I found four more bad apples. (That is four out of four in this case or 100%, who don’t know the law or care about the constitution. I guess it would be four out of five if you count the police chief who apologized for the false arrest.) If cops were M&Ms, would you eat a big handful?
You probably won’t hear this from many pulpits, but the Bible teaches these truths. If you want to learn more, I can help point you in the right direction. These have not been easy pills for me to swallow, and I suspect they won’t be easy for most others, but Christians are to be truth seekers and tellers, regardless of the consequences.
I’m not offering my opinion. These items are biblical truths. You are sinning if you send your kids to public school, are in favor of closed borders, support police, are in favor of keeping drugs illegal, vote for tax increases, etc.
These are controversial topics, but like I said, I’d be happy to explain why these items are true from the Bible.
This is from a random commenter. I don’t know who the guy is, but it is interesting.
Ok…I’ve been relatively quiet about this topic for a long time…
But, considering all we’ve been seeing lately, and your Biblically consistent view, I must say something…I had the privilege of working with the K9 units of many law enforcement agencies, both local and from other cities and states. Did I work with all LEOs? No. Did I work with the leadership? Generally, no. However, I worked, daily and consistently, with the head of our county’s K9 unit and the SWAT leader. I interacted with police officers from many areas, cities, counties, states, and varying responsibilities (K9, patrol, SWAT, task force, highway, etc.).
The one thing I took away from all that despite the (few) shining examples of honest men of integrity…never, ever, not for one moment, trust a police officer. Yes, they serve a valuable role in our society. But, there is a systemic racism and god-complex among the vast majority of the officers I knew, worked with, had lunch and dinner with and hung out with. The prevailing mentality among the guys I knew was “I have a badge and a gun; I own you.” (Yes, this is a direct quote from more than one police officer I had the privilege of working with).There is absolutely no doubt that a “us (police) vs. them (citizens)” mentality exists. I would argue that it is prevalent. I would argue that it is the norm. I could tell you stories that would turn your stomach. Lives lost. Freedoms taken away. Power abused.
Don’t get me wrong, our police force serves a valuable role in our society and I do very much respect those who wear the uniform…if they do so with integrity. However, I’ve found that those who do are the minority. I hope and pray that I’m wrong, but it seems, daily, that I’m shown to be right.I know you are catching some flack…keep telling the truth, keep exposing the darkness, keep speaking out. We need more Christian voices speaking on this issue. Ultimately it’s a Gospel issue, we cannot remain silent.
What would happen if you posted this video decrying this stupidity to a conservative group? They’d cheer the police on because the people were resisting arrest.
If you want to really disrespect the sacrifice of American service men, the story below is the perfect way. America’s military has shed their blood for our rights and this guy just gives them up to government enforcers as if they’re worthless. Kaepernick has nothing on this guy.
And all of this is over having the incorrect sticker on a license plate. The whole thing presupposes that Americans don’t have the right to travel without government stickers.
If only the founding fathers had been such subservient bootlickers, the whole unfortunate misunderstanding with the British could have been avoided.
What’s below is lauded by conservatives, because they’re blinded by false patriotism and the worship of power. We have no knowledge of history because we’ve been educated by the government, for the government. The government doesn’t like people looking too closely at the ideas of the founding fathers, since they rebelled against their government for far less than we put up with.
Matt Powers in Altoona, Pennsylvania.
Today I was pulled over by police. I had a loaded and concealed handgun on me at the time. Please keep in mind that my actions were completely voluntary for one simple reason. This is what happened.
He approached the drivers side and asked if I knew why he stopped me and I said I did not. He said my registration expired June 30 of 2016. He asked to see my drivers license, registration, and insurance card. As I kept my hands firmly locked at 10 and 2 on the steering wheel I immediately stated…..
“For your safety and mine sir I would like to inform you that I am a legally armed citizen. I have a concealed carry permit in my wallet. I don’t want to get my registration and insurance card because I have my pistol in the same compartment as my documents. The pistol is in the small compartment under the cup holder. Please be careful, there is a round in the chamber, the thumb safety is on, and there’s an extra magazine with it.”
He asked that I keep my hands on the wheel like they were and asked again where my handgun was. He asked where my wallet was with my permit card. I answered and then said…..
” I would like you to take possession of the handgun. I’ll get out of the truck if you want me to while you get it.” He told me that would be great and thanked me for my cooperation.
When I got out of the truck he wouldn’t turn his back to me. I asked if he would like to search me for any other weapons so he knew I wasn’t a threat. He said….
“If you don’t mind that would be great. Do you have any other firearms or weapons on you or in the truck?” I replied that I did not.
The police officer searched me and retrieved my handgun from the compartment with my documents and asked permission to retrieve my drivers license and conceal carry permit from my wallet. I gladly gave him permission to get what he needed. I also gave him permission to search the rest of my truck if he wanted to if he felt it necessary. The officer declined the consent I gave him to search.
After all the formalities the cop brought my pistol back to me and I said “If you want you can just lay everything on the drivers seat and I’ll get it when we’re done.”
I thanked him for being as calm as he was especially dealing with someone that had a handgun that was legally carried. The cop thanked me for my cooperation. He asked me to sign the warning ticket and to make sure to get my registration taken care of ASAP.
I thanked him and the back up officer for their service and told them to be safe, especially nowadays with all the crazy shit that was going on. I told them that was the reason I carry a handgun myself. I shook both of their hands. He handed me my warning and I went on my way.
After the cold blooded terrorist attack and hate crime in #Dallas and that day learning about #BatonRouge where the blood spilled still fresh in the minds of every American I chose to do what I thought was right.
The moral of the story.
It’s about everyone’s safety.
It’s about respect.
When you treat people with civility you get treated with civility.
Thank you Altoona Police Department for having professional law enforcement officers representing your department and protecting the well being of the city.
Bojidar Marinov says:
American conservatives used to point to cases of police brutality in Eastern Europe as one of the characteristics of Communism.
Today, the same conservatives loudly defend police brutality in the US.
The real Marxists in the US are the conservatives. Only two groups in the last century have defended police with such vigor: Communists and American conservatives.
My opinion isn’t worth anything. The opinion of a majority of the voters isn’t worth anything (at least as far as determining the truth). God determines what justice is, and conservatives don’t care about that.
I found this on Facebook and thought it was pretty thought-provoking.
Conservatives support gun registration by concealed carry permit, and oppose open carry. While they cry out about gun registration, they wink and run down to local gun range to get a permit to do what God and the constitution guarantee;
They support a ban against ex-convicts, (now refereed to by them as felons”), apparently they believe anyone tried and convicted is dead and their inalienable rights have left them and their spirit needs to catch up;
They believe in restrictions of machine gun ownership unless you are willing to pay a tax that is beyond the average citizen reach;
and they support the right of doctors to declare their fellow citizens, they deem unfit to own a a firearms, and again basically dead.
Conservatives in America are either openly Marxist and Fascists, or ignorantly Marxist and Fascists.
Instead of crying peace peace where there is none, their cry is safety and security at any cost and they have neither.
More unarmed black guys have been killed by police and blacks are rioting and destroying things.
One thing that Bojidar Marinov points out is that it is completely inconsistent to celebrate the Boston Tea Party and decry the current rioting going on. At least $2.5 million worth of tea was destroyed at the Boston Tea Party.
I talk to my friends, who are all white, and they’re scared of doing anything to rebel against the government, and I can certainly see why; the government is violent. But the black rioters don’t seem to be scared of anything.
I think they are not applying their energy in the right direction. They need to go break innocent people out of jail or organize a way to respond rapidly when the cops show up to evict someone for not paying their property or income taxes.
Here’s wise words from Bojidar Marinov
Since I was asked to weigh in on Terence Crutcher’s murder, I would offer the following:
No one should be surprised that cops are murderers in cold blood. That’s what police was created for in the first place – to subjugate a free people. Just like government schools, government welfare, government central banks and currency, government regulations, government security – that is, police – was created to serve the government against its own citizens.
What will be much more worthy of our attention, though, will be the actions of the prosecution, which will find ways to save the murderer from justice. And then watch the police unions. When they step in to support the murderer, and no individual cops speak up against this support, you will know exactly how many good cops are there in Oklahoma. That is, ZERO.
Thus, all the talk about “better training” is useless. Better training on thugs in uniforms will only make them more skillful thugs. The truth is, police must be abolished. It’s a standing army, the arm of tyranny.
This is Bojidar Marinov’s recommended reading list for Christian reconstruction. I’ve read a few on this list, but I still have a ways to go. He can definitely recommend books faster than I can read them.
Many of these can be had for free at Gary North’s Free Books.
A few weeks ago, I received a letter from a mother of two very young children who wanted to start reading so that she could train them in a thoroughly Biblical worldview. I sent her the following reply which I post here, in case some of my friends find it helpful:
Hi, R.,
Thank you very much for your encouragement! Yes, I understand how you would feel at the very beginning when you see a whole world of new ideas that really make sense but you don’t know where to start from. Here are my suggestions:
The best book to start from is Gary North’s Unconditional Surrender. It gives a short but comprehensive overview for our message – what the Bible says about God, man, time, law, what it says about the institutions (family, church, state, economy), and what it says about history and future, and our job here. Then I would also go to an old but excellent book of Gary North’s, 75 Bible Questions. It covers three sections of 25 questions each: Sovereignty, God’s or Man’s?, Law: God’s or Man’s?, The Kingdom: God’s or Man’s?
On the Law of God, start with R.J. Rushdoony, By What Standard, Greg Bahnsen, By This Standard and No Other Standard. Then, prepare for some fat books: R.J. Rushdoony,Institutes of Biblical Law – the foundational book of the Christian Reconstruction. Then, you need to take on four other fat books (but they are broken into chapters and very easy to read), Gary North’s first four volumes of his economic commentary of the Bible: The Dominion Covenant (on Genesis), Moses and Pharaoh (on the Exodus), The Sinai Strategy(on the Ten Commandments), and Tools for Dominion (on the case laws in Exodus 21-40). The books look intimidating but once you get into reading the first one, you will be excited by the new information you are learning.
On eschatology, my favorite one is Kenneth Gentry, He Shall Have Dominion. It is a defense of postmillennialism, very thorough, very academic. But there is a simpler book for starters, and it is David Chilton’s Paradise Restored – and that’s what I would advise you to start with. Kenneth Gentry also has The Greatness of the Great Commission, and I tell you, he does a great job in explaining the meaning of the Great Commission. I would also add Dennis Peacocke, Winning the Battle for the Minds of Men here.
On social action, I will recommend Gary North, Liberating Planet Earth which is part of the Biblical Blueprint Series. (The whole BBS is very good: short books, almost like textbooks, and they have been very helpful for my people in Bulgaria. I will mention some of the other BBS books later.) Gary DeMar, God and Government has been a great resource to homeschoolers – it is like textbook, and explains both the Biblical principles for government, and how America was founded. Gary North’s Tactics of Christian Resistance and Theology of Christian Resistance deserve your time too. Also, R.J. Rushdoony, Politics of Guilt and Pity, Christianity and the State, and Salvation and Godly Rule. A Book that you need to read and also give to your pastor is Herbert Schlossberg, Idols for Destruction.
On business and work, I strongly recommend Dennis Peacocke, Almighty and Sons: Doing Business God’s Way. Also, sign up for Gary North’s articles on garynorth.com. The forums there are great – many people sharing their expertise from a Christian perspective. Other books you need to read: Ian Hodge, Making Sense of Your Dollars, Terry Applegate,A Christian View of Vocation.
On economics, in addition to North’s economic commentary on the Bible, a great book isIntroduction to Christian Economics. In the Biblical Blueprints Series you will find his Inherit the Earth and Honest Money. (You have to read Honest Money, and I mean Y’ALL, both you and your husband, in these times.) R.J. Rushdoony’s CD series, Economics, Money and Hope is a great resource too. Find also Stephen Perks, The Political Economy of the Christian Society, David Chilton, Productive Christians in an Age of Guilt-Manipulators, and Ian Hodge, Baptized Inflation.
On family and education, Biblical Blueprint Series has Robert Thoburn, Children Trap, and Ray Sutton, Who Owns the Family? God or State? You have to read R.J. Rushdoony,The Philosophy of Christian Curriculum, and Stephen Perks, The Philosophy of Christian Education Explained. Two books will give you a good idea of what the public schools are: R.J. Rushdoony, The Messianic Character of American Education, and Bruce Shortt, The Harsh Truth About Public Schools. To get an idea about how a subject can be taught from a Christian perspective, get James Nickel’s Mathematics: Is God Silent?
On history, nothing beats R.J. Rushdoony’s CD set, A Christian Survey of World History, and his book, The Biblical Philosophy of History. As an American Christian, you need to read John Chamberlain, Enterprising Americans. There is more on history but I will give you more titles later, as you progress.
On psychology, R.J. Rushdoony’s Revolt Against Maturity – an excellent book, and you will learn how to evaluate yourself and your children from a Biblical perspective.
On apologetics, Greg Bahnsen is the authority: Always Ready is a simple and excellent book, Presuppositional Apologetics is more complex and academic. Pushing the Antithesiswill teach you how to defeat the enemy before they know what has come upon them.
On theology, R.J. Rushdoony, Systematic Theology and Sovereignty. You need to become familiar with John Calvin’s Institutes of Christian Religion: that book changed Europe and shaped Europe and America beyond what most historians are willing to admit.
If you need audios, the best place to go is http://www.pocketcollege.com/index.htm – over 2,000 hours of Rushdoony’s lectures!
The websites where you need regularly go for resources are http://chalcedon.edu andhttp://americanvision.org.
In all those books I am recommending above, there will be additional bibliography that will help you expand the list. If you need to consult me on a specific book or topic, don’t hesitate to email me.
