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The Unsung Heroes of Freedom

by Number 127,568,002

October 26th

Today we commemorate one of the unsung heroes of our well-being, one of the many cases that, at the time, were not considered important or note-worthy, but along with the thousands of similar cases tell the story of our great state.

Let us go back to the early years, the year 2008 to be more accurate, when our great leaders were just recently beginning to kindly look out for us after the tragic but crudely awakening attacks of September 11th (2001) that later led to the creation of the Patriotic Act, truly one of the greatest documents of our time. 

This is the story of number 83,562,011 who at the time went by a name, Brent and his quiet but noble loyalty to protection from possible enemies. It seems Brent worked for STAR, System to Assess Risk, which later fusioned with CIA and FBI intelligence systems to create our now beloved Ministry of Identity. Brent had been following a suspect, a young college student by the name of Hannah Moore. Although we now are accostumed to ignore what a suspect is accused of because of our trust in the Ministry of Identity, it was common at the time to question authorities and know, at least partially, what offense he or she had done. So it was then that Moore was taken into custody for suspicious reading material and e-mailing contacts in the Middle East. But it is not Moore's activites that captured our interest, but the cunning of Brent, who assembled together all of Moore's information and used the primitive tools he had available to make the arrest.

Brent had a look at Moore's reading list by accessing her public library account and identifying the books she had checked out in the past two years (Books are a primitive version of our DigiTexts). He noted a tendency towards Middle Eastern Studies. Suspicious. He then went on to analyze her recent credit card activities. Hannah Moore had been buying items online that would appear to have been harmless. He then went on to check her e-mails, hear a few conversations on the phone, watch her as she bought groceries, look at her recent flights out of the country, the people she sat next to on the subway, the exact times she left and returned to her apartment (thanks to the online security system), cross-check DNA samples, and listen to her conversations in school. It was here where he noted anti-social remarks, and critical views on the Patriotic Surveillance System which she ridiculously considered ''Totalitarian''. It was an umistakebly threatening attitude towards our state's fatherly watchfulness. The arrest was clearly the correct choice.

Brent had to call in a team to make it, but Hannah Moore was not at home or at school. It was here, in the heat of the moment where a potential terrorist was loose in our great nation that Brent, number 83,562,011 made a historic move. He remembered that Moore used AT&T, and owned an iPhone, and using the provider's database and STAR's GPS locater, fusioned them together to trace Moore right down to her exact location, a debate club she had just joined. The arrest was made on location, and all thanks to Brent's quick thinking.

It is thanks to these forgotten or unknown heroes that we have built a society where protection is limitless, where all our troubles are solved by a loving state that looks out for us, that eliminates enemies before they can bring us suffering. No more suffering, no more looking out for ourselves. Thank you Number 83,562,011!