Sic Semper Tyrannis ! - Volume 42: The Decline and Fall of Child Protective Services

We all wondered, "Huh? Who's he talking to?" Then we heard a reply, in Arabic - and a moment later an image flashed on the screen. We all gasped - it was the world's most wanted man, Osama bin Laden! The press had been claiming that he was gravely ill, maybe injured, even dead. He looked healthy enough to all of us. But Chris knew what he wanted. Chris was already on his knees, perspiring and clutching the Testament. Anyhow, bin Laden began, "Master Chris." Chris bowed his head and replied, "Your Excellency." Bin Laden continued, in extremely polished Arabic. He was being extremely polite. In a moment we learned why. "I have heard that Allah has granted miracles through you. Some of my closest associates were in the cemetery in the holy city of Jerusalem, when you restored Master Hassan - to life. I myself was in the Sultan's palace when the Crown Prince was buried - so I cannot disbelieve that miracle." He paused, and Kareem spoke and said, "Your Excellency, you see that I am here, alive - Allah al Akbar!" Then bin Laden came to the point. "My twelve-year-old son, Osama, was this day gravely wounded in an air attack, and lies here at the point of death. I love him dearly - and have called to entreat you for him." Chris spoke, "Your Excellency - as Your Excellency is aware, I am a minister of religion. I entertain no political views. Your Excellency abhors the overwhelming secularism of Western society, as do I. Your Excellency has disregarded the luxuries of wealth, to serve the cause of God, as have my brothers and I. So we have some common bonds. "However, while I have no political views, I entertain strong religious beliefs. I will come and entreat Allah to heal your son - and Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful, will do so. "But I will offer my prayer in the name of Jesus Christ, Whom I will affirm to be my Savior, my only hope of heaven, and the Son of God - and if this is not acceptable to Your Excellency, then I must beg to be excused. I have performed every single miracle in that fashion, as Your Excellency is surely aware." Sic Semper Tyrannis is a memoir about a time, not so long past, when men were free, religious values were taken seriously. and parents were allowed to pass on the cultural heritage to their children without governmental interference. As David Selznick remarked concerning the Antebellum South, "Look for it only in books, for it is no more than a dream remembered, a Civilization gone with the wind . . . " This fictional account is the story of what might have been, had Christian parents possessed the courage of their convictions. It depicts the use of spanking and other types of physical correction, from the perspective of an adolescent boy. Twelve year old Billy Martin has been suddenly uprooted from the only home he knows, in liberal Stockholm, and sent to live with his eighteen year old brother, Bob, who has recently joined an ultra-conservative religious group in Idaho.Billy, a high-spirited youth, has been allowed to run at loose ends for his entire life, and has never experienced discipline of any kind. He now finds himself in a vastly different world. Bob immediately sets about bringing his kid brother into line, and giving him the "Biblical discipline" that he, and the other sect members, consider essential to proper child rearing. Billy strives to come to grips with the new reality. While the characters are wholly imaginary, the issues they confront are real, and threaten to undermine the very foundations of our civilization. This work does not contain any erotic material, but is a sobering assessment of today's child rearing practices in the United States and Western Europe. This is the twentieth volume of a more extensive saga, which traces the course of Billy and his friends as they struggle through the years of adolescence. It should be required reading for every adolescent boy, his parents, and all those who seek to influence him.