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Entry: America: An Empire? Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/america_an_empire#12824 Post contents: Mr. Coulombe: There is only one true Empire and that Empire is The Holy Roman Empire. The world tends to lump all "empires" together with The Holy Roman Empire, thereby dis-missing the importance of the authority of The Holy Roman Empire. Most defenders of the Holy Roman Empire claim that it's origins is of a Divine making: It is the Only Divinely Ordained Empire set to rule over all the other man-made "empires" The Imperial "doctrine" of Translatio Imperii tells us that the Roman Empire can be transferred from one people to another. But your article reads as if the Roman Empire was transferred to many peoples and many nations, thus attaching no importance to the Imperial "doctrine" of Translatio Imperii. The House of Habsburg was last in possession of this authority of the Roman Empire as far as I can tell, and now is in a 100 year abeyance. Mr. Coulombe you write: "To begin with, we really do need to define our terms." But you have not defined the differences between the man-made empires from the Only Divinely Ordained Empire - Holy Roman Empire, thus leaving the impression that one empire is just as valid as another. Dante and others knew the importance of the origin of The Roman Empire, but these men are ignored today. The office of the Holy Roman Emperor is now in a 100 year Abeyance and will be so for a few more years to come, until men realize the importance of such an office. But the terms man-made Empire & Divinely Ordained Empire must be defined first. For those who lump all man-empires together with the Holy Roman Empire Aesop has a fable for you: Buffoon and the Countryman "At a country fair there was a Buffoon who made all the people laugh by imitating the cries of various animals. He finished off by squeaking so like a pig that the spectators thought that he had a porker concealed about him. But a Countryman who stood by said: "Call that a pig s squeak! Nothing like it. You give me till tomorrow and I will show you what it's like." The audience laughed, but next day, sure enough, the Countryman appeared on the stage, and putting his head down squealed so hideously that the spectators hissed and threw stones at him to make him stop. "You fools!" he cried, "see what you have been hissing," and held up a little pig whose ear he had been pinching to make him utter the squeals." Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing. My pig squeals. Sent at: 2009 01 07