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was in the grip of a police state.

All police were federalized; they could cross city limits, lines, county lines, state lines. The Federal
Bureau of Investigation seemed to change overnight, turning into an organization of frightening
proportions. Some citizens compared the new FBI to Nazi Germany's Gestapo of years past.

One word against the government in Richmond would bring the police or the FBI thundering to a
person's door. No warrant needed; no knock required.

The Big Eye and the Big Ear seemed to be everywhere. No one knew whom to trust. The government
would pay handsomely for information of citizens disloyal to the government. An informant would get
extra rations of meat and sugar and gas and clothing.

Shortly after the worldwide bombings of 1988, when Hilton Logan was installed as president of the
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United States, the government began its program of collecting all handguns and high-powered rifles and
the relocating of citizens. Logan settled as much of the east coast as could be, avoiding the тАЬhot areas,тАЭ
filled with deadly radiation. As a result, many states, especially those states not a part of the
bread-basket region, were practically void of human life.

Into those states Ben would send his Rebels to train new people.
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June 10, 1999
Hartline's Base Camp, Virginia

The four women and one man had been sexually attacked numerous times as a prelude to their
questioning concerning other cells on the east coast sympathetic to Ben Raines's Rebels.

A Mrs. Linda Ford was then taken into one of the interrogation rooms. The soles of her feet were
beaten with billy clubs as were her buttocks and thighs. The beating continued all afternoon and into the
night. She was thrown into a basement cell that had several inches of stagnant water covering the floor.
Her feet were broken and her toenails were missing. She would die of pneumonia after a month. She
would not be allowed a doctor's care.

A Robin Lewis was sodomized and then tortured with jolts of electricity to her feet. The wires were then
clamped to her lips and the electricity turned on. So severe were the jolts she broke her teeth grinding
them against the charges of electricity and the waves of pain. The voltage was increased to such a level
Ms. Lewis suffered severe brain damage.

Riva Madison was burned with cigarette and cigar butts. All her fingers were broken and her knees
shattered with club blows.

Paul Murray was hanged by his wrists, his feet a foot off the floor. He was beaten and tortured by
electric shock applied to his genitals. He would lose both hands due to gangrene.