A PARABLE OF LIBERTY LOST AND FOUND — Part 9 of 10: Resistance and Renewal

An upsurge of resistance to Bull’s authoritarian policies and personality, finally even among core supporters, helps the opposition party in bi-elections win a slim majority to control both houses of congress. Multi-prong investigations of the Bull presidency proceed. Criminal prosecutions are pending. Articles of impeachment advance in congress.

Bull is desperate and dangerously erratic. One of the president’s men, acting on conscience, leaks to the press a secret memo summarizing the covert operation to bomb the Unity Tree and blame the nature nuts, all a ploy to control state security.

Noisy public outcry! Hundreds and then thousands of peaceful people gather around the Unity Tree in a safety circle. “Occupy Tree Week” stretches into months, inspiring encampments in all the districts. “Occupiers” visit every congressman and senator to demand the immediate impeachment of President Bull.

At hearings in the lower house, a lowly data clerk admits to keeping copies of memos and recordings. Evidence proves Bull and his aides, plus the vice president, conspired with a northern district crime boss to bomb the Unity Tree. The parties then obstructed justice to hide the plot. High crimes and misdemeanors!

The house impeaches President Bull. The senate convicts him, a foregone conclusion. He’s removed from office, tried for treason, found guilty by a jury. The vice president falls next. Marshals haul them to jail…