Jack of Harts

The firefight between the Texas State Guard and “certain undisclosed elements of the United States Armed Forces” in Dallas, Texas resulted in the outgoing governor of Texas ordering the Texas State Guard to lockdown all Federal Department of Justice facilities in Texas. Their tanks soon rolled up to the facilities in question, their commanders popped the hatches to wave in a friendly manner, and the Feds on the inside proved to be most expeditious in their willingness to avoid any further firefights. The new President was not so quick to decide that he did not wish to mess with Texas. He ordered the Army and Marine units based in Texas to deal with the situation. Again. They failed to receive his orders due to a communications error. Again. The President persisted sending his orders, with ever more explicit demands pertaining to what exactly they were supposed to do to the previous President (Impeached) and his allies, until someone leaked the orders to the media. At which point, the commander of Fort Hood was quick to announce at a news conference that military intelligence was looking into whoever had fabricated those obviously false orders meant to defame the President. It was unconstitutional for the military to deploy against American citizens, after all.

The firefight between the Texas State Guard and “certain undisclosed elements of the United States Armed Forces” in Dallas, Texas had many consequences over the next few weeks. The Lame Duck Senate joined the House and the President in condemning Texas and passed multiple bills singling out Texas politicians and military officers for removal from office or command positions. The Department of Justice sued numerous Texans for everything from kidnapping to murder of federal agents, and the outgoing Governor and many others faced charges of treason. Texas responded by charging every FBI agent they had captured with attempted kidnapping, with intent to transport across State lines, a felony offense. Counter lawsuits from all sides quickly reached the Stuffed Supreme Court filled with new Presidential picks, which ruled in favor of Federal actions and lawsuits while striking down those coming from Texas. The Supreme Court justices who had served with the previous President disagreed with those decisions, and wrote a powerful Last Dissent against the prevailing decision. It is required reading in American civics classes to this day, alongside the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights, and the Gettysburg Address.

The firefight between the Texas State Guard and “certain undisclosed elements of the United States Armed Forces” in Dallas, Texas is one of the reasons many people in Texas still call the Second Great Depression the Second Civil War. They came under Presidential order to free the FBI agents arrested while attempting to arrest the previous President’s Chief of Staff, who was also the incoming Attorney General of Texas. It was a monumental showdown between the authority of the Federal government and the willingness of the States to accept it. But in the eyes of Texas and many other States, the new President had lost any morale authority when he Impeached the previous President and the Vice-President so he could take the reigns of power. And then went on to conduct outright voter fraud to maintain his position. The fact that the previous President was both a past and the incoming governor of Texas was the proverbial icing on the cake. The firefight began with a single warning shot across the bow of the lead incoming black helicopter. The helicopters returned fire with all weapons. It ended ninety seconds later with thirty dead and one hundred wounded Texas State Guard soldiers, and six flaming wrecks that had been helicopters belonging to the United States of America. There were no survivors.