2026-05-29
"A republic - if you can keep it" - Benjamin Franklin
But what if the Second Amendment in itself is an inadequate guarantee?
What happens when the whole panoplia of senates congresses assemblies councils courts and governing bodies each complete with their own governmental rules regulations statute books guidance documents etc etc gets so out of hand that Joe Citizen has no hope of figuring out precisely how and why control of his Republic has somehow in reality been usurped by inappropriate forces?
Maybe Martin Geddes with his "Vigilance Automator" has made a giant step in the right direction by enabling Joe Citizen to use the powers of AI to do the impossible legwork for him, and analyse the workings of the beast to pinpoint its deficiencies.
Of course, the alternative approach would be to sweep away the complexity, abolish the current panoplia and start again from first principles ... but hey, "we are [sadly] where we are".
