The Rise of Internal Terrorism

Almost a year passed with relative calm in the New Federal Democracy of America, though everyone now knew the term ‘Democracy’ was a misnomer at best, and an intentional deception at worst. Over half the country was now ’employed’ in Corporate Labor camps. The remaining half, still living with a relative amount of freedom, started seeing food shortages in February 2018. Since the economy was no longer based on traditional ‘supply and demand’ economics, the work camps were turning out products and goods that no one outside of the corporate structures could afford. Instead of the falling prices that should have come from what amounted to ‘slave labor’, goods went up an average of three-hundred percent in the last quarter of 2017. Wages were only rising at the top tier of society, as the top two percent of earners raked in ninety-seven percent of the GDP. Even people that formerly had high status positions in society, (Doctors, Lawyers, etc…) found themselves loosing ground fast. In cities around the country, soup kitchens started trying to feed the masses, but only fetid, rotting food was available. In May, 2018, those running the soup lines in New York City (16) were actually arrested, and the thousands of hungry Americans they’d tried to care for were whisked away from their jobs and their lives, so they could ‘earn their keep’, and be fed in the Corporate work camps.

The first bombing took place on June 5th, 2018, in Scranton, Pennsylvania.  A man later identified as Larry Singer, age 43, took aim with his vehicle at a private food line  in Downtown Scranton, not only plowing through the crowd, but detonating an improvised explosive device in the trunk of the vehicle, which was packed full of nails, scrap metal, and other deadly items. The vehicle had become not only a missile of its own right, but also had the affect of being a giant pipe-bomb, spreading shrapnel for thousands of feet.  Over seven-hundred were killed; but that was just the beginning.

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Over the course of the next year, well into 2019, more and more of these bombings occurred. On January 20th, 2019, thirty-six cities were hit with these attacks in one day, with a death toll reaching over twenty-thousand. Police and Militia alike were scrambling to install barricades across the country, but try as they might, no one could seem to keep up with the attackers. Even the barricades that were erected were easily surpassed, and the number of attacks rose daily.

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During the crisis, Mesbethe took to the web and the airwaves, calling on citizens to ‘root out’ these ‘internal terrorist’.  But aside from pointing a finger of blame, there was no meaningful response at the Federal level.

A Solution ‘For the People’

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 Using the power of the Office of the President, Mesbethe called in a few favors from a handful of corporations that had supported his initial land-grab. A joint project was launched, using the design capabilities of RXWCorp, and the hardware/manpower of JAMISEN, a construction conglomerate that had been tasked with harnessing the potential power of Earthquakes to generate electricity.

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Chicago, IL was chosen as the pilot for the ‘Safeway’ program.  Within a month of the project announcement. gargantuan concrete and steel columns began to rise  in rings around the Central Business District of Downtown Chicago. Once these columns had reached a height of three hundred feet, roadways were constructed across the tops, joining each one to create a massive, ten lane raised highway. Parking high-rises were created with on and off ramps to the Safeways, giving the population a quick way to reach the area, but no way to bring a vehicle, or any heavy weaponry, into the city center..

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