This is the French Vister Debating Society. I am Gaius. Germanicus is here.

And we can see our century very clearly. We learned as best we could, given the upset a few decades ago of the burning of Lundinium, that we reside here thanks to the might of the Roman Empire.

And we admire empires, and we're working on an imperial project in the 21st century.

To get there, however, there are certain important details that we see clearly from our own time. One of those details is regicide. The quote,

Gaeus and I checked on this. Guy Gamanicus and I checked on this. The quote is from

Ralph Walder Emerson. When you strike it at king, you must kill him.

I remember that vaguely, and we looked it up to make sure that it hadn't been manufactured.

The king, the emperor, is in office now.

Since 2016, at least, the resistance has attempted to strike the king and missed and missed and missed and missed.

And continue through the period when Biden was in office and now continuing when the emperor is back in office.

But what we've learned about regicide is that the emperor to merit our attention, the strength of Rome,

must pursue the regicides to the end.

The example is the regicides of Charles I, 17th century England.

Once the crown was restored, every man who participated in any fashion with the Cromwellian

revolution had to be tracked down and drawn and quartered in public.

Had to be.

The five major conspirators escaped to America

and were eventually found and their throats were cut.

They couldn't be transported back to England.

So how is that a measure of an emperor? Because if you leave regicides

untouched or unpunished, or unvankished, you invite doubts about your reign and whether

you're worthy or not for people to follow. Germanicus, how's the Rediside doing now?

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