When you criticize the police, and especially when you have a great argument, a true sign that someone is a cop worshiper is when they retort, “Well, I hope you never need to call the police again. If there aren’t any cops, you should just call a crackhead.”
Here’s a great response to that from a random dude on Facebook. “The crackhead has this going for him: He has a better knowledge and network on the streets, and will be fairly prosecuted for all violent crimes against you.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nS2TVjbdZWM
The notion that cops protect our rights is preposterous. Their job is to get people to talk to them (get them to voluntarily surrender their 5th Amendment right) without asking for an attorney (get them to voluntarily surrender their 6th Amendment right), and let them search their property without a warrant (get them to voluntarily surrender their 4th Amendment right). Lying is an acceptable way for them to get people to surrender their rights.
The police collect taxes (steal from people) to protect people from thieves. They attack people to collect taxes, fines and enforce unjust laws. Yet their PR message is that they protect our rights. I’ve had way more money stolen from me by cops on behalf of cities, counties, states and federal governments than all the thieves put together. They’re not protecting anyone’s rights but their own.
These cops have no basis in rationality or humility. They are thugs with guns who do what they want. Just imagine how much of these people’s time this is going to waste.
Do you know what’s worse than the cops? When these guys have clearly taken pains to obey the law, and cop-worshiping observers come along and say they need to obey the cops. They’re already obeying the law–it’s the cops who need to obey the law.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdLWfMmKDzU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSLPzy0vVqA
If you haven’t taken your kids out of school yet, what is it going to take? End Public School!
This doesn’t fit my normal theme, but it’s so good I have to post it. I hate buying a car, but here are some good tips on car buying from a car salesman:
1. The best time to go is at the end of the day (about 2 hours from closing time) on a rainy or cold day. First the dealership will be empty so no wait going into finance. Second they likely have not sold many cars that day and are more ready to make a deal. The times we have discounted cars the most are those times.
2. You don’t get a better deal from paying cash or having a check ready from your bank. When you do this they don’t make any money from you financing with them. If you tell them up front is a cash deal, they know they have to make all their money on the price of a car. They will be more willing to discount the car if they know they will make money from you financing.
3. They are not always giving you as much as they say from the trade in. If they are not discounting the sticker price or if it is barely discounted, but giving you a lot on your car, they are really taking the discount and applying it to your trade in. My dealership doesn’t do this so people come in expecting an unrealistic trade in price and they don’t get it because we already discounted the price on the new car.
4. Save yourself time haggling by working the deal out online. You know when you are on their website and it pops up that you can chat with someone? Go ahead and do this because they will give you a great deal to get you in the dealership. Go ahead and work your trade in numbers then to so you aren’t surprised when you get there. When you do this, you simply have to walk in, test drive the car and the haggling is over with.
5. Some of the add ons they offer in financing are worth it and some are not. If you aren’t putting money down, GAP insurance can be great. If you are putting money down it might not be worth it. Do some research ahead of time to know what kinds of things will be offered.
I’m sure the drug gang the blue gang is after are no good. Just like the mob who distributed alcohol during prohibition, these drug gangs are violent. I’m as opposed to drug use as anyone, but the clear solution to drug violence is to legalize drugs. That is the biblical solution, by the way–God determines justice–not man. But if you did that, many members of the blue gang would have to be laid off.
Also, no matter how bad we think someone might be, they are human beings created in God’s image. They’re not animals. They have the right to a speedy trial, the right to remain silent, the right to an attorney, the right to be presumed innocent. The most important job of police is to protect people’s rights–including people we suspect of being scoundrels–especially those we suspect are scoundrels. But that’s just a joke to the blue gang.
Biblically speaking, the cops (government tax collectors) would be held to the same standard as everyone else. They wouldn’t get to go around pointing guns at people. Everyone who points a gun at someone is fair game to be shot themselves.
The whole system of government we have is so messed up that it can’t be fixed. It has to be expunged and we have to start over.
The question was posed as to why so few systematic theology books speak to an issue such as economics. Below is how Bojidar Marinov answered.
“Any area of practical study and application is deadly to anti-Theonomists, for it exposes their nakedness. If they want to be Biblical, they are forced to go to the Law of God, which makes them an easy target for Theonomists who point to their inconsistency. If they want to be faithful to their anti-Theonomic position, they have to rely on humanistic theories which can be easily exposed as anti-Biblical. If you go back and read Joel’s and mine articles against the Two Kingdoms rhetoric, you will see that most of the time all we need to do is wait for these guys to talk on some practical issue – economics, politics, law, etc. – and show how they go against their own theology.”
“Therefore, the safest bet for all these seminary rats is to exclude such issues from their systematic theologies in order to avoid exposing themselves as inconsistent and as theological hypocrites. Keep only obscure hyper-spiritualized irrelevant topics under the title of “theology,” and relegate life and action and practical thought to the realm of “natural law” and common grace.”
A lot of people wonder what they can do to fight the tyranny we face. I think we should be looking for something local and something we can do while still living a normal life. Well, this guy found something. If nothing else, go out and turn all the red light cameras around. You will cost them ticket revenue and the manpower to go out there and re-face the cameras without actually vandalizing anything.
So many Christians quote the passage below (Mark 12:13-17) and say Jesus was teaching that you have to pay taxes, and that taxation is valid, because Jesus even gave his blessing here to Rome’s taxation. But is that really what He was saying?
Paying Taxes to Caesar
13 And they sent to him some of the Pharisees and some of the Herodians, totrap him in his talk. 14 And they came and said to him, “Teacher, we know that you are true and do not care about anyone’s opinion. For you are not swayed by appearances,[c] but truly teach the way of God. Is it lawful to paytaxes to Caesar, or not? Should we pay them, or should we not?” 15 But, knowing their hypocrisy, he said to them, “Why put me to the test? Bring me a denarius[d] and let me look at it.” 16 And they brought one. And he said to them, “Whose likeness and inscription is this?” They said to him, “Caesar’s.” 17 Jesus said to them, “Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.” And they marveled at him.
Rome’s occupation of Israel was God’s judgment on them, along with this tax. Additionally, the individuals attempting to trap Jesus were in rebellion to Christ, they were carrying Roman coins with blasphemous sayings on them into the temple. They were deserving of God’s judgment. I don’t think God’s use of Caesar to judge Israel is something that should be taken to legitimize such taxation or even a less brutal form of taxation. It certainly can’t be taken to mean that taxation by threat of violence is something that ought to be desired.
Jesus telling these individuals that they ought to pay the tax is not the same as saying that this particular tax is righteous. And Jesus wasn’t saying that future governments can implement whatever tax they might dream up. He just didn’t even speak on that, because He wasn’t addressing Caesar, but the taxpayers. When Jesus said they they were to render unto God the things that are God’s, He would also have told Caesar that he needs to render unto God the things that are God’s. It may be Caesar’s image on the coin, but God owns everything.
You see this scenario play out in the book of Philemon where Paul sends the slave Onesimus back to Philemon, his slave owner. This isn’t the Lord blessing the institution of Roman-style slavery or human ownership. It is taking things one step at a time, knowing that the gospel applied to culture will kill slavery eventually. It did destroy slavery in Rome, and it will destroy unjust taxation someday.
For a much more thorough examination of this passage, from someone much smarter than me, check out this article.
I don’t normally get into psychology, but this is pretty interesting. Here are highlights of the documentary to think about.
1. The other guards could have stopped the bad guards, but didn’t. This corresponds to modern day police. When one cop starts abusing someone, the others join in, or at the very least don’t do anything to stop the abuse.
2. The other prisoners let the prisoners who stand up against the abusers stand alone. A good example of this is when someone doesn’t pay the IRS, and stands trial before a jury of their peers (who you would think would also like to not pay their taxes). They are found guilty an overwhelming majority of the time. Rather than root for the guy who is willing to be one of the first people to put their neck out for liberty and justice, people send him to prison.
3. Authority corrupts people. As they said in the documentary, the prison guards were normal people, who when given authority went nuts.
It’s crazy to think that these guinea pigs completely bought into their roles in what they knew was an experiment. The sad truth is that our system is no more valid than the nuts in the Stanford basement. There is no moral foundation for our system of government other than might makes right.
You give a guy a costume, a badge and a gun, tell him he’s a cop and he’s willing to go out and destroy fellow human beings for selling untaxed cigarettes (e.g. Eric Garner). The badge is a piece of tin, with no authority or validity other than his willingness to commit violence.