After over a year of going through eviction chaos, finally getting a final eviction order on March 10, and then having Stay At Home orders end all servicing of evictions for months, finally I have my house back. I am in possession of it. Along with all the trash, pet crap, and dead cats they left behind. And the floors that have had so much water flowing over and through them that they are a spongy to walk on. I am the proud owner of all I survey…
The New Federal government the Convention of States formed possessed one major advantage over the old government. The new administration used Federal law enforcement to secure the IRS and the other agencies that controlled the vast spigot of Federal funds. Money is one of the most powerful incentives in existence, and the new President controlled the largest single income stream of the era. He did work to dismantle much of it during his term in office, even more than what was no longer Constitutional after the Convention, but even a diminished IRS had vast resources under its control. The new administration controlled the purse strings of the Federal government, not the old one, and that gave the new President a tremendous advantage. He used that advantage in ways that many historians characterize as ruthless. In the end, the new Federal government he formed was the one that survived, so I consider his tactics to be effective.
The old Federal government continued to operate out of Washington D.C. after the Convention of States Impeached and replaced them. Some parts of America followed its direction in the months and years that followed that. They declared themselves the last legitimately-elected government, and granted themselves their offices until they could run new Federally-controlled elections. Which they only managed to run in the District of Columbia and a few other districts that supported them. They met for years in the old positions of power built by America, until worsening economic conditions in the District of Columbia forced the city to evict them in order to receive American aid. Most accepted that final defeat of their movement, but a few declared themselves the United States in Exile and continued to meet in undisclosed locations. Some reflection of that old government still operates today if the rumors are true, planning for the day when they can finally return and recreate America in their image.
I Remember coming home from work to see one tower burning.
I Remember watching a plane fly into the second tower, live on television.
I Remember the realization that we were under attack.
I Remember watching people jump out of the buildings rather than burn.
I Remember the crowds of cheering people in the West Bank.
I Remember watching the towers fall with first responders still inside.
I Remember all of these things, and I will Never Forget.
And for my own little personal, very much not life or death, bit of 9-11 Memories…
I Remember going to talk to my online friends about everything that was going on that day. These were people I talked to every day about anything and everything. They were my friends. And I had long been one of the admins at that family of websites. I built P.R.I. to be part of that family, and I put a lot of work and time into making those places good places for people to go and talk about one of our favorite games. Only on that day, I found that the other admins had locked my admin account out because they didn’t want me to say anything on THEIR website. And for good measure, they closed the forum down because they didn’t want anybody ELSE talking about it either. In one move, the other admins made it impossible for everybody who came to that family of websites to mourn and grieve together, online, with their online friends. Such things are minor when it comes to a day like this. But they are also something I will Never Forget.
The old Federal government did not accept being Impeached by the Convention of States and continued to meet as before. The old House passed bills in their chambers. The old Senate approved them in their chambers. The old President signed them aboard Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews, and the remains of the old Supreme Court passed down their rulings as before. They declared the Convention of States and all of its works unconstitutional and ordered that America ignore them. It was an audacious plan. Continue to meet as normal and demand everybody act as if they were still the official government. It could have worked, but they lacked the funding to support it, and relatively few parts of American actually followed their directives as time went on.
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