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.