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.
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.”
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.
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.
If this doesn’t make you indignant, I don’t know what will. I don’t know if this is still the freest country in the world. But if this is the freest country in the world, the world is in big trouble. Even if we are the freest country in the world, that wouldn’t excuse us from doing something about the tyranny we face.
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.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a Super Bowl halftime show that was worth speaking of. It’s not really my kind of thing. The show from about 10 days ago was no exception to that. I generally don’t even watch it. Apparently, it was supportive of black lives matter movement and black panthers.
Of course, conservative cop-worshipers are up in arms over the NFL allowing the glorification of those who don’t lick the boots of police. Here’s what Bojidar Marinov had to say:
Cops in this country murder more people a week than the Black Panthers for their whole period of existence. Besides, the Black Panthers are at least pro-2nd Amendment. The majority of cops in this country are against the Second Amendment. While I dislike the Black Panthers, they are harmless compared to police.
Thus, in this artificial conflict, I see a greater and more brutal gang against a smaller and harmless gang. I can’t in good conscience support the more murderous gang.
These cops actually think it’s against the law to offend someone. Do you realize that this cop can accuse someone of offending people, and then, he can search them, arrest them and abuse them in all sorts of ways. In fact, I’ve shown on this blog how Tony Miano (who claims to be familiar with the Bible) believes that a false accusation from a cop entitles them to inflict all sorts of abuse on citizens, and that Christians ought to submit to such abuse.
Miraculously, these three retarded cops have a chief that’s not also a brain-dead, morally-twisted idiot. The chief rescinded the ticket. But there is certainly no guarantee that the higher-up cops and the district attorney will side with the law and the truth.
Hopefully these cops will be fired for being so completely ignorant of basic law, and be sued for every paycheck they’ve ever cashed for having fraudulently received wages as a law enforcement officer, when in fact, they have zero knowledge of the law.
Then, towards the end of the video, the cop asks the guy to sign the ticket, but says that he doesn’t necessarily have to sign. They clearly have some leeway in what they do if someone doesn’t sign. But, the power-tripping lady cop steps in and wants the citizen to be fully subjugated so she threatens to arrest him if he doesn’t sign.
There are psychological studies that show that being able to threaten violence and control people starts to change both the abusers and the victims. The only thing that gives cops and our entire system (including bureaucrats, judges and politicians) any authority is the constant threat of violence. All the papers that politicians and judges push around are a thin veil hiding the gun that forces people to follow their arbitrary dictates. I wonder how the constant injustice and threats of violence we face affect our whole society.
Street preachers running into completely ignorant cops is not a rare occurrence. I have much different theology than the guys in the video, and disavow their shock-and-awe style, but even in my tame, friendly and much less frequent free speech activity I’ve run into cops on two occasions that were shockingly ignorant, and said much the same thing that these cops said. I was accused of offending someone and if my “victim” had decided to press charges, I would have been arrested for disorderly conduct. The cop that was going to arrest me was a veteran cop in his 50s, who had been in the same department for decades. I was shocked, and maybe that night the seed was planted that has led me to see that police are unconstitutional and unbiblical.
Here’s an interesting video where Carrier (HVAC company) announces to their workers in Indianapolis that they’re moving the factory to Mexico.
I don’t know why they’d announce such a thing with more than a year’s warning. Those workers are now angry and likely to not put forth full effort. There could be a lot of factors I don’t know about, of course, but I would tell them at 5:00 the day they’re laid off.
Why is a Mexican workforce so much cheaper than an American workforce? Because the U.S. government puts all kinds of barriers in place for employers and employees. When, for example, government makes a law giving employees a new right, it just makes employees that much more expensive. Government has stepped into the relationship between employer and employee and dictated to both that the employer has to do X, and the employee must receive X. Neither has any choice in the matter.
The employee can’t opt to reject that benefit in order to be more competitive, or even to receive the benefit as a pay raise. That new benefit sounds good, but in reality, the employee is paying for it, or he’s pricing himself out of the market, and in the case of Carrier, the employee’s competitor is a Mexican.
Minimum wage is a more concrete example. In Seattle, the city has dictated that minimum wage is $15. The entry-level worker earning minimum wage may not be producing $15 worth of value for his employer. In that case, the entry-level guy will be laid off, and replaced with someone who can produce $15 or more worth of value. Or some company’s may be able to move out of Seattle, or some jobs can be replaced with computers, such as cashier jobs, where one cashier will monitor several self-checkout systems.
Raising the minimum wage sounds good, but it only hurts those who most need help. Furthermore, if raising it to $15/hour were a good idea, why not $20 or $50?
There are thousands of ways that government interferes in an evil way to price American workers out of the market. The only way for Americans to be competitive and get manufacturing jobs back is to get government out of the picture, and get them to stop meddling. B
Someone asked whether theonomy is wooden and inflexible. Here’s what Joel McDurmon had to say to that:
It is actually high liturgy that is wooden and inflexible. It constrains and demands that “worship” be limited to “the book.” Then they distract themselves with “beauty”—embroidered robes, candles, shiny objects—as if that was flexibility. There is a reason the continuing anglican world is split into a hundred tiny denominations. It is just as wooden and inflexible as anything in the Reformed world.
On the converse, Theonomy stipulates that there are Ten Basic principles that can be applied in a million different circumstances. The only things that are inflexible are the civil and religious rights that God’s law gives (which cannot be alienated by any man or government), and the only thing that is highly regulated and strictly fixed, inflexibly, are the powers of civil government to punish or harm.
There is a reason why, historically, where God’s Law is taken seriously, you see liberty, and where high liturgy ascends in culture, you have tyrannical invasive church courts, canon law, and a state to match.
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