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.
End Public School, Resistance to Tyranny is Obedience to God

Let’s Worry About Something That Matters

People are so worried about who the president is going to be. I couldn’t care less. Whether it’s Trump or Hillary, it doesn’t matter, both of them will have to be opposed every step of the way.

What I would like people to care about, and invest their energy into is making the president irrelevant. If the president says boys can use the girls’ bathroom, the only thing a Christian should worry about is how to resist the stupidity of that. Many conservative, Christian people in this very town think that when the president says boys can use the girls’ bathroom, that boys can actually use the girls’ bathroom. How foolish!

We need to convince our neighbors that we don’t have to obey everything the president says. We need to convince the person down the pew from us that Romans 13 doesn’t teach strict obedience even to the point that anyone can use whatever bathroom they feel like. If there was ever something more preposterous I can’t think of what it would be.

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Abolish The Police, Police Abuse, Power Trip, Theonomy

November 1, 2002

I was talking to someone on Facebook who posted an article saying how serious the threat from Islamic terrorism is. I pointed out that 60 million babies have been aborted, and I would bet that police have murdered more Americans than terrorists (about 3000).

Obviously 60 million dead babies dwarfs the 3000, by a factor of 20,000. If you’re worried about anything, you should be 20,000 times more worried about that than terrorism. He didn’t care to discuss that obvious refutation of his idea, but we had a long debate about how many people the police have killed.

I admitted that I don’t have hard data on how many people have been murdered by police versus how many have been justifiably killed. He had hard data showing how few cops are convicted of murder. He thought that was meaningful, but ultimately admitted that a country that has warped the definition of murder to the point that the murder of 60 million babies has gone unpunished, might have a warped definition of murder for its revenue collection agents as well.

So I decided to try to determine that number by seeing how many people were murdered in September 2016. Is that an average month? I don’t know. An interesting question is whether police murders have gone up over the decades, or do we just have more information, because ordinary people have been walking around with video cameras in their pockets for the last few years? I wouldn’t be surprised if more people were murdered by police in the past (like in the 80s and 90s), but who knows? I would think the militarization of police was a smaller factor, but cops working in inner cities probably had an even better chance of committing murder without any consequences. Maybe that will be my next area of study.

So what are the results of my study for the month of September? You can check out each case here, but there were 18 people murdered that month, as best I can tell by a biblical definition of murder. There are issues I’ve run into with compiling that number as I’ve discussed here and here, but I’m confident that those 18 were murdered by the biblical definition.

Assuming that is an average month, how long before police would have murdered more than terrorists? Three thousand divided by 18 would be 166 2/3 months, which is less than 14 years. So, since approximately November 1, 2002, three thousand people have been murdered by police.

The obvious issue is that I’ve only done this with one month, and one month could be far from average, maybe high or maybe low. I acknowledge that.

But it is interesting that since September 11, more Americans have been murdered by cops than by Islamic terrorists.

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Theonomy

Darth Vader Government

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I found the above meme, and think it’s a great way to express the truth. We all know what an evil guy ol’ Darth is and that’s a famous line from the movie:

If one side of a contract or deal can alter the terms, then, the contract is just for show. The megalomaniac puts his gun on the table for all the honest world to feel, and it is revealed that there was never really any voluntary deal.

But government is every bit as megalomaniacal as Darth Vader. The city says, we will provide these services in exchange for these taxes. Maybe the initial parties agree, but then, down the road, the social contract can be changed. You just need 50.01% of the voters to agree, or maybe just your representatives, and everyone else will arbitrarily see their social contract changed, and they know what will happen if they don’t go along. At least Darth Vader makes it quick and relatively painless.

What’s the only solution to this? God’s laws is just and righteous. It won’t be changed, because any change will only take it from perfection to imperfection. This is called theonomy, and the only alternative to theonomy is autonomy (or man’s law).

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Abolish The Police, Police Abuse, Power Trip

Reliability of the Cops

My little project to go through each of the people killed by police in September, and try to determine whether they were killed justifiably or murdered has been an eye-opening experience. It seems that there are many people killed by the police, and if there is even a hint that they were armed or were doing something criminal, no one cares about their death, or cares to ask questions to see whether they may have been murdered.

The Alton Sterling case is a reminder of that. It is a high profile case, AND it was caught on video. If Alton Sterling was armed (which is perfectly legal in America), we get to slap a medal on the killer cops’ chests, and forget the whole thing. But if he was unarmed, maybe it’s not so easy. There might be ramifications if they just let the cops murder people without consequence. There is a large incentive for the police to claim Sterling was armed, and that’s what they did.

From this CNN article, dated two days after the killing, the “Baton Rouge police Chief Carl Dabadie Jr. said Sterling was armed at the time he was killed…”

It turns out that is completely false. Alton Sterling was unarmed. The chief of police lied. Of course, police are famous for saying they’re “not going to release any information until we have all the facts. The officers involved in the shooting are going to be placed on administrative leave as per standard procedure, yaddah, yaddah, yaddah.” Unless they can get the media to report that the victim had a gun, then the whole thing will blow over, and they’re willing to tell what a dangerous criminal their victim was, whether it’s true or not.

So, it’s obvious they tried that tactic with Sterling, and it didn’t work. But the question then becomes: How often do they lie through their teeth, there is no cell phone video uploaded, the media reports their version of the story, and no one really looks into it? There’s no way of knowing.

There has to be someone other than another police agency to investigate every single shooting. Request any body or dash camera footage and hold their feet to the fire on every single police killing. This should be the job of the media, but citizens can do it as well.

Abolish The Police, Taxation

Are These Violent People?

All taxes are collected by threats of violence and property confiscation. That means if you’re in favor of taxation, you’re in favor of government violence to collect money.

Canon City has a measure on the ballot to increase its sales tax by 1%. I had an online debate with a guy who is in favor of this tax increase, to repair roads. So, this guy doesn’t like the condition of the roads, and covets better roads to the point that he’s willing to see increased government theft for his own personal benefit.

I confronted him with these truths, that he personally is being sinfully covetous, and is willing to see increased threats of violence for his pet issue, and that this is immoral. He said that our conversation reminded him that governing people is like herding cats, and he sees why there must be an enforcement mechanism for taxation.

So, I assume the guy isn’t personally violent. I don’t know him, but I think it’s safe to assume. But, he sees the need for the government to be violent. He’s not personally violent, but has no problem hiring thugs in blue costumes to perform violence so he can benefit personally from better roads.

He would probably say it would be immoral for him personally go try and collect money to pay for roads. But something magical happens in his mind to make it moral for a cop to coerce payment.

I’ve been wondering whether this makes him a violent person himself. But I don’t think he would ever harm anyone personally. I think it just makes him a sissy. He’s not willing to go kick someone’s head in; he wants someone else to do that for him. He’s just a sissy.

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