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The man, wearing strange clothing colored dark red from his helmet to his boots, took aim down the sights of his rifle.

The victim, unaware that his life was in any danger that day, was a very powerful man. He was a man of vision, fairness, and possessed a passion for the people and community he served.

Judge Kellen Murphy was selected to be a Supreme Court justice when the 8-year term of Justice Theo Jackson was completed. Jackson’s retirement was the first of the new Supreme Court and Congressional Term Limit Laws, written by the Director of Education, Dr. John Belleci, under the late President Turo Marin Sanchez. Belleci’s writings worked to galvanize the retooled and remodeled New Progressive Congress now working for President Ericka Hedlin.

The New Progressive Congress was as controversial as it was historic. It was repopulated by nation-wide special elections brought on by the actions of PIPER’S, Inc. - the secret society of assassins that ruthlessly killed or forcibly retired the most corrupt and polarizing senators and representatives from the old governmental body.

In order to rip out the cancer of Congressional plutocracy, cronyism and corruption, PIPER’S, Inc. physically eliminated all corporate-owned or oligarch-serving members, lobbyists, and special interest representatives which amounted to almost 65 percent of Capitol Hill.

The organization used all means necessary – ruthless and merciless - in the purging of leaders who created laws to benefit the wealthy, while eliminating laws that guaranteed relief for the poor. It had to end. And it did with the advent of PIPER’S, Inc. The country’s most corrupt Congress in history was unapologetically slaughtered.

Initially, the citizens were shocked to the core; but gradually, they would clearly see the promise of a new and dedicated political framework emerging from the lakes of blood and mountains of corpses.

The nation-wide special elections to repopulate this void were the most diverse and dynamic in the history of the country. Independents, Progressives, Socialist-Democrats, Green Party, Libertarians, Liberal Republicans, Log Cabin Republicans, and other coalitions ran to rebuild their jurisdictions without corporate interference. Neo-Conservatism, Neo-Liberalism, Regan Republicans, Blue Dog Democrats, and Christian Right parties were utterly demolished.

It was PIPER’S, Inc. that erased redistricting lines, dissolved corporate money from election campaigns, and made sure the interests and welfare of the people – the common and most neglected American citizen – were put first. They forced every elected official to put their efforts into their constituents, districts and states, and reject corporate interests or else he or she would ‘pay the Piper,’ and everyone knew what that meant.

It was a 5-year merciless onslaught against every form of corruption and injustice suffered by the common people. It was coined “The New Civil War” and “The New American Revolution,” and it involved violence in its most gruesome forms, including economic.

Through PIPER’S, Inc.’s high-tech cyber techniques, massive amounts of assets and whole fortunes of the oligarchs were erased from their off-shore banks, and transferred into the accounts of individuals, programs, and institutions to elevate society as a whole. This would be known as “Robin Hood Economics.”

The forced redistribution of hundreds of billions of dollars into the coffers of newly elected superintendents, ushered in the rebuilding of the nation’s infrastructure, school system, social services, veterans care, medical advances, and the cutting of unemployment and homelessness by 35 percent.

Oligarchs, corporate-owned politicians, and corrupt CEOs were by no means the only groups targeted by PIPER’S, Inc. Wall Street manipulators, governors, mayors, legislators, judges, lawyers, brutal police officers, rapists, pedophiles, radical media mouthpieces, and racist groups – all, felt the hammer of America’s new Big Brother.

And in those five bloody years, PIPER’S, Inc. did the unthinkable – it transformed an entire nation controlled by wretched Capitalistic plutocrats, into a world-respected and economically thriving superpower.

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Judge Kellen Murphy, only 52, a Baltimore 1^st District Court judge, was to benefit under these historic national revisions. He was an obvious choice for President Ericka Hedlin, who had been working with three new Progressive Supreme Court justices who replaced the previous three assassinated by PIPER’S, Inc.

But on February 25^th, a mysterious person dressed in red, skintight clothing of strange design and material, laid his crosshairs on Murphy as he stood outside his home in Columbia, Maryland. The judge enjoyed taking a steaming cup of coffee onto his porch on Sunday mornings, lounging on his rocking chair with the Baltimore Sun in his lap, and enjoying the view of his verdant cul-de-sac, nestled in the woods just 20 miles from Baltimore.

Standing more than 400 yards away in those same woods, the helmeted stranger squeezed his trigger, and the head of the man who fought for decades for the rights of the LGBTQ community and inner-city education, exploded like a watermelon hit by a sledgehammer.

Kellen Murphy didn’t die because he did anything wrong or owed anybody a debt. He died because he was chosen by President Ericka Hedlin, a person the country who sent the assassin, feared and despised. They wanted to weaken her administration by taking away her best and brightest colleagues, her most loyal custodians, and those who helped shape her policy.

Murphy was the first. And for more than a year, more of Hedlin’s cabinet choices and staff members would be hunted in a similar fashion. They never knew who this assassin was, nor imagined who he could be. Those lucky enough to catch a glimpse of him said he was dressed all in red, riding some sort of beefed-up, red hover cycle. They could never get a good look or capture it on their phone cameras for it would disappear in a blur and a roar.

By the time he made his third killing, he already had a codename given by Hedlin’s Intel agencies who were hunting him. They called him - The Red Ghost.