Dreams of the Son, Chapter 2

Self ^ | 4/9/202 | Self

[Blood of Tyrants]

When California seceded, Washington, Oregon, and New York quickly followed declaring that their new union to be called the Peoples’ Republic of America. The New England states, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Illinois, and Pennsylvania followed suit to join the PRA, as did Maryland, New Jersey, Delaware, Hawaii, New Mexico, and Colorado. Parts of California split, denounced the secession; forming a new state called Jefferson and applied for statehood in the old USA. Eastern Washington and most of Oregon also left the PRA. The rural parts of Minnesota, Illinois, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania divorced themselves from the left wing lunacy of Minneapolis, Chicago, Miswaulee, and Philadelphia.

The remaining US states called for a Convention of States and made several very important changes to the Constitution. Among them was a repeal of the 16^th and 17^th Amendments, dissolving the income tax and returning selection of senators to the state legislatures. Term limits for representatives and senators were enacted and states gave themselves the ability to overrule a Supreme Court decision and federal laws. Included in the new amendments was the elimination of government regulations imposed by federal agencies, specifically prohibiting Congress from creating agencies, bureaus, departments, etc, with the power to create rules with the weight of law. Also, there was a clarification of the “health and welfare clause” that prohibited giving public assistance to able-bodied and able minded people except on a short term basis. Along with these changes was a narrowing of the “interstate commerce clause”, which had long been used as an excuse for thousands of federal regulations and laws. Current regulations were required to sunset five years unless Congress specifically renewed them.

The 2^nd Amendment was changed to read, “Every free person, being a necessary member of the militia, shall not be prohibited from the right to keep and bear arms suitable for use in the militia”.

A form of Social Security was kept but was ended for persons under 50 with whatever they had contributed going to an IRA. Everyone older than 50 was given the options of a payout to an IRA or keeping their existing benefits.

Once the movement to deport illegal aliens from the United States began, the PRA immediately increased their ongoing cries of racism. The United States, or the Free States, as they preferred to be called, offered to send them to the PRA, who refused the offer.

But most important was the Life Amendment which stated that unborn children were legal persons and had full protection under the Constitution. The sole exception for abortion was if the mother’s life was at immediate risk because of the pregnancy.

Recognizing the problem of a declining birthrate in the West, the Free States offered incentives such as government subsidies for housing and education and food for families with four or more children.

On the other hand, the PRA went the opposite direction, forming was essentially a totalitarian socialist state. The first thing to go was the right to keep and bear arms. The few law-abiding gun owners in the PRA either turned their guns in, moved away, or hid them. Once the population was disarmed, all the other freedoms fell, too.

Anything determined to be “hate speech” was punishable by heavy fines and mandatory “re-education.” The government actively censored websites that were reported to be intolerant. Calling a person by something other than their “preferred pronoun” was considered a hate crime. Any church or private school that spoke out against homosexuality or taught any other politically incorrect topic was closed down. Virtually all Christian churches and schools were shut down. But for some reason the Muslim imams who preached against homosexuality were ignored.

The 4^th Amendment protections against unlawful search and seizure was eliminated and the state could inspect your home or business at any time for any reason. Illegal aliens were given instant citizenship and the right to vote. Many of the new uneducated and unskilled PRA citizens immediately applied for public assistance.

Free college education and free health care was guaranteed in the PRA as well as free money for anyone unable or unwilling to work. This caused resentment among the ones who did work and as a result production and quality plummeted. Recreational drugs were legalized n the PRA, which turned out to be a blessing to the Free States, drawing in drug addicts from all over the continent to the PRA and out of the Free States. Sadly, the right to abortion paid by the government up until birth was included in the guaranteed health care portion of their constitution. This quickly degenerated into infanticide of “undesirable” children born with birth defects and euthanizing the elderly with dementia or other incurable diseases.

Taxes went up to pay for all the “free stuff” causing businesses and the wealthy to flee. To make up for the revenue loss, taxes were raised even more which in turn caused more businesses and people to leave. Within three years inflation was in the triple digits. Laws were enacted to prevent people emigrating from the PRA from removing assets with them, but there were ways around that. Houses and bank accounts of emigrants became property of the state, as did anything of substantial value. Still, people were eager to abandon the PRA and their mortgages. Mortgage holders folded under the weight of defaulted loans; the now empty homes made into public housing for the instant citizens. Decent neighborhoods became third world almost overnight. The same people who had publicly opposed the wall at the Mexican border proceeded to build walls along the PRA’s borders, only this time the barbed wire and guns were facing inward.

The PRA became a cesspool of high unemployment and crime, higher taxes as the standard of living plummeted. Those left were idealists who believed that socialism could work if only the “right people” were in charge, the sick and dying, the elderly too set in their ways to move, the poor, and the stubborn. Rob had been one of the latter, refusing to admit he was witnessing the disintegration of a culture and a country.

[Blood of Tyrants]

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Chapter 1 is here: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3833610/posts