The Insiders

In the near future, after many thousands of years of hate, racism, religious and ethnic persecution, bloody conquests, inequality, exploitation and war, the world’s people are finally beginning to come together, most realizing that none will truly be free until everyone is. There is peace in the Middle-east; most countries have abolished sweat-shops and now trade fairly with each other. There is also a young United Africa, a truly democratic society, which has solved most of its own problems and is becoming a significant world power. Peace and renewed economic prosperity have also come to the United States of America; crime and violence have been drastically reduced; this accomplished mostly by the Federal Resettlement and Environmental Enforcement Act... or FREE. FREE Corporation, which had previously built and operated privatized prisons throughout the U.S., and having decades of experience with behavior modification, re-education and putting prisoners to profitable work, was contracted by the government to solve America’s problems of gangs, guns, drugs and violence in black inner cities. This resulted in a massive Resettlement and building huge walls -- politely called Fences -- around most black “ghettos,” and a re-education and training program to make the inhabitants peaceful and productive FREE Citizens. It also created two separate classes of black Americans: Afromericans, those who live on the Outside, and FREE Citizens Inside the Fences. However, as with virtually all Americans no matter what color, neither Insiders nor Outsiders know anything about each other except what they’re shown on their television screens and what the government and FREE Corporation chooses to tell them. It has been almost two decades since the Fences went up, and the system appears to be a success: besides eliminating violence, gangs and crime in its ghettos, the U.S. has once again become competitive in the world market, mostly thanks to FREE Citizen labor. Inside the Fences, formerly poor black people who were once plagued by drugs, gangs and black-on-black crime, now seem to be living the American dream; all having what most of middle-class America has -- safe neighborhoods patrolled by FREE Corporation’s smiling “Security Sentries,” clean and comfortable housing, and an abundance of food and personal property; and most wouldn’t venture Outside... even if they could. Most older or “pre-FENCE” FCs, have been successfully re-educated and have all but forgotten the bad o

שנה

2024

הוצאה

Anubis

מהדורות

1

עמודים

419

ISBN

9780578285412

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