Because if people are gathered to protest the God-Emperor...
...then turning their protests into laughter is liable to be rather ineffective: They might easily get it into their heads to direct their laughter *at him*.
("Can't have that, can we, Georgie?" - "No, sir, mr Cheney.")
[link|mailto:MyUserId@MyISP.CountryCode|Christian R. Conrad]
(I live in Finland, and my e-mail in-box is at the Saunalahti company.)
Ah, the Germans: Masters of Convoluted Simplification. — [link|http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/?p=1603|Jehovah]