And this time the people let loose with real fury. State
Capitols and legislative office buildings were attacked and ransacked. At first
the people ran through the buildings tearing up offices; throwing computers and
other office equipment out windows; furniture became piled up in the halls; and
somewhere between one and two in the morning the fires started. Once the fires
started people came back into the streets to view their handiwork. And no one
had any regrets.
State and Federal officials were completely caught off guard
by the carnage. They had no idea how mad the people had become and when it all
boiled over in one large volcanic explosion throughout the country they were
left dumbfounded for the first hour or so. Finally, the orders started going
out to send in the police and national guard units. Commanders were quickly
trying to put together a counter offensive plan to at least push the people out
of the Capitol buildings and surrounding areas. The attack had happened so fast
the plans the officials had drawn up for a dawn push were completely useless.
There was mayhem and no real way to control except to just move the people out
of the area.
Bill had been working hard throughout the night. His posts
ranged from trying to coordinate all the State Capitols being attacked at the
same time to sending out rationales for why everyone was so mad. This was the
easy part. After years of dwindling wages, general decline in what used to be a
middle class, and just the overall frustration of watching your life and your
children’s futures disappear because of the greed and abuse of power of
everyone from local to federal government and the multinational corporations
who really ran the country now. People did not need rationale. They had it in
spades. Yet Bill was sending out the
thoughts which anyone not involved in the rioting now were coming out to prepare
for the aftermath Bill was predicting was going to happen.
One thing Bill did not count on was even the local police
and national guard waiting on orders to break up the riots were sitting around
reading social media. Interesting to note the boots on the ground had a better
idea of what was happening than the officials and leaders scrambling to figure
out what was happening. And all the local police and national guard’s troops
had something in common with the rioters. They were in the same shape as the populace.
The corruption at top had become so bad they had no idea how the anger people
felt. They had spent years ignoring the cries for help and for better
governance. Now they were in utter shock as first the State Capitols and office
buildings started to burn. And if they were completely caught off guard by 3am
of what was happening, well you can imagine how blatantly stupid they were to
what was about to happen next.
Around 3am the commanders and officials had pieced together
some semblance of a plan in various capitols to try and use tear gas etc to
push the rioters completely out of town. Each Capitol city was dissected to see
what was the best route to use, what streets may need to be hastily blocked off
to corral everyone down the route they wanted. Oh such a waste of time.
If any one of the State or Federal officials or even
Commanders had just once read social media that night, they might have had a
better idea where to begin. Yet when one is ignorant one tends to remain
ignorant. The soldiers were very aware
and had been sharing throughout the night.
Once the orders starting coming out the soldiers moved to
their assigned locations and began the push to the Capitol areas. At first
there was a brief very tense moment when soldiers came upon the rioters and
since the plan called for a direct move into the rioting area the soldiers and
rioters came face to face.
It is funny how at some points in time people can act simultaneously
without actually having planned anything. Something just happens, there is no
explanation and this night no one ever understood why in fifty state capitols
filled with high emotions, burning buildings, anger, angst, armed people,
people giving orders, that the exact same thing happened. In all the Capitols the
soldiers and police joined the rioters. And since everyone had been reading Bill
except the officials; the officials had no idea that they were the next target.
Bill had sent out posts that now it was time to arrest the leadership of the various
states; burn down the corporate offices of multinational corporations and
arrest the company executives, with a list of targets; and arrest the Federal
leadership of our country. And by noon the following day the regular army etc
was on the side of the rioters.
No one really wanted what was happening, not even this
author, but sooner or later nature creates equilibrium.
And all this because Jack just wanted to cash his damn lottery ticket
and try to get his life on track.
To be continued…….
And my working title for now is “That damn lottery ticket”
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