Law and Order

by on September 7, 2020 at 12:01 am
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Our society is built on the idea of Law and Order. There are laws written to promote the public order, and those who violate them will be punished if found guilty. No matter who they are. Rich or poor. This system was built in answer to an abuse of Law and Order by the British, and is the foundation of the society we have built in America.

And yet some of our citizens protest now, saying that the system oppresses them rather than protects them. They point to alarming examples of abuse where they live, and demand change. And the vast majority of Americans agree with them. Such examples of abuse should be punished to reduce the chances that such abuses become acceptable and commonplace.

We do not want to see people getting killed in the street. Or people’s houses broken into without warning and their residents killed. We all agree that this is bad and that reforms must take place. For the good of all Americans. Because one of us oppressed is all of us oppressed.

That is why Law and Order works. If we all accept the law, and we all accept the consequences of breaking the law, then order for everyone is achieved. A civil society is achieved. A society where we all have a chance to succeed on our own merits. Our own plans. Our own initiative. Without someone else taking it from us.

The key here is to reform those areas where these abuses take place so they can rise to the level of those parts of America where they don’t take place. A rising tide raises all ships after all. I do not wish to see all of America sink to the level of these areas. I like living in a place where such abuse is rare and not tolerated. Where Law and Order is enshrined and accepted. I want all of us to live in such an America. I fervently hope we can make the needed reforms, in the places most in need of such reforms, to make certain the American Dream is extended to all of our people.

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The Convention of States

by on September 6, 2020 at 12:01 am
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The old President did not accept his Impeachment at the hands of the Convention of States. He stepped out of Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews and ordered the military to close down the temporary offices for the new Congress at Camp David. The new President responded by stepping out of the White House and noting that it is an American tradition that the military stay non-partisan and not engage in political conflict. He uttered an order to follow this tradition for those willing to listen to him, but said that he understood the sense of duty that may require some to follow the orders of the previous President. The vast majority followed his order, though some attempted to heed the other orders, most from the various bases near Washington D.C.. The Marine Corps had to deal with nightly infiltration attempts at both the White House and Camp David, and both resembled war zones for months as the Washington Resistance used every weapon at their disposal in an attempt to drive the new government out of the district. Both perimeters held, but the rioters burned every building around them to the ground and scorched the very landscape down to bare earth.

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The Convention of States

by on September 5, 2020 at 12:01 am
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When the Convention of States Impeached the President and Congress, and brought a new Senate and President into the mix, the old President and Congress did not cooperate. And the majority of the Federal government employees working in Washington D.C. stood against them, to the point that the Capitol Police promised to resist any attempt to remove the old Congress from their offices. So the new President had the military engineers build temporary offices for the Congress at Camp David. He refused to give the media video of armed Federal officers removing the old Congress at gunpoint. Street fights with the Capitol Police would have been even worse. So he waited until the dark of night to send armed Federal officers to secure the IRS and other agencies that controlled or distributed Federal money. When the world woke up to what he had done, it was all completed. He had control of the money spigot, and “defund the crooks” had a nice ring to it in the press conference. Even if the media and old government accused him of treason and performing a coup against their “honest government.”

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The Convention of States

by on September 4, 2020 at 12:01 am
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The various departments and agencies of the Federal government split between following the orders of the Convention of States and the old President and Congress. Many government employees were truly conflicted in their loyalties. Others were clear on where they stood. The confusion and chaos threatened to push America deeper into a civil war there would be no coming back from. But an interesting trend developed. While the softer social agencies proved nearly unanimous in their support of the old President, the law enforcement and military departments accepted the new President in greater numbers. Washington D.C. housed the greatest number of individuals loyal to the old President and proved to be the hardest nut for the new President and Senate to crack. The old Congress refused to leave, the Capitol Police defended them, and protesters and rioters surrounded the White House security zone. The new President eventually moved his administration to Camp David due to security concerns, where he put the military engineers to work on the next step of his plan to keep things from deteriorating further.

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The Convention of States

by on September 3, 2020 at 12:01 am
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The Convention of States Impeached the President of the United States and helped select a new President to replace him. The current President refused to leave the White House, so the Commandant of the Marine Corps called the Director of the Secret Service to the discuss the matter. That call resulted in a quick and non-violent transfer of the current President out of the White House by his own guards. He did not even realize what was happening until it was all over and the new President was sitting in his chair. The Commandant also called the Capitol Police Chief when the Impeached Senators and Representatives declined to leave their offices. The Capitol Police Chief was less cooperative than the Secret Service. He refused to accept that the Convention of States or its rulings had any legitimacy and promised his department would resist any attempt to enforce them. Not all of them did, in fact, follow his orders, but most did. And that trend crossed all major departments and agencies of the Federal government. Some department or agency heads followed the old President and Congress, while others accepted the new government, and most of their people followed the leaders. It became a most confusing situation for a time.

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