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> Shark Sir “Thank You” for your service...and the vid...

You’re quite welcome.

> “In GOD We Trust”...

Indeed; though I disagree with the non-violence-at-any-cost philosophy that some think that should manifest as [one of the issues I disagree with Glenn Beck on]. If we look at the book of Ester we see that yes God *did* provide a way for His people to survive that was legal even in the sight of the government (despite that government already having issued a general death-warrant for *ALL* those people); it was not a “stay at home” solution, it was not a “passive resistance” solution, it was a VIOLENT solution: the Jews were legally authorized to band together into groups [for the defense of themselves and their kin] and KILL those who would do them harm.

We Citizens, likewise, have a similar legal authorization to defend ourselves against those who would do us harm: the Declaration of Independence. And technically speaking, members of the armed forces (possibly past, and certainly present) are bound by oath to THE CONSTITUTION, not any person, or group, branch of government, nor even the WHOLE INSTITUTION of government and so it could be argued that they have the legal OBLIGATION to do violence to whatever member of governance was to exercise his authority/power against that Constitution.

>been meaning to tell you that yer tag is most excellent as well...

Thank you. I notice that a lot of people in Religion are heavy on the “mercy” side of things, but the command is to DO Justice and LOVE Mercy. The reason, it seems, is that Mercy cannot exist without Justice. Consider, for a moment, the scenario of a foster family who takes a kid in (and these kids can be SERIOUSLY screwed up) and decides when he acts inappropriately to ignore it because “it’s the understanding/kind thing” & “Love covers a multitude of sins” and so extend ‘mercy’ without *doing* the Justice part of informing him a) that he was in the wrong, and b) why he was in the wrong. Say this continues on and on until some day the kid “does it one too many times” or something particularly egregious and the foster parents, who can no longer act in their usual ‘merciful’ manner, blow up at the kid. Granted that the kid may deserve EVERY ounce of anger and condemnation, but how is he supposed to know what is acceptable in the family if nobody is to teach him?

Thus, I believe it to be shown that ‘mercy” without Justice is not Mercy, but rather injustice.