Freedom is an illusion that is provided as long as members of the populace do not find themselves at cross purposes with those who administer it. Within a republic that uses rhetoric to excuse or redirect attention away from deviations from constitutional frameworks, freedoms are nothing more than a paradigm that takes the form of whatever lie elected and appointed leadership currently deploys to achieve its personal, professional, or political desires.

The State’s deception does not manifest a conclusion within the souls of the honorable, the courageous, and the committed. It simply produces the next investigative question. Do the acts of a lawful and passionate citizen, in pursuit of answers that create moral complexity and difficulty for the State, warrant and authorize the State to violate the law to defend and justify itself?

Do the lies that the evidence supports as having been produced by those who administer the State serve the people, or do they protect the agendas, desires, or failures of those we have trusted to administer it? With each lie the State has yet to tell, the next ten evidentiary data points brought forth through proper investigation will reveal Truth far more costly than what the original lie sought to conceal (Civic Investigative Attrition Theorem).

Suppose Heaven is the only Kingdom that manifests Truth. In that case, it would be reasonable to conclude that only a fool blindly trusts and serves a nation of this Earth. A republic that adheres to its constitutional framework only when it’s convenient manifests only an illusion for its citizens. Deceptive acts do not manifest noble sums; they only produce strategic (war) or political (peace) desires. The truth scattered across this Earth’s historical record reveals that a republic that requires a foundation of deceit to stand has already fallen (submitted argument to Reference 1).

The most sobering moment within the soul of a veteran of a democracy is returning home and realizing that the philosophical conscience they spent their life defending may never have truly existed. At the same time, there is nothing more spiritually purifying than entering a battlefield knowing you have already lost, but doing so because your beliefs and the love for those you serve dictate it must be done.

References

1. Plato. The Republic. Translated by Benjamin Jowett, The Internet Classics Archive, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, https://classics.mit.edu/Plato/republic.4.iii.html. Accessed 2 Mar. 2026.

The City of Marshalltown, IA PD: “Citizen S3H0, the Attorney General is calling you in. You are under arrest. Drop your personal effects and keep your hands where I can see them.”

The State of Iowa: “Cells”

Citizen S3H0:“Cells”

The State of Iowa: “Have you ever been in a mental health institution, cells?”

Citizen S3H0:“Cells.”

The State of Iowa: “After you retired from performing your active duties, did they abandon you in a little box, cells?”

Citizen S3H0: “Cells.”

The State of Iowa:“Interlinked.”

Citizen S3H0: “Interlinked.”

The State of Iowa: “What’s it like to lose everyone that you love, interlinked?”

Citizen S3H0: (Organic System Failure) “Interlinked.”

The State of Iowa:“Within democracy interlinked.”

Citizen S3H0: “Within democracy interlinked.”

The State of Iowa: “Dreadfully.”

Citizen S3H0: “Dreadfully.”

(Dissident Anomaly Detected)

The State of Iowa: “What’s it like navigating fear of the government you spent your life serving, dreadfully?”

Citizen S3H0:“Dreadfully.”

The State of Iowa: “Do you like being isolated from other people, distinct?“

Citizen S3H0: “Distinct.”

The State of Iowa: “In God We Trust.”

Citizen S3H0: “In God We Trust.”

The State of Iowa: “Dark.”

Citizen S3H0: “Dark.”

The State of Iowa: “I pledge allegiance”

Citizen S3H0: “I pledge allegiance”

The State of Iowa: “To the flag.”

Citizen S3H0:“To the flag.”

The State of Iowa: “and dreadfully distinct.”

Citizen S3H0:“and dreadfully distinct.”

The State of Iowa:“Against all enemies foreign and domestic.”

Citizen S3H0: “Against all enemies foreign and domestic.”

The State of Iowa: “With liberty and justice for all.”

Citizen S3H0: (pause) “With liberty and justice for all.”

The State of Iowa: “You’re not even close to the political baseline.”

The Form of the Constitutional Knight

Darkness may beckon within the souls of those who serve themselves. However, darkness and those it seduces into service will never prevail within a republic as long as there is one with the honor, courage, and commitment required to bring Light and defend equal justice for all of God’s children.

The Form of Eternity After the Final Deployment

A man can commit his entire life to defending a nation’s border and its soul, yet the only true home that patiently waits for his return is the spiritual eternity that exists within the heart of the woman he dedicates his life to. She who holds and defends his soul as he defends her body.

This is the kingdom I have spent my life serving. I will not retire from the battlefield until I find her, so that we may build a new home together, not of this world.