After reading this one may think to them self that Thomas Paine does not get enough credit for motivating the masses to seek independence from British rule. He indeed had a significant part in the birth of the United States. With 64 pages of editor’s introduction and commentary it still poses a challenge to those whom aren’t familiar with the style and manner of old English dialect in which he speaks through his words. The subjects of conversation are: Origin of government in general, monarchy and hereditary succession and the time for the colonials to come together and unite. Much of this was motivated by new taxes imposed by the British at the time, that is basically how this all started, the greedy British wanted more control.

There are many things which are certain, he was indeed a theist. He was apposed to the way in which royalty obtain power and control, and how system of government can be based of such scandalous perversions of such ponderous propaganda. There are significant chucks of the book addressing the important observation of recognizing how such powers come to be. A good and almost perfect example of this was portrayed through the explanative dialogue of a famous and most humorous film entitled “Monty Python and the Holy Grail.” The scene which tackles the absurdity of man bequeathed with eternal blessing to rule over all others as king shows us that such a system is nothing more than barbaric oppression and cruelty upon the common man, the people. In simple synapse: “Why should I be held on a pedestal above all others, especially you?”

The dialogue goes as fallows:

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King Arthur: Old woman.
Dennis: Man.
King Arthur: Man, sorry. What knight lives in that castle over there?
Dennis: I’m 37.
King Arthur: What?
Dennis: I’m 37. I’m not old.
King Arthur: Well I can’t just call you “man”.
Dennis: Well you could say “Dennis”.
King Arthur: I didn’t know you were called Dennis.
Dennis: Well you didn’t bother to find out did you?
King Arthur: I did say sorry about the “old woman”, but from behind you looked…
Dennis: What I object to is you automatically treat me like an inferior.
King Arthur: Well I am king.
Dennis: Oh, king eh? Very nice. And how’d you get that, eh? By exploiting the workers. By hanging on to outdated imperialist dogma which perpetuates the economic and social differences in our society.

King Arthur: I am your king.
Woman: Well I didn’t vote for you.
King Arthur: You don’t vote for kings.
Woman: Well how’d you become king then?
[Angelic music plays… ]
King Arthur: The Lady of the Lake, her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water, signifying by divine providence that I, Arthur, was to carry Excalibur. THAT is why I am your king.
Dennis: [interrupting] Listen, strange women lyin’ in ponds distributin’ swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.

Dennis: Oh, but you can’t expect to wield supreme executive power just because some watery tart threw a sword at you.

Dennis: Oh but if I went ‘round sayin’ I was Emperor, just because some moistened bint lobbed a scimitar at me, they’d put me away.

(King Arthur begins to hit Dennis.)

Dennis: Come and see the violence inherent in the system. Help! Help! I’m being repressed!
King Arthur: Bloody peasant!
Dennis: Oh, what a giveaway! Did you hear that? Did you hear that, eh? That’s what I’m on about! Did you see him repressing me? You saw him, Didn’t you?

This is an obvious example, and not so far from the truth. How did kings gain power in history? Not by going hut to hut asking for votes or support; but by inflicting religion as a tool to claim enchanted power above all else. Using power and force, kings brutally acted as pimped out gangsters of the past, stealing land, burning villages and scaring the masses into repression. Collecting taxes as a form of appraisal for false protection they were able to build armies to rein their power against other kingdoms in an endless pursuit to concur the world, the world in which they claim god gave to them to rule upon.

Simple put I use this example; Imagine I hire 2 guys to steal stuff from your home while your gone, and if someone is there, I tell them to beat anyone up and rape them at will. I later go to your house after all this and pretend I’m in shock at your poor luck. I offer my protection, my service of security and If lets say if you happen to be on land that I was occupying or land I had stolen from someone else, I then charge you a wage, a tax to pay for future protection.

This example shows the false image Kings had put over “their” people in the past, as if they were cattle for the grazing. Mind you not all kings were so evil; they did claim power over all other man… Some even use to call it “Manifest Destiny.”