As discussed in other chapters, Colonel Goodyear had hired private mercenaries going all the way back to the time his "malcontent employees" first protested against his policies, way back in the 1830s. In 1845, the Colonel Goodyear Enterprises Workplace Security Force (or "CGEWSF" as it was later called) had been formed to clean up the thugs' image. All of the security and patrol officers employed by Goodyear's dozens of companies began sporting copper badges branded with the new name, along with crisp black-blue uniforms, batons, and firearms.
In the Colonel Goodyear Industrial Park in Shicagwa, Iowai, the capital of Goodyear's economic empire, the local police department practically disbanded, and many officers joined the CGEWSF, as the private army did a much better job at enforcing the law (through brutality). The section of town for the "Workers," the abused immigrants, was under constant monitoring by CGEWSF officers, and they pioneered the use of crowd control during the Shicagwa Riots of 1855, also known as the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, which started when several Irish workers were shot to death by "Company Men" at a pub. All over town, the workers rioted, destroying countless dollars worth of property and burning down the Goodyear Tire Company to the ground. Furious, Goodyear's ever-reliable vice president Samuel Morse dispatched orders to put the dissidents down "by using any means necessary." He also said in a letter to the local CGEWSF precinct leader, 46 year-old Commander Abraham Aaron Lincoln, "These mobs are to be an example of what happens to
Anarchists. Those that disrespect the institutions that feeds and clothes them, and provides a place for them to have their litters of brats, deserve no respect themselves. They disrespect the Colonel, then they disrespect God Almighty. Put them
down, Commander. Show them how true Christians treat lawbreakers and strikers."
A depiction of a scene from the riots, printed in the Shicagwa Tribune
Lincoln summoned all available CGEWSF forces, came up with a battle strategy, and marched his army into the ghettos, riding proudly upon his white horse, Ann (named after his wife Ann Rutledge), and wielding a sword. For ninety days, Shicagwa's Goodyear Industrial Park was a battlefield. For ninety days, Lincoln's men fought for building after building, going from house to house and slum to slum, searching "degenerate Rebel scum." Lincoln was determined to use the warfare sandbox he was now in to perfect "crowd control." He studied the effects of fear on the rioters, and discovered that noise was key in intimidation. Midway through the riots, he had several hundred wooden shields, made in Roman
scutum style, shipped in from one of Goodyear's woodworking companies. They had special metal sections on the sides which, when hit with a weapon, produced a ferocious-sounding clang.
With crude versions of the "All-Seeing Eye", the CGEWSF logo, painted on the fronts of their new armor and sporting new, much thicker pith helmets instead of kepis, the Company Men were lined up in columns at the first second a crowd of workers looked ready to turn violent. Then, knocking clubs and pistols against the sides as loud as possible, the men with shields would advance slowly, giving the crowd a chance to save themselves. The next step was firing shots in the air and shouting warnings in unison, the most common of which was, "This is an unlawful, unchristian, anarchistic assembly. Please go back to your jobs and homes or we will have to use lethal force." If all that failed, the mob was murdered and horrifically stamped out. Heads cracked as clubs descended and men, women, and children fell as the Company Men with pistols opened fire point-blank. Lincoln soon had the workers once again quivering in fear of Goodyear, and he was christened a national hero and was presented with the prestigious new Order of Patriotic Brethren Medallion. He became known as the "Man who Crushed the Rebels."
Romanticized Statue of Commander A.A. Lincoln that was erected outside Shicagwa City Hall. The inscription on the base reads "Commander Abraham Aaron Lincoln, Hero of the Union, who Defeated the Rebels of 1855."
Two years later, Lincoln rode his glory into positions of high political power. When William J. Worth, the first Chief of the Military Police, passed away in 1866, Commander Lincoln was appointed as his successor. In his famous acceptance speech, now known as "Our Struggle," before the Consuls in Philadelphia, Lincoln's words were the perfect example of how the government and industry were slowly merging into one tyrannical behemoth. The following is an excerpt:
"Now, we are engaged in a Great Struggle: Law, Order, Industry, Freedom, and Christianity against the Rebel scum, Papists, and Anarchists who dare to have the nerve, to have the
outright hubris, to try and
destroy all of which we have worked for and fought for and bled for. This struggle is testing whether this nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that struggle. I want to thank the honorable consulate for this position on the forefront of it. Under my administration, America, our great Union, shall always have law, order, and liberty for all, and those who try to destroy it will always be righteously punished."
One year before, Lincoln had announced his conversion to American Fundamentalist Christianity. Thirty years after Lincoln's death, when the American Fundamentalist Christians announced they were "canonizing patriot-saints in memorial of great achievements, patriotic actions, selflessness for country, and general service to God and Union," A.A. Lincoln became Pt.-St. Lincoln.
One reason I'd lag off on updates sometimes was because of the 2007 Acer laptop I was using before. It was like trying to drive a 1930s Studebaker at the Daytona 500. 
