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Let the chips fall where they may. -Roscoe Conkling

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BOOK ONE
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At first ?

... it was just a thought in the back of the minds of a few, just a
dream. A place where people of like mind could live and work and play
and raise their children without fear of crime.

"Impossible!" cried the socialist-leaning liberals who controlled the
government of the United States.

"Bullshit!" said Ben Raines, pointing his finger at yet another pair of
federal agents who had come to his home to harass him again for his
articles attacking the government. "I have committed no crimes. I am a
tax-paying, law-abiding citizen who has the right to address the
problems I believe are destroying this nation. And I'm looking at two of
them."

"Mr. Raines, we're only doing what we were ordered to do," the senior
agent said. "Personally, I agree with you. But you're advocating violent
overthrow of the government. Tone it down just a little bit."

"No. I won't do that. The policies of the present administration are
destroying this nation. You gentlemen had better get a firm grip on the
edges of the commode, 'cause this nation is going right down the toilet."

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The younger of the two, a blow-dried fanatical devotee of President