Things are still quiet in The Afterlife, except Jesus is mad.
Monday we were running late, the bus was running early, and I had to run
a little bit to get through the bushes so the bus driver could see me and
stop. That little bit of extra pressure inflamed my bad foot.
I have been in misery for three days. Fortunately, I have very good
bosses, and very good coworkers and they have been lugging stuff for me
so I don't have to move around much, and I have been managing to get through
the work day. But Jesus is upset that I have to stand out in the
cold and wait for the bus in pain, and we have no one to help us while
those who are destroying the world and will not listen to Him have armor
plated limousines and hundreds of staff and they're nice and warm and comfortable.
He says maybe He'll turn off their heat and see how they like being cold.
Aside from that everything continues as it has been. The Kingdom
Of God is still trying to keep people from buying this Christmas.
Every night President Bush is being shown the results of the current Mid
East Peace Plan...a barren, lifeless, empty Earth inhabited only by decaying
corpses slowly turning to dust. The struggle continues.
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Police On The Old Worlds
One of the questions we are often asked about The Old Worlds is did
they have police, the type of street patrols and emergency response that
we have on Earth? Well, The Peepians and The Hashons both had police
forces quite similar to what is on Earth. Among The Hashons the police
officers were called Guardians. Among The Peepians they were called
Street Keepers. But they performed the same functions as the police
on Earth.
Haven, however, had no real organized police force. They
had The Lord's Guard, but this organization was purely to protect the interests
of The Lord God and not a true police force as those on Earth would recognize
one. On Haven all citizens were required to enforce the law.
If they saw an illegal act being committed it was their responsibility
to seize the purpetrator and bring them to the nearest detention center
where they would be held for judgement by the local magistrates.
To people on Earth it probably sounds like a crazy idea, but it was a system
that worked very effectively! The Lords Guard did not go out and
patrol the streets. One was stationed at each detention center, and
processed any voilator brought in. But they did not go out seeking
criminals, they were brought to them. Or, criminal activity was reported
to them and they went out and seized the purpurtrators. People on
Earth would say "Oh, my God! A system like this couldn't possibly
work! There would be total chaos!" But it worked and worked
very effectively! There was very little street crime on Haven because
there were so many people ready to deal with anyone committing it.
Criminals simply had no opportunity to function.
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