THE HUMAN BULLET
by
Joaquin De Torres
Edited by:
Dr. Joseph De Torres
Copyright 2017 Joaquin De Torres,
All rights reserved.
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ISBN-13: 978-1-4566-2917-5
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This novel is dedicated to
MaryJane Coy
To my Aunt MJ, who cared and comforted me
and my brothers, alongside her own children,
when our world was young, carefree and timeless.
You taught us to understand that there is no such thing
as a color barrier in a family. There is only love.
(9/29/1936 – 5/14/2017)
It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
DISCLAIMER
This is a work of fiction. The names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously.
Permission to use actual names of real people who have a relationship with the author, and are characters in the book, was granted beforehand by the actual people via personal correspondence, and/or per their requests.
Any resemblance to actual events, locales, controversies, conspiracies, or real persons– living or dead-is entirely coincidental.
Names of known people, i.e. public figures, celebrities and national personalities were taken from the free press and open-sources.
Content of this work is protected by the 1st Amendment of the Constitution of the United States:
The First Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits the making of any law respecting an establishment of religion, impeding the free exercise of religion, abridging the freedom of speech, infringing on the freedom of the press. . .
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
I would like to personally thank Gary Bell for his dedication and in-depth assistance in this book.
His experience as a NASA engineer phenomenally aided me in details pertaining to aeronautics and physics, which are the critical of this story. His mathematical calculations for the technical facets of this novel were crucial in demonstrating my commitment to literary authenticity and credibility.
Simply put, Gary injected scientific reality and plausibility to fully illustrate the scenes I envisioned.
Thank you, Gary, for fusing your science with my fiction to accomplish this explosive and exciting piece of storytelling.
Joaquin De Torres
Introduction
The man, wearing strange clothing colored dark red from his helmet to his boots, took aim down the sights of his rifle.
The victim, unaware that his life was in any danger that day, was a very powerful man. He was a man of vision, fairness, and possessed a passion for the people and community he served.
Judge Kellen Murphy was selected to be a Supreme Court justice when the 8-year term of Justice Theo Jackson was completed. Jackson’s retirement was the first of the new Supreme Court and Congressional Term Limit Laws, written by the Director of Education, Dr. John Belleci, under the late President Turo Marin Sanchez. Belleci’s writings worked to galvanize the retooled and remodeled New Progressive Congress now working for President Ericka Hedlin.
The New Progressive Congress was as controversial as it was historic. It was repopulated by nation-wide special elections brought on by the actions of PIPER’S, Inc. - the secret society of assassins that ruthlessly killed or forcibly retired the most corrupt and polarizing senators and representatives from the old governmental body.
In order to rip out the cancer of Congressional plutocracy, cronyism and corruption, PIPER’S, Inc. physically eliminated all corporate-owned or oligarch-serving members, lobbyists, and special interest representatives which amounted to almost 65 percent of Capitol Hill.
The organization used all means necessary – ruthless and merciless - in the purging of leaders who created laws to benefit the wealthy, while eliminating laws that guaranteed relief for the poor. It had to end. And it did with the advent of PIPER’S, Inc. The country’s most corrupt Congress in history was unapologetically slaughtered.
Initially, the citizens were shocked to the core; but gradually, they would clearly see the promise of a new and dedicated political framework emerging from the lakes of blood and mountains of corpses.
The nation-wide special elections to repopulate this void were the most diverse and dynamic in the history of the country. Independents, Progressives, Socialist-Democrats, Green Party, Libertarians, Liberal Republicans, Log Cabin Republicans, and other coalitions ran to rebuild their jurisdictions without corporate interference. Neo-Conservatism, Neo-Liberalism, Regan Republicans, Blue Dog Democrats, and Christian Right parties were utterly demolished.
It was PIPER’S, Inc. that erased redistricting lines, dissolved corporate money from election campaigns, and made sure the interests and welfare of the people – the common and most neglected American citizen – were put first. They forced every elected official to put their efforts into their constituents, districts and states, and reject corporate interests or else he or she would ‘pay the Piper,’ and everyone knew what that meant.
It was a 5-year merciless onslaught against every form of corruption and injustice suffered by the common people. It was coined “The New Civil War” and “The New American Revolution,” and it involved violence in its most gruesome forms, including economic.
Through PIPER’S, Inc.’s high-tech cyber techniques, massive amounts of assets and whole fortunes of the oligarchs were erased from their off-shore banks, and transferred into the accounts of individuals, programs, and institutions to elevate society as a whole. This would be known as “Robin Hood Economics.”
The forced redistribution of hundreds of billions of dollars into the coffers of newly elected superintendents, ushered in the rebuilding of the nation’s infrastructure, school system, social services, veterans care, medical advances, and the cutting of unemployment and homelessness by 35 percent.
Oligarchs, corporate-owned politicians, and corrupt CEOs were by no means the only groups targeted by PIPER’S, Inc. Wall Street manipulators, governors, mayors, legislators, judges, lawyers, brutal police officers, rapists, pedophiles, radical media mouthpieces, and racist groups – all, felt the hammer of America’s new Big Brother.
And in those five bloody years, PIPER’S, Inc. did the unthinkable – it transformed an entire nation controlled by wretched Capitalistic plutocrats, into a world-respected and economically thriving superpower.
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Judge Kellen Murphy, only 52, a Baltimore 1st District Court judge, was to benefit under these historic national revisions. He was an obvious choice for President Ericka Hedlin, who had been working with three new Progressive Supreme Court justices who replaced the previous three