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disgusted with big government. They were wolves, making plans to
survive, while others around them were dewy-eyed lambs unknowingly
waiting for the slaughter, despite the fact that they had been warned
time and again that the lid was about to blow off. The lambs stood with
their hands out, waiting for the government to run their lives, tell
them what to do and when to do it, and give them

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something for nothing-paid for with tax-payers' money, of course.

Many survivalist groups were harassed by federal agents and vindictively
punished. People were killed by federal agents; others watched as their
possessions were seized or destroyed by agents of the federal
government. But the movement could not be broken. It grew as the end
approached, as did the hatred and fear many in the government and the
press felt for the men and women who made up the various groups around
the nation.
When the end came-and it was the end of civilization and order and
reason world-wide-training and discipline saved many of the
survivalists, or Constitutionalists, as many preferred to be called.

One of the quiet survivalists was a man called Ben Raines.

Ben belonged to no organized group, although federal agents had for
years tried to prove he did. Like most Constitutionalists, he owned no
illegal weapons, paid his taxes, obeyed the law, and lived a quiet and
peaceful life. Because of his so-called radical views, he did receive
the occasional visit from the feds, but like many other Americans who
longed for a return to the true meaning of the constitution and a
commonsense form of government, Ben learned to live with the creeping
socialism and the uninvited intrusions into his privacy. However, he
didn't have to like it and was quite vocal in his opposition of it.

That got Ben's name on the list compiled by federal enforcement
agencies; the list containing the names of

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Americans who had broken no laws but needed watching anyway.*

Real red, white, and blue democracy at work.

But in the end, the prying and the snooping didn't do the feds a bit of
good . .. the whole goddamn world fell apart.

And it was the Constitutionalists and the Survivalists who convinced Ben
Raines that he should be the one to lead the nation out of the ashes of
destruction and chaos.