[ WP ] The year is 2213 . You 've been illegally picked up in the latest sweep by corporate police on the grounds that you 're a debtor . They have no idea who they 'd just grabbed and thrown in the back of the bus with a simple ziptie around your wrists .

The terrorist attacks on September 11, 2201 led the United Federation of the Western Hemisphere to grant increased powers to its security forces. The Federal Security Agency and intranational police forces had been given the right to shoot suspects with guns set to kill. Gone were the days of regulated arrests, with stun setting as the max on police firearms and 24/7 police cameras recording every action of an on-duty officer. 
 
 It was only last week that the Senate had outlawed personal weapons. No more guns or sabers for the people. The infringement of personal freedom went unnoticed as another attack, this time at the cancer research outpost in southern Canada, took over the mainstream news. It was devastating for morale -- we had been told that the cure was within reach. So many tax dollars were wasted. 
 
 President Natas Reficul took advantage of the new legislation to besiege the Capitol in Panama City. Unarmed, the Senate Guards could not withstand the President's elite shock troops from securing the building. With the Senate incapacitated and groveling, and most of the military away at war in the Arabian Caliphate, the FSA quickly deployed militarized units to each of the national capitals, subduing the local military reserves who had very few weapons to fight back with. Those who escaped fled north with the last of the weaponry. 
 
 I was arrested while treating injured soldiers at my hospital in southern Texas as my comrades fell around me. I was fortunate to have been actively practicing medicine when we were overrun, because the regime could use doctors for their police force. I was quickly incapacitated and transported to the Ice Fort in Greenland, ostensibly for training in my new capacity. 
 
 But I knew the truth. 
 
 They meant to make me a monster, a doctor who uses his knowledge to torture political enemies. 
 
 The joke is on them. 
 
 Because I'm no doctor. 
 
 My name is Edward Snowden, the Time Lord. And I will not rest until my beloved country wakes up from their living nightmare.
