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Twisting Romans 13 Has Consequences

This is a video of the unjust arrest of Tatsuo Akamine in February 2015 in Torrance California. Seeing the arrest is shocking. What is even more shocking is the warped commentary on this video from Tony Miano, which you can read in full here. Tony is a retired LA Sheriff’s deputy and a street preacher. Brevity is not the soul of wit in Tony’s world, so here are the highlights of his article along with my own comments.

Tony says,

“The moment Tatsuo refused to show his identification to the officer, he was subject to arrest. The officer was not required to ask Tatsuo more than once for his identification. The officer was under no obligation whatsoever to negotiate with Tatsuo.”

Apparently that’s the garbage that police are taught, and it appears that Tony never thought to ask whether it’s biblical or not. If an officer walks up to someone, he can make up something about disturbing the peace (which Tony later acknowledges is well-known as a catch-all accusation) and then the cop’s victim is “lawfully” (U.S. law–not God’s law) subject to all kinds of arbitrary orders and searches.

I have a question: What does Tatsuo’s name and address have to do with whether he was disturbing the peace?

As far as Tony is concerned, there is no room for disobeying a man-god wearing a badge. You must submit, regardless of whether the accusations have any basis in reality.

After this, the officer says that Tatsuo isn’t under arrest, but he wants to search him for weapons.

Tony says,

“The moment Tatsuo refused to comply with the officer’s lawful orders to turn around and place his hands over his head…he was subject to arrest. The officer, at that moment, could use whatever amount of force he deemed both reasonable and necessary to overcome Tatsuo’s resistance.”

We’ve seen people murdered at the hands of these cops who use reasonable and necessary force. Of course, when I say murdered, I’m referring to murder under God’s definition, not man’s. The man-gods who murdered Eric Garner were found not guilty of murder by man’s definition, but they will die like men and stand before the Judge of the earth (Psalm 82).

Tony says,

“The way Tatsuo locked up his body and clenched his hands together, which are behaviors that are obvious to even the untrained eye watching the video, were aggressive acts, which could lead a reasonable officer to believe a physical altercation was imminent.”

To Tony, it’s obvious that Tatsuo resisting a cop having him put his hands over his head is an aggressive act. This is because Tony thinks the cop is a man-god who must be obeyed. Disobeying a man-god is justification for a “reasonable” officer to believe this is a prelude to fisticuffs. What tender egos they must have! The truth is Tatsuo wasn’t aggressive in any way whatsoever, and a child could see it.

Tony says,

“Even though Tatsuo was resisting, the officer shows commendable restraint by trying to deescalate the situation through conversation–explaining his “plan” to Tatsuo.”

Well, by golly, let’s pin a medal on the man-god’s chest. It doesn’t matter whether that cop is there for a valid reason, or whether his accusation is completely preposterous. He has sauntered on to the scene and has given his orders and the mere humans must humbly obey. He showed tremendous restraint in not blowing everyone away, right then and there.

Tony says,

“Tatsuo then refuses to spread his legs and resists, multiple times, the officer’s efforts to move his legs so he could safely conduct a search of Tatsuo’s person, incident to a lawful arrest.”

First of all, at 4:10 in the video, after the cop tries to move Tatsuo’s legs, he says that Tatsuo isn’t under arrest, but being detained. Second, Tony will later acknowledge, and explain that Tatsuo wasn’t disturbing the peace. So where is the lawful arrest? Tony must be saying that it’s lawful to be arrested solely for disobeying a cop. That is un-American, and much more importantly unbiblical.

Where in the Bible are civil magistrates given the right to search people to see if they have weapons? They’re so special that they can only talk to people who have no weapons? They certainly are a timid bunch.

Tony says,

“Then, Tatsuo and his friends begin to make a scene by shouting. Any officer–any reasonable officer–would experience myriad of emotions as a result of recognizing he or she was in real and present danger…I cannot get into the officer’s head to ascertain to what degree he was in fear for his safety.”

At this point, it crossed my mind that Tony was making all of this up as a joke. This is the most preposterous thing I’ve read in some time. Tony thinks that reasonable officers experience a myriad of emotions when they hear shouting. Really? If shouting can upset someone, I’d think they must be an emotionally tender person.

But, what exactly is it that Tony calls shouting that he thinks might cause the officer to suffer fear and a virtual panoply of emotion? Are they cussing the cop out? Are they referring to him as various cuts of pork? Are they threatening him? No. They raise their voices to say, “Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness sake”, “Hallelujah!”, “Thank you Lord Jesus”. Tony actually says that such words could strike fear in the heart of a reasonable officer. I’m sure his life flashed before his eyes!

No wonder Tony isn’t a pentecostal where they shout such things in church. He would probably wilt in fear.

Maybe if these cops are so sensitive, emotional and fearful they could find a more suitable line of work. But, I imagine it would be hard for them to give up the rush of a good power trip that comes from knowing that you have the ability to lock up everyone who doesn’t hang on your every word.

Tony says,

“Tatsuo then foolishly asks his friend with the camera to follow him, now putting his friend in potential danger and maybe even making him subject to arrest.”

“For reasons of officer safety, the officer’s order to Tatsuo’s friend not to follow him was reasonable and appropriate, considering the circumstances. The officer even told Tatsuo’s friend, “You’re violating my officer safety!” But foolishly, the person behind the camera argues with the officer.”

Just when you think Tony couldn’t get any more ridiculous, he starts calling Tatsuo and his friends fools. These people aren’t crackheads, gang bangers or bikers, (as if that would be justification for the tyrannical behavior of this cop). They’re Christians. But this cop is afraid to have a Christian with a video camera walking behind him. It is a violation of his officer safety. He is a god walking among us and his safety takes precedence over any American’s right to walk through a parking lot, right?

Not only that, but Tony thinks Tatsuo is a fool for asking his friend to follow. According to Tony, only through the mind of a fool could a thought of someone freely walking across a strip mall parking lot cross. And Tatsuo isn’t the only one behaving foolishly. The cameraman also foolishly dares to question the orders of this man-god. I’m surprised the cop didn’t obliterate the petulant cameraman where he stood for daring to question a government official of the almighty state of California. One day that foolish man will run out of mercy and receive his full cup of wrath.

Tony says,

“While I do not believe Tatsuo was in violation of California Penal Code section 415 (disturbing the peace), I also do not believe Tatsuo was persecuted for his faith. I believe he simply suffered the consequences for his unlawful behavior. And, sadly, that same behavior brought a reproach upon Christ and His gospel.”

This is an amazing paragraph. Tony doesn’t believe that Tatsuo broke a law, but believes that he suffered the consequences for his unlawful behavior. Tatsuo’s only unlawful behavior, according to Tony, was disobeying the arbitrary, unjust orders of a government employee. Hello? I wish every Christian went out and disobeyed at least one arbitrary, unjust order every day. The world would be a better place.

Tony then goes on to explain how the officer was mistaken about pretty much everything he said about sound amplification, loud preaching and disturbing the peace.

At this point, Tony, like an unending number of American Christians, twists Romans 13 into a pretzel to teach that Christians must blindly obey the arbitrary orders of a cop. Tatsuo took pains to obey the law as written, but this isn’t enough. Tony accuses him of sin for disobeying a cop’s arbitrary and unjust orders!

I’ve been faced with this situation in the past, and I handled it differently than Tatsuo. I think that there is little justice in the American justice system and to put one’s life into the hands of a wicked judge is something I want to avoid. However, I certainly don’t think that what Tatsuo did was a sin. We are to stand for righteousness, and resist tyranny. If that’s the way Tatsuo wants to do it, then God bless him.

I have searched and searched for what has come of Tatsuo and this case. I can’t find anything on it, and he keeps a very low profile; he has no website, Facebook or Twitter that I can find. I hope that this is an indication that the charges were dropped. Another possibility is that Tatsuo was never actually arrested.

I can see cops thinking that they’re gods and their orders must be obeyed. I can see government passing laws that give such favors to their collection agents. What I can’t see is a Christian like Tony actually defending this wicked system, or saying that Tatsuo is sinning when he resists.

As we bemoan the pitiful condition of our country and our eroding liberties, we have Christian men like Tony to thank. Christians are supposed to be salt and light–to preserve society–maintain godliness and truth. Truth leads to freedom (John 8:32). When Christians warp Romans 13 to defend tyrants, they’ve abandoned the truth, and they might as well just beg for more tyranny.

Whose law you obey reveals who your god is. If you dutifully obey the laws of the state, even when the laws of the state and the law of God contradict each other, then the state is your god.

Tony is wrong, and his article is reprehensible. We need to fear God–not men.

Abolish The Police, Police Abuse, Power Trip

Some Truths are Easier To Forget

It’s easy to compromise the truth just a little to get along with people. Difficult truths are easier to forget than others. I find myself having forgotten what Bojidar Marinov is talking about here and I’m grateful for the reminder.

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In response to this article, Bojidar said:

He’ll probably get away with it. Most of the time they do. After all, cops are the collection agency for the government. Very few courts will risk going against those who are expected to collect the money for their salaries. The purpose of police is not to be moral but to be brutal. Fear is a lever for easier taking the money of the populace. Thus, from a government perspective, there is no reason to convict the cop; he was doing his REAL job.

It’s about time for us to understand that police is not a legitimate authority but an occupation army. And act accordingly.

I believe the courts won’t challenge the police because they are afraid to challenge them, for the reasons I mentioned above. The events in NYC in the last one year proved me right: When the mayor made only a mention of the need of reform in the NYPD (that after the Grand Jury exonerated an obvious murderer for a murder caught on video), the cops boycotted the city by refusing to to “do their job,” that is, extort money from the population for the purposes of the city. The result? The city surrendered to the cops, and there’s no reform, not even a talk of reform anymore, and the murders and brutality continue, and the courts do nothing about it.

Which again proves my statement that the cops are an occupation army. And everyone, including the courts, is their captive, obviously, for no one is willing to stand up to them. Ever since the creation of the first professional police force in NYC in the 1840s, by the corrupt Democrat Tammany Hall government, the purpose of police has been to create a standing army for the subjugation of the population – just as the creation of the government schools was meant for the subjugation of the minds of the children. In our day we see the fruition of the final purpose of these two ungodly tyrannical institutions.

The system that the Founding Fathers originally set up DID NOT HAVE PROFESSIONAL POLICE. They never envisioned professional police, nor can you find anything in any state constitution about professional police. Nor can you find it in the US Constitution. Alexis de Tocqueville specifically mentioned this fact of the American system in the 1830s: No professional police, and yet, hardly a crime remained unsolved and unpunished. The very concept of professional police was very explicitly pagan, a product of the Enlightenment. The first professional police in Europe – as an executive agency – was set up by the French revolutionaries. It did not appear in the US until the Democrat den of thieves called Tammany Hall took control of NYC. For a very long time – until the 1970s, actually – most of the court warrants were served by private individuals, not by the cops. Catching criminals and convicts was also left to private agencies. There was no executive agency charged with the task of security and maintaining order – that would have been entirely opposite to what the Founding Fathers envisioned.

If the judicial system was reliable, it would shut down police entirely, not pick out “criminal cops” to prosecute. It’s the very system of professional police that is criminal to the core, anti-Constitutional, and anti-Christian.

The very existence of a group that declares that it has the right to initiate aggression without court warrants is already criminal. Every cop who ever initiated aggression not at the scene of a crime and not on a court warrant is already a criminal. Every cop who has ever put handcuffs on an innocent person for whatever reason is already a criminal. Every cop who has used his authority to destroy or unlawfully use a civilian’s time, property, or liberty, is already a criminal. The justice system won’t prosecute those. The justice system is a hostage to that occupation army, like the rest of us.

Abolish The Police, Police Abuse, Power Trip

Atrocious Cop Behavior – One Minute Video

This cop is ridiculous.

Notice that the news report is all about bad language. Of course it’s unprofessional to use bad language, but I’m much more worried about the abuse of people’s rights.

Also, the guy just did everything the officer told him. The cop gave him all these unlawful orders, and the guy apparently just tucked his tail and did it all. This is why cops just expect everyone to do what they’re told, because most people do.

We all must know the law! How can you play Monopoly without knowing the rules? Yet people think you can go through life without knowing the law. We must teach our children the law. We must teach them how to interact with police and know what is a lawful order and what isn’t, and THEIR RIGHTS! My children will not kow tow to a power-tripping loser like this.

 

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Politicians are Evil, But Cops are Good?

A cop worshiping friend of mine posted this:

Here’s the ensuing conversation:

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I said, “This seems contradictory to the one you posted about police being special for risking so much for people who care so little. Who is arresting the people for fishing with no license? Don’t you think cops should do the right thing regardless of what the law says?”

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He said, “It has been my experience working with police officers for over 25 years in emergency services, that they do try to do right by the citizens they serve. And for the most part are vilified by that same citizenry for doing their job (because of a few – rare – bad apples). That is the testimony of my own eyes running calls with them and as a police chaplain. This post has more to do with the unjust laws being written by “moral entrepreneurs” who want to take your rights away.”

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I said, “I certainly agree that politicians passing unjust laws is part of the problem. But I’ve never heard of a politician out checking people’s fishing licences. Politicians pass laws that take away our rights, but all they’re really doing is shuffling papers. Men with guns are what’s really required to take away our rights.”

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He said, “Actually, it also a populace that allows them to do so. But again – most police officers are not part of the problem. Ex: Sheriff Justin Smith – refuses to enforce Colorado gun magazine laws. Or Oath Keepers.”

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I said, “There is plenty of blame to go around. I would place a lot of blame on the pulpits for having taught a terrible twisting of Romans 13. I’m not saying only cops are to blame for the tyranny we face, but they’ve played a large role in it, and it doesn’t work to blame politicians and give cops a pass.”

“My sheriff isn’t enforcing the magazine law either. That just goes to show that it is within their power to refuse to enforce unjust laws, but that is a rare example. What evil gun control laws do they enforce?”

“Have you considered the possibility that politicians instituting a police force in the first place was just another one of their unjust, unconstitutional and unbiblical acts?”

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Abolish The Police, Police Abuse, Power Trip

Cop Tells Another Cop How To Get Out of a Traffic Ticket

This bit of advice was taken from a forum where a NYPD cop was outraged that his wife was given a ticket by another agency. He wasn’t outraged that she was pulled over, because she really was speeding, but because the ticketing officer refused to let her off after she showed him her husband’s union card.

So the advice is to ask for all the information about the radar detector and the tuning forks and the FCC license, as this will teach the cop a lesson, and also get you out of a traffic ticket, because he apparently is quite confident that cops are doing shoddy work and will inevitably be unprepared. So here it is, bad grammar and all:

take it to court,
demand discovery then an adjournment, then after he testifies demand to see his qualification certificate, the fcc lic. for unit, and the testing certification paperwork for the unit used to cloick the wife. whern he fails to produce demand a dissmissal

I haven’t had a speeding ticket in a few years, and have never tried this, but it is consistent with advice from others I’ve seen about how to get out of a ticket. It is reasonable that they should have their paperwork in order. I’m sure if citizens don’t have their license, registration and insurance paperwork in order, we would get a ticket. It seems like they should have to show their paperwork as well. If everyone fought their ticket, it would destroy the court system and end this unjust system of traffic enforcement and revenue collecting.

I wrote about the despicable behavior of the cops on that forum here.

 

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Another Megalomaniac on Patrol

This guy was just videotaping (as he yelled several times at the end of the video). The problem was that there was a cop who desperately wants to control other people, and he has a gun, so he can do it.

The issue is whether the sidewalk was closed, and whether a non-videotaping pedestrian would have been harassed or told the sidewalk was closed. You can’t have the sidewalk closed to videotaping, but open to pedestrians. I saw no indication that the sidewalk was closed, or any indication of how far away someone could get. I would bet that a pedestrian could have walked down the sidewalk, and right past their operation, as the cars were passing by just a few feet away.

 

Abolish The Police, Abortion, Police Abuse, Power Trip

Woulda, Coulda, Shoulda

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I had a little debate on Facebook with someone who said they are a cop. I made the point to him that this article makes–that we know there are no good cops, because abortion goes on because evil cops are there to protect the butchering of babies.

He objected that I was falsely judging hundreds of thousands of cops across the country. So I proposed the following test to see who is a good cop and who isn’t. Do what Operation Rescue was doing in those days. Get a hundred or more Christians to block the doors to a baby murder facility, and if a majority of cops are good, the protesters will go unmolested by cops and abortion will come to an end in this country. If most cops are bad, they will arrest the protesters. Operation Rescue did that dozens of times across the country and only one cop showed himself to be a good cop by sitting down with the protesters (he was subsequently fired). All the other cops proved to be merely the muscle of the baby murder industry. We all know that the results would be no different today, 25 years later.

He, like so many others, knee jerked a reference to Romans 13, saying cops must blindly enforce the laws of the government. He mocked my test, sarcastically calling it the “gold standard”. Here is what I wish I would have said:

“This isn’t the gold standard; it is the rusty scrap metal standard. Cops are so morally perverted that they don’t realize that they ought to stop murder even if it means disobeying a politician or judge.

The gold standard would be something like refusing to enforce laws banning smoking on private property, or refusing to enforce collection of lodging taxes. But that is a pipe dream where those who flatter themselves by painting “to serve and protect” on their cars refuse to protect babies.”

Of course, where Christians have surrendered the field of battle to secularists, many Christians don’t even know what is just or unjust, or that God has an eternal standard that says lodging taxes are theft and stopping people from smoking on private property is a violation of private property, and that government has no place in that or the millions of other things they wrongly force themselves into.

If you find yourself not knowing how to determine what a just or unjust law is, for certain, I would recommend this book.

Abolish The Police, Police Abuse, Power Trip

Cops Making Up Laws

You only need to watch the first 30 seconds or so, the rest is unnecessary. At the end, a bank employee escorts the photographer out.

The cop just completely makes up the line about having to be informed of recording as the court case cited in the video points out. But such behavior has been documented on this website dozens of times. Cops routinely lie or are misinformed of the law.

But, I bet 99% of the time when that cop just makes something up, people do what he says, so he has little incentive to actually know the law–he thinks he is the law. He has a gun, and if you reject Christianity, the only foundation of law is: Might makes right.