Jack of Harts

The Freemon Family attorney was arrested for violating a gag order concerning the arrest and detention of former Vice President Freemon, his children, and his wife who had most assuredly not gone missing while in Federal custody. The Virginia Bar revoked her license to practice law. The attorneys named in her paperwork to represent her in case of her arrest all declined to represent her. The judge assigned her a public defender rather than allow her to represent herself. The public defender accepted a plea bargain in her name. When the former attorney tried to protest, the judged ruled her in contempt of court. When she continued to protest, she was deemed mentally unbalanced and sent to a mental health facility to see to her future health. It was a dangerous time to have any link with a family charged with sedition against the Federal government.

The search for the former Vice President’s wife started a firestorm of media interest on some networks. It was dismissed as obvious fake news by other networks, and numerous networks that covered it found themselves entirely shut down by an alliance of other networks. Those networks that survived invariably had one hundred percent control of their own servers and network access. Some broadcasted from outside the United States entirely. Some networks blocked anyone from accessing them, and virtual private networks were the only way many people could access that news at all. It was a difficult time to broadcast news that the new administration did not approve.

Some thought the Second Great Depression was the end of America as we knew it. Others believed it was time to start a new golden age of America. They were all right in the end, though none exactly in the way they feared or hoped. There were many times when history proved to be in the balance. Times when the wrong thing done by the wrong person could have derailed everything we know happened. One of those times was when confidential sources began to spread the word that Ruby Freemon had died in Federal custody during an extended interrogation session. The Federal government denied the reports that former Vice President John Jefferson Freemon’s wife was dead, but they also refused all “proof of life” requests from the Freemon Family lawyer. That did not go over well with the political opposition.