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6 In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end This poison, that he
cannot trust a friend.

Aeschylus (525-456 BC)

No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it ...
There is a remedy in human nature against tyranny, that will keep us
safe under every form of government.

SamuelJohnson (1709-1764)

7 Prologue

If a war had not engulfed the entire world, plunging every nation into
bloody chaos, the theory was the government of the United States would
have collapsed anyway. Personal income taxes had been going up for
years, and the hard-working, law-abiding citizens were paying well over
half their income to the government. The left wing of the Democratic
party had taken over and passed massive gun-grab legislation,
effectively disarming American citizens-except for the criminals, of
course, and about three quarters of a million tough-minded Americans who
didn't give a big rat's ass what liberals said, thought, or did. Those
Americans carefully sealed up their guns and buried them, along with
cases of ammunition. When the collapse came, those Americans were able
to defend themselves against the hundreds of roaming gangs of punks and
thugs that popped up all over what had once been called the United
States. The great nation would never again be accurately referred to as
the United States of America.