“I think they can be beaten if we pull the city together. I mean we have twice the manpower the IC do, but we just keep losing. I think Kai Shang did good things but he was a politician first and not the general he should have been…if we had stopped the Italian Communists forming up in Green Sparta years ago instead of ignoring them then the whole planet wouldn’t have been engulfed in war with these guys.” “Hmm. Kinda reminds me of that bastard Adolf and all those Nazis---“ “I wouldn’t compare them to Nazis. They don’t mass murder people; but they do act like other communists in history have…subjugate the press and then make the people follow party lines—or else.” “Look,” said Clyde, “I don’t usually vote but I use to be a soldier back when Red Athens was a new city and all we had was a milita. Ha! Those were some days. All you needed to do was wear a uniform and hold a gun and the ladies would be all over you. ...