LPAN: LIBERTY PUBLIC AFFAIRS NETWORK

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George S. Walker's acceptance speech:

"People of Texas, thank you for your support to our cause! Our great system has seen its share of hard times, and you, the people, the vital force of our system, have proven yourselves resilient! I commend you for this, yet I must ask more from you for the tough times ahead. I will do everything within my power to return the government to the grassroots, to make it responsive to your needs. There can be no doubt that the system has failed you before, and yes, it fails you today as well. You go to sleep at night, and you need but look up into the sky to see the prison station hanging over your head! What kind of society is this where a man must sleep beneath the hulking presence of a penitentiary?

"No; I will not stand for it. No; you will not stand for it! For too long our system has been a dump for the rest of Liberty. The big prison. The big debris field. Junkers and Rogues spreading, like disease-ridden rats, throughout the garbage left by our mistakes that we have not owned up to. And now we find ourselves under attack. Liberty fights an ongoing war with the House of Rheinland, and what is the first system in their path? Who will take the brunt of the foreign charge? Not California; not Colorado; not New York; us. And what will they say about us? That we laid down and gave up? Or that we rose up by the work of our hands and fought back the invasion, pushed them back through Bering and Hudson, back through Hamburg! Who will lead the charge into their space?!"

Cheering is heard; Walker has whipped the crowd into a frenzy, a regular demagogue.

"The government is answerable to us. I am answerable to you. It is my job to serve and protect the people of Texas, and I will take my job seriously. I will not surrender, I will not compromise; you will receive what you deserve. A return to the days of Texas when a man didn't have to worry about the Police knocking down his door for nothing. A return to the days when patriots were not judged as terrorists. A return to the days when a man could work, view the labor of his hands, and go to bed at night with a sense of pride in a job well accomplished and a fair wage to provide for his family. A return to the days when you, the people of Texas, yes you! had the power!"

More cheering. Walker steps off the podium. The feed cuts.

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