(Downtown–Wednesday 11:30 p.m. Dallas, Texas)

“Look at those clouds moving our way. Looks like some big storm’s a coming.” Texas Titus County Sheriff looked up as the dark swollen clouds shrouded the stars from sight.

“Pray for rain–it’s the only thing that will clear this crowd.” the Sheriff predicted to his assistant. (Thunder crackles, as if on cue.)

Every single police officer, meter maid, parking and security civilian with an uniform, had been called to help the police. Many of the cops had been dealing with aggressive angry men with alcohol to sustain their fury, since about noon. The National Guard had already been sent to Houston, Austin, and a dozen small districts who had no police at all. If you are old enough to remember the Detroit riots. (I was just a kid waiting and praying that my dad would come home from the farmers market that day.) It was twice as bad as that. 

One of the Supreme Court judges’ vacation homes was sacked, pilfered, then burned to the ground. Washington, D.C. streets were crowded with marchers determined to do something, not yet sure what that would be exactly, to be enough to compensate for taking away their (men’s) freedom and their (men’s) rights of privacy. “How dare you treat us as women.” 

Since the Supreme Court’s ruling announced the Personhood Bill of Rights on Wednesday morning, the number of firearms sales nearly doubled that day. There were no clear methods to measure the number of illegitimate weapons that were sold.

Unfortunately, murder statistics tripled in the days after the SCOTUS announcement. Pregnant women were often shot and killed, strangled, poisoned. The police were so busy trying to contain angry protestors from destroying downtowns that all detectives were told to wear their uniforms and help weary officers on the street. Police were focused on controlling an uncontrollable anger that fragmented the civility of fellow citizens and tore apart the Nation.

The number of missing persons reported, mostly single pregnant women, continued to climb in every State in the following days. It was feared that these young women were disposed of with unborn persons, maybe, once still alive inside their corpses. Rarely were their corpses ever found. People became wary of any stranger that approached their door. Were they neighbors, or bounty hunters, who came armed to collect your DNA by permission of their State’s bounty laws?

When a stranger comes to your door with a gun, you better be ready with a bigger gun of your own. Men didn’t always behave as you wish fathers might. 

Another alarming statistic was the growing numbers of suicides, both men and women. Some women simply couldn’t take the stress of birthing another child in the world. Some deaths were staged to appear as accidents. Perhaps some of the women were in such abhorrent situations, forced into prostitution to survive, or in an abusive relationship that bringing a child into their world was worse than death.

After the SCOTUS’ ruling, there was a rush of activity on both borders. Men who knew they faced claims for years of unpaid child support decided to pack for a long vacation and leave the Country. Within two days of SCOTUS’ announcement, there were more men leaving the United States than immigrants coming in.

By Wednesday evening, Trump shut both borders down. The secrets of a generation of men were exposed and men were running away any way they could. DNA was uncovering the truth. No one was allowed to leave the States without providing the border guard evidence that their DNA was already part of your national passport. The same laws applied to anyone coming into the States.

On the third day after the SCOTUS announcement, there was no semblance of law and order in the Country once built on a foundation of rule of law. Drive-by shootings were becoming a daily occurrence in every State. Any man who tried to escape “person” support would have their DNA harvested at the border and they were not allowed to apply for out of country business passports until they were investigated by the Department of Personhood. Confiscated DNA would be used to search the DNA banks for other persons related to him to help locate their runaway kin.

Throughout the Country wives and girlfriends were suddenly confronted with their husband’s or boyfriend’s other children now part of their household budget. A large group of men were forced to sell their homes, cars, and other property to apply payment on a backlog of child support owed. If their unpaid balance was more than $10,000, the men would have to work weekends in a working prison. All income from this mandatory compliance of weekend prison work was distributed to his child–the person.

The protesters set up tents in one lane of traffic on every block around the Capitol Building Wednesday evening. Marchers created a never ending parade. First around the White House, then the parade traveled around the Federal Courthouse, past the Capitol building and back to the Whitehouse again.

Trump watched from the TV room where a dozen screens showed what was happening on the streets in major cities around the United States. For some time now, his staff had been directed by Chief of Staff Don Jr., only to provide information to the President that was positive news, even if they had to make it up. Some of the younger speech writers were asked by White House staff to write some happy stories. In Trump’s mind, the Nation was running smoothly. The riots were not riots, but vacationers who wanted to be close to the President, but couldn’t afford a room so they pitched their tents.