly, he could create anything that he designed. He just had a problem with follow through. For up until the day we met, Steve had not been able to execute any of his great ideas. And he had many.

That’s where he was at on the day we met, in neutral with his wheels spinning and the emergency brake on.

So, I decided to help him unstick because he was digging himself in deeper, looking out the gray-tinted windows of his life with more than a little bit of desperado in his eyes and a loud laugh that tried so hard to be happy. Just a little shove, I thought, and he’ll be on his way.

Hardly did I suspect that in trying to dig Steve out of his sticky limbo that I would get pulled in. This is the story of a guy who lived most of his life being monitored by the government and what happened to us when I tried to free Steve from his virtual prison. It was not easy, and it’s still ongoing. A daily struggle for the pursuit of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, none of which our government will allow Steve.

Steve hasn’t done anything wrong. He is just…different. It took a long time to figure out just how and still, I don’t know everything. I don’t want to. It has cost too much. What I do know is that the U.S. Constitution grants every one of us those inalienable rights, yet our government has violated those rights in regards to Steve and continues to do so. Every. Single. Day. Without exception.

As you read on, please note that Operation: Keep PT Down is a work of fiction. It simply could not happen, the federal government spending our tax dollars engineering a synthetic life for Steve. The people he met, the accidents that befell him that he took for really, really bad luck, even the women he married…Thus, any resemblance to real life people is merely…uncanny.