St. Kitts was still one of the busiest places on Earth, as O.U.T.R.A.G.E. volunteers worked feverishly on formal language for twenty-five resolutions to be put on November's ballot as referendums. If the people voted in favor of these referendums, they would become part of the law of the land. Article III had been introduced on Friday, January 25, 2008, just eight days after the infamous O.U.T.R.A.G.E. bombings that had killed tens of thousands of politicians, wealthy elitists, squandering celebrities and athletes, greedy corporate executives, and others deemed to be detriments to society.
Article III called for the revision of the Income Tax System to "be more equitable" for all citizens. The current tax system was cumbersome, unfair, and - some thought - unconstitutional. Of course, the complexities of the tax laws helped corporations escape from billions of dollars of taxes. Even wealthy individuals often paid far less tax than many middle-income wage earners, thanks to loop holes in the law. Members of Congress, over the years, had strong-armed inclusions into the tax code that specifically benefited those who made large contributions to their campaigns. Annual changes in tax laws helped certified public accountants earn handsome annual salaries. The I.R.S. was perhaps the most feared, most loathed agency of the federal government. Strenuous inconsistencies had turned most Americans into tax cheats, liars, and thieves. It wasn't about paying one's "fair share" - it was all about how to exploit the insipid tax code to one's personal advantage.
Article IV was a resolution that called for nationalizing the health care system. This, too, was rife with challenges. For United States citizens, health care was a luxury unaffordable to a preponderance of middle and lower-incomed families. Generations of political arm-twisting by pharmaceutical firms, the American Medical Association, the insurance industry and others who profited from people's illnesses, had turned America's health care system into one of the worst in the world. It was confusing, riffled with inconsistencies, and designed purely to protect the profits of those large corporations in the fields of medicine and health care. A corruptive Congress had, over the years, willingly coddled the health care industry into a cradle of comfort and profitable privilege unknown in any other republic on Earth.
Article V introduced a resolution to eliminate all lobbyists and special interest groups, which tied directly to Articles III and IV, since it arbitrarily would kill of the powerful and influential bodies that helped keep America's tax system and health care system so archaic. Many other leading nations of the world had devised streamlined, well-run systems that served the people instead of the special interests. While the U.S. Constitution began with the words, "We the People..." the country had become a toxic landfill of skulduggery devoted to the rich and powerful. Now that most of the rich and powerful had been methodically exterminated, O.U.T.R.A.G.E. could return the country to its people.
Panels of experts and analysts, whose committess also included 'common' people, were hard at work on these issues. Meanwhile, prospective political candidates kept flying in and out of St. Kitts, presenting their platforms to O.U.T.R.A.G.E. in hopes of being 'sanctioned' by this band of benevolent rebels.
On Thursday, June 26, 2008, O.U.T.R.A.G.E. claimed its fifteen millionth member. Just over 6% of the surviving population of the United States now had actively joined and supported an organizatin that had just five months earlier spearheaded an unprecendented nationwide killing spree.