Ergebnis für "Revolt" in Politik

“Don’t give up! I’ll help you!” barks Rex, the hero of Władysław Reymont’s Revolt of the Animals (1924), “carried away with wrath and compassion” at the sight of his friend the old donkey with “his head covered in a hempen sack, being whipped by boys harrying him towards a pit of lime.” Who would not be roused to a righteous indignation at the sight of such wanton cruelty, inflicted upon a wise, sentient creature–for the perverse pleasure of man, that “crown and lord of all creation,” to whom dominion over this world was supposedly given by the Lord at the dawn of creation?

Self-made expatriate billionaire Jet Taylor spearheads a strong-armed force of militia well on its way to resolution of every contemporary American problem. Standing directly in the juggernaut’s way is his daughter, Natalie Taylor, deputy director of the FBI. She will bring her father in, apprehend him, dead or alive. Failure is not an option, for Natalie or for the American nation.

La storia inizia nel 2010. Affiliati a cosche mafiose, soubrettes e faccendieri erano stati ammessi nelle istituzioni più alte dello stato. Accumulavano prestigio e denaro, tra sorrisi compiaciuti e pacche sulle spalle. La politica italiana non era mai stata così grossolana e rapace. La situazione era andata ben oltre il tollerabile. La narrazione parte da qui, e ci conduce attraverso le fasi di una metamorfosi sociale, in un dialogo continuo tra finzione e fatti realmente accaduti. Quali sono le leve che fanno scattare una rivoluzione nazionale? Cosa succederebbe se?

What can happen when an out-of-control government agency meets with honest folks who won't bend over but instead fight back? What happens when a small county sheriff does his job to protect a citizen being targeted by that government agency?