Potus extends State of Emergency for 1 full year

[ClaytonB]

The people don't need a piece of paper in order to allow it.
The piece of paper helps if they want to not allow it.

One day, a king traveled to the next-door domain of a dragon that had terrorized his people since time-immemorial. The king spoke, "Hello there, great dragon! I have come to sue for a peace treaty! You are too powerful and so nobody wants to have anything to do with you. People flee at the slightest hint that you may be approaching. I happen to know that you are actually quite lonely, and you secretly long to have companionship with some of the intelligent minds, like yourself, that dwell in my kingdom. So, let us make a treaty by which you will agree to refrain from certain activities that terrorize my citizens and, in return, they will become more trusting and open towards you, and willing to dialogue with you, as you secretly wish to do."

At this, the dragon was quite intrigued. "What shall be the terms of thy treaty?" he asked. So, the king presented the treaty that had been drafted by his wisest barristers. "Here is the treaty, please read it and, if you agree, simply make your claw mark at the bottom of it." The dragon examined the treaty. He withdrew to his cave in silence. The king and his nobles were nervous, fearing that they might have angered the dragon. After some time, the dragon re-emerged. "I find thy terms acceptable. I shall refrain from dive-bombing people in the open field, from blazing the villages, and from the other sorts of terrorizing activities that are listed in this treaty. Then, we shall be able to dwell together in peace."

As time went on, the dragon began to go back to all his old, terrorizing ways. The king sent delegation after delegation to the dragon notifying him of his breaches of the treaty and begging him to return to the agreement. Of course, after the dragon reneged on its agreement, no one in the kingdom trusted the dragon or wanted to have anything to do with him, and he remained as lonely as he had always been. Nevertheless, the king sent delegations because it is better to have peace than to have war. But the dragon either spat fire at his delegates or, if he was in a particularly accommodating mood, he would accuse them back. "Thou said that the people would not flee when I approach, and that I would be able to speak with the most intelligent minds in thy kingdom. It is not I who have violated the treaty, but you! Also, half of the village on the south-end was burnt down after a lightning-strike and that is a clear violation of the agreement not to torch villages!" The delegates were flabbergasted. "Sir, you are unreasonable", they said, "that was an act of God and, even if it had not been, the agreement against blazing the villages is a limit upon your power, not upon ours!" The dragon snorted a huge cloud of smoke until the delegation was reduced to an uncontrollable fit of coughing and was forced to retire from the dragon's presence.

Working title... "An allegory regarding the ineffectiveness of the US Constitution in restraining the Leviathan of omnipotent government"...

 

[Swordsmyth]

One day, a king traveled to the next-door domain of a dragon that had terrorized his people since time-immemorial. The king spoke, "Hello there, great dragon! I have come to sue for a peace treaty! You are too powerful and so nobody wants to have anything to do with you. People flee at the slightest hint that you may be approaching. I happen to know that you are actually quite lonely, and you secretly long to have companionship with some of the intelligent minds, like yourself, that dwell in my kingdom. So, let us make a treaty by which you will agree to refrain from certain activities that terrorize my citizens and, in return, they will become more trusting and open towards you, and willing to dialogue with you, as you secretly wish to do."

At this, the dragon was quite intrigued. "What shall be the terms of thy treaty?" he asked. So, the king presented the treaty that had been drafted by his wisest barristers. "Here is the treaty, please read it and, if you agree, simply make your claw mark at the bottom of it." The dragon examined the treaty. He withdrew to his cave in silence. The king and his nobles were nervous, fearing that they might have angered the dragon. After some time, the dragon re-emerged. "I find thy terms acceptable. I shall refrain from dive-bombing people in the open field, from blazing the villages, and from the other sorts of terrorizing activities that are listed in this treaty. Then, we shall be able to dwell together in peace."

As time went on, the dragon began to go back to all his old, terrorizing ways. The king sent delegation after delegation to the dragon notifying him of his breaches of the treaty and begging him to return to the agreement. Of course, after the dragon reneged on its agreement, no one in the kingdom trusted the dragon or wanted to have anything to do with him, and he remained as lonely as he had always been. Nevertheless, the king sent delegations because it is better to have peace than to have war. But the dragon either spat fire at his delegates or, if he was in a particularly accommodating mood, he would accuse them back. "Thou said that the people would not flee when I approach, and that I would be able to speak with the most intelligent minds in thy kingdom. It is not I who have violated the treaty, but you! Also, half of the village on the south-end was burnt down after a lightning-strike and that is a clear violation of the agreement not to torch villages!" The delegates were flabbergasted. "Sir, you are unreasonable", they said, "that was an act of God and, even if it had not been, the agreement against blazing the villages is a limit upon your power, not upon ours!" The dragon snorted a huge cloud of smoke until the delegation was reduced to an uncontrollable fit of coughing and was forced to retire from the dragon's presence.

Working title... "An allegory regarding the ineffectiveness of the US Constitution in restraining the Leviathan of omnipotent government"...

What was lacking in both cases was the will to enforce it, or the power depending on the power balance at any given time.
The paper made nothing worse, it could have helped.

 

[ClaytonB]

What was lacking in both cases was the will to enforce it, or the power depending on the power balance at any given time.
The paper made nothing worse, it could have helped.

Agreed. The title isn't meant to say the Constitution can't work, only that it clearly hasn't worked. I don't think it's possible to establish a more perfect order until Jesus gets back, so if the Constitution hasn't worked, the fault is us. We refuse to simply chain the dragon. We have the power, we just don't want to do it because we still want to worship it. Humanity has worshiped power and violence from the dawn of history. The Leviathan State exists not because "it's inevitable", as often claimed, but because practically everyone around the globe, except for true believers in Jesus (and sadly, even some of them) worship the Leviathan as the ultimate sustaining principle of all being and existence. Marxism is the ultimate form of this. They literally believe that social order comes out of the barrel of a gun. If you believe that, you are psychotic, and you have the morality of a pirate. You are an idolator, you worship blade and cannon, and you believe that the world is an inescapable story of never-ending bloodshed (aka hell). You believe you are an animal, and that human society is just "Nature red in tooth and claw" with extra steps. You need to repent and get saved, because the reality is that the Cosmos is much more extreme than "Nature red in tooth and claw", as terrifying as that is, and the eternal judgment is coming for you. Fire is coming...

 

[Swordsmyth]

Agreed. The title isn't meant to say the Constitution can't work, only that it clearly hasn't worked. I don't think it's possible to establish a more perfect order until Jesus gets back, so if the Constitution hasn't worked, the fault is us. We refuse to simply chain the dragon. We have the power, we just don't want to do it because we still want to worship it. Humanity has worshiped power and violence from the dawn of history. The Leviathan State exists not because "it's inevitable", as often claimed, but because practically everyone around the globe, except for true believers in Jesus (and sadly, even some of them) worship the Leviathan as the ultimate sustaining principle of all being and existence. Marxism is the ultimate form of this. They literally believe that social order comes out of the barrel of a gun. If you believe that, you are psychotic, and you have the morality of a pirate. You are an idolator, you worship blade and cannon, and you believe that the world is an inescapable story of never-ending bloodshed (aka hell). You believe you are an animal, and that human society is just "Nature red in tooth and claw" with extra steps. You need to repent and get saved, because the reality is that the Cosmos is much more extreme than "Nature red in tooth and claw", as terrifying as that is, and the eternal judgment is coming for you. Fire is coming...

Unfortunately, we have always with us the psychopaths and pirates along with the poor, until Kingdom Come.
Because of the psychopaths and pirates the state is inevitable in some form, but the leviathan state is not if we maintain the balance of power between the people and the rulers, the psychopaths, and the pirates.
Social order comes out of the barrel of the people's guns until the wolves and goats are separated from the sheep and sheedogs.

 

[ClaytonB]

Unfortunately, we have always with us the psychopaths and pirates along with the poor, until Kingdom Come.
Because of the psychopaths and pirates the state is inevitable in some form, but the leviathan state is not if we maintain the balance of power between the people and the rulers, the psychopaths, and the pirates.
Social order comes out of the barrel of the people's guns until the wolves and goats are separated from the sheep and sheedogs.

Agreed with the caveat that The People must listen to The Shepherd's voice in order for this to actually work. Otherwise, you just get French Revolution 2.0...

 

[Snowball]

Agreed with the caveat that The People must listen to The Shepherd's voice in order for this to actually work. Otherwise, you just get French Revolution 2.0...

Long Live the King