{"id":1476,"date":"2019-09-19T01:47:08","date_gmt":"2019-09-19T01:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/?p=1476"},"modified":"2019-09-10T01:53:49","modified_gmt":"2019-09-10T01:53:49","slug":"when-the-people-find-they-can-vote-themselves-money-it-will-herald-the-end-of-the-republic-by-andy-betz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/2019\/09\/19\/when-the-people-find-they-can-vote-themselves-money-it-will-herald-the-end-of-the-republic-by-andy-betz\/","title":{"rendered":"When the People Find They Can Vote Themselves Money, It Will Herald the End of the Republic by Andy Betz"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Andy Betz has tutored and taught in excess of 30 years. His novel, short stories, and poems are works still defining his style. He lives in 1974, has been married for 27 years, and collects occupations (the current tally is 100). His works are found everywhere a search engine operates. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

My term, the “Franklin Smirk” will go viral once it is read. Bank on it. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n


When the People Find They Can Vote Themselves Money, It Will Herald the End of the Republic<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Benjamin Franklin sat comfortably in the gas chamber.\nPerhaps he remained calm because he did not have his bifocals on. Perhaps he\ndid not witness the demise of Jefferson yesterday. I believe he knew what\nSamuel Adams had planned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Samuel Adams always had a plan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I saw that smirk that so annoyed Franklin\u2019s judge. The\ncurl of that \u201cFounding Father\u2019s\u201d lips spoke volumes. It was an \u201cI know more\nthan you do\u201d look so many of the newly appointed judges hated to see in their\nhastily improvised courts. Having so many of the King\u2019s subjects, actually\nseeing that smirk, during the 10-minute show trial annoyed even him more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBenjamin!\u201d It was enough to bring Judge Rollin\u2019s court to\norder and insult the defendant one last time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Judge Rollin should have been used to receiving less than\nexpected by now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year, during the reparations portion of the\narmistice, General Rollin finally received his ballot approved lump-sum payment\nagainst the Old Republic and invested heavily in the \u201cTemporal Initiative\u201d to\nrid the Kingdom of the memory of those \u201cAmerican Revolutionaries\u201d of yore. To\nGeneral Rollin (who also purchased his new position of Judge in the King\u2019s\ncourt) the founding fathers were an impediment to the progress he, and the\nother new judges, was making toward writing a new history for the new future.\nBy bringing each one forward, informing each of their conviction, and then\nexecuting each, the \u201cTemporal Initiative\u201d would leave the King\u2019s subjects\nhungry, in the intellectual and moral void, for a purpose, a purpose only Judge\nRollin would supply.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I knew all of this. From the execution of Jefferson, how\ncould I forget?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And still Franklin smirked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The time was nigh and Judge Rollin was impatient. The\ncrowd of \u201cofficial\u201d witnesses grew weary with each passing moment. The door of\nthe gas chamber closed and I saw Benjamin Franklin for the last time.  I could not bear to see a repeat of\nJefferson\u2019s horrific death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So I left before the cyanide pill dropped.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a mere 1 hour later, Benjamin Franklin made his first\nnews conference, interrupting the King\u2019s speech, hijacking the King\u2019s own\nbroadcast monopoly, to quote and honor the memory of Mark Twain (executed three\ndays prior).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apparently, Mr. Franklin knew the cyanide pill would not\nfill the gas chamber with hydrogen cyanide gas, but the entirety of the witness\ngallery instead. By remaining in the chamber, he would be unexposed to the\neffects of the toxin. Judge Rollin and the elite members of the \u201cTemporal\nInitiative\u201d died an equally horrible death to that of Thomas Jefferson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That Franklin Smirk, as it became to be known, was\naccording to Samuel Adam\u2019s plan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And Samuel Adams always<\/em> had a plan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Andy Betz has tutored and taught in excess of 30 years. His novel, short stories, and poems are works still defining his style. He lives in 1974, has been married for 27 years, and collects occupations (the current tally is 100). His works are found everywhere a search engine operates. My term, the “Franklin Smirk” … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa867U-nO","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1476"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1484,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1476\/revisions\/1484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}