Dateline London, UK: Flash! Parliament has repealed the Magna Carta–the 800-year-old document that limited the power of the government and solidified the civil rights of every free-born Englishman.
“We were only going to repeal that stuff about free speech,” said a member of Parliament who does not wish to be identified, “but once we got going, we couldn’t resist the repealing of the whole thing.”
Minister of Education Ali Wali Shabong: “People were using ‘free speech’ as a way to say bad things about our education system. It simply must not be allowed!”
“If they ever tried to push a Magna Carta in my home country, we would hang them from the lamp-posts” –Muboola Koolah, M.P.
“The Magna-Whatsit is a relic of the past,” said Minister of Truth Alfie Pong. “We must get rid of all traces of the past, and look to a future of enlightened supervision of the lives of ordinary common people.”
“Amen to that!” said an unidentified member of the royal family.
Next: Parliament approves funds to build re-education camps.
It’s hard to write satire these days, when reality is so beyond the pale.
I once wrote a satire on the “NUT Bible”–“New Utopian Translation. It was pretty outrageous. A pastor out in Washington saw it and was moved to give a sermon denouncing it. Given the audience reaction (incredulity), he contacted Chalcedon. They gave him my phone number and he called me. As I was explaining that the whole NUT Bible thing was a satire, he suddenly said, “What have I done?” The poor guy: he blamed himself for not realizing it was satire–although I was sure I’d laid it on pretty thick.
The problem with satire these days is that it’s hard to make up something more outrageous than what is actually happening.
Where the Sprit of God is, there is freedom. Amazingly, many people actually seem to despise freedom, apparently not realizing that should their efforts succeed, the freedom they enjoy will be gone as well.
I once worked in an environment where jobs were very tightly defined, and every move a person made with subject to challenge. if you got even slightly out of your lane, so to speak there, was somebody right there to call you out on it, even if your actions were for the better and greater good. Freedom, in the final analysis, is what is required in order for good things to happen. yes, indeed, we can regulate down to the most minute of actions, but doing so rarely serves to improve matters.
The freedoms of western civilization were a gift to really the whole world. Many places benefited as a result, even if they did not fully implement forms of government which supported human rights and freedom. I had an uncle who had been a soldier in World War II. Whenever he said grace over a meal, he thank God that we lived in the USA. As a youngster, I found this mildly amusing, but as an adult, I find it brilliant. The USA is not perfect, but it’s a lot better than living under an authoritarian government. The civics classes, where I rolled, my eyes were actually quite vital to my education, and I thank those people who saw to it that I learned about civil liberty, whether I appreciated it at the time or not.
Meanwhile, Democrats are doing everything they can think of to subject us to an authoritarian government.
They want nothing to do with God, or those whom choose to worship Him.