faq
I'm a writer, political activist, entertainer, and professional character.
When I'm not making my living as a hack writer (and I'm a good one,
too: that's one area where I can praise myself without fear of serious
contradiction), you'll find me:
What�s with all these titles? How, for instance, do you come to
claim the title of Holy Roman Emperor?
The last Holy Roman Emperor abdicated, at Napoleon Bonaparte�s urgent
request, in 1806, and so far nobody else has stepped up to claim the
Crown Imperial; the Electors haven�t shown any interest in choosing
a successor; as long as Providence has not called upon anyone else to
assume the trust, I feel it my own duty to do so. I found the Holy Roman
Empire as alone and helpless as an abandoned kitten, and what kind of
a man would I be if I shirked the responsibility to take care of that
which had been placed before me?
How can you claim to be King of the United States of America, and
all those other titles? We�re a republic with a President, right?
We have a republic with a President, indeed, and it's high time that
system were replaced. As our government is set up at present, the President
is a sort of elected King. And there's the problem. Robert Penn Warren
once wrote, “A true chief, no self has.” But you can't be
an elected leader, and selfless. Whatever you do, as President, is done
to keep yourself popular, get re-elected or allow you to leave office
well-beloved.
By replacing our elected King with an hereditary King, a King who knows from childhood that one day he will be King for the rest of his life, we'd remove any conflict of interest. Instead of a politician who cares for nothing but keeping his job, we'd have a ruler born of a family that had been bred and trained for service to its country. It strikes me that a government by The King In Council would be the strongest possible guarantor of individual liberties. As King of the United States, I will not be a perfect person, or a perfect ruler. But at least, a King will be in a position to worry less about doing the POPULAR thing, and more about doing the RIGHT thing. The extraordinary trust placed in such a person will virtually guarantee that he will suppress his own worst instincts, and force himself to be, at all times, a servant of his subjects. Okay, and what makes you Heavyweight Champion of the World? At present, the plain fact that I claim the title and nobody has beaten me for it. I realize that there are other claimants to the title, and I'm quite prepared to fight any of them, one at a time or all at once, if sufficient public interest can be generated. And why do you have this Website? Mainly to show off. - Josephus Rex Imperator
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