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terrorists almost always share one philosophy: they hate America and
Americans with a red-hot passion. So when the world's many terrorist
groups learned that an army was being secretly formed and trained to
take over America, they jumped at the chance.

Then the Great War blew the world apart. The New Army of liberation
stayed down and low and continued training in small bases all over the
jungles and mountains

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of South America. Soon after the germ and nuclear strikes, one man
emerged out of the rubble and panic and confusion and chaos of war.

He was an American, and his name was Ben Raines.

Now the terrorists and the bigots and the hate-mongers and the lawless
and the ignorant and the lazy and worthless of the world could really
have someone to hate.

Ben Raines.

Ben soon formed a small gathering of like-minded people. They spread out
all over the country, seeking others who shared their philosophy of
living and their dreams of rebuilding the shattered nation. While the
central government (politicians) of the United States were still
staggering around and pointing fingers of blame at each other and
appointing and forming seemingly endless (and useless) committees to
study this and that, Ben Raines and his growing band of followers, soon
to be called Rebels, were cleaning out and setting up their own brand of
government in the Northwest. It was called Tri-States, and before the
nitwit politicians who made up the new central government of the United
States, its capital now in Richmond (Washington, D.C. had been
destroyed, and many Americans, whether a part of the Rebels or not, felt
that was long overdue) knew what was happening, they discovered that
there was a country within a country, and everything was just fine in
the Tri-States.

The Tri-States had zero crime, zero unemployment, clean, pure running
water, electricity, social services, schools that really taught the
young, medical care for all, and all the other amenities that made life
good for the law-abiding. And things just hummed right along in

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the Tri-States. And they did it all without help from the central
government, and even had the audacity to tell the central government to
keep their noses out of the business of Tri-States.

"My God!" cried the politicians, blithering and blathering about in