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Martyrdom of Saint Stephen, by Vicente Juan Masip
Robert L. Martin

Killerville

Back in the year 2022, when the teenage gangs were terrorizing the neighborhoods, the situation grew out of control. The kids were buying guns on the black market and killing everyone who got in their way, and some were even shooting innocent people who congregated in masses. There was no way to control the violence.
That is when the government stepped up and purchased 20,000 acres of fenced in farm land with guards along the perimeters in Wyoming, just the right place for those hoodlums to live. After learning of their crimes and whereabouts, the authorities rounded them up and bused them out to Wyoming to live for the rest of their lives. There was no interference from lawyers, because the kids were not allowed to hire them. It was just a mass evacuation to get them out there.
On the farm they built a library with many books on farming; growing and maintaining the crops, and many books on medicine; how to treat all kinds of medical issues, just like the days of old before the modern equipment was invented. Some of the kids were intelligent enough to treat most of the illnesses. The government supplied the animals to either butcher or to work. Now it was up to the inhabitants to figure out a way to make it work.
By figuring out how to make it all work, they had to become civilized to stay alive. If they continued to kill each other, it would have been unsuccessful. It was up to them. They had to form a community and become a working unit. They rehabilitated themselves that way.
The government plan actually worked. In order to survive, the kids were forced to become civilized and prudent. They became good productive citizens who learned from scratch how to survive and think of someone besides themselves. They were the founders of the new Utopia, a place where everyone would want to live. And the place where they left also became a Utopia without them.

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