Stoneremembered streets empty of traffic except for the armoured limos of bosses andapparatus men, and the personnel carriers and light tanks of the FBI. Heremembered long lines of scarecrow people waiting to receive a daily ration oftwo ounces of mystery meat and a loaf of black bread that had the texture ofground glass bound by wallpaper paste. The show trials on TV, mass hangings oftraitors and saboteurs. The hopeless gazes of starving children begging on thestreets while posters everywhere boasted of record harvests. The militaryparades in Times Square, columns of soldiers saluting the Dear Leader and histrio of psychotic sons in their armoured-glass podium, missile carriers andtanks creeping between monumental buildings under a blizzard of ticker tape,accompanied by military bands and phalanxes of blonde, blue-eyed cheerleaders. Heremembered the slave farms, and the vast death camp he and Tom Waverly hadfound in South Dakota: a discovery that had been instrumental in convincingPresident Davis, at the beginning of his first term, to approve LOOKING GLASS,the covert action that had led to the revolution.

From Cowboy Angels 

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