Jack of Harts

The mayor of Dallas did not accept Fort Worth Joint Reserve Base’s defiance of her lawful orders to arrest their Marine. He had murdered an entire group of peaceful protesters in cold blood, and the “security footage” the base had obviously cooked up and released was just to make the victims look like they deserved it. So the mayor denounced it as exactly that on live broadcast. The United States Marines had been murdering black and brown and yellow and red people for centuries. And Lieutenant Jacob Carter was the perfect example of that. Northern Minnesota pale skin. Bright blond hair. Shining blue eyes. Movie star square jaw. Wielder of the deeply problematic title, Cowboy. He was the very embodiment of white privilege, and it was time the people rose up and told them that their wanton campaign of terror and murder was over. The mayor of Dallas called and the protesters came. They screamed and spat, they threw bottles and rocks, and they showed everyone on all of the networks that the United States military was not welcome in their town. And when night fell, the gangs and the drug cartels and the anarchists came to burn everything down. But the defenders of Fort Worth Joint Reserve Base did not answer to the mayor of Dallas. They were ready when the looters and rioters came.