Day Six: funerals were taking place across the country as mourners buried their dead. Still more dead bodies were being recovered from ghastly mountains of wreckage. While millions of Americans were still going about their daily business, hundreds of thousands more were searching for missing relatives and friends. Demolition crews had quickly cleared much of the debris from the Capitol Building in an urgent attempt to recover bodies of the 533 members of the U.S. Congress who perished right as the President began to deliver his State of the Union address.

At 4:55 P.M. EST the sixth teleconference opened with even more people sporting the bright lime-green O.U.T.R.A.G.E. buttons. The blaze of bright red letters and numbers filled the TV cameras with results of yesterday's vote:

ARTICLE V. RESOLUTION: ELIMINATE ALL LOBBYISTS, SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS, AND GOVERNMENT CONSULTANTS
TOTAL NUMBER OF VOTES CAST: 790,013
NUMBER OF "YEA" VOTES: 601,319
NUMBER OF "NAY" VOTES: 188,694

O.U.T.R.A.G.E. members milled around the huge room. As a camera would hone in one individual, or a group of individuals, viewers could eavesdrop on conversations as to the purpose and mission of an organization that - until a week ago - had never been heard of before. An astute listener could pick up bits and pieces of how such a vast group of revolutionaires were able to band together so secretly, plan and execute such precise devastation, and develop a communications system capable of reaching the masses. Still, to millions of countrymen, the utter destruction and wholesale killing was incomprehensible. What possible good could come from the massacre of most of America's most prominent citizens?

These impromptu conversations were vignettes; a shading of informal discussions intended to reveal information in a non-threatening way, to avoid the appearance of any rigid structure. There seemed to be no leader, no protocol, no organizational chart. Some days this mish-mash of chatter went on for hours before someone finally came forward to introduce the day's resolution. Today, it was only a matter of minutes before an elderly gentleman in a dark gray sweater and light gray Dockers stepped before the camera. With no preliminary conversation , he announced, "My name is Richard. I'm from Missouri, and I wish to submit this proposal to be put to a popular vote." Gently, he removed a piece of paper from his pants pocket and commenced reading it aloud in a clear, strong voice.

ARTICLE V. RESOLUTION: ESTABLISH A VOTERS' HOLIDAY TO ENCOURAGE MORE VOTER TURN-OUT

"Our system of voting in the United States is in serious need of streamlining. Let's face it: our elected officials really don't want us to vote for one very basic reason: the higher the voter turn-out, the greater their chance of losing their re-election bid. Congress has no incentive to make voting easier for the general public. The only people they want coming to the polls are the people they're certain will vote the way each candidate expects. Low voter turn-out helps maintain the status-quo so that renegade politicians can't make waves. In 1992, an independent billionaire, H. Ross Perot, earned 19% of the popular vote and scared presidential candidates into the realization that the public really wanted change. Suddenly, they were all claiming not to be "career politicians". Many promised to limit their terms in Congress (few, if any, kept that promise, of course). Perot's startling popularity polarized the political panderers as it energized the electorate.

One concept Perot favored was a one-day voting holiday wherein all citizens had the day off so they could vote. The proposal I'm presenting today is similar in scope, with certain suggested modifications. O.U.T.R.A.G.E. is recommending that we declare a three-day Voters' Holiday to allow all registered voters an opportunity to vote. Within that three-day period, employers would be required to give all employees one day off in order to vote. Each voter would have a password, which would be his or her Social Security number. The password would be entered into the voting device (similar to the devices you're using today). Once that password was used, the computer would lock it so that a voter could not vote multiple times. After casting his or her vote, each voter would be given an official "receipt" to take back to his employer. The employer would be required by law to pay each employee for the full day upon proving that they had, indeed, taken the day off to vote. Voting could be done at polling stations, or employees could vote on-line. We have the technology available to make this a viable and completely safe procedure. Of course, the naysayers (mostly elected officials afraid of losing their cushy jobs) will claim it's a drain on employers to have to pay for a full day's work when it might only take a few minutes to vote. Employers traditionally give other holidays off with pay; this could be one more (or employers could choose to eliminate another paid holiday, such as Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, Presidents' Day, Memorial Day or Labor Day).

O.U.T.R.A.G.E. developed the technology you are using right now to vote for these resolutions. We also created the technologies that enabled us to use cellphones for the massive multiple bombings we set off; the components of that particular technology, by the way, was completely destroyed once we had accompished our mission. Anyone wishing to reconstruct that technology would have to do so from scratch. We took every precaution to ensure that such destructive potential could never be easily duplicated without the time, money and expertise we invested in making it happen just one time.

It is time, once again, for you to cast your vote using the portable voting devices at your disposal. Please vote now. Then we encourage you to invite friends, neighbors, relatives or associates to join you at tomorrow's teleconference. It is imperative that all American citizens know about O.U.T.R.A.G.E. and participates in this proposition. Our sole mission is to rebuild our country of the people, for the people, and by the people, without the calloused interference of the ultra-rich, the powerfully positioned, or the special interest groups that have run ripshod over our country these past fifty years. O.U.T.R.A.G.E. is not intended to be a new political party; as a band of rebels, we have achieved what we honestly feel needed to be done in order to re-establish a government of the people. Now, we are serving as the catalyst for setting up a new government and establishing a new sense of honor, integrity and credibility among our citizenry. Once all that is accomplished in the next few years, O.U.T.R.A.G.E. will cease to exist. Thank you for your participation and cooperation."

Richard's ruggedly handsome face faded from the TV screens and - as usual - the two-line message appeared just before the screen went black.