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.
Christianity, Reject Socialism

Christians are the Problem

An older guy who is truly a very kind person, and has an official (though unpaid) position at my church posted the following.

With friends like this who are confused and distorting the truth in such a way, who needs enemies? This guy is smart, and a knowledgeable Christian.

If social security was insurance, it wouldn’t be paid out to everyone. But it is mandatory to pay in and everyone collects who lives past a certain age.

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We also know it’s not insurance, because the first people to collect barely paid anything in. “The first monthly payment was issued on January 31, 1940 to Ida May Fuller. She paid a total of $24.75 into the Social Security System. Her first check was for $22.54. After her second check, Fuller already had received more than she contributed over the three-year period. She lived to be 100 and collected a total of $22,888.92.”

Social security is theft. It is not insurance. It is a Ponzi scheme. Government is the enemy of Christians. It is antichrist. That is the tidbit of truth that Christians are missing. There is no city, county, state or federal agency that is not an enemy to Christianity, free markets, and the truth.

Many baby boomers, like the man who posted the meme, are fond of mocking millennials. Millennials are probably worthy of mockery along with every other generation, but baby boomers are the real problem. Even the good ones defend socialist programs like social security.

Abolish The Police, Police Abuse, Power Trip

Very Simply Put

Here’s a good comment from a friend.

Just watch some cop block videos and if you are a discerning person, you will see that it isn’t simply the issue of police acting badly or there are only some bad apples etc… but the problem is that they act this way because the system allows them to do it..

if the system allows them to do it (as in there are special rights for police officers that non police do not have), then the system is inherently unjust and tyrannical..

Let’s say a police officer is beating the shit out of you because you were “resisting arrest”, for self defense, why don’t you point a gun at a police officer and see how he reacts??
He will freak out and will do everything he can to shoot you first.

NOW:
What about when a police officer points a gun at you with no biblically justified provocation? While the police officer can go berserk on you if you pointed something to him, YOU are expected to be calm and follow everything he says.. And if you try to defend yourself when a police officer points a gun at you, you will get put down.

And if you ever survive the encounter in scenario 1 or 2, good luck actually proving that you were legitimately trying to defend yourself in our Mickey Mouse courts.

Resistance to Tyranny is Obedience to God

Exposing More Schizophrenia

Larken Rose knocks it out of the park with this one.

If you ask your average flag-waving, patriotic Murican when it’s okay to forcibly resist the thugs in blue (a.k.a. “law enforcement”), they will often have tantrums at you, accusing you of being a communist, or a terrorist, or unAmerican. (That last one is especially funny since they also celebrate July 4th, which honors a bunch of lawless criminals telling the “law enforcers” of their day to get lost or get shot.)

However, if you ask those SAME flag-waving, patriotic Muricans if they approved of the subjects of various tyrannical regimes forcibly resisting their oppressors–such as those who suffered in communist China, or under Stalin’s Russia or Hitler’s Germany, and so on–they will vehemently cheer the idea of armed rebels forcibly battling tyranny.

And if you break it down to specifics, their hypocrisy gets even more obvious. Do they think the people of Germany had the right to disobey, even resist, when the Nazi SS would stop people at random, demanding to see their “papers”? Of course they had that right (proclaims the nationalistic Murican)! How about when U.S. police do the “stop and frisk” routine, or stop all cars driving down a road for a “border checkpoint” that isn’t at the border, or for a “regulation checkpoint” to ask to see people’s… well… papers? Do Americans have the right to disobey, even resist? Of course not (most flag-waving Muricans will say)! Only a despicable criminal would refuse to cooperate with “the law”!

The moral of the story is that a lot Americans claim to love freedom, while also proclaiming that Americans should passively tolerate MORE injustice and oppression than the people of Germany should have tolerated under Nazi rule. And that should tell you something about how unobjective nationalism and patriotism makes people.

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Abolish The Police, Christianity, Police Abuse, Power Trip, Theonomy

Romans 13 Is So Misunderstood

Many Christians seem to take a blind obedience interpretation of Romans 13, but in actuality, it is dynamite laid at the foundation of tyrannical government. It says if you do good, you will have nothing to worry about from the civil magistrates, because they are God’s servants to carry out God’s wrath. Who defines good and evil? It’s saying if you follow God’s law, you won’t have any problems. And that the government’s job is to punish wrongdoers. The Supreme Court doesn’t define who the wrongdoers are. Government by God’s definition is to punish criminals as defined by God’s law.

And Romans 13 is also saying that punishing criminals is their ONLY job. It’s not their job to issue currency, build roads, provide welfare, educate children or even protect life and property. To believe that the government ought to do anything other than punish criminals is to have a misunderstanding of Scripture.

Capitalism, Christianity

Comment on Executive Pay

You often hear of the CEO of a company making millions of dollars a year, and it’s tempting to think they’re getting overpaid. But here’s what Mr. T has to say about that.

Gents, I run an investment management firm and we’ve looked quite a bit into the whole topic of senior executives and their compensation. Based on what I’ve seen so far, I can tell you that the general public has it backwards. They thought that CEO pay was so obscenely high, that if it the numbers were publicly known, they would go down. So they passed a law and now every public company needs to make public the pay of its top 5 executives. And what happened as a result? The executives’ pay went up quite substantially. [In fact, one can argue that it’s as high as it is today because the government made it mandatory to publish that information. 🙂]

The fact is that the person at the top has tremendous influence on how the company is doing. Just look at the story of Apple and Steve Jobs. He founded the firm in the 70’s, and it became a top brand and a darling of the investment world in a few short years. Then the board of the company got rid of him around 1985 and by 1997 the company was on its deathbed. Then Apple hired him back, and in 14 years he made them the most valuable company in the whole world. This isn’t luck. It’s not that he was born in the right place at the right time. It wasn’t the connections of his dad (a Syrian immigrant, by the way). The guy was so good that when they announced the iPhone in 2007, Google’s team working on their own smart phone had to scrap the whole project and start all over again, copying most of Jobs’ ideas.

The fact is that even highly compensated CEOs get paid to the tune of 0.1% of the company’s value per year, but their work makes a difference much greater than 0.1%. The cold, hard truth is that the CEOs are actually underpaid. So when the numbers became public, the guys in the lower half basically said “wait a minute, not only are you paying me much less than I’m making you, but you’re also paying me less than my peers”, and so the boards (the shareholder representatives) had to always make sure they’re paying their CEOs at or above the average level for the CEO’s level of competence, industry, the size of the firm, etc. and overall executive pay started creeping up, up, up…

But again, we’re talking about small sums of money in the grand scheme of things. They make for juicy headlines for the mass media, but their economic effect is minimal. Frankly, it’s a societal breach of the tenth commandment. People should be focused on their own work and their own contributions. And if they see somebody making (in a free-market transaction) a hundred times more money than them, they should be inspired that such success is possible, rather than wish for that person to go down. And remember, even if you’re middle class in the U.S., you’re actually making a hundred times more money than quite a few people walking on this Earth. Not only that, but unlike the top CEOs, you’re probably not that much more talented than those making 1% of what you’re making. You’re actually the one who’s been born in the right place at the right time.

Secession

How Great Is America?

Going along with yesterday’s post, here is some anecdotal evidence of the problems America has from the perspective of a Canadian who has been living in Taiwan for years.

It’s hard to compare quality of life and levels of freedom from country to country, but this guy has some interesting things to say.