[b] Green-Cap Radio; The Machine [/b]

[i]...The time is upon us, friends. For too long have we got dimes by the aristocrats that strangle our families and lives. And unless they do not find a way to help the unemployed, the laborers, the farmers, the workers, the craftsmen, the teachers, the machine that drives this continent, we will not tolerate the Washington Brothers! We will not allow them to rake in their fortunes and fight off disease with "state of the arch" treatments and vaccines, while the rest of us die out from the cancer. The cancer of labor, the cancer itself, and the cancer that is destroying this continent. This cancer that brought it together will burn it down far too faster. This is a cancer. WE are the survivors. But why should we survive when we can FIGHT it. Why survive when we can LIVE; BREATHE. The Central Valley of California has experienced some of the worst of our cancers. One of the largest food suppliers on this continent will lay out state wide strikes, to STAND UP. We, The Machine call for the rest of you to drop you tools, your picks, your axes, your wrenches, your pencils and rulers, your hammers and hoes. Send a message to the Washington Brothers. Not only will they have to fend off two revolutionary cells, but they will have to fend off their own citizens, the ones they should be protecting. STAN-[/i]

static filled the channel, if only for a few seconds, before...

[i]ALL EMPIRE OF AMERICA CITIZENS ARE ADVISED TO REMAIN INDOORS. ALL EMPIRE OF AMERICA CIVILIAN AIRCRAFT PILOTS ARE ADVISED TO LAND. COMBAT OPERATIONS ARE COMMENCING NATIONWIDE IN THE INTEREST OF YOUR FREEDOM. DO NOT ENDANGER YOURSELF. REPEAT ... [/i] 

The message replayed for what seemed like hours, but it was too late in actuality. Protesters and strikers began filling the streets in Denver. Portland saw massive traffic jams and protests as well. In the Central Valley, farms and the hills were filled with their own protesters. Sacramento saw the state's capitol building be vandalized.

But the worst of the protests wasn't even a protest, it was a riot, inside Oakland; the Bay Area. This wasn't to say that there weren't looters, of course. There were hundreds of looters, there for the sake of ransacking and fighting. That was Oakland, in actuality. But as looters appeared, and riots sprawled in the Bay Area, dozens of Reds began speaking out inside the areas to give them a reason to riot and protest. If they could sway at least some of those rioters, they could help sway the points of view of Oakland, if not the Bay Area itself.