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

Self-Contradiction

A guy on Facebook posted this:

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The position he takes is that he’s protecting our rights. That is one of the public relations talking points of government, but it doesn’t really work. If they’re really concerned about our rights, why do they force us to pay them? Why do they violate my right to private property in order to protect my rights?

The whole system is fundamentally flawed. They’ve built this enormous edifice of government and law enforcement on weak and shifting, self-contradictory sand (to borrow an analogy from Christ).

I’d much rather they didn’t exist, and I’ll protect my God-given rights myself, or by paying someone voluntarily, if it becomes necessary. It makes no sense that the government coerces me to protect me from coercion. They need to find a new way. Might I suggest the biblical way? Anything else will lead to these self-contradictions.

It’s hard to respect the heart of those who rob me blind so they can pretend to be my defender.

When a cop pulls you over, is he protecting your rights?
When a cop pulls you over, is he protecting your rights?
Abolish The Police, Police Abuse, Power Trip

A Good Start

It happens occasionally…local law enforcement stands up to the federal government. In this case, Elkhart County, Indiana sheriff stood up to the FDA for harassing a farmer selling raw milk. A letter threatening to arrest them for trespassing and telling them that he needs to be informed of any further action they take beforehand was all it took to get the feds off the farmer’s back for good. That was four years ago.

All it took was a letter from the sheriff and the feds have left the farmer alone.

Because it’s so simple, so good, so right and so easy. The story has received new attention, because the sheriff was asked about it and wrote about it for the local newspaper.

It’s not like he did something so spectacular, daring and bold. He wrote a letter and they backed off. Why can’t sheriffs across the country write a letter? How many injustices do the feds commit? And all it would take is a letter from a lesser magistrate.

This is what we need, and it’s exactly what is not happening. This is why the local cops are just as bad and tyrannical as Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Obama. They do what they’re told almost always, whether it’s right or wrong, as if they have no idea what right or wrong is.

If this kind of thing happened regularly and often, (because it needs to happen often), if this type of story was old hat, we could take this country back. But until then…FB_IMG_1441597484967

 

Abolish The Police, Police Abuse, Power Trip

Fourth Amendment?

Apparently, this cop has never heard of the 4th Amendment, which would require him to have suspicion that a crime has been committed before pulling someone over. I guess in his mind he can make up for such pesky nuisance with bluster and intimidation.

We need to teach our children to stand up to these people, know their rights, like the guy in the video.

Abolish The Police, Police Abuse, Power Trip

Point Proven

There are all kinds of problems with this video offering an apologetic for police brutality. But using the data cited in the video reveals a whole other issue with the system.

A commenter on the video says:

If officers contact 53,000,000 people per year, and there are 670,000 cops, and let’s say 250 working days per year (52 weeks minus 10 vacation days). There would be 167 million cop days per year. Fifty-three million contacts divided by 167 million cop days means that on average a cop has contact with 0.32 citizens per day. Or the average cop contacts one citizen every 3 days. If we can get cops moving at the breakneck speed of 1 citizen contact per day, we could lay off 2/3 of all cops.

I just saved this country billions of dollars.

A cop-lover, antagonistic to the embarrassing math, pointed out that a lot of cops work 12-hour shifts rather than 8-hour shifts. This would change the math, and the number of contacts per shift change to 0.5 contacts per shift. The rise in contacts per shift is only due to longer shifts. Contacts/hour would remain the same, and the point remains.

Personally, I would like to see police abolished, but the point is that government workers are all terribly inefficient, because they’re paid by money taken by force. The “customers” are forced to pay whether they’re happy with the service or not.

I happened across this video that illustrates the point that so many cops could be laid off with little effect, because the government is so wasteful. Enjoy the proven point in this 1 minute video.

 

End Public School

This Is a Bad Idea

Don't take the cheese!
Don’t take the cheese!

I realize it sucks that we get ripped off via property taxes and then we homeschool our kids completely out of our own pocket. Rich and poor alike, who are willing to send their kids to public school get free tuition.

But the program they’re talking about in this video is a bad idea. Once you accept government money, you’ve fallen into their trap. They are going to start trying to control you, because that is what they do. If I was running the Christian school, I would refuse to accept any scholarship money from the state. This lady can take her kids somewhere else.

End Public School

Good Commentary

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Joel McDurmon said, “The issues of sovereignty, non-neutrality, and purpose all mean that you have to make the choice for liberty, it will not happen for you. If you leave the decision for someone else, then you have abdicated your individual responsibility. If you accept that civil government can coerce you or others to pay for other people, then you have abdicated the principle of liberty. So, the question of control and command of education forces us before God to choose who shall lead and how.”

In response to that, Paul Dorr said, “To restore Biblical justice and liberty and push back tyranny please read and understand the most basic step starts with the education of Christian children.  There is no place in the Bible for the civil authorities to be involved in public schools.  Dr. McDurmond’s American history, below, stands in contrast to David Barton’s defense of public education from the beginning of America.   (Never forget Barton was once a public school teacher.)”

“The principles Dr. McDurmon lays out below became real to me 20 years ago.  When I challenged Iowa’s compulsory age laws in the mid 1990s in our home-school we not only defended our right to do so, but after being charged by a special prosecutor I, in turn, “prosecuted” the illegitimate public schools system, in the court of public opinion.  In initial proceedings the District Court Judge let the prosecutor know the bar was set pretty high for the him to prove the state could intrude into our sovereign parental realm.  A key element in his assessment, we later learned, was that we refused to take one nickel of government money to educate our children.  (I can thank the late Dutch Christian farmer, Henry Vellema, for teaching me that.)  Later, the prosecutor moved to have the charges dismissed and the court agreed, even in the face of a previous Iowa Supreme Court ruling granting the state’s “authority” in home schooling.”

“What Dr. McDurmon is spelling out below takes faith, complete confidence in Christ our King, and the support of your local Christian fellowship.  When it all comes together there is power, liberty, freedom…that even tyrants recognize and will yield to.  Study this carefully and given prayerful consideration.”

“P.S. As I’ve stated in the past my greatest burden through all of this was my compromised legal counsel: Home School Legal Defense Assoc.  They can’t afford to let such Biblical foundations of liberty take hold or their future will be at stake.”

Resistance to Tyranny is Obedience to God, Taxation

You Don’t Hear This From a Pastor Every Day!

Here’s what Gordan Runyan, a pastor in New Mexico had to say about the US government and its taxation:

 I don’t believe an antichrist government (one that is explicitly NOT obeying the King, and is in violation of its narrow, stated mission re: Romans 13) can collect a just tax, period. If they are in purposeful violation of their mandate, they have no right to the mission funding.

I love it!

He wrote the book “Romans 13 and the Christian Duty to Oppose Wicked Rulers” and I highly recommend it. It is short and easy to understand.

 

Abolish The Police, Resistance to Tyranny is Obedience to God, Theonomy

Stevens Destroys American Government

Marc Stevens (the guy doing this interview) is onto something. Cops, judges, attorneys, politicians and bureaucrats all claim that the law of the jurisdiction you’re in applies to you. When this guy asks them for evidence for that claim, none of them has ever been able to answer. Their only possible answer is that the law applies only because the law says it applies. That is circular and is invalid.

I could write a law in my notebook saying, “The following laws apply to me. Law 1-1(a): I can drive whatever speed I like.”

When the cops pull me over for speeding, I could show them my law and they ought to leave me alone by their standard. My law applies because my law says it applies. My laws are every bit as valid (that is completely invalid) as their laws.

Marc Stevens’ argument destroys our current antichrist system of government. As an anarcho-capitalist, he’s content to stop there. But there’s one thing he’s missing. If there was a transcendant standard–a law–all humans are responsible to live by, then the government could say we ought to obey the government’s laws because Scripture says so. This would provide them a valid reason for why we are under their jurisdiction.

The problem is their laws say it is illegal for them to appeal to Scripture. Just as in every other area of life, we must choose between Christ and absurdity. Our government has chosen absurdity, and their only justification for what they do is their constant threat of violence.

In order to appeal to Scripture, they would have to profess Christ as king, and that this is a Christian nation. Lip service wouldn’t be adequate. They would have to adopt just, biblical laws. Until then, they have chosen absurdity, and won’t be able to answer the question of why anyone has to obey their law other than “might makes right”. But their willingness to kill me doesn’t give them jurisdiction.

Christianity, Power Trip, Practical Ideas, Resistance to Tyranny is Obedience to God, Taxation

Blown Opportunity

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I’m sick of myself today as I missed an opportunity to speak up to a micro-tyrant. Not only that, but it took me weeks to realize how badly I blew it.

On January 4, I went in to the Fremont County motor vehicle department to register a car I bought. That was the first work day after New Year’s Day weekend, and the deadline for registering the car. I would have incurred a late fee had I not registered the car that day.

Fremont County offices are closed on Friday. They started doing  that a few years ago to save money. Since Friday was January 1, they decided to close on Thursday December 31 for New Year’s Day. The end of the month is a deadline for registrations to be renewed.

The guy sitting at the desk next to mine was going to be charged a non-nominal (though I don’t remember how much, maybe $20) late fee for having missed his December deadline. He explained that he had come on Thursday, and their offices were closed. He complained to the clerk, and she called over a higher-up to explain.

The higher-up said she had to charge a late fee to several people in his situation that day, and told them to take it up with the county commissioners for having declared December 31st a day off.

Here’s what I should have said:

Hey man, she’s just doing her job. Just like the Nazis who shoved the Jews into the ovens were just doing their job. She checks her conscience at the door every day and thinks that having a government job entitles her to rob people.

Ma’am, you can’t push the blame for your willingness to steal off on the county commissioners. Your job consists of forcing people to run the bureaucratic gauntlet of an evil, antichrist government. You produce nothing of value. You will stand before the Lord and give an account some day for every penny you’ve stolen.

None of the theft this government commits is possible without regular people like you making it happen. The Nazi guards didn’t get away with killing Jews by blaming their superiors. Neither will you get away with stealing by blaming your superiors. So at least be honest and say that YOU are enforcing these wicked rules and evil registration fees. You can’t blame anyone but yourself, and it’s not happening without you or someone like you.

If the commissioners had chosen to take Monday off rather than Thursday, I would have been in that guy’s position. We need to stand up for each other, and speak up for each other. There is no other weapon we have at this point other than to boldly speak the truth. Lord, give me the words to say and the courage to say them. Help me to not be so self-absorbed as to not think of others when they’re facing injustice.