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Royal Serf (draft)
By Ilyn Ross
Start: October 19, 2008
Plot-theme: A royal slave’s flight for independence, and an uncommon man’s struggle that his country’s Declaration of Independence might not perish from the Earth
Setting: The US and the UK, mainly in 2012 (US Presidential Elections)
Royal Serf is a political thriller that uses many true events as background. It has a prologue and 15 chapters. I have finished writing up chapter 11. Four more chapters to go. This is an excerpt from chapter 12:
She relaxed on a reclining chair, turned on the television, and watched a replay of the Teenage Q&A show. The guest was Apollo Marianto.
An eighteen-year-old boy from the audience asked, “Mr. Marianto, could we have a rapid-fire Q&A? How would you make youngsters understand these political principles – first, the principle of Individual Rights?
“Live and let live.”
“Capitalism?”
“Mind your own business. Good work is the key to good fortune.”
“Socialism?”
“Babysitting adults.”
“Mixed economy?”
“Clean water with drops of poison.”
“Antitrust Laws?”
“Russian roulette, with the government holding the gun at every businessman’s head. Government-mined fields traversed by businessmen."
“Regulations?”
“Shackles for wealth and job creators.”
“Profit?”
"To the irrational: damn if you do; damn if you don’t. Greed if you profit; greed if you don’t.”
“Do good by force?”
“The power-luster’s subterfuge. Absolving the lazy from the necessity of thinking. Arranged marriage.”
“Coercion?”
“The command to eat vegetables. Military draft. Rape.”
“Centrist?”
“Too lazy or cowardly to take up a position.”
“Extremist?”
“A pragmatist’s description of one who has convictions.”
“Pragmatist?”
“One who blanks out the past, the future, the whys, the wherefores, and the hows.”
“Lobbying?”
“Courting crooks.”
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By Ilyn Ross
Start: October 19, 2008
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A historical and current events fiction, Royal Serf is a political thriller depicting the real-life enslavement of the world’s lifeblood, the consequent economic dislocations, and an intellectual revolution.
To free wealth and job creators relegated as royal serfs, US Presidential Candidate Apollo Marianto and British Prime Minister Ian Washington shine light on the camouflage used by statists to enslave job creators: Business’ Goliath image. Having a monopoly on coercive power, only the government can become a Goliath.
Government-Goliath has terrorized job creators for over a century. Corporate America is under a bipartisan dictatorship.
Apollo and Ian fight for equal inherent inalienable rights, but they are in the crosshairs of a powerful quartet and a perfect assassin.
The quartet blackmails Apollo and Ian, using the British Crown Prince desirous of freedom, regarding himself as a royal serf to tradition, duty, and public opinion.
Set in the United States and the United Kingdom, mainly in the 2012 US presidential elections, the novel’s plot-theme is: a royal slave’s flight for independence, and an uncommon man’s struggle that his country’s Declaration of Independence might not perish from the Earth.
