This guy expressed this idea better than I did. I love how he explains it.
Category Archives: Abolish The Police
I Found a Better Rush
I grew up listening to Rush Limbaugh. I learned a lot from him. The issue I see now, is that he talks about freedom and limited government, but doesn’t call for the end of public school and Social Security, etc. He doesn’t make any mention of the Bible’s teaching on these subjects. But pastors don’t either.
R.J. Rushdoony (the better Rush) figured out what the Bible teaches on so many topics of life, and wrote tons of books. I’ve thought about some of what he’s saying here, and it’s good to know I’m not the first Christian to ever think about these things. There were probably thousands of Christians in the early church, and then Rush and then me. Here’s the quote referring to early Christians, and their employment under Caesar:
As Christ’s servants or slaves, bought with a price, they could not voluntarily enslave themselves to men.
As a result, while Christians could be office-bearers under Caesar, they were servants of Christ alone. They could not, unlike modern office-bearers, see themselves as servants of the people, or servants of the state. They were Christ’s servants, “bought with a price.”
The early church had serious weaknesses which far surpass those of the church today, but its strength was far greater. There was a reason for this. First as Williams has pointed out, the faithful were a community, and a responsible community. Second, the early church was aware of its conflict with the world; now, there is little sense of conflict. It would not occur to a church, its officers, or its members today to raise such questions as these: Is a judge who does not challenge the humanistic law which is taking over our country faithful to Christ? Is he the servant of the people, or the state, or is he Christ’s servant? Is a union member who does not work against the humanistic and coercive tactics of the unions faithful to the Lord? Can employers and workers disregard Ephesians 6:5-9 and be counted as godly? We do not yet accept pimps and prostitutes into church membership, but can we legitimately accept antinomians who assume that a verbal profession of faith can replace a disavowal of Christ in their works?
A Real Reporter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYMyM1whkPo
The mayor giving himself a $4/hour raise doesn’t seem like a big story to me. The arrest of a reporter and the town showing they have a lot to hide does seem like a big story.
Five More Bad Apples
This is hilarious! Almost everything that comes out of these cops’ mouths is completely false. How can law enforcement officers be so completely ignorant of the law? Because people do what they’re told. Teach your children the law, and how to deal with government officials who want to lock them up.
Good News
People say the cops are great and they’ll protect our rights. It’s the politicians that are the problem. Well, this shows how both are the problem. Obviously, the politician is a dirtbag, but the cop escorts this woman out and does the bidding of the dirtbag. He has no brain between his ears, and is unwilling to stand up for what’s right. He just does what he’s told and probably takes pleasure in shoving and manhandling the woman anyway.
But the good news is this took place in 2012 and this woman has been awarded $200,000 for this injustice.
Two More Bad Apples
Here are two more bad apples who don’t care what the law says, and don’t care whether the law they’re enforcing is just or unjust. They check their brains at the door and do what they’re told just like the guards at Auschwitz.
More Stupidity
Below is a post from a Christian on Facebook. I have responded to one of his post’s in the past.
This guy is essentially presenting an argument that goes like this:
1. Traffic stops are dangerous.
2. Therefore cops are entitled to treat everyone as dangerous during a traffic stop.
I deny that traffic stops are that dangerous. People are occasionally shot whether they’re cops or not. Stringing together a video of violent traffic stops and posting it on Youtube isn’t statistical evidence, though it can be persuasive. Police don’t have a dangerous job. They ranked as the fifteenth most dangerous job in 2013 between grounds maintenance workers and painters. I’ve never seen a memorial to fallen grounds crew members, but clearly, there ought to be one.
Obviously, if traffic stops aren’t that dangerous, the conclusion of his argument doesn’t work either. But, even if I were to concede that his first point is correct, the second point doesn’t necessarily follow. Maybe there are better solutions to dangerous traffic stops.
The manufacturer of my car has determined the best type of oil for the engine, and specified that in the owner’s manual. If I put in something other than what they’ve specified, I’m risking suboptimal performance, or even ruining the engine. If I put in water, I don’t know how far I’d make it down the road, but not very far.
God knows human beings even better than my manufacturer knows my engine. God defines right and wrong, just and unjust. The existence of police (at least in their current form) is illegal under God’s law. They are tantamount to putting water in an engine instead of oil. Who knows what all the bad effects will be, but cops being shot during traffic stops isn’t the only one.
But rather than my Christian friend calling for the biblical solution, he’s saying that we need to put more water in the engine–saying cops need to be tougher and more suspicious of everyone.
I don’t know this guy too well, but from what I know he is a nice guy, and a devoted Christian. But, the pulpits have failed miserably in that Christians can go on thinking like this. Who defines good and evil? Here’s a news flash: Ruth Bader Ginsburg does not define good and evil. I think American Christians are having a terrible confusion about what is good and what is evil.
So Many Good Points
This is worth the time to watch.
We Need Decent Pastors! And David Clarke is an Idiot!
I’m a little bit discouraged today to see my Christian friends post this David Clarke garbage as if this pagan, power-religion cult of law enforcement is in any way righteous.
- Kasich is an idiot and I wouldn’t vote for him (So are Trump and Cruz).
- Kasich harmed no one by not moving over.
- The law that states you have to move over is an unjust law.
- Christians bow down and worship at the feet of government.
- Christians don’t understand the Bible and say you have to explicitly obey the law.
- This cop really is an idiot for using threats of force to enforce unjust laws.
I have another guy that goes to my church who is willing to tell my wife to move out of the country because she opposes Trump. I have my pastor who never moves away from Christianity 101–never moves from milk to solid food. And unfortunately he’s probably the best pastor in town.
Christians don’t know right from wrong. They barely know their right hand from their left hand. What would you expect our culture to be coming to when the Christians don’t even know right from wrong? We need pastors who are half way decent to teach people before this culture is going anywhere.
Power Worship
Every conversation is a theological conversation. Every idea is a religious idea.
Bojidar Marinov says:
In law-enforcement schools, they teach them that everyone is their enemy, whether violent or non-violent. The techniques of subduing are such as to always produce such excruciating pain that the victim instinctively resists the pain, and thus give them the cops the excuse of “resisting arrest.” Police culture is a barbaric, pagan culture; it is entirely based on worship of power and pleasure in inflicting pain. It is really the culture of the Beast, for it produces beastliness in the cops that could be rivaled only by the beastliness of the Roman emperors. Police brutality is not an isolated occurrence, it is a self-conscious religious statement, an expression of modern paganism.