All posts by Samuel Adams

I've lived in Canon City my whole life. It makes me sick to think of where this country is headed. The solutions are in God's Word.
Abolish The Police, Police Abuse, Power Trip

Before You Condemn Kaepernick

Kaepernick has stayed in the news for two solid years now. What an amazing protest it’s been, as it persists to be in the news even while he’s no longer in the NFL. I’m ashamed and horrified at the Christian and conservative reaction to the issue. It has revealed so much idolatry of America. Here are a few corrections to the falsehoods conservatives use to argue against Kaepernick.

  1. Black-on-black crime isn’t the issue.
  2. The likelihood (or unlikelihood) of being killed by a cop isn’t the issue.
  3. The issue is the likelihood of a cop murdering someone and going unpunished. It is very likely that a murderous cop will go unpunished.
  4. Even one instance of a murderer going unpunished is a problem, but it is a common occurrence.

Before you brush Kaepernick off dismissively, you must explain whether it’s acceptable for cops to murder people and get away with it. If it’s not acceptable why aren’t you outraged about it?

The cops who murdered the following individuals (as a matter of a very small sample of the thousands of murders police have committed against people of all colors in the last few years) got off scot-free.

Those are black victims, but there are white victims cops have murdered and have gone unpunished such as Daniel Shaver and Andrew Finch. For some reason most white people don’t give a crap, but I, for one, am outraged about the murder of Philando Castile, Tamir Rice, and so many others, regardless of their color.

Anyone who is more outraged at Kaepernick than they are about actual murders being committed by police and the murderers going unpunished reveals a gross level of idolatry of America.

Abolish The Police, Police Abuse, Power Trip

For My Safety

The other day, I went to the courthouse in Pueblo. When you walk in the front door, you have to go through a metal detector, and there’s a pathway roped off where you have to walk back and forth when there’s a long line. I’ve never actually seen a line of more than three people, but I figured there must be a line at some time.

On this day, there was no one there. It seemed like a waste of time and foolish to walk back and forth through the circuitous pathway, with no one in line, so I ducked under the rope. The sheriff’s deputy told me that I have to go all the way through the line, “for his safety.”

I’m not always very good at coming up with things to say; I just laughed at him. He relented on making me go back through and start over, but said that if his sergeant had been on duty, he would have made me go back to the beginning. I can’t imagine anyone has ever actually attacked this old fat boy sitting on a stool.  I should have asked him how many times he’s been attacked.

The taxpayers hired cops (at least that’s what they claim) to protect us and our rights–not to make us walk back and forth in a non-existent line because they’re worried about their own safety. I want cops to be as safe as possible, but I expect them to put their safety after our rights, and after the safety of the public.

Law enforcement is a safe job. Garbage men have a more dangerous job. Feel free to look it up for yourself. This guy is just on a power trip like so many other cops.

Why is it that we as “free” people of this society have to be extra sensitive towards cops and their safety?

Basic Economics, Conversation, Reject Socialism

Conservatives Have No Idea What Socialism Is

I joined a new conservative Facebook group that has tons of action. It’s named “The Deplorables”. I got kicked out of a big tea party group several months ago. I joined several others, but there are rarely enough people commenting there for some reason, even though some of them have thousands of members. But Deplorables is where the action is now.

A guy posted that social security is socialist, and retirees who want to fight socialism ought to burn their checks. I absolutely agree, and I’m planning for retirement hoping to do just that. I understand that some people aren’t financially able to do that, but I always thought that was the conservative position–that socialism should be rejected.

Apparently I was wrong, because a shocking number of the people there are defending social security. They say things like we paid into it, so it’s not socialist. It’s shocking.

If conservatives are those who believe that social security is great, then conservatism has been defeated, and the USSR won the cold war. Here’s a sample of the conversation I had in the Deplorables group.

Abolish The Police, Another Lying Cop, Police Abuse, Power Trip

Lying Cops #1004

Here’s another cop that is either lying or is completely ignorant of the law. Either way, her job is supposed to be to protect our rights, but that is a joke. Every paycheck this cop accepts is an act of fraud.

https://www.facebook.com/wgroover/posts/10215278530049351

This is almost exactly like a conversation I had with the police a few years ago. It was resolved when our lawyer threatened to sue the city. The dispatchers were instructed to explain to those calling to complain that no law was being broken and the cops would not be responding. The truth is they don’t have to respond to every complaint.

Border Policy

Here’s A Great Article

I happened across this article, and it is excellent.

Here’s a quote:

Immigrants today often move here with no money and no job, and not knowing anyone. That’s bravery to me. It’s a risk that “C” students, the dullards, don’t ever take. Immigrants tend to be highly ambitious and brave persons, which explains why they are more likely than native-born Americans to risk starting up their own businesses. Today, immigrants are the brave people needed to populate the “home of the brave”.

The most oft repeated command in Scripture is, “Do not fear.”

 

Abolish The Police, Christianity, Practical Ideas, Reject Socialism, Taxation, Theonomy

What Am I Willing To Do To Make Government Irrelevant?

Why is government so involved in nearly every aspect of our lives? Because Christians have been disobedient. We weren’t supporting our parents and grandparents, so the government gave us Social Security. We weren’t taking care of education properly, so government gave us public school and so on.  Once the government started doing those jobs, we really gave up doing those jobs.

What is the solution? How do we shrink the size of government? We have to start doing those jobs again, and do them better than the government is doing them. Someone on Facebook said that sounds nice, but what are you willing to do? Here is what I told them:

1. I’m willing to homeschool my children in spite of being forced to pay property taxes that are used to educate other people’s children.
2. Lord willing, I’ll be able to rip up my Social Security checks in spite of being forced to pay into it.
3. I’m willing to come when my neighbors call to help to protect them from intruders, so that we don’t have to call the cops.
4. I’m willing to never call the cops/government on Christians because I’d rather be wronged than go to unbelievers to solve disputes as Scripture commands.
5. I’m willing to help my in-laws in their old age so that they might tear up their Social Security checks, as Scripture commands.
6. I’m willing to help orphans, widows and foreigners as Scripture commands.
7. I’m willing to listen to ideas for other ways we can make our antichrist government irrelevant and demonstrate the inferiority of secular humanism to Christianity.

 

 

Abolish The Police, Police Abuse, Power Trip

Would Abolishing Police Lead to Anarchy?

Bo Marinov answers that question:

We have anarchy WITH police. When a certain class of people are given executive privilege to harass other people and even murder on the streets, this is anarchy. Right now, 800,000 police murder and rob more than all the private criminals in this country. And crime committed by cops is the only category of crime that is on the rise.

Cops don’t have an “impossible job.” Facts and figures clearly show that they have one of the easiest and safest jobs in the country. And in addition, they have the privilege to murder and rob with impunity. A cop can kill a person for any reason whatsoever; on the other hand, private citizens can’t defend themselves against rogue cops. Which is the opposite to what the Founding Fathers believed.

America had no police for the first several generations of its existence. And it was a well-ordered country. Police was introduced by corrupt Democrat politicians in the 1840s. Ever since, police has never, for a single moment, been an instrument for fighting crime. It has always been an instrument for protecting corrupt politicians from the population. And for collecting revenue for the government.