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Last place of employment?

Denver, Colorado.

Worked there for ten years.

Then things just seemed to dry up.

They lost fourteen banks in one week.

So, well...

There's nothing available for you right now.

They use their tongues to deceive.

The venom of snakes is under their lips.

Their mouths are full of bitterness and curses.

And in their paths, nothing but ruin and misery.

And the fear of God is not before their eyes.

They have taken the hearts and minds of our leaders.

They have recruited the rich and the powerful.

And they have blinded us to the truth.

Our human spirit is corrupted.

Why do we worship greed?

Because outside the limit of our sight,

feeding off us, perched on top of us

from birth to death are our owners-- our owners!

They have us!

They control us!

They are our masters!

Wake up, they're all about you.

All around you.

Sometimes, when I watch TV,

I stop being myself.

I'm a star of a series or a --

Or I have my own talk show

or I'm on the news getting out of a limo

going some place important.

All I ever have to do is be famous.

People watch me and they love me.

And I never, never grow old.

And I never die.

Excuse me.

You need anybody?

Maybe.

I got my own tools.

Well, this is a union job.

So, then may I please speak with the shop steward?

Sir?

Hey, there's no sleeping on this site.

So you park your ass someplace else tonight.

Excuse me.

Then when do I get paid?

Thursday.

You need a place to stay?

Justiceville's over on Fourth Street.

They got hot food and showers.

I'm going that way if you want me to show you.

I don't like nobody following me 'less I know why.

Well, I don't join up with anybody

until I see where he's going.

They're serving the food up soon.

Good, I'm starving.

Whoa.

Hey, throw the ball.

Hey, Frank, how's it going?

Now you get a chance to meet some of the folk.

This here's Gilbert.

Anything you need, he knows where to find it.

Hi.

Howdy.

What do you got in that pack, tools?

Yes, sir.

Well, if you can use them we can use you.

Shower's caving in over there.

Let's get something to eat.

There you go.

- Howdy. - Howdy.

- Want some peas? - Yeah, please.

- Thanks. - Some more?

Yes.

Peas?

I got a wife and two kids back in Detroit.

Haven't seen them in six months.

Steel mills were laying people off left and right.

They finally went under.

We gave the steel companies a break when they needed it.

Know what they gave themselves?

Raises.

The golden rule--

He who has the gold makes the rules.

They close one more factory,

we should take a sledge to one of their fancy, fucking foreign cars.

You know, you ought to have a little more patience with life.

Yeah, well I'm all out.

The whole deal is like some kind of crazy game.

They put you at the starting line,

the name of the game is, "Make it through life."

Only, everyone's out for themselves

and looking to do you in at the same time.

Okay, man, here we are.

Here we are-- now, you do what you can.

But remember, I'm going to do my best

to blow your ass away.

So, how you going to make it?

I deliver a hard day's work for my money.

I just want the chance, it'll come.

I believe in America.

I follow the rules.

Everybody's got their own hard times these days.

You've always thought you couldn't wear

press-on nails because of all the active things you do?

Well, if you're ready for beautiful,

natural looking, easy to apply nails,

three colors in seven luscious hues,

just--

Our impulses are being redirected.

We are living in an artificially induced state of consciousness

that resembles sleep.

Goddamn hacker, that's the second time tonight that asshole's cut in.

The movement was begun eight months ago

by a small group of scientists who discovered quite by accident

these signals being sent through--

Thing's giving me a headache.

Yeah, tell me about it.

Must took the hacker's months to figure out how to do this.

The poor and the underclass are growing.

Racial justice and human rights are non-existent.

They have created a repressive society

and we are their unwitting accomplices.

Their intention to rule rests

with the annihilation of consciousness.

We have been lulled into a trance.

They have made us indifferent to ourselves, to others.

We are focused only on our own gain.

We ha --

Please understand, they are safe as long as they are not discovered.

That is their primary method of survival.

Keep us asleep, keep us selfish, keep us sedated.

...they're pulling the water out of the sand like sponges.

Blow it out your ass.

Choir practice went a little late last night, didn't it?

Oh, the church lets us use their kitchen.

Until four in the morning?

Hey, we're taking care of a lot of people here.

They are dismantling the sleeping middle class.

More and more people are becoming poor.

We are their cattle.

We are being bred for slavery.

The revo --

Not again.

We cannot break their signal.

Our transmitter is not powerful enough.

The signal must be shut off at the source.

We have --

Danny, I have a headache.

Me too, honey.

Can somebody please explain to me what the hell that's all about?

Just that idiot licking his nuts again.

I just checked the connection

and there's nothing wrong with it.

We have to face facts.

Only a few seconds got on the air.

It's time to forget about breaking in on top of their signal.

They're only going to jam us out again and again.

Then we have to send the shipment out on the street.

No, no, no, that's not going to work that way.

We've been all through this.

We have no other choice.

Robbing banks, manufacturing Hoffman lenses

until we're blue in the face.

We're just not going to reach enough people!

We've got to find new people, strong people-- people to work with us.

That's my baby.

Just leaving-- you know, your door was open.

Just wanted to close it-- didn't want no one breaking in.

Neighborhood watch.

Yeah, well, let me touch your face.

- Mmm, it's good. - That's fine.

Now your hands.

- That's fine. - Good.

- Eh, you're a working man. - Yes, sir.

Here, it's the revolution.

Let me show you.

I got to be going right now.

Maybe some other time, huh?

Huh?

This world may have blinded me,

but the Lord has let me see.

You'll be back.

You'll be back!

I've been hearing something on the streets

the last couple of weeks.

Weird stuff.

Some sort of epidemic of violence

what they've been saying.

I was talking to one old boy,

he's from San Anselmo.

He told me they got some sort of cult up there.

End of the world kind of stuff.

Well, what are they doing?

You know, shooting people, robbing banks.