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Kaepernick Kerfuffle

This website specializes in outlining abuses by police. Police abuse people of all colors for breaking unjust laws or sometimes for doing nothing wrong at all (Freddie Gray). Collin Kaepernick, QB for the 49ers, has been attacked for not standing for the national anthem in the last week, and conservative claws have come out. I want to go over some of their inconsistencies, and I don’t necessarily want to defend Kaepernick, but I want to ask my conservative friends this question: What does this country have to do before you stop singing its praises and pledging your allegiance to it? I hope you’ll think about it and answer that question for yourself, because that time has come and gone for me.

So I’m going to post some of the arguments I’ve seen against Kaepernick’s actions and respond to them.

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To answer the question, you’d have to ask whether the wars we’ve fought recently are just wars. My heart is broken over that fact that the war in Afghanistan and Iraq are unjust wars and they’re wars we’ve lost. Americans have died and bled and will be affected for the rest of their lives for an unjust, unbiblical war, and it’s all been a waste, because we’ve been defeated. Iraq and Afghanistan were better off in 2001, and millions of their lives have been lost. Since it is an unjust war, I believe their death was murder.  I take no pleasure in saying it. It’s terrible to think about, but I lay the blame at the feet of Christian pastors.

When we talk about just or unjust wars, we’re talking about justice. God determines what justice is. God’s law defines justice. Christians are the ones who have God’s law, and if they don’t teach what a just war is, then no one will know. Not only did they fail to teach what God requires for a just war, they were rooting for us to start those wars.

As far as how much money Kaepernick makes, that is completely irrelevant. Here’s what Bojidar Marinov had to say about that:

“Folks, most of the Founding Fathers were wealthy, and some were quite rich.

That didn’t stop them from saying that Americans were oppressed under the Crown, nor did it stop them from rebelling against that Crown . . . let alone from refusing to stand for “God Save the King.”

Just because a person is rich doesn’t mean they shouldn’t make any statements about justice.”

So, I don’t consider either Kaepernick or Glen Coffee to be a hero.

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You obviously shouldn’t be bothered by someone praying, though many were. The problem for me with this meme is that it seems as though they’re saying that you should be bothered by Kaepernick and you shouldn’t be bothered by Tebow–as if standing for the national anthem is an equal duty to praying. If that’s what they’re saying, that would be blasphemy.

Here’s another argument I’ve seen (that doesn’t have a meme). Standing for the national anthem is our duty, because so many soldiers have died for our rights.

Did the soldiers die for our right to abort unborn babies? Did they die for our right to have the government steal from other people so that we can have Obamacare and public schooling and food stamps (socialistic redistribution of wealth)? At what point is standing for the flag an insult to their sacrifice on the battlefield?

Another argument I’ve seen over and over is if you don’t love America, leave it. There’s even a song about it:

It’s complete BS. Did George Washington love Great Britain or leave it? No. He threw off the shackles of his tyranny. Most of the founders were wealthy and powerful (like Kaepernick). They didn’t leave their country, but stood up for justice (which is a stand for what’s right and Godly). Who is saying the founding fathers are a bunch of wealthy crybabies? Shouldn’t they have just shut up and been grateful they lived in a country that allowed them to become wealthy?

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Kaepernick says that black people are being abused by police. THEY ARE, and so are white people. It’s just that black people seem to be the only ones who care that they’re being murdered. Eric Garner was choked to death for selling loose cigarettes. The cops who murdered him faced no consequences. If that was the only instance of injustice, I’d be angry. But there are dozens of such instances of people of many colors.

There are some people who  have 2 Chronicles 7:14 yard signs in front of their house. It would be interesting to knock on their door and see what they think about Collin Kaepernick. Most of them would start ranting and raving and foaming at the mouth about how disrespectful Kaepernick is. Rather than humbling themselves, and praying and seeking God’s face and turning from their wicked ways, they will arrogantly ignore Kaepernick’s grievance. That is the opposite of what this country needs.

Here’s what 2 Chronicles 7:14 doesn’t say, but which does typify most reactions to Kaepernick I’ve seen. As long as this is the case–as long as Christians behave like a bunch of statist idolaters, God will not relent in bringing His judgment as the previous verse (verse 13) says.

If my people who are called by my name will arrogantly ignore criticism of their country and tell anyone with a grievance to get out, I will heal their land.

 

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Another Idea for How to Get Out of a Traffic Ticket

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I’ve discussed this argument in the past as a presuppositional refutation of American government (at least the American government of the last 50-100 years which has declared Jesus Christ to be unconstitutional). But I’m going to discuss how it would be applied to get out of a traffic ticket. This argument has been successful in getting people out of tickets, and I’ve stolen it lock, stock and barrel from Marc Stevens. You should check out his website and Youtube channel.

For my recent ticket I was planning on using yesterday’s argument, and if that was not successful, I was going to use this argument. The argument is that the cop who wrote the ticket and the law he cited you under don’t have jurisdiction over you, or at least that they have to prove jurisdiction to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that you’re guilty of a crime.

It is a pretty simple argument, and here’s how it might go:

You ask the cop for evidence or facts to show that the law applies to you.

The only thing he can really say is that the law applies because the law says it applies. You would then point out that that is an invalid answer, because it is circular reasoning. And then you would repeat the question. When he isn’t able to answer, you would move that the case be dismissed for lack of evidence of jurisdiction.

To further explain the issue, I would give an example. You could take a notebook and write “Sam’s Law for the state of Colorado” across the front. Then you write in (in very nice handwriting), “Law 1-1a: This law applies to everyone in Colorado.”

Why doesn’t Sam’s law apply to you (assuming you’re within the boundaries of the state of Colorado)? An enforcement agent of Sam’s law would say, “Look at Law 1-1a. It clearly says it applies to you.” But Sam’s law can’t apply because Sam’s law says it applies. That would be circular reasoning. In reality, Sam’s law is every bit as valid as the laws of the state of Colorado. It’s just that Sam’s law doesn’t have thousands of armed enforcers willing to kill you.

If you check out Marc Steven’s website, linked above, you will see that this technique has worked to get people out of tickets and other legal attacks.

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Ideas For Getting Out of a Traffic Ticket

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I’ve been to court to evict tenants in the past. While waiting for my case to come up, I’ve seen two different traffic tickets coming up for trial. On both cases, the defendant won. The system says you’re innocent until proven guilty. If you put forth a plausible argument, you’ll be found not guilty (in my experience).

This bears out because they try at every opportunity to get you to pay up and go away. They offer to deduct fewer points if you pay quickly. They offer a plea bargain if you show up to plead not guilty. They want to get you to pay up and go away so they don’t need to pay a judge and a cop to conduct a trial. They count on the fact that you don’t want to take time off of work, and you only get a few traffic tickets in your life, so you don’t know what you’re doing and you’re intimidated by the process so you just do anything to get out of it.

Here’s how the two people I saw win their trial won. I can’t remember exactly what the charge was in the first trial, but the guy’s defense was that the bush was blocking the stop sign. So the judge found him not guilty.

The other trial I saw, the guy had a lawyer. The state patrolman presented his case, and the lawyer said, “Does the state rest its case?”

The judge asked the state patrolman to answer the question, and he said that he had rested his case.

The lawyer then said, “I would ask that the case be dismissed, because the state never identified my client as the accused.”

The judge said, “Your client came up when I called the case.” The lawyer kind of just shrugged, and didn’t really say anything. The judge was silent for 30 seconds or so, and said the case is dismissed.

I would always attempt that defense. If the judge doesn’t go for it, you move on with whatever else you had. I think as long as you can offer any plausible argument, you will be let off.

That being said, some people hope for the cop not showing up. I guess there is always that possibility, but the cop has always shown up in my experience. Actually, I remember a third trial where a guy got a ticket for not wearing his seat belt. He didn’t show up, but the cop did show up. He was found automatically guilty and got a $50 fine.

It would be my guess that their policy is that the cop always shows up to avoid getting the reputation that if you fight the ticket you might get off easily.

I think at this point, our goal as patriots and secessionists would be to make it as difficult for government as possible–make our compliance as costly as possible. Only comply at the last moment right before the cop shoots you or they’re going to cost you more than you get out of it. Fighting a traffic ticket is one way to fight them.

I have one more method to try at a trial, that I know has been successful, though I haven’t personally witnessed it. I’ll discuss that tomorrow.

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What To Do With a Traffic Ticket

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I recently got a speeding ticket from the Colorado state patrol. First of all, the cop says that if you pay the full amount of the ticket within 20 days, they will deduct fewer points.

I tried to look up how many points I might have, and I could find very little information. I couldn’t even really find general information about how many points I might have, much less my specific situation. So who cares about how many points are on my driver’s license?

I’ve only had a few tickets and I’ve always just paid them. I decided to fight this one and see what happened. I looked up the laws and the laws for minor traffic infractions are pretty simple. I read the whole thing, and they have simplified things down to laymen’s terms, and the whole process operates for laymen. Here are the laws for Colorado. It starts in Rule 1 and goes through Rule 18. You can’t play Monopoly without knowing the rules. How could you fight a traffic ticket without knowing the rules?

The first step is a hearing where you plead guilty or not guilty. The cop will not show up for this. I thought I’d be appearing in front of a judge, but it was just a clerk in the clerk’s office. But just for showing up, they offered everyone a plea bargain. My $170 fine and 4 point ticket was reduced to $72 and 2 points. I wussed out and took it. It was hard to pass that offer up.

But, reading the rules made sense out of some of my experiences in seeing how things work. I’ll write a couple of articles on ideas for how to get out of a ticket completely and how to gum up the works.

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More Hypocrisy

Yesterday, I posted about how this guy was defending bad cops and federal grants. Today, you’ll see blatant hypocrisy.

He posted this on Facebook:

Unfortunately, the suspicious attitude toward law enforcement that has been actively promoted in this country is leading toward very foolish behavior. This individual simply walks up to a patrol car at night, flashes a light in the officer’s eyes, and demands his name and badge number. There appears to be no reason for his behavior, on the video, other the he feels entitled to have that information.

The officer does not know this person He does not know his intent, only thatthe person is being confrontational and demanding the officer’s info. The officer takes precaution to protect himself and even attempts to drive his patrol car away from the person to give himself distance and time, which gives him better options to address the matter. However, this person continues to follow, shining his light and being confrontational.

Had this scenario ended with the person injured, you can be assured the media would have painted this officer poorly and screamed abuse of power. This is the result of a nation which feels entitled to question any and all police actions, and assume the guilt of an officer before evidence is even examined. We now have people who spend their time looking for officer involved incidents so they can record them and “prove” police abuse of power. This individual placed himself in a position of risk by confronting an officer at night just to get his reaction on film.

This is why I keep asking those of you who follow me to think before you speak. Know the evidence, know whereof you speak. If you don’t, you encourage blatant mistrust of police which result in this kind of behavior.

Am I against public scrutiny? Not at all, I welcome proper examination of what we do. We must be held accountable. But this kind of mistrust is breeding more and more contempt for police which inevitably end badly.

I think it’s ridiculous for someone to shine a flashlight in someone’s eyes. We all learn that when we’re children. But if it’s wrong for citizens, it’s wrong for police.

Normal police procedure involves them going around shining flashlights in people’s eyes. Watch a few cop videos, and they routinely shine flashlights at video cameras to mess up the camera’s focus. But my bad-cop-loving friend here thinks it’s a bad idea to do that to a cop.

I agree that it’s bad to do that to a cop, especially within the last week or two when they think every moment could be their last, and it us versus them. If you shine a flashlight in a cop’s eyes, as unthinkable and criminal as it would be for citizens, they’re likely to pull their gun on you. Never mind that the first thing you learn about gun safety is that you only point your gun at what you’re willing to shoot. Cops are exempt from gun safety rules. And just like taking candy from a baby, this cop predictably, and dangerously and double standardously pulls his gun on this guy.

You can see in the reflection on the car that the citizen probably has the flash on his camera on, but who’s shining their flashlight at who? My bad-cop-defending friend is smoking some serious statism and ignoring Scripture.  The Bible says at least 10 times that God is no respecter of persons. Police should be held to the same standard as everyone else.

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Is This Just a Knee Jerk Reaction, Or Are They This Stupid?

You wouldn’t think that cops would blatantly defend bad cops, or be against the idea that black people should receive impartial justice. I hope that’s not what this is.

My acquaintance on Facebook is a cop, and he posted a link to this spammy, clickbait, article. (I posted a comment on that article, but it was deleted, which is really lame.) I don’t know whether he actually read the article or not. I don’t know whether the commenters read it or not. Maybe they see a Hollywood liberal post something, and they immediately jump to a conclusion without reading it carefully. I hope that is what it is. Because if they understood and read what he wrote, what they say about it is shameful and revealing.

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First of all, I think police should be completely defunded and ABOLISHED. I want that because that is what Scripture teaches. But is that what liberals want? Liberals are socialists and statists. How can Obamacare or whatever socialist dream be forced on anyone without government agents with guns?

If my Facebook buddy thinks he’s the target of defunding, does he realize that he’s admitting to being a bad cop?

But it turns out that when you read the article. it directly quotes Ruffalo’s tweets, and it doesn’t say anything about wanting to abolish police. His tweets say:

Defund bad cops and police departments. Tell Obama: We need an executive order!

I stand with the Movement For Black Lives in the fight for peace and justice for Black people. Will you?

It says defund BAD cops. What kind of brainless, cop-worshiping idiot wants to continue funding bad cops? Well, I showed you the original poster. He’s one. There are others.

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Laying off bad cops causes one to roll her eyes. Are cops supposed to be tenured people who can’t be fired for doing a bad job? One guy sees the inconsistency of Democrats wanting to ban guns while being protected by armed bodyguards and apparently thinks that applies to every possible situation. He’s so stupid he must be a cop. But wait. There are others who want to defend bad cops.

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I really hope these people didn’t read the article or the guy’s tweets and fell for the clickbait article title. I wrote the second to last comment and no one has responded. I hope they will.

I agree that Ruffalo is probably some nutjob leftist. And if he is, there is plenty to pick on him for. But we all need to be more careful when we criticize someone that it doesn’t lead us to do stupid stuff, like protect bad cops from being fired, or defend the liberal position that police should be receiving federal grants, or God forbid that all police departments should be receiving federal grants no matter how good or bad they are. Who is the liberal in this scenario, Ruffalo or the commenters? Who’s for strong unions with untouchable government workers?

We all have traditions that can blind us and cause us to not understand what other people are saying. As unpleasant as it might be, our concern for truth as Christians must cause us to spend time understanding what our “enemies” believe so that we can argue against what they’re really saying, and not against a straw man.

I sincerely hope the commenters here are just making up a strawman to knock down (that’s sinful enough). I hope they’re not actually defending bad cops and departments and hoping for more federal grants for their personal PD. That would make them the nutjob leftists.

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Blind Rage

If these officers would take a minute to explain themselves, they might save themselves a lot of trouble. Serving warrants is one of the few valid things police do, though they still are using stolen funds to do it, and the court system probably isn’t issuing warrants in a just manner either. But theoretically, this is one of the things police ought to be doing, rather than having individual discretion to make arrests.

In not-so-distant American history (like up until the 1960s maybe), private citizens could serve warrants, and take people to court. If a private citizen carelessly served a warrant on the wrong person, or did unnecessary damage, they would be responsible for making it right (i.e. writing a check). Of course when it’s the government/cops who act carelessly, it’s the citizens who pick up the tab.

Anyway, here’s the roid raging cops, totally screwing everything up.