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had the audacity to tell the bureaucrats to keep their long, disruptive
noses out of the business of Tri-States.

"Good heavens!" shrieked the politicians, shredding more hankies and
stomping them furiously. "We can't allow this. Why, it's -it's
subversive, positively . . . unAmerican!"

Then, horror of horrors, the politicians and their toady bureaucrats in
Richmond learned that criminals were actually being hanged in
Tri-States, for such innocent pursuits as murder and rape and armed
robbery and other such minor offenses that every politically correct
person knows are not the fault of the perpetrator, but rather the fault
of everyone else.

After all, the bleeding hearts pointed out, if the homecoming queen
won't date a person, why, rape the bitch, right? Or if somebody has a
nicer car or newer tennis shoes or flashier jacket, if they have a
larger TV set, or a CD player, or a better boom box or Walkman, why, it
made perfect sense for that less-fortunate person to go out and steal a
gun to blow somebody away. For they all knew that the mental scars left
by these horribly traumatic inequalities would certainly mark for life
the afflicted individuals, and positively justified violent acts against
such an uncaring society.

So after the liberals in Congress ended months of hand-wringing,
snorting, and weeping, and trod to shreds a ton of hankies, and after
forty-seven committees had concluded five thousand five hundred and
ninety-three meetings and fact-finding junkets (all at taxpayer
expense), the central government reached its decision: the Tri-States
must be compelled to cease and desist and disband and stop all this
unpatriotic foolishness.

10 Derisive laughter came from the citizens of Tri-States, who, through
their elected leader, Ben Raines, told the President of the United
States and the members of both houses of Congress to go fuck themselves.

Well! those august beings snitted with a limp flip of their wrists.
Nobody tells Congress to do that!

Immediately the government of the United States declared war on the
Tri-States. After extensive and expensive effort, they thought they had
wiped out all those malcontents who had the nerve to think they knew
more about running a government than the professional politicians.

Wrong!

Ben Raines gathered a handful of survivors around him and proceeded to
rebuild his army. Once he had accomplished this, the Rebels set out to
kick the crap out of the thugs and bullyboys the central government sent
after them. With victory came fame.