Comm ID: Annie Farber (//sister of Hanna Farber who is a Unioner)
Location: Bering
To: Viktoria Landser
Dear Viktoria:
My name is Annie Farber. Three years ago I was a student of Psychiatry at the University of New Berlin. Yesterday, I escaped from prison.
In my 3rd year at the University, I was amazed at the number of students with growing emotional problems, depression, and fear. The Chancellor’s control over our lives is infusing fear among the student population leading to an overall sense of suspicion and mistrust. Instead of living lives of personal growth and happiness, most of the young people are locked into a mindset of currying favor with the ruling establishment while hating themselves for doing it. Members of the Chancellor’s “New Church” have started monitoring the library holo-vids and personal comm-links of the students and teachers.
On the day of my arrest, I organized a school march protesting the increased governmental control of the school and its effects on the student population. Thirty minutes into the march, we were attacked by over 100 armed members of the Rheinland Federal Police. Several students were killed and I was arrested and sent to Vierlande prison.
During the three years that I was imprisoned, I was raped repeatedly by the RFP guards. Starved and beaten, they could not break me--my will to live unbroken as I waited for my chance to escape.
On the night of my escape, one of the prison guards took me into the kitchen so he could tie me up to one of the tables. For months I had been acting catatonic, unresponsive to any stimulus save food and water. When he turned his back to me, I grabbed the meat cleaver from the wall and slit his throat. He was dead before he hit the floor.
I escaped through the prison sewer and made it to the small space port three kilometers from the prison. Exhausted and near death, I stowed away on a supply transport returning to Planet Stuttgart. I am now in the care of my sister Hanna on Pacifica and recovering quickly.
Through all of my trials, I will not give up hope for the people of Rheinland who have suffered like me. I will continue my protest and fight on and believe not only in the removal of the Chancellor, but also in the possibility of restoring this system to the people of Rheinland. To the fulfillment of a dream, may we all live in a peaceful and just Rheinland.
But until that day, I offer this application to the Volksfront and will fight for those who cannot.
