The Last Pilgrims (46 page)

The King of Aztlan—whose
power was constituted mainly of the heavily armed drug gangs once
at war with one another along the border between America and
Mexico—sensed the weakness of his own kinsmen within the first
Kingdom of Mexico. Upon the fall of the King of Mexico, he swiftly
moved his armies westward from what was left of California and,
through murder and violence, absorbed the northern portion of the
Kingdom of Mexico into his own Kingdom. Regardless of what Aztlan
has claimed, the King was only able to maintain any real control of
the former border regions from California to as far as El Paso in
Texas, including the southern Rocky Mountain areas in the former
New Mexico that he had first conquered with his initial northward
push during the early days of the collapse.

On the foothills of the
Sangre de Christo mountains (in a place once known as Taos, New
Mexico), Aztlan constructed their new capitol which they named New
Rome.

The collapse marked the end of more than
just the industrial, digital, and consumer revolutions. The drug
revolution died with it too. This, in my view, was a foregone
conclusion, given some very important and inescapable facts:

The population of North America—according to
rather conservative estimates—was reduced by almost 90%, thereby
destroying the primary market for illicit drugs. Admittedly, these
numbers are estimates, since we have very little information from
any of the areas in the northern regions of North America.

There was no coherent, recognizable,
accepted currency for many years that followed. Even corrupt
farmers were unwilling to dedicate hundreds of acres to drug
production when most of the people were starving, and when there
was no easy and transferrable means of exchange.

In the absence of the
soul-deadening comforts, artificially created and sustained by the
former social, cultural, economic, and financial system, very few
people who survived were tempted to use drugs. Moreover, former
drug users were ill-prepared for the new hardships, and they rarely
survived. Thus, the problem took care of itself.

The collapse of the former, rather
lucrative, means of support for the Kingdom of Aztlan meant that
evil had to seek other financial opportunities. Kings and nations
generally resolve to follow one of two policies as it pertains to
feeding and supplying the people:

Supporting and protecting the productive
capabilities of the people, encouraging them and incentivizing them
to work hard and be productive, or,

Reliance on consumption, specialization,
aggression, tyranny, and military conquest in order to maintain and
expand the Kingdom.

Every nation-state—whether its citizens
realize it or not—travels down one of these two paths. While it is
obvious that your own highness has chosen the former and most godly
route, the King of Aztlan has openly chosen the latter.

We have not accepted this usurpation, though
we are officially under his dominion. Our lands were our own and
were worked and improved by our own hands long before any usurpers
came to claim divine right over our soil.

As Your Highness knows, we have been courted
by many monarchs because of the inherent value that is annexed to
our right management and benevolent dominion of our soil. What,
then, can be the reason that the King of Aztlan and his wicked
magistrate the Duke of El Paso, despite all of the benefits he, his
fiefdom, and his people would enjoy by dealing benevolently with
us, have determined to destroy us unless we succumb to his
rule?

Why does he deal harshly
with us, when we seek nothing but peace, and—if left in peace—we
might help feed his people and help his Kingdom to prosper? Is it
not that the King of Aztlan and his compatriot, the Duke of El
Paso, seek to pacify and homogenize the entire rightful Republic of
Texas in order to use it as a launching pad and base for the
invasion of your own realms? If my assumption is incorrect, what
other benefit could there possibly be to this usurper
King?

Would your own highness waste resources and
manpower to subjugate or obliterate a peaceful and productive
people in your own realm? Of course not!

The belligerent actions of the King of
Aztlan only make sense if it is his intention to unite himself with
his co-religionists in Louisiana to move militarily against a more
profitable foe. It is our belief that our destruction or
subjugation is only an intermediate step by the King of Aztlan in
his overall plan to make war against your own Kingdom—a fact your
highness ought to urgently consider.

Our people, who are ever
grateful to Your Highness for any benevolence shown to us, are not
willing to make war against the King of Aztlan, although many would
have us do so. We are peace lovers and we believe in eschewing all
violence. We believe that the ‘sword of just defense’ lies in the
hand of legitimate civil magistrates, and, before God, we call upon
those magistrates to do what is right—to protect the innocent and
punish all evildoers.

While we do rely on Providence and the
goodness and mercy of Almighty God to defend and protect us, we
appeal to you, His servant, that you might be a sword and a scourge
in the hand of the Mighty King of Kings, to protect His
beloved.

Help us.

I am your obedient servant,

Jonathan Wall – Elder and Pastor among the
Vallenses

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