Membership: Unknown
Race: Human
Height: 5’8
Weight: 170
Apparent Age: 70+
Actual Age: Unknown
Archetype: Jeweler/Accountant
Circle: Unknown
Preferred Weapon: Unknown
Runner Song:
John “Ice House” Schumer (Sandy, Mr. Man)
Membership: Authority, Newark Resistance
Race: Human
Height: 6’1
Weight: 180
Apparent Age: 70+
Actual Age: Unknown
Archetype: Bodyguard/Security Chief
Circle: Unknown
Preferred Weapon: Unknown
Runner Song:
BIO:
Stanley “Give’em Hell” Harold Roper (Accidental Truman, Lizard King, Boardwalk King, Big Bad Wolf, Mr. Glasses)
Membership: Kingsman
Known Aliases: Alfred Sugarman, Oscar Schindler, Rudolph Journeyman, Nelson Gertz, Jared Killinger
Race: Human
Height: 5’6
Weight: 150
Apparent Age: 70+
Actual Age: 165 (DOB: 29/02/1920)
Archetype: Businessman/Attorney
Circle: Unknown
Preferred Weapon: Colt 911
Runner Song:
BIO:
He is called the Accidental Truman, he is called the Savior of the Poor, he is called the Anti Billionaire, he is called a murderer, and more commonly known as simply the Lizard King! This man is the scourge of all that desire a return to the American Way and to have a truly Christian Nation the way the founders intended as any progress that the UCAS First and Neon Church has made in this direction has been staled or simply shut down by this Jewish scourge. Stanley Roper if that’s even his real name was born to Christian and Jewish parents in Ocean Grove, New Jersey on All Hallows Eve, 1922 and would go on to become the world’s richest man and his wealth was built on the backs of real Americans. Stanley would be born during the Prohibition Era of America a truly golden time for Christians and one that is needed today, he grew up through the Great Depression and would reach adulthood during the Second World War and no Stan wouldn’t be a soldier, nope he wouldn’t work in a factory, nope he would do his part in another way and to that I say Screw You Stan!
Growing up in Ocean Grove Stan was raised deeply Christian and to be a God fearing Christian though reports indicate his mother a Jewish women along with his Grand Parents would secretly raise him as a reformed Jew and secretly hold temple services within the families haberdashery on the Asbury Park Boardwalk owned and operated by his Grandparents Wilbur & Eleanor Hill and needless to say this didn’t make Stan’s family all that popular in Ocean Grove during that period of time. There Jewish faith was not widely known, but the fact that young Stan spent time across the boarder in the Godless Asbury Park did matter and for Stan things were only going to get worse in the coming years. With the Great Depression looming and his father’s business about to be shuddered within Ocean Grove do to well…loosing everything, Stan would be forced to roll up his sleeves and take care of the family.
With his grandparents haberdashery barely staying afloat, his father’s bookkeeping firm crashing, and the note being called in on the family home, everything looked bleak and for Stan he would jump in to save the day. Come 1932 when Stan was only ten years old he and his family were homeless and living within a tent city with the rest of his family as Stan was the eldest of eight siblings and it would be his responsibility to put food on the table and clothing on there backs. This would be a lot of responsibility for a ten year old boy to undertake, his father Edgar Roper would fall ill in 1930 and pass away on December 25th 1933, his mother would turn to being a lady of the night in Asbury Park to support her family and her parents would be barely staying afloat and the shop Hill’s Suits would be only one month from shuttering…Stan being the eldest son and the only boy with seven sisters it would be on him to make sure his family survived the downturn.
Stan somehow managed to stay in school and excel at his studies, his photographic memory allowed him to become multilingual by the time he was 13. He spoke English, German, Dutch, French, Italian, Polish, Yiddish, and Hebrew. He was already a skilled tailor and had a head for business at a very early age and after his private and secret Bar Mitzva he would truly show that he was man and prepared for the challenges ahead. Roper was athletic, played for the Ocean Grove football team, baseball team, and was a lifeguard during the summer; he worked in Hill’s Suits and would do odd jobs for the wealthy families within Ocean Grove and this is where he would end up in trouble for the first of many times. Stan might have been born in Ocean Grove, though his heart resided just across the boarder in Asbury Park and he would become good friends with the local youths and seeing tourism was the primary income for Asbury Park at the time as well as the iron industry Stan would become the scourge of the Boards and create a mini boardwalk empire of his own.
Between games of chance, three card monte, pick pocketing, rumrunning, and creating the popular SeaShine that he and his crew would sell to local speakeasies for a significate profit margin the Roper & Hill family would stay out of bankruptcy and allow for the family to survive and eventually allow for them to leave the tent city and return to brick and mortar house…though on the other side of the boarder in Asbury Park a town that he has always called home and come the modern age helped rebuild and restore. His grandparents would pass away by 1935 and Stan would become the sole owner and operator of Hill’s Suits, seeing he was already emancipated from his mother the year prior when Stan was 14. I know it’s hard to fathom how a child could be the sole supporter of his family, going to school, and running a boardwalk empire at the age of 14 but things were very different back then and there weren’t any rules or laws to protect children back then. Though in Jewish culture they are men come 13 and Stan Roper was proving that at every turn.
He already had made a small fortune and was about to make more when he partnered up with a local businessmen who owned a local refinery in Asbury Park and well the money would flow straight into Stan’s bank accounts and his safe. His sudden partnership would open up doors for his mother and sisters who Stan supported and allowed them to move into a larger home within Asbury Park as they were long since exiled from Ocean Grove once there Jewish faith was discovered. Stan himself wasn’t all that nice of a man, and he was no hero during those days. Fights, extortion, murder, moonshining, and a cold calculating nature would be his driving force. He learned the business trade from some of the best of the best of the time, he would rise like a phoenix from the ashes of the Great Depression, and become a mogul by the time he was 16.
Stan’s legitimate businesses would simply be a cover for his Boardwalk Empire, and many would learn the saying “The Sea Doesn’t Give Up Her Dead.” Stan personally never saw the inside of a courtroom for anything that he did during the period of 1932 through 1940 and will never see the inside of a courtroom seeing any investigations against him would simply fail and he would slip through the cracks. The young Stan walking down the boards in his double breasted black suit, black shirt, black tie, and black fedora and flowing topcoat would have been a sight to see as he is surrounded by his goons commanding respect. Rumors state that Stan truly owned the Asbury Park Boardwalk and he knew it, police simply allowed the young Stan to pass by and politicians would pay Stan to make sure they kept there jobs, he would eventually take over the Ironbound Refinery and Mine as sole owner following the death of his partner on April 19th 1937 and for Stan everything was going according to plan.
Too say that Stan Roper was a crime lord is an understatement, he stepped on anyone that got in his way, and drove his wingtip onto the necks of anyone that dared cross him. Stan’s ruthless nature stemmed from his troubled childhood and the heavy abuse he received from his father, uncles, church leaders, and other senior men in Ocean Grove; and he would always defend his sisters and mothers honor even if that meant spending a night in jail after giving and receiving a beating. Stan was a skilled boxer, and streetfighter at the ripe old age of 15 and people say he had gallons of blood and tears on his hands, though he was still a boy Stan had seen more in his short life then many adults three times his age. Once the 1930’s would come to an end and the depression was officially considered over thanks to the New Deal and the start of the second world war…Stan’s iron foundries would line his pockets with cold hard cash do the sudden need for iron and steel, and before he graduated high school Stan was a very wealthy man.
Though for Stan the government was watching and come June 1940 he would be recruited by the US War Department and given a choice he couldn’t refuse and suddenly the Boardwalk King was swooped up and ushered off to parts unknown. As stated above Stan doesn’t have any military record, though he is listed as a civilian employee of I-Corps where he worked from 1940 -1947 and then within the CIA come September 18th, 1947 till January 14th 1973 most of this period was involuntary according to records; but Stan would be one of the countries first CIA agents and based on reports he was the country’s best, and according to internal documents Stan Roper remained in the CIA till 1991 when he graduated from Harvard Law. What Stan did during his time in I-Corps and the CIA is basically unknown and pretty much everything from hear on out has been part of some sort of misinformation campaign and all the dates have been doctored including his birth records that state he was born June 4th, 1942. We were able to obtain paper records that were undistorted and we can assume are factual but again this man is a gangster, government spook, and assassin so the truth is a little blurry here; readers beware.
Stan’s employment record within I-Corps and the CIA are very lacking and even more so redacted so what he did over in Europe during the second world war is basically left fully up for speculation but seeing Stan is currently loathed by the white supremist groups, hailed a hero in Germany, Poland, and France for his actions during the second world war and one of the founding fathers of the grouping of likeminded rebels called ANTIFA that simply stands for Anti Fascist…and I know it’s not a group but a mindset but in my opinion it’s a terrorist group and Stan is one of the originals. He fought to help liberate France from the Nazi’s…well fight is not quite right as he wasn’t a soldier but a resistance fighter, and problem solver. He helped free hundreds if not thousands of Jewish, Pagan, Gay, Gypsies, and other political prisoners being held in captivity within the Nazi death camps…this is one that I feel has earned him the hatred from the extremist groups. He as well removed Nazi leaders, officers, sabotaged German military movements, supply trains, and infrastructure.
Stan would slip into the death camps, remove guards and leave with Jewish prisoners by the truckload and deliver them to safety within allied territories; he worked along with or is Oscar Schindler in moving prisoners from camps to factories where they would be freed, given medical treatment, and shipped off to safe zones and territories for the once enslaved and imprisoned. Stan would make countless trips into and out of many of the Nazi’s camps and each time he would slip away into the night with a handful of prisoners or have set the stage for a prison break and brought resistance members to aid in the rescue…one of the most famous concentration camp escapes by Ebenezer Stanley Roper and the 20 or so prisoners’ wouldn’t been possible if it wasn’t for Stan laying the groundwork for the escape and killing a handful of Nazi prison guards…well that was till Stan would be captured by the Nazi’s and sent to Auschwitz for real.
On March 15th, 1944 Stan would be arrested by the Nazi’s for aiding and abetting in the escape of enemies of the Nazi party and giving shelter and sanctuary to escaped Polish Jews. He would be put in chains and shipped in a train to Auschwitz where he was to be executed by firing squad and become nothing more then a bad memory, his Jewish heritage would become known by the Nazi’s and his death was a most certain outcome. During intake Stan would be stripped of his clothing, his identity, and tattooed with a serial number; he was sent off to the death barracks to await his execution…the problem is Stan is a legendary spy and escape artist and this the Nazi’s didn’t take into consideration. When the Nazi guards would come to retrieve Stan to bring him for his execution only a mere hours after his arrival, the ink on his arm was still drying, and the wounds from his arrest, interrogation, and beating still fresh; Stan would over power the first guard and with the help of other GI’s they would overtake the rest of the guards and with a quick change of clothing and stuffing the dead within the floorboards he would walk out of the barracks with the rest of the prisoners.
Stan is fluent in German and Polish, he as well spoke fluent Russian by 1944 and it would be his natural ease with languages that would allow for him to fool the guards as he simply stated that he was taking these American Dogs to be put down…though instead he commandeered a German military truck, killed the soldiers inside, and drove out of the camp with 20 American and British POW’s and straight into the awaiting resistance hands. It is stated that March 15th, 1944 would be the day they almost captured Stan Roper, and within the Neo Nazi movement “Beware of the Ides of March” holds a totally new meaning. Stan wouldn’t be stopped and Stan wouldn’t rest till all of the prisoners were returned home…well he failed on that account, but he would rescue countless over the next year and change; including saving hundreds from a certain death that were being marched out of Auschwitz on their March of Death as the Russians closed in on the camp come January 1945. Stan would solider on and by the end of the war he would become known as the ghost in the shell, he would be the bogyman, and he would simply be the monster of the black forest or better known as the “Big Bad Wolf”…Stan would continue to hunt Nazi’s long after the war and would go to become the world’s leading Nazi Hunter and bring down or bring to justice hundreds…His actual body count is unknown, but seeing they are still really pissed off at Stan; it’s got to be high.
Now according to court records and some “witness accounts” Stan would be held captive by the US Government from December 1946 till January 1973, were he would be tortured, experimented on, forced to undergo surgery with no anesthesia, forced to endure hangings, shooting, impaled, being put on the wheel, rack, and other forms of brutal torture, including having his genitals locked in a steel prison…it’s indicated that even a top government official carved his left eye out with a spoon “Simply because it will hurt more.” Though I have a hard time believing this part seeing his wealth continued to grow, his Boardwalk Empire was flourishing, and his Iron business was deeply intertwined within the US Military and he was becoming or already was a very powerful defense contractor and part of the military industrial complex. How can one be held captive and as well be allowed to grow his businesses, reports indicate he continued to hunt Nazi’s throughout Europe and South America during this period and would be one of the good guys that helped tear down Nixon and expose Watergate. Either he was being forced to work under the threat of death, extorted in some fashion, or simply doing his patriotic duties is left up for debate…but for the Boardwalk King to be extorted is simply Karma.
We all know that Asbury Park would crumble and fall, we know Race Riots would leave the city burning, and we know the Iron Industry would dry up and move on to greener pastures and well one can blame Stanley Roper for this but that’s not exactly true. When The King ruled the Boardwalk there was a unwritten truce between the blacks and the whites, and the racism of the age was not tolerated by Stan in any fashion and he would buck the norms and employ many of colour within either his refinery, gang, or one his multitude of business ventures. Though when the mines dried up, and the Iron industry was forced to move…well that would be Stan’s fault as he simply chased profits and moved his company to greener pastures. Again we can’t verify any of the reports that he was held against his will and tortured, though we can confirm that Stan only got richer during the period from 1940 – 1973 when he was employed by the I-Corps and the CIA. Also one would think that someone that suffered through nearly 20 years of grave torture would be mentally damaged and unable to successfully operate a business empire that is the biggest in the known world…seriously this man is fucking ungodly wealthy.
Though by 1975 Stan would be listed as one of the top 5 richest men in the world and he was only just beginning. His Boardwalk Empire in Asbury Park might have dried up and hanging on life, but his outstretched hands would take hold of the nearby shore towns and give birth to additional boardwalk empires and he would perfect his “SeaShine” and open a distillery legally and make sure it was on every store shelf, he would open multiple amusement attractions, and expand his gang into other shore towns…Stan would basically be a legalized mafia don of the Jewish Mafia, though it seems whatever he learned in the CIA allowed him to go legit and his gang would simply become legal businessmen with many going onto become wealthy on their own right and further expand Roper’s empire. This man is New Jersey through and through, he is ruthless, cutthroat, direct, and focused and no longer under the government’s thumb he would go to to expand his empire from coast to coast and for a kid from Ocean Grove he would go onto live a life many can only dream of.
Stan’s empire would include Real Estate, Iron and Steel Manufacturing and smelting, construction, amusements, multitude of fast food franchises, men’s wear outlets, distilleries, and his coffee empire…and there is far more that Stan has his hands in and owns. He sits on numerous corporate boards including Disney where he still sits as a silent board member but from 1978 till 1998 he sat as a direct board member overseeing Park’s and Hospitality…of course the Boardwalk King would have his hands deep in the Disney Parks…and yes you can purchase SeaShine at any and all Disney parks and restaurants and Truman Coffee is the only coffee you can purchase at Disney; and from 1998 till 2071 Stan would sit as the Chairman of the Board for Disney Parks until he stepped down from the Chairmanship, remaining on the Board but as a silent investor…till Roper decides he won’t stay silent any longer.
Stan personally would go onto to earn his undergraduate degree from Princeton, and earn his MBA from Harvard Business, and his law degree from Harvard Law in 1991; Stan would go to be one the most prolific attorneys of the modern age, he would specialize in real estate law but this was simply one of his many focal points within the legal profession. Stan is a Bar certified criminal defense attorney, civil rights attorney, and the dreaded corporate attorney…he is as well a certified accountant and finally a corporate president, CEO, and board member of multiple businesses. His photographic memory and being a natural linguist means that he is fluent in multiple languages and a master of numbers…yes this man is all business all the time, and his skill set made him a perfect asset for the US Government. Reports indicate that Stan is cold calculating, driven, and very focused…though what he is focused on is a mystery, also his current location is unknown and he only shows up during video conferences.
According to available records Stan fathered eight children and adopted three children for a total of eleven offspring between 1995 and 2005 and of course they were all raised Jewish, he lived within Upper Saddle River New Jersey and as well resided in Asbury Park NJ. Stan’s specialty in real estate is revitalization of dead and dying cities and towns with his pet project and litmus test is the city of Asbury Park where Stan parked a ton of money over the years…according to a interview he did on cable news he stated “The Asbury Park experiment worked, I was able to breath new life into that shore town and restore her back to her old glory of the golden age.” he would continue “Being born in Ocean Grove and a native of that hateful bigoted town…she was bad before me, and she will be bad after me, but my heart lives in Asbury Park and restoring that city to it’s glory is a huge middle finger to the residents of Ocean Grove and that makes my very happy.”
Sorry there isn’t any real information available about Stan’s work in I-Corps and especially the CIA, he might not be officially a member of the military but thanks to President Harry S Truman Stan would be inducted into the US Airforce upon it’s foundation and before that he was simply a civilian field agent…even after that he was still a civilian just one that was able to wear a uniform and was awarded the rank of Colonel; I know it’s confusing but spies where given high military ranks especially during those days, also it would be the US Army that would train Stan to be a pilot when he was placed into the US Army Air Corps before being transferred to the US Airforce…he is in all tense and purposes a veteran, just not a willing one. Again the information we have on Stan has all been manipulated in some manner and is part of an ongoing misinformation campaign, what we have learned so far is hard to swallow but some of our contacts and allied agencies swear up and down that the Big Bad Wolf is very real and very dangerous…Because he is the definition of the New Jersey motto “Fuck Around and Find Out.”
According to information provided Stan’s home and property in Upper Saddle River was seized by the Usurpers so it can be developed into the urban sprawl that is the “Newark Mega Sprawl” as he was the last hold out and refused to sell…well if this part is true, it couldn’t have happened to a better person. Though I tend to believe that this world class real estate attorney walked away with one hell of a payday. He was the longest running Scout leader for Troop 123 having served as Scoutmaster from 2005 till 2045 when he would leave NJ after selling his property or having it “Seized”, we know that he owns residential property all over the place but as well has personal homes in Asbury Park NJ, Ocean Grove NJ, Kansas City MO, Liberty MO, Flint MI, Lansing MI, Greenwich Conn, Dover Mass, Aspen Col, Gary In, and Hinsdale IL…as well as many others; So where is currently located is unknown, but he is the Boardwalk King so one can assume he is within a coastal region or on the Great Lakes, and seeing he owns multiple professional sports teams in Michigan, sits on the board of Directors for Michigan State as the Chairman…you can put your money on him hiding or living within Michigan or Ohio.
Stan is an avid warrior for Civil Rights and one that has waged war against extremist hate groups, he worked as a federal prosecutor for the Federal District from 2021 till 2031 where he sent countless to prison for their participation in the Coup attempt of 2021. He is a card carrying member of the terrorist group Antifa and disgusted by antisemitism, he is a voice for the appressed, and their greatest advocate. He is a true pain in the ass for anyone that want’s to see this nation reunited under the banner of a Christian Nation they way our founders intended for it be, he is a godless heathen that want’s to see America crumble further into the darkness and allow for morality to be flushed down the drain. We know that he is a proud member of the Freemasons as he proudly wears his Masonic lapel pin everyday and used to be the Grandmaster for New Jersey and is the current Grandmaster for Michigan, how the assassins from O’Brian missed this lizard is unknown…but regardless the Freemasons aren’t extinct and Stan proves that and needs to be assassinated…again this leads us to believe that he resides in Lansing or Flint Michigan.
Stan owns and operates Roper Enterprises and S.H. Roper Industries and is the leading defense contractor in the North American Alliance, he is a very powerful member of the Military Industrial Complex and is directly funded by the NAA for his miracle steel, cyber parts (He has an exclusive patent), personal body armor, and caseless ammunition. He owns multiple farms within Kansas, Missouri, Indiana, and Iowa; and his breweries, wineries and distilleries can be found throughout the free world…if you consume alcohol, you have consumed liquor, beer, wine, and spirits produced by one of Roper Enterprises subsidiary companies; he was well entered in on the ground floor for the legal sale and production of marihuana…yup he has his hands in that as well and every time you purchase anything produced by one of his companies or the flagship company, you are supporting this man and his hateful army of Anti-Christians and furthering in the destruction of the nation’s morality.
Based on some simply research we have learned that Roper Enterprises is a triple AAA company and a fortune 500 corporation that rivals the biggest of the mega corporations…yes this man is that rich, well connected, and influential; he might not be political but he has the ear of every elected official and can direct the political flow of ideas and stonewall any progress of the Loyalist Party with a simple phone call. Though in 2040 he was nominated for the Supreme Court to help sway the court with a totally non political ideology and guess when happened…his nomination failed on the floor of the Senate as both sides took issue with his hard line approach to governance through policy that is beneficial to the people. We were very close to having the Lizard King on the highest court of the land…and that would have been a serious blow to all morally right citizens also he has zero judicial experience, he is only an attorney not a judge; guess his money couldn’t buy him a seat on the court but honestly he is more dangerous within the shadows then in the spotlight. His political ideology has been described as Democratic Socialist and that scares the crap out of me, if this man ever decides to throw his hat in the political arena he can be very dangerous and destructive seeing “Money equals Votes” and his policies are welcomed by the godless within the big metro cities.
Did Stan return to government work, well that is unknown and according to the most recent audits of the UCAS Intelligence Agency he is simply a retired field agent and nothing more; though he holds firearm permits that aren’t available to civilians and was awarded a “Sky Marshal” badge in 1970 and it has been updated to the Federal Air Marshal Service in 2002…so yes he is a government agent and one that can carry a concealed firearm aboard any commercial flight. He has a pilots license and is one hell of a pilot according according to records available…though this makes sense seeing he was part of the United States Army Air Corps and eventually the United States Airforce; again he is a spy so if his rank and record are legit is unknown but as for the Freedom party Stan is Airforce and he is an officer. He is an American Double O agent and cross trained within the British Intelligence division MI6…so even if he isn’t listed as active duty, this man is a government spook and G-Man; remember people he is one of the original CIA agents and I-Corps spies so you have again been warned.
No runner has been able to infiltrate successfully any of Roper Enterprises or S.H. Roper Industries corporate headquarters as they all have been caught and sent to prison for life or worse, as his patents, prototypes, internal data, and industry secrets are highly sought after by rival companies and governments…but his security teams and internal security are highly skilled and highly trained by Stan’s long time friend, and bodyguard John Schumer who also works as his Chief of Security.
Real Name Unknown (The King)
Membership: Unknown
Race: Human (FIP Assumed)
Height: 6’0
Weight: 190
Apparent Age: 30+
Actual Age: Unknown
Archetype: Unknown
Circle: Unknown
Preferred Weapon: Unknown
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Shang Cong (Tsung)
Membership: Harbinger (Assumed)/Brooklyn Bomber (Assumed)/Crystal Dragons (Assumed)
Race: Human (Assumed)
Height: 5’4
Weight: 140
Apparent Age: 70+
Actual Age: Unknown
Archetype: Dual Hermetic Sorcerer Adept <Cyber Criminal>
Circle: Unknown
Preferred Weapon: Unknown
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Real Name Unknown (Sideshow)
Membership: Red Dawn
Race: Human (FIP)
Height: 5’8
Weight: 170
Apparent Age: 70+
Actual Age: Unknown
Archetype: Cybered Blade Master Adept
Circle: Unknown (Considered Very Dangerous and Beyond Lethal!!)
Preferred Weapon: Custom Forged Short Blades
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Harvey Hertz (Izod)
Membership: Red Dawn
Race: Human (FIP)
Height: 5’10
Weight: 190
Apparent Age: 70+
Actual Age: Unknown
Archetype: Cybered Physical Adept (Cyber Criminal)
Circle: Unknown (Considered Very Dangerous and Beyond Lethal!!)
Preferred Weapon: Polearm
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His name is Izod and he is one of the most freighting souls to exist and I am seriously unnerved that I only just learned of Izod today…thank you Frogger! This man has served alongside the Trailblazer for countless centuries and has been a thorn in the side of those that stand in opposition to the rebellions fight for total enslavement of the human race for ages. It seems that Trailblazer has been playing the long con of being a simple retired corporate security professional for some time now, he and Izod have been funding the Tribe secretly since day one and Howell even lent his experience and expertise to the Denver Guard. Izod is as well Jersey born and raised, he like Trailblazer hails from Cape May New Jersey and have been deeply imbedded with corporate rule for sometime now. Izod has been second fiddle to the man he simply call’s “Sir” for as long as our contacts can remember, this man has been through more then a single person should but in my opinion it’s well deserved and I hope he suffered greatly.
Ebenezer Stanley Roper Junior (Frontline)
Membership: Unknown
Race: Human (F.I.P)
Height: 5’9
Weight: 190
Apparent Age: 40+
Actual Age: Unknown
Archetype: Unknown
Circle: Unknown (Assumed Magical)
Preferred Weapon: Unknown
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Jeremy Roper (1312)
Membership: Unknown
Race: Human (F.I.P)
Height: 5’9
Weight: 180
Apparent Age: 30+
Actual Age: Unknown
Archetype: Decker (Cyber Criminal)
Circle: Unknown (Assumed Magical)
Preferred Weapon: Unknown
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Ebenezer “E.S.” Stanley Roper (The First Marine)
Membership: Unknown
Race: Human (F.I.P)
Height: 5’6
Weight: 140
Apparent Age: 75
Actual Age: 351
Archetype: Unknown
Circle: Unknown
Preferred Weapon: Assumed to be the Colt 911 he always carries or the Trench Knife….either is very lethal in this man’s hands.
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His name is Ebenezer Roper and this man is the only member of the Federal Immortality Project that we can track his actual age and this people is were things get weird; Ebenezer Stanley Roper is 351 years old and he doesn’t hide the fact that he is over 3 centuries old and counting. This man is part of history especially the American history and has watched the rise and fall of the United States of America, some say he is the “Spirit of 76” or the true representation of the “American Spirit”. Ebenezer or E.S Roper for short was born in the colony of New Jersey on July 4th 1734 and would become truly first generation American being born to British and Polish colonists, his parents well they are their own story and would become part of history unto themselves. Ebenezer would be raised by his uncle a real bastard of a man that would teach his young nephew some very nasty tactics about obtaining wealth and how to exploit the system to further his station and status within the colonies. E.S. Roper would learn to be a shrewd negotiator and cut throat businessman by the time he was just ten years of age, he would be raised in privilege and have the best education money could buy, he would be sent to university in England, and when he returned he would be given land, title, and well more privilege.
Ebenezer would work as a lawyer, tax collector, and judge throughout his youth and find himself involved in the French and Indian War (1754 – 1763) as a Colonial…command was almost always given to those born of wealth and status, Roper though would prove that he was more then just another rich man that didn’t understand military tactics and long before the Revolutionary war he would be deploying guerilla warfare against the French, he would continue these tactics during the American Revolution (1765 – 1791) and become one of the most feared rebels of the colonies, his use of tactics he learned from the natives and his use of unconventional warfare would be one of the major deciding factors of the upstart colonies and allow for them to defeat the British Empire. If anyone could be called a true American Patriot it would be E.S Roper and this man didn’t take crap from anyone and has held a serious chip on his shoulder for generations against the English…though he was also awarded the Victoria Cross by the Queen after the Second World War and would become friends with the royals; so he must have let bygones be bygones at some point.
E.S Roper would command the same unit that Charles Palpatine would serve in during the French and Indian War and both men would be enrolled into the first class of West Point and graduate with honors in 1802 and become the poster children for the new military academy and for what an officer should be. The Invincible One would go onto be the more well known and E.S Roper would simply fade away into the backdrop as he didn’t believe there should ever be career military officers or soldiers as he believed it should always be a truly volunteer calling and once you go career you are guided by money and not patriotic service to your country in a time of need. Roper would simply slip in and out of the military when he was needed and in those early days he was needed often, otherwise he lived in Boston for a portion of his adult life…well a small portion in reality. Yes Roper would be in Boston during the Tea Party and according to him, he would be on the ship and tossing the tea into the harbor directly, he was one of the men that would agree to take up arms against the crown and he would be one of the original revolutionaries, he was friends with many of the founding fathers and even served within the Constitutional Congress and helped pen the original documents. His papers are still regarded as vital to the foundation of our nation, the Roper papers are just as important as the Jefferson papers and Roper is quoted by many on the more progressive side of the aisle, his papers regarding the Second Amendment are normally ignored by those on the conservative side as his papers define the amendment further.
The one major difference between this founding father over the others is that he never owned slaves, he is not Christian, and he was well liked by the native people. He was a true abolitionist from a young age and he befriended the native people and would eventually be welcomed into their tribes during the westward expansion; when he wasn’t serving in the military fighting for the nation he helped birth he would be serving in elected office as a Congressman, Senator, Governor, or Mayor; he would as well serve as a judge and Sherriff during the westward expansion and further thrust himself into our history. Roper would fight in the War of 1812 and march his 12th New Jersey Division down to Washington DC to protect the city from the English, he would fight in the Civil War, Spanish American War, World War One, World War Two, Korea, and Vietnam as well as many other conflicts and territory disputes within the growing nation. He would reside within New Jersey, New York, Massachusetts, Colorado, Nevada, and California as well as hold homes in many other states as he would deploy the tactics taught to him by his Uncle when he was a younger man. Roper’s big break would be the Gold Rush of 1849 when he would be at the right place at the right time and purchase numerous plots of land in California, Nevada, Arizona, and Washington State…well the territories, he would hire miners to work and the natives to protect his land; he would give them more then enough in trade for their services and well let’s just say back then when a white man could speak the language of the “Red Devils” and was respected by their warriors and chiefs…yeah people didn’t cross Roper and those that did well they would never be scene again and Roper would never face a trial for murder.
Roper would also help rescue slaves and bring them west to work on his land in exchange for a salary, residence, and protection from the slave hunters; he was basically amassing a small militia of once exploited people and giving them a sense of dignity again. This was during a time when murder on the plains was well…normal and for Roper it was business as normal, he cared nothing for those that owned slaves, spewed hateful rhetoric towards the natives, and well anyone that claimed America was for the White Man only….and he really hated anyone that abused women and children and still does. When he would be in Congress he would introduce legislation that would outlaw slavery and free slaves, he would state “All men are created equal…and this means All Men, regardless of colour, nationality, or sex…Yes I mean our Mothers, Sisters, and Daughters Too.” this speech was given in the halls of congress in 1858 and let’s just say it didn’t make him all that popular and would lead to a near assassination attempt as his movement was gaining speed and well the best way to slow it down is to kill the leader…E.S. Roper would be shoot in the chest while he was giving a fiery speech on the senate floor on March 5th, 1859 by a fellow Senator from Alabama who thought he was doing God’s work in killing the blasphemer from New York…well the only thing that would happen would be E.S would have another bullet scar as he survived the assassination attempt and Senator George Thrumming would loose his life at the end of a rope as he was hanged only 30 days later for his attempted assassination (they didn’t mess around back then).
Roper’s movement wouldn’t really gain steam for many years or really nearly a century later but he planted the seed and some say it was Roper’s progressive thinking and his way ahead of his time thinking that would thrust the country into a civil war. Personally I am in the camp of believing that this movement would be the sparks that started the bonfire that would be the civil war, also his near assassination would not help things either as E.S Roper would have many followers and many who looked up to this man as a hero of the people. His Presidential campaign of 1861 would fail and some say maybe Roper would have ended the Civil War before it started if he had won the election but alas he lost to Lincoln and would step down from the Senate to volunteer once again for duty to serve the Union against the Confederates during the Civil War; this is when he would receive his injection and become officially part of the Federal Immortality Project of 1850. The Civil War wasn’t kind to this man and for the First Marine (1775) it was once again time to defend liberty and fight to preserve the nation from being torn apart. During the war Roper would fight in some of the bloodiest battles and he would be nearly killed more than a handful of times, going through his medical report is a novel unto itself though he would teach the Confederates what it means to be a Marine and what it means to be a cavalry officer…and especially one that was liked, respected, and feared.
It would be during this time he would partner up again with Charles Butler, Montgomery Hillard, David Klopeck, Orson White, Sherman Willard, Maxwell Irving, Gunner Kirby, Aldwyn Jamestown, and Bernard Beachworth. E.S would use his 2nd New Jersey Cavalry and 12th New Jersey Infantry to help smuggle escaped slaves out of the south and well let’s simply state that any plantation that E.S rode up on would not be left standing when he rode away…he was known for his inferno tactics and freeing the slaves by force. He would leave slave masters swinging from tree’s like windchimes and their farms and homes burning in the distance; he would then use the legal system, antiquated laws, and war time trophy clauses to purchase the land out from under the next of kin…if any remained alive, and expand his vast wealth and land. This didn’t make him popular in the south and really unpopular with the slave owners and as well the first police the Slave Patrol whom he was already very familiar with. It would be these men that nearly ended his life when he was captured after the war when E.S was guiding a group of newly rescued slaves out west and well left the same windchimes he normally left behind…the Slave Patrol would ambush Roper and once the smoke cleared he was being put in shackles and told to pick what tree he wanted to swing from.
The Slave Patrol wanted to use this as way to strike fear into the hearts of the newly recaptured slaves that survived and to bring an end to a serious problem for the Southern Landowner…well E.S. knew the territory better then the Slave Patrol did, he knew that natives were nearby, and he knew that even if he died at the end of a rope…the Slave Patrol would not survive long enough to reap their rewards. According to Roper he pointed at one tree and bellowed with all his might a native cry for aid that he knew would summon the scouts if they were nearby and most certainly bring forth a war band to lend aid. The Slave Patrol sat him on a horse, put a rope around his neck, and slapped the ass of the horse causing E.S. to fall and begin to do the hangman’s dance. Well it turns out that the Slave Patrol didn’t take into account that the now captured slaves were not pacified and by the time the natives showed up the Slave Patrol was defeated and E.S was being cutdown. This would not be the only time he would have a near death experience and not the only time he was nearly hanged for standing up for his fellow man, E.S Roper would go onto become one of the most feared lawmen of the 19th century and rule the Nevada Territory with an iron fist. He would be the man to single handedly tame the wild west and bring to justice countless outlaws, and he would as well hang anyone he caught that partook in lynching’s. He ruled the feared Las Vegas Prison that nobody escaped from…only two ways out of E.S’s prison in a box or serve your sentence. Meanwhile his wealth was growing at a rate unheard of before do to the gold and silver being pulled out of his mines, he invested heavily into the railroad, and with the industrial revolution underway…well he would toss his hat into that ring as well and open numerous factories and invest into others, though E.S’s values never fully lined up with an industrial capitalist…he didn’t exploit his workers, and made sure that they earned a living wage, he could have made far more and his profits could have been sky high but he decided that worker retention and safety were paramount and he compared many other industrialists to slave masters and the employees as nothing more then legalized slavery.
Now E.S during the Reconstruction and Industrial Revolution period would mostly remain out west working as a Sherriff and policing the untamed west, he would earn a name for himself during those days as simply E.S. and he didn’t put up with crap from his men, those that worked for him, and basically anyone that lived in the territories he protected. E.S was a by the book man and that book was written by E.S and anyone that didn’t agree with his stances on race relations, how to properly treat a women, and that Christianity was not without faults would find themselves on the wrong side of E.S and that would mean…not good things. He either could be your best friend or worst enemy, he knew how to exploit the system to his benefit, he knew how to steal your land legally, and he would send many to prison on questionable charges and well a real asshole and this would not make him all that popular with those that didn’t see eye to eye with E.S and his very progressive, socialist, and alien way of thinking. Come the end of the 19th century E.S. would receive a letter from his friend Colonel Theodor Roosevelt that would invite him to join a new order of the U.S. Cavalry of like minded hard asses and gunfighters called the Rough Riders and well the rest is history as Roper would hang up his sheriff’s badge and head east to meet up with his friend to once again put on the uniform and fight for his country, this time within the Spanish American War (1898) and for all the horror that E.S. witnessed and suffered within Puerto Rico and at the infamous San Juan Hill nothing would prepare him for what was about to happen and what horrors he would face come the turn of the century.
The First Marine would fit in perfectly with the Rough Riders and he would play a good little solider boy doing exactly what was expected of him and that would be killing and killing is his business and business was good. Now the Rough Riders was full of questionable characters and cowboys, not the people that one would expect to find serving the United States Cavalry but somehow this ragtag bunch of misfits and outlaws managed to work well together and strike fear in the hearts of their enemies. I know their is a lot of recorded history of the Rough Riders but according to my contacts 99% of the information is down right wrong and the biggest misconception is that desperado Theodore Plummer better known as Walter Brass (Known aliases: Lighting Kid, Dead Eye Walt, or the Oklahoma Kid) was hiding within plain sight and somehow this outlaw would go unnoticed by Sheriff E.S. Roper who had been hunting the Oklahoma Kid for years. According to records E.S. simply planed on arresting Brass once they returned stateside and handing him over to the courts in Las Vegas to stand trial for the countless crimes he had committed. Though during the battle of San Juan Hill Roper got to see another side of Brass and that would be the one of a hero, he witnessed Brass wounded save their commander and suffer a wound that would befitting of karma.
Though as much as Roper was impressed with the young man’s moxy and heroism that didn’t excuse his life of crime and the horrific deeds he committed and even though E.S. was impressed and happy that Brass saved his long time friend from a most certain death, he was a sworn officer of the law and Brass had a date with the courts and the gallows that E.S. was going to make sure Brass didn’t miss. It would be after the war while the men where recovering from their injuries that Colonel Theodore Roosevelt pleaded with E.S. to ignore Brass and allow the outlaw to walk free as he was a changed man, this would lead to an argument between the two bullheaded men and eventually Roosevelt would remind E.S. that people can change and that Brass deserves a second chance like he had given himself all those years prior. E.S. for the first time in his career as a sheriff would ignore the outlaw and let karma take it’s toll. E.S would allow Brass to escape justice and from what we know about Walter Brass he truly did turn over a new leaf and would become a changed man, though karma would haunt him till this day and the two men would go onto become friends…well more acquaintances, as E.S. has never forgiven or forgotten about the monstrous crimes that Brass committed but he can ignore them as Brass went on to become a world renowned general and doctor, married into the Roosevelt family and would be pardoned quietly by his Father In-Law Franklin D Roosevelt. (More on Brass Here)
Though back to E.S. and why joining the Rough Riders would come back to bite him and it wouldn’t be his involvement with Brass, the injuries sustained during war, or the reputation he gained from being a Rough Rider, no it would be the turn of the century and the changes to the FIP program that President William McKinley would instate come 1900 and even the First Marine wasn’t exempt from being conscripted into service. Though it would be his friendship and family connections to Theodore Roosevelt that would be the his saving grace, what is a little know historical fact is that Ebenezer is the Father In-Law of Theodore Roosevelt and Grand Father of his daughter Alice. These connections would be the ultimate saving grace for Ebenezer as his FIP records would be scrubbed by his Son In-Law once Theodore was sworn into office and Ebenezer would simply go on to serve normally…though why not one single person questioned why and how a man born in 1734 was still alive dumbfounds me, seriously no one questioned how E.S managed to remain breathing and not six feet under long before the start of the FIP Program of 1850. Nope not one question, nope not a single question, and he would go onto serve the United States Marine Corps till December of 67′ during the start of the Tet Offensive…(History states it was between January 31st, 1968 till September 23rd, 1968) according to the veterans the offensive actually started about a month earlier.
E.S would be an integral Marine as he would be in command of the special forces divisions, he would earn his wings as a fighter pilot for the USMC, and he would be part of the 1st Raider Battalion and eventually would form the USMC Force Recon division after the Korean War (June 1957). It would be his service as a Force Recon commander that would place him within the front lines of the fighting during the Vietnam war and seeing the First Marine was one that commanded from the front and not the back and for a Lieutenant General this was not normal but even the Corps wasn’t willing to argue with E.S and come December 25th 1967 he would be severely wounded and retired from the USMC and during the first session of 90th Congress there first order of normal business would be a unanimous vote across party lines to promote E.S. and award him his sixth Congressional Medal of Honor. Roper would retire from the USMC a full fledge General and the most highly decorated American solider and the most highly decorated soldier in the free world.
E.S. would as well enter Ranger School after he returned home from the Korean War and let’s simply state that E.S would be one of the USMC’s top snipers but rarely actually deployed as such seeing he was more useful elsewhere, if the First Marine was ever deployed as a sniper the shit truly hit the fan and only the best was needed. Now I am not saying there aren’t better the Roper, but this man set the bar for excellence and seeing much of his deployment is still classified as Top Secret and can only be reviewed in a SKIFF (Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility)…seriously even after over a century his records are still considered deeply classified and a threat to national security if declassified. Now his life after the military would be one that would rocket E.S. straight into the history books once again, he would be discharged from the USMC in April of 1968 and he would return to his home at Fort Carson in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Pack up his base housing and begin his civilian life once again. Now this would be hard normally but for Roper this was even more complicated as his wife Evelyn and his children Richard, Norman, Alice, and Franklin would all be killed on December 24th 1967 by a drunk driver while they were heading to Christmas Eve Service. E.S would not find out about his families death till he was in a MASH unit and would be unable to deal with the arrangements for his family till after he returned home and he would rely on the military to handle everything as he was knocking on death’s door from major injuries received on December 25th 1967…coincidence with the Time Zones it is about the same time really and that is weird in my opinion.
Though like most men of his age and generation or the generation he appeared to be from, E.S simply picked himself up by his bootstraps and carried on burying his emotions deep in his chest. Once he returned to Fort Carson and after dealing with the final paperwork regarding his family, picking up the urns and closing that chapter of his life, E.S would say his farewells to Colorado, pack up his trailer and truck with all his worldly possessions and return to the state of his birth. He would return to New Jersey and initially plant his flag within a town he helped defend from the British in 1780, he would plant is flag in Springfield NJ and it wouldn’t be long before E.S. would find himself once again thrust into the spotlight as the 1960’s were wrapping up and the 1970’s were about to bring in a new chapter for E.S and a return to the only thing he knew better than military service and that would be politics. E.S would quickly bounce back once in New Jersey, he would quickly purchase a home, open legal practice, join the local Reformed Temple and attempt to go about life as normal. Yes I said temple as E.S is Jewish and yet he as well attended Sunday service something he grew accustomed too, while serving in the USMC and seeing his wives have almost all been Christian he would argue and just raise his children Christian if they decided to abandon there Jewish roots…religion for E.S was more of a lip service situation and all he cared about was teaching the traditions, heritage, and language of his people; this would become far more important to him after the Second World War and his time spent in Auschwitz.
It would be while he was attending Springfield Presbyterian when he would meet a young women named Susan McNelly who was a young 23 year old women that was a recent widow having lost her husband George McNelly during the same battle that retired E.S, the two would become church friends as Ebenezer didn’t really know anyone in town and Susan being a recent widow and now single mother to 4 children…yup four kids by 23: George Jr (4), Erica (4), Timothy (2), and Jeremy (2), well she had two sets of twins and her youngest were born shortly after her husband was drafted. Susan simply admired the old veteran and was smitten by his charm and gentlemanly demeanor as for E.S. he was simply interested in being friends and nothing more initially as the visual age difference bothered him as he didn’t wish to upset the status quo in town. Though as the weeks turned into months and Susan’s filtration’s grew eventually E.S would throw caution to the wind and begin date a woman far younger then he and eventually the two would marry within the same church they met. Though for E.S this was simply the start to a new chapter in his life and he would toss his hat in the election for Mayor to run against the currently unopposed Richard Fredricks, needless to say with all of E.S’s money, contacts, and political experience he would mop the floor with the Fredricks; his military career, political views, and statesmen like exterior would make him a shew in for the win and come 1969 the newcomer to town was being sworn in as Mayor after ousting the Richard Fredricks and relegating him to a one term lame duck…Ebenezer would win the election of November 1968 and go onto serve as the Mayor of Springfield till 1978 when he would run for United States Senate and win his election bid to replace the popular retiring Senator Edward Kauffman.
Though the end of the 60’s would be kind to E.S as he would propose to Susan McNelly and the two would be married in a private ceremony on August 24th 1969 and E.S would go on to legally adopt his step children the following year. Now the 1970’s could have been kinder to E.S but for him it was life as normal, he could hear the whispers from the peanut gallery about him robbing the cradle and how they called him Mayor Scrooge seeing he wouldn’t close down municipal offices for Christmas Eve and he was very frugal with the annual budget. Though he was able to push threw some local ordinances that would make him popular with the working class and he would push forth rent control and other local ordinances that would improve the life of the average citizen. Ebenezer would as well use his vast wealth and experience as an attorney to develop housing for low income earners on the outskirts of town and create funds and scholarship programs to help the youth get an education and return to town to settle down and start a family. E.S might have only served the township of Springfield for ten years but his work is still felt by the citizens there today, he would volunteer as a Boy Scout Leader and become active within the church on the behest of his wife; though most Friday evenings he could be found observing Shabbat, though this would simply be on a week to week basis and greatly depended on his schedule.
Now we all know that E.S is currently living in Cape May New Jersey and known as a Coastal as he resides directly on the coast and has lived in his Victorian home for sometime now, we know that he served the state of New Jersey as Senator from 1978 till 1994 when he would retire from the Senate after being nearly assassinated in front of the Capital Building, we know that he would serve as Governor of New Jersey from 1996 till 2004, and as Mayor of Cape May from 2006 till 2084 only loosing his reelection bid to an upstart radical Walter Brown. Now lets back up a bit as we need to discuss the fact that E.S would have three children with Susan directly his first son with Susan: Jack Roper was born February 29, 1976 and his twin daughters born while he was in the Senate Christina and Helen Roper born December 3rd, 1983. He would become famous for his direct opposition to the Christian Conservatism of the Regan Era as he stood as a brick wall against censorship, and the satanic panic…Roper sat on the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee and sat through the “Rock Porn” hearings and you can already guess what side of the argument he was on. Roper would become friends with the entertainers and be one of the level heads during that period of time and would recommend the warning label as a way to simply appease both sides and allow for the senate to once again focus on real issues affecting everyday Americans, he would become well liked and respected by the artists and well let’s just say he was given a Personalized Baseball Jersey from the heavy metal act Suicidal Tendencies live on stage in front of ten’s of thousands of raging metal fans at Giant’s Stadium during the Metallica Damaged Justice Tour in 1988 that would simply read “Psycho Senator 1734” on the back.
Roper himself would shock the populace when he reveled that he was a fan of the hard aggressive dark music as he found it soothing to his wounded soul and mind, he was already friends with many in the industry and had attended Woodstock 1969 to stand in solidarity with the counter culture and show that a foundation of unity can be found between hippies and veterans. Though he also stated that he grew to enjoy the music stylings of Hendrix, Joplin, The Stones, and others of the day including the Grateful Dead; as Senator and Governor Roper would often be scene wearing a Jerry Garcia tie on the Senate floor or at the podium as Governor. Roper fought against the Satanic Panic of the age and defended the peoples right to enjoy all forms of entertainment and reading a comic book, watching a movie, listening to heavy metal music or playing Sword’s & Sorcery didn’t make one a Satanist and didn’t condemn one’s soul to hell for being Anti-Christian. Roper would often state to accuse one of being Anti-Christian is to be Anti-Christian and he would as well quote scripture in order to hammer home his point. Though as he was becoming well received on one end on the other end he was becoming a target for hate from those morally opposed to his very liberal and progressive values…needless to say he is a registered Democrat and considers himself a Democratic Socialist.
His platform is simply and can be found on his website and lets just there is only one outlier when it comes to E.S Roper’s political views and that is he is very pro capital punishment, yup he is very much for the death penalty to the point that as Governor of New Jersey he signed the order of execution for his son George Roper, and his two grandchildren George Jr, and Patrick Roper (More on that story later on in this article). Roper has a few pet projects that he tackled while in political office one being strict on Drunk Driving, and the other is Gun Control as this man actually understands what the founders where thinking and meant when they wrote the Second Amendment…seeing E.S was one of the founding fathers and helped write the damned thing, and his stance for further gun control would only grow stronger over the years and this would become one of the key reasons he was nearly assassinated in 1994 as he championed the Assault Weapons Ban that would pass the Senate in 1994 with E.S showing up in the Senate Chamber during the midnight hour to cast the deciding vote, while recovering from his multiple gunshot wounds; this would be heralded as one of the greatest moment’s in senate history till John McCain pulled the same tactic in sinking the Republican’s attempt to repeal the Health Care Bill of 2017 and reports indicate that even though McCain and Roper stood politically opposed McCain saw Roper as a true maverick and the two would become friends when McCain was in the US House and there friendship would continue till McCain’s passing.
Roper and McCain would become bitter rivals on the Senate floor as the two held deeply opposite political views and for E.S he stated it was fun simply to get McCain’s goat as it was easier then shooting fish in a barrel. Though outside of the political arena the two men shared a lot of similarities and their lives intersected on more than on occasion as the two were both veterans of the Vietnam War, and both had been Prisoners of War (POW) Roper captured and imprisoned within Auschwitz during the Second World War and McCain captured and imprisoned at the Hanoi Hilton during the Vietnam War and both suffered greatly while being held prisoner. This is said to be why the two statesmen had the most heated debates and neither would back down, for a short period of time from 1987 till 1994 the US Senate had two headstrong mavericks and their antics would make headlines, though when the two men agreed on a policy or bill…watch out as E.S would prove why he was the whip of the Democratic party and known as the King of the Filibuster.
E.S roper would serve as the Chair to the Armed Services Committee, he would sit on the Judiciary Committee and even Chair the committee for a few years, and he would become the whip in 1983 and hold that leadership position till he retired in 1994. When asked why he never ran for party leader Roper simply stated “That’s one headache I didn’t need.” he would become known for the sign on his office door that simply read “No Lobbyists Beyond This Point” when Roper retired at the end of the 103rd Congress he would be hailed as a true statesmen and one man that Washington never wanted but Washington needed; some of his policies, values, and antics are still practiced today by members of his party now known as the Freedom Party…again why nobody questioned why this man was still alive when his birth certificate clearly states July 4th 1734 is dumbfounding.
Now I know many are wondering about the assassination attempt that I keep speaking off, and the event that retired the outspoken senator from New Jersey and clearly I will cover that now as it would forever change E.S’s life and as well forever cement his battle cry for stricter gun laws, reform, and outright banning of military grade weapons in the hands of the populace. On March 15th 1994 E.S was giving a fiery press conference outside the capital regarding the new bill he was championing that would ban military grade assault weapons from being owned and purchased by civilians. Ropers address followed by his Q&A with the press ended with Roper putting the conservative journalists in there place politely and professionally but still shut down there NRA talking points and ended the press conference as he needed to get back to work. Roper would enter the awaiting car and suddenly sounds of screeching tires, followed my automatic gunfire, breaking glass, twisting metal, and screams of pain and horror could be heard echoing through the cool early evening air. Reporters running for cover while the cameramen continued to film the entire situation with some journalists continuing to cover the event from cover.
The awaiting black sedan was riddled with bullet holes, the engine smoking, glass shattered, and blood, oil, and coolant mixing on the ground. Cries for help could be heard as the Capital Police and D.C Metro Police returned fire and when the smoke cleared many would lay dead or dying on the ground, the would be assassins would be killed by the brave Capital Police officers and everyone inside Roper’s car would be dead…well all but one, and E.S would be rushed to Walter Reed Hospital for emergency life saving care. As Roper was being prepared for surgery it would be learned that two of his interns, his chief of staff, and his press secretary as well as his driver would all loose their lives inside that car; many others would be wounded and three police officers would fall on that day as well. E.S would suffer grave wounds that would cause him to loose his left eye, his left pinky, destroy his right knee, and his left hip; not to mention the countless through and throughs and not to forget the sheer amount of shrapnel that would pollute his body. While he was in emergency surgery it would be unclear if the senator would even survive the ordeal, though after 18 hours of surgery he would be in critical condition and not out of the woods as he was in a medically induced coma and was needing many more surgeries before they could declare that E.S was out of critical condition.
