Corporate Control

By Duke Kell

Corporate Control is the fifth book in the “Freedom Files" series, a collection of novellas or novelettes about ongoing civil liberty issues.

Corporations are people, money is power, fear has slithered into our conscious and the nation is divided. A new Civil War looms, as the United States dives head first into fascism. People are fed up and ready for a change, a new power has risen up that offers solutions to everyone's problems. This story explores the emergence of The United Corporations of the World and how they saved the human race from themselves.

Included at the beginning and the end is the Freedom Files that correlate with this story.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Two Two Productions
• Release date: Jul 25, 2016
• ISBN: 9781370337491

Duke Kell

Duke is a registered member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation who grew up in the Denver Metro area. He was one of the founding members of Ghost Crew A hip-hop group in Southern California, and Bodhi an alternative rock band. After earning a B.A. in journalism from the University of Northern Colorado and completing his Graduate work in Education at Cal State San Bernardino, Duke became an Author and Educator. By age 27, he was the youngest professor on campus at Chaffey College, wrote and directed his first feature-length movie and signed on to teach at a school for troubled youth. Now in his 40's, he and his family have made Kailua Kona their home where he continues to be active in education and the arts.

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Corporate Control

By: Duke Kell

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The Freedom Files

Berkeley, 2191

Dax’s studio apartment.

After I put The Gun Games down, I was still convinced that the 2nd Constitutional Congress made a mistake in keeping the 2nd amendment. I called Abby to get her thoughts and she agreed. As members of the big cities we saw non-violence as the way we had gained independence. We discussed at length how the people of the countryside that kept the flame of freedom burning by adhering to a simple creed, death before slavery, held a very different view. These loose knit rebels relied on small firearms, bow and arrows, and the cover of the great forests to fight the corporations for generations. In their view, it was the 2nd amendment that allowed them to own the guns that helped them survive and in the end that was how they gained their independence. I could see it from both perspectives, but thought it common sense that now that we had defeated the enemy, we could finally have peace.

We went out twice after that conversation and we didn’t discuss it once. Our relationship was maturing and we kept away from the class issues this week. In retrospect we were both uncomfortable with the idea of allowing just any individual to own a firearm. I know that prohibition never actually worked, but I just couldn’t agree with that, not after seeing how many people had been killed by a gun. Instead, we talked about the future and the stars and the things we dislike and like, and the rotation of the earth, mathematics, romance. Words danced off our tongues and pirouetted into a symphony of thought. Together we had endless bridges to cross.

The Freedom Files

Class 5

University of California, Berkeley, 2191

When class began, the former President put up a hologram of the 2nd amendment and read it to us. She explained how she was once and ardent supporter of anti-guns and an absolute believer in non-violence. She detailed how in her first year in charge of the resistance she had directed the largest nonviolent protest in the history of the world. Her second in command and leader of the military arm, Harley, was the one who finally convinced her to change her mind. Before we knew it, Harley Matthews was on the stage and the audience was on their feet clapping. I felt tears well up in my eyes and Abby’s tears also flowed freely. Harley Matthews hadn’t done an interview or been seen in public for nearly ten years. She wasn’t a politician; she was a warrior. Her demeanor was often bristling and aggressive, so when she felt she could fade away from the limelight she took it. Today, she was a comet flaming bright enough to hide the darkness of the subject.

Harley held forth, Thank you. Please be seated, and let me start by thanking my dear friend Olga Verduzco for having me here today. Now let’s get started. When I was being beaten at the police station the week after our first protest, I began to have doubts about non-violence and the prohibition of firearms. It was on the third night of beating that the guards decided to rape me.

Gasps filled the auditorium and one woman screamed.

"I spent one full week in jail. I was raped hundreds of times by guards. When I was finally released my body and my spirit were broken. For months I tried to ignore it, to push through in the name of non-violence, but people were being killed