At first the riots were sporadic. And they were all over the country, not Just
in Jack’s state. This was the beauty of social media. Everyone that was
connecting was staying ahead in information. They were ahead of the media and
ahead of the government.
And Bill who picked up on Jack’s fake social media page and
put out the social media post that started it all was fast becoming a central
repository of information and well….. guidance. Bill was an opportunist and
created and worked regularly on his social media network. Bill realized how
fast events were happening and decided to jump into the fray. He had people
send information of what was happening in their state or city directly to him
and people did. He would then use that information to direct activities back at
the original post and elsewhere.
The first riots were directed mainly at regional lottery
offices and since it was night no one was getting hurt. The police were called
to dispel the riots, but the people moved on quickly. A few store fronts and
cars were getting ransacked and unfortunately some general looting began. Yet
for some reason, not much. People were angry and they wanted real targets. Around
4 or 5 in the morning, Bill was working frantically sending out posts to go to
the State Capitols and protest there. Fortunately for small businesses and the
public the rioters picked up on this right away. People in the Capitol cities
moved right away to the Capitol and legislative office buildings and so within
a few hours there were large crowds gathering around. People from other parts
of the States also decided to go to the Capitol cities. So by late afternoon
there were tens of thousands of people at every State Capitol across the
country.
Governors were frantically calling police, state police,
asking for the National Guard’s help, and any resource they could find to
protect the buildings. The Governors were calling Press Conferences asking for
calm. Bill was way ahead of anything the State governments could do or any
information from the media asking for calm. People have smart phones and
everyone was sharing information with each other, not knowing Bill was trying
to run the show. And at this point Bill had no idea what he wanted to do, he
just knew there was opportunities in this mess and he wanted to be a part of it
all.
Bill kept improvising. He was sending out information on
where to gather using popular internet map and street view resources. He was
receiving feedback from the people on the street posting in general, some
people responding to him letting him know what was going on, and the media was
also showing video and pictures. Bill was going crazy trying to keep up. He
needed help. He managed to text some messages to his friends to come over,
bring computers, and hurry.
The police, state police, National Guard etc were coming out
and local officials were putting together staging areas a bit outside of the
Capitol building areas to plan on moving in to disperse the crowd once they got
all their resources together. The Governors were working with the Federal
government and other State governments to work out plans to coordinate their
response. They were smart enough to realize this was becoming organized fast.
They didn’t know how, but it was obvious it was going to take a strong
coordinated response.
This was a mistake. All the police etc… had time to talk
among themselves. So while the State officials were planning; the actual boots
on the ground were having their own thoughts. At this point it was late evening
and the State officials thought maybe they could wait out the night hoping many
would disperse and then rush any remaining protestors in a dawn raid. And
waiting till dawn would give them time to prepare speeches for the media,
figure where to put everyone that was arrested, and mainly the logistics of the
actual push to clean the cities of the people.
Bill’s friends started arriving around the same time the
State officials went into planning mode. So while they were planning Bill was
directing action. Still without a purpose, but action. He was also watching the media and when he noticed
that most State governments had not responded yet he decided around ten to send
out messages to everyone to attack the Capitol buildings at midnight. He hoped
the ensuing chaos would buy him time to figure out a true next step. Why he
wanted a next step he still hadn’t figured out yet, but his brain was racing,
things were happening and he was definitely in the middle of it all. At this
time adrenaline had taken over rational thought for him; there was no reasoning
just opportunity which he felt throughout every cell in his body.
At midnight the attacks began.
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