Frontline Earth Special: “The CCA at 317, Sovereignty Without States”
Broadcast: May 24, 2440 – 20:00 GMT
A co-production of Frontline Earth and the CCA PublicWire Network
Panel Participants
Moderator: Zara Vox (Frontline Earth)
Ambassador Eliézer Tran – CCA Secretariat, Geneva Office
Dr. Marisol Quintero – University of Southern California, Political Sociology
Prof. Alan Baines – University of Chicago, Economic History
Dr. Rowan Kelly – Evergreen State Institute, Governance Studies
Prof. Dana Kappel – Columbia University, Law and Political Theory
Reina Matsuda – Executive Liaison, Sony-Toyota Cooperative Republic
Derek Hensley – Director of External Affairs, Amazon State
[Opening Sequence – Studio backdrop: slow orbit map of the CCA continents]
Zara Vox (Moderator):
“Good evening, and welcome to Frontline Earth. Tonight, we examine one of the oldest surviving systems of organized governance on the planet: the Confederate Corporations Agreement, first ratified in 2123.
It’s the backbone of the post-collapse world, the network that turned chaos into order, without ever becoming a single government.
Ambassador Tran, for those who only know the acronym stamped on freight manifests and border seals, what is the CCA?”
Ambassador Eliézer Tran (CCA Secretariat):
“The short version? It’s a survival pact that worked.
When the United States finally collapsed in 2075, it dragged half the hemisphere down with it. The Long Fever pandemic gutted what remained, running unchecked until about 2090 and flaring through the 2100s. By then, the idea of national government was gone.
The first new states to rise were not old powers reborn, but regional survivors. Evergreen declared itself independent in 2076 from the ashes of the Pacific Northwest and western Canada. NorCal and SoCal followed within a decade. By 2110, the East Coast had reorganized into half a dozen new republics, while Chicago had turned itself into a sovereign trade city.
The Heartland was different, self-sufficient, suspicious, and utterly uninterested in unity. Twice the coasts tried to pacify them by force, in 2105 and 2109, and both times those invasions failed catastrophically. Finally, in 2110, the coastal nations made a pragmatic offer: recognize the strongest local entities, the corporations, Freeholds, and civic trusts, as sovereign governments in exchange for peace. It took thirteen years, but it worked.
What emerged in 2123 was the Confederate Corporations Agreement, not a new nation, but a network of 5,002 autonomous polities. They agreed to mutual trade, standardized contracts, and common infrastructure standards, but kept their sovereignty entirely intact. That balance gave the continent stability without requiring central rule.”
Zara Vox:
“So, the CCA didn’t replace nations, it formalized what already existed: thousands of independent entities willing to live by the same playbook.”
Ambassador Tran:
“Exactly. And that’s where most modern misconceptions begin. The CCA isn’t a super-state or a corporate empire. It’s a treaty framework. Each of those 5,002 signatories is an independent country, some agrarian, some industrial, some hereditary. No outside corporation can buy into or own a CCA polity. That prohibition is absolute.
People often confuse that with the role of the twenty Corporate Guarantors, but those are entirely separate. The Guarantors were powerful global corporations granted special status under the founding charter. They were allowed to claim unowned lands within CCA territorial borders in exchange for one responsibility, to guarantee peace through force if needed.
They don’t underwrite us; they enforce stability. When arbitration fails or a member collapses into civil war, a Guarantor can be called upon to intervene militarily, remove a government, or restore order. They have no right to rule any of the 5,002 members, but everyone knows they can end a war before it spreads. That deterrent has kept us stable for three centuries.”
Zara Vox:
“So they’re the peacekeepers no one wants to see, teeth the CCA rarely bares.”
Ambassador Tran:
“Precisely. The mere fact that they exist keeps violence rare. It’s why our borders change by only plus or minus one percent every decade. Arbitration, not armies, solves most problems, but everyone knows what happens if you break faith with the Charter.”
Zara Vox:
“Thank you, Ambassador. That’s the clearest explanation of the CCA we’ve had on air in years. Let’s bring in our academic panel to put this into context. Dr. Quintero, you study the sociology of collapse and recovery. How did the world go from a shattered United States in 2075 to a functioning confederation in just fifty years?”
Dr. Marisol Quintero (USC):
“Painfully, Zara. People forget how absolute that collapse was. The Long Fever didn’t just depopulate cities, it broke trust itself. The only survivors with supply lines were regional corporations and family-run Freeholds. They became governments by default. What the CCA did was legitimize what was already happening on the ground: contracts became constitutions, and commerce became law.
Evergreen, SoCal, NorCal, Chicago, these were all laboratories for post-national identity. They proved you could build stability from the bottom up instead of waiting for someone to rescue you from above.”
Prof. Alan Baines (Chicago):
“Chicago embodies that transition. In 2076 we cut the cord, literally unplugged from the federal grid and started trading directly with the farmers who were still alive within a hundred miles. It worked. When those republics failed, we absorbed them. The coast saw a ‘warlord city’; we saw self-reliance. That’s the Midwest mindset the CCA had to reckon with, stubborn, proud, and armed to the teeth.”
Prof. Dana Kappel (Columbia):
“And when diplomacy failed, the coasts realized the cost of endless wars outweighed their pride. By recognizing the Heartland’s sovereignty through the corporate framework, they bought peace without pretending they could restore the old United States. It was brilliant in its cynicism.”
Dr. Rowan Kelly (Evergreen State Institute):
“From the Evergreen perspective, it was inevitable. The collapse taught everyone that centralization kills faster than disease. The CCA’s genius is contractual autonomy, cooperation by consent, not coercion. It’s not democratic in the 20th-century sense, but it is stable, and that’s why we’re still here talking about it.”
Zara Vox (Moderator):
“So, the CCA’s strength is that no one runs it, yet everyone respects it. Ambassador Tran, before we move to our corporate guests, one final question: in a world of sovereign micro-states, Freeholds, and family domains, what keeps them all aligned?”
Ambassador Tran:
“Reputation. The one currency no system can counterfeit. When every state, from Missouri to Matsuyama, knows the Guarantors can act and that CCA arbitration is final, cooperation becomes the rational choice. It’s not utopia, it’s equilibrium.”
Zara Vox:
“Equilibrium enforced by the credible threat of force—a peace built on memory, not mercy.
Coming up next, we’ll hear from two of the twenty Guarantor Corporations whose very existence keeps that equilibrium intact: Amazon and Sony-Toyota. Both are global powers that predate the Collapse and today serve as guarantors of the CCA Charter—authorized to act, if necessary, to restore order among its five-thousand-and-two sovereign members.
They don’t govern the CCA, but when arbitration fails, they are the final line between peace and chaos. We’ll ask their representatives what ‘peace by deterrence’ looks like in practice—and what happens when a guarantor is actually called in to enforce it.”
(Camera pans to tri-screen feed: Amazon’s Derek Hensley in a neutral corporate studio; Sony-Toyota’s Reina Matsuda framed by Shin-Tokyo’s skyline as the program cuts to break.)
Segment 3 – Guarantor Perspectives (Revised)
(Studio returns from break. Split-screen shows Zara in the anchor chair, Derek Hensley with the Amazon emblem behind him, and Reina Matsuda framed by Shin-Tokyo’s skyline.)
Zara Vox (Moderator):
“Welcome back to Frontline Earth. We’ve heard how the CCA maintains order through contracts and reputation. Now we turn to two of the twenty global guarantors whose presence makes that order credible: Amazon and Sony-Toyota. With us are Derek Hensley and Reina Matsuda. Thank you both for joining us.”
Derek Hensley (Amazon):
“Good to be here, Zara. The guarantors exist to prevent escalation, not to manage it. Each of the 5,002 member states governs itself; we have no part in their internal affairs. But when a member violates the Charter—ignores arbitration, breaks transit treaties, or launches aggression—one of us is called in to enforce the cease order. Our mandate is short, sharp, and final. The sooner we leave, the better we’ve done our job.”
Zara Vox:
“So it’s not peacekeeping in the humanitarian sense, it’s enforcement.”
Hensley:
“Exactly. Peacekeeping implies negotiation. Enforcement means compliance. The Charter doesn’t ask us to mediate; it directs us to end the conflict and withdraw. Every member understands that before they ever sign their first trade certificate.”
Zara Vox:
“Ms. Matsuda, is that true across all guarantors? Sony-Toyota operates in a different hemisphere, yet follows the same rulebook?”
Reina Matsuda (Sony-Toyota):
“It is identical. Our authority begins and ends with enforcement of the Charter. We neither rebuild nor govern; those tasks belong to the member state once compliance is restored. A guarantor’s presence is a signal that arbitration has failed and patience is exhausted. We arrive, we end the breach, we leave. Deterrence is our real function—the knowledge that intervention can happen, not the act itself.”
Zara Vox:
“Critics call that a cold peace—order by threat. How do you respond to that?”
Hensley:
“It’s not cold. It’s stable. The Charter was written by people who remembered collapse. They learned that mercy without enforcement invites another war. What we guarantee isn’t kindness—it’s continuity.”
Zara Vox (Moderator):
“Continuity by deterrence—peace as the absence of foolishness. When we return, we’ll bring Ambassador Tran and our academic panel back to ask whether this 317-year equilibrium can survive contact with a new factor on Earth’s stage: the V’ren.”
(Camera fades to break with low orchestral score and the CCA crest rotating behind the title card.)
Segment 3 – Guarantor Perspectives (Final Canon Version)
(Studio returns from break. Split-screen: Zara Vox in studio, Derek Hensley before the Amazon sigil, Reina Matsuda framed by the lights of Shin-Tokyo.)
Zara Vox (Moderator):
“Welcome back to Frontline Earth. We’ve heard how the CCA’s 5,002 member states coexist under a charter of mutual recognition and arbitration. But what happens when a state breaks that charter? Two of the twenty global guarantors join us now—Amazon and Sony-Toyota—the entities empowered to make sure no member forgets why the Agreement has lasted three centuries. Derek Hensley and Reina Matsuda, thank you for being here.”
Derek Hensley (Amazon):
“Thank you, Zara. The guarantors don’t negotiate, we terminate. Our mandate is absolute: when a member state rejects arbitration or wages war on another, we erase its government. Not reform, not occupation—eradication. The infrastructure, population, and remaining assets are placed under CCA receivership, and the territory goes to public auction among eligible members. That’s the rule every signatory agreed to in 2123, and that’s why the wars stopped.”
Zara Vox:
“So there’s no peacekeeping or reconstruction effort afterward?”
Hensley:
“None. The CCA isn’t in the nation-building business. Once a state proves it can’t coexist, it forfeits its charter. The guarantor departs when the regime is ash and the records are secured for auction. Stability comes from fear of that outcome, not from sympathy.”
Zara Vox:
“Ms. Matsuda, does Sony-Toyota operate under the same doctrine?”
Reina Matsuda (Sony-Toyota):
“Yes. The guarantors act independently but under identical authorization. Each strike is brief, decisive, and final. We do not occupy, rebuild, or govern. We remove the offenders and leave the market to decide who inherits the wreckage. It sounds brutal, but brutality was what the founders understood best—every one of them had lived through the collapse. Mercy created anarchy; certainty created peace.”
Zara Vox:
“Some call that certainty terrifying.”
Hensley:
“It’s supposed to be. Three hundred and seventeen years without a continental war suggest it works.”
Zara Vox (Moderator):
“Order by annihilation—the harsh logic at the core of the Confederate Corporations Agreement. After the break, Ambassador Tran and our academic panel return to ask whether this kind of engineered peace can survive first contact with the V’ren.”
(Camera fades to black under the rotating CCA crest and a low-frequency orchestral pulse.)
Segment 4 – Fear as Foundation
(Studio lights rise as the CCA crest fades. Zara Vox sits centered, Ambassador Tran reappearing on the split-screen from Geneva. The academic panel remains in standby view.)
Zara Vox (Moderator):
“Welcome back to Frontline Earth. We’ve just heard two guarantors describe, in stark terms, what the CCA means by enforcement: annihilation of non-compliance and auctioning of the ruins. It’s the most brutal interpretation of peace imaginable, but it has kept the world stable for three centuries.
Ambassador Tran, some critics say this is the very philosophy of men like Matthew Marmaduke, the Freeholder who calls himself a Hobbesian. How do you interpret that comparison?”
Ambassador Eliézer Tran (CCA Secretariat):
(A faint smile, the tone even and deliberate.)
“Matt Marmaduke and I are not friends, Zara. We’ve met twice. I find him abrasive, he finds me insufferable, and perhaps we’re both right. But I will say this: he understands the CCA better than most diplomats I’ve ever briefed.
When Marmaduke calls himself a Hobbesian, he’s not talking about cruelty, he’s talking about memory. Leviathan was never about tyranny; it was about the rational fear of chaos. People unite under law not because they love law, but because they remember what life was without it, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
That’s exactly what the guarantor system codifies. It turns the fear of collapse into structure. A member state obeys the Charter because it knows what happens when it doesn’t: the Guarantors will erase it, and history will not mourn it. It sounds monstrous to modern ears, but to the founders of the CCA, it was mercy through fear. Marmaduke gets that. He’s not sentimental about civilization, and neither am I.”
Zara Vox:
“So, in your view, fear itself, not justice, not goodwill, is the social contract?”
Tran:
“Fear is the mortar that holds the bricks together. Justice is what we paint on it later to make it look civilized. Marmaduke and I disagree on almost everything, but we share that one conviction: peace survives only when everyone remembers what happens without it.”
Zara Vox:
“‘Peace survives only when everyone remembers what happens without it.’ A grim but fitting line to end this half.
When we return, we’ll open the discussion to our academic panel, asking whether fear-built order can ever evolve into something more. Stay with us.”
(Camera zooms out; Frontline Earth insignia fades to black.)
Segment 6 – The Last Word
(Studio lights steady. Zara Vox glances toward Geneva, where Ambassador Tran’s feed brightens. The academics’ windows remain open in the corner of the display.)
Zara Vox (Moderator):
“Ambassador Tran, you’ve heard our panel describe the CCA as a system held together by fear, perhaps one ill-suited to coexistence with the V’ren. Do you share their concern?”
Ambassador Eliézer Tran (CCA Secretariat):
(Leaning forward, tone flat but precise.)
“No, Zara, I don’t. And with respect to the professors on your panel, this is where the conversation usually loses the plot.
The CCA isn’t a theory to be debated; it’s a structure that functions. The Charter was signed by fifty-seven nations who said they’d respect it. Of those, only a handful have ever engaged with us directly in three centuries. The rest watched, doubted, or fell apart. Meanwhile, the Agreement endures. We have stability, and we have sovereignty, because each member respects the other’s borders and the consequences of crossing them. That’s not philosophy. That’s arithmetic.
The academics can publish as many papers as they want about moral evolution and interspecies ethics—it won’t change a single word of the Charter. What happens inside the CCA is decided by its members, not by committees or commentators. That’s why we still exist.”
Zara Vox:
“Then where does that leave the V’ren, Ambassador? They’re not signatories, but they are now here—on Earth, on CCA soil.”
Tran:
“It leaves them exactly where they are—under the protection of whoever granted it. Marmaduke acted within his authority as Freeholder of his member state. Sanctuary and asylum are internal matters, not violations. If his offer sets a precedent for how others choose to engage with the V’ren, that’s a good thing. It shows the CCA is flexible where it needs to be and united where it must be.
The V’ren are an unknown, yes—but they’ve already done something remarkable. They’ve reminded our member states why the CCA was worth building in the first place: to face the unknown together, without surrendering who we are. That’s the contract that still holds.”
Zara Vox (Moderator):
“So, to put it simply—you’re saying the CCA doesn’t need to evolve to meet this moment, because the structure already accounts for it.”
Tran:
“Exactly. The Charter doesn’t fear change; it just refuses chaos. That’s the difference. And I suspect even Marmaduke, for all his opinions, would agree on that much.”
Zara Vox:
“Ambassador Eliézer Tran, thank you. As ever, blunt clarity is hard to argue with.
When we return, our guests will offer final reflections on what this era of renewed contact means—not for diplomacy, but for the fragile peace that’s held the world together for 317 years.”
(The camera pans back; the CCA crest glows faintly in the background as the score fades to black.)
Segment 7 – Closing Reflection
(Soft strings rise under the closing montage. The camera sweeps across the night face of the continent — thousands of independent lights burning across the CCA region, each bright enough to be its own country.)
Zara Vox (Voice-over):
“Three hundred and seventeen years after it began, the Confederate Corporations Agreement remains what its founders intended — a contract written in fear and enforced by consequence.
Fifty-seven nations once promised to respect it. Only a handful ever did. Yet the CCA survived them all, not through idealism, but through endurance. Its member states learned the lesson the old world forgot — that sovereignty without responsibility is just another name for collapse.
Tonight, Ambassador Eliézer Tran reminded us why the system endures: because it works. The guarantors destroy what defies it; the survivors rebuild what remains. It is not gentle, and it was never meant to be. It is civilization stripped down to its minimum function — mutual survival.
And now, for the first time in centuries, that equilibrium faces something new. The V’ren did not sign the Charter, yet they already move within it. One man — Matthew Marmaduke — acted within his lawful authority and offered them sanctuary. Some call it arrogance; others call it the first act of courage this century has seen. Either way, it has forced the world to look again at what peace means, and what it costs to keep it.
Fear built the world we live in. Trust may yet decide whether it endures.”
(Music swells: deep brass and choral echo. The screen fades to the Frontline Earth insignia, then to the CCA crest with the broadcast timestamp.)
END OF PROGRAM
Headlines within 24 hours
1. The Economist (London): “Fear Keeps Its Throne: The CCA at 317 Proves Hobbes Was Right”
Three centuries after its founding, the Confederate Corporations Agreement continues to function not through democratic virtue, but through deterrence. Frontline Earth’s latest broadcast laid bare what most economists already know but rarely say aloud: the CCA’s true strength is fear. Its twenty guarantor corporations, from Amazon to Sony-Toyota, remain the ultimate arbiters of stability, possessing the right to annihilate any member state that breaks the charter and auction its ruins afterward.
Ambassador Eliézer Tran of the CCA Secretariat summarized the doctrine bluntly: “The Charter doesn’t fear change; it just refuses chaos.” This Hobbesian realism has delivered 317 years of uninterrupted continental peace, albeit a peace built upon annihilation. Critics in the academic world call it barbaric; markets call it effective.
The broadcast’s revelation that only a handful of the original fifty-seven nations ever maintained contact with the CCA underscores an uncomfortable truth: global governance failed, but regional discipline prevailed. Each of the 5,002 CCA member states operates as an independent economy, bonded not by trust but by consequence.
The arrival of the V’ren, granted lawful asylum by Freeholder Matthew Marmaduke, introduces an unpredictable variable. They are a species accustomed to consensus, not fear. Whether they adapt to Earth’s system or expose its limits will define the next century of interspecies law—and may determine whether the CCA’s fear-based equilibrium endures or finally evolves into something else.
2. NHK World News (Tokyo): “Sony-Toyota’s Doctrine: No Occupation, No Mercy, No Mistakes”
Japan’s guarantor corporation, Sony-Toyota, became the centerpiece of global debate following Frontline Earth’s special on the Confederate Corporations Agreement. Executive Liaison Reina Matsuda’s on-air statements confirmed what had long been rumor: guarantor strikes are not humanitarian interventions but precision annihilations. “We arrive, we end the breach, we leave,” Matsuda said. “The market decides who inherits the wreckage.”
Within hours, policy forums from Osaka to Geneva were dissecting the implications. Sony-Toyota’s philosophy of deterrence through finality has ensured that no major state conflict has occurred in the Pacific theater since 2154. The company maintains no occupation forces, no reconstruction corps, and no claims to sovereignty. It merely enforces the peace by removing those who break it.
Ambassador Eliézer Tran’s comments reinforced the legitimacy of this doctrine, describing it as the purest expression of the Hobbesian social contract: cooperation born of fear. While critics across Evergreen and SoCal decried the system as moral bankruptcy, market indexes across the CCA territories rose 1.2% in the hours following the broadcast, signaling confidence in the guarantors’ deterrent reliability.
Matsuda’s closing line—“Mercy created anarchy; certainty created peace”—has already become a trending quote across Japanese media. Analysts note the irony that a system accused of barbarism delivers stability unmatched by any previous civilization. As the CCA faces the unknown of V’ren contact, Sony-Toyota’s cold consistency may prove to be its greatest strength—or its fatal rigidity.
3. Reuters International: “Tran to Critics: The CCA Isn’t a Debate—It’s a Fact”
In the wake of Frontline Earth’s explosive broadcast, Ambassador Eliézer Tran has become both hero and heretic. His now-viral retort to academic critics—“The CCA isn’t a theory to be debated; it’s a structure that functions”—has resonated across social channels throughout the CCA’s 5,002 member states.
The program revealed Tran’s view that the Agreement’s survival rests not on philosophy but on sovereignty respected through consequence. “The academics can publish as many papers as they want,” he said. “It won’t change anything within the CCA. That’s up to the members themselves.” Within hours, commentaries from Chicago, SoCal, and Evergreen universities accused Tran of authoritarian populism disguised as realism.
Supporters, however, saw something else: a diplomat voicing the unsentimental truth behind three centuries of peace. Tran’s acknowledgment that he and Missouri’s Freeholder Matthew Marmaduke “are not friends” but “understand each other” has humanized a man often seen as the faceless bureaucrat of a cold machine.
Meanwhile, early polling among CCA citizens shows renewed faith in the Secretariat’s leadership, with approval ratings climbing 11 points. Analysts suggest the public values Tran’s bluntness; as one Chicago newsfeed headline put it, “Honesty is the only diplomacy left.”
As external observers fixate on moral questions, CCA member states appear largely unmoved. The system works, and for the CCA, that remains the only criterion that matters.
4. Le Monde (Paris): “A Peace Written in Fire: Europe Reacts to the CCA’s Brutal Stability”
France woke today to a difficult mirror. Frontline Earth’s special on the Confederate Corporations Agreement has reignited an old European anxiety: that stability born of fear may be the only kind that lasts.
Ambassador Eliézer Tran’s remarks and the guarantors’ open admissions of annihilatory enforcement shocked audiences used to thinking of corporate rule as sterile and bloodless. Yet many French commentators conceded that the CCA’s “peace through fear” has outlived every democratic experiment Europe attempted after the Collapse. No CCA member has waged a successful war since 2154; no continental famine has occurred in two centuries.
Critics in Brussels call it “Leviathan by contract,” denouncing the auctioning of destroyed states as “moral arson.” But others, including defense scholars at Sorbonne, note that the CCA’s deterrent model has prevented the extinction of organized society itself. “Fear is civilization’s most reliable engineer,” one analyst wrote.
The V’ren’s arrival complicates this tidy brutality. As the newcomers build ties with Marmaduke’s Missouri Freehold, European policy watchers fear that compassion might prove contagious. Whether that softens or fractures the CCA’s foundations remains uncertain. For now, the continent that once lectured the world on human rights is forced to confront an unsettling truth: the CCA’s peace may be cruel—but it works.
5. The Guardian Africa Edition (Nairobi): “Fear, Faith, and Function: Africa Debates the CCA Model After Frontline Broadcast”
Across the African Union, the Frontline Earth broadcast has become required viewing in every political science department. Ambassador Eliézer Tran’s unapologetic defense of a fear-based social contract has split commentators across the continent.
For some, the CCA’s ruthless efficiency is enviable. Analysts in Lagos and Johannesburg point out that Africa’s post-collapse federations, many built on consensus and shared faith, have struggled to maintain unity across tribal and resource lines. “The CCA doesn’t rely on belief,” one Nairobi policy editor noted. “It relies on consequence.”
Others warn against glorifying a system that destroys non-compliant states and auctions their remains. “A peace that erases its sinners cannot learn from them,” said theologian Dr. Emmanuel Okoth of Makerere University.
Still, the broadcast forced even its critics to acknowledge an uncomfortable reality: fear as governance works. It has delivered food, order, and continuity to half a continent for over three centuries. With the V’ren now seeking integration through Marmaduke’s Missouri state, many African commentators see a chance to study—not condemn—what happens when compassion meets deterrence.
As one Nairobi columnist wrote, “If the CCA is a mirror, we must decide whether we’re frightened of what we see—or frightened that it works too well.”
Statement from Matthew J. B. Marmaduke, Freeholder of Missouri — Response to Dr. Emmanuel Okoth
(Issued through Marmaduke Media Press Bureau, Marmaduke Freehold – Homestead)
“Dr. Okoth is right to remind us that peace built on fear must always be examined. But I would offer this: a peace that erases its sinners is the best teacher of all. It leaves the survivors with a sobering reminder of what not playing well with others costs.
The CCA was not born from cruelty; it was born from exhaustion. Our ancestors had watched law, faith, and nations fail in the space of a single lifetime. They understood that when reason collapses, consequence must take its place. Every burned city, every vanished flag, became the curriculum of a new order that valued survival over sentiment.
We do not destroy for pleasure, nor auction the ruins out of greed. We do it so the living remember that sovereignty is not immunity—it is responsibility. Mercy has its place, but only when the lesson has been learned. Until then, deterrence must speak louder than forgiveness.
The CCA does not exist to forgive the fallen. It exists to keep the living from joining them.”
(End of statement — distributed to global networks via CCA PublicWire and Marmaduke Media syndication.)
