Capitalism, Power Trip, The Way Things Ought to Be

Union Thugs

Did you know that you can’t run an electric cable or a water line in Colorado without getting a permit? I can maybe see if they were truly concerned with safety how some people might think that’s a good idea. But safety isn’t their main concern. Their main concern is pleasing the trade unions.

Whether you’re an amateur or a professional, they inspector looks at every little bit of the project. You have to leave the drywall off the walls for them to inspect, and every bit of it has to be accessible. So, it shouldn’t matter whether you’re working on your own home, your business or investment property, or getting paid to work on someone else’s property. They can and do inspect the entire project. If you make a mistake, they will find it.

But unless you are a licensed plumber or electrician, you can only get a permit as a homeowner for your personal residence. Furthermore, with a homeowner’s permit, you have to personally do all the work. You can’t hire a laborer to help you. Why is that? Because the unions have lobbied the state to make laws to benefit themselves. This is nothing but job security for tradesmen. It makes the state inspectors nothing more than union thugs.

One of the most famous rackets of the mafia is to force people to use union labor. They do this by applying force (or threats of force). “Mr. Majestyk” is a great movie with Charles Bronson (filmed partially in Canon City) where a bunch of mobsters tried to force Charles Bronson to use their laborers to harvest his melon crop.

The state inspectors have the guns and threats of violence of the state backing up their whims. They are free to act like the mafia with thinly-veiled threats. Their job isn’t to do the right thing to serve the people of Colorado, but to protect the unions. What the mafia did illegally has been legalized and placed in the hands of a wicked government. The state saw what the mafia was doing and became jealous.

I’m all for safety and doing things right. But the Bible defines the job of the state. It’s only job is punishing evil–not protecting wildlife, issuing currency, building roads, or inspecting buildings. The free market and God’s law offer better solutions than the coercion of the state.

Abolish The Police, Abortion, Police Abuse, Power Trip

Pittsburgh Abuse

I catch a lot of flack from some people for being opposed to the existence of police. But I don’t see why everyone isn’t as passionate about this as I am. People are being abused. There is injustice going on and no one seems to care. Conservatives think it’s a black lives matter issue to care about police abuse. If I have to stand with black lives matter on this issue (who are wrong on so many other things), then so be it.

I am against abortion, because children are being murdered. I am against police abuse for the same reason. The government is murdering people and abusing people. Why don’t Christians care as much about this as they do about abortion?

Here are a couple more examples from a few years ago in Pittsburgh.

In this first video, about 20 cops are posing for a picture with one of their victims. If, as some say, 5% of cops are bad, what are the odds of having 20 bad cops together for one picture? It would be about 1 in 10 to the 27th power. Maybe 5% is a ridiculous estimate, and it’s more like 99.9% of cops are bad.

Here, it looks like military kidnap a protester. But these are cops wearing camouflage.

Abolish The Police, Police Abuse, Power Trip

Just Another Body Slam

The religion of our government is might makes right. These cops are doing exactly what they’re paid to do–dispense arbitrary brutality to demonstrate the power of the state.

Abolish the police!

And it’s not just the two cops who are involved in the assault. There are two females standing by who didn’t lift a finger to help the victim, and never bothered to speak up in defense of the helpless woman.

Christianity, Conversation, End Public School

Get In the Battle!

I love the answer to this question in a conversation on Facebook.
Q: My wife works full time, and I work two jobs. We make enough to pay the bills. Do you think that homeschooling is still possible in a situation like that?

I’m not advocating for public schooling. Just want your opinion.

A: Yes.

There are many local organizations that help parents with low incomes homeschool. If there are no organizations. Get your church to back you. This is a war. It takes sweat and blood. Your children’s lives are on the line. Risk everything.