The larger Christian community needs to figure out how to push back against Brad Avakian in a meaningful and personal way along with the larger pagan left. So far it is just endless free shots against believers and fighting through the biased administrative and legal system is playing the enemy’s game.
You are correct, the Kleins are doing what we always say we wish Christians and conservatives would do-fight back and not back down, but the lack of meaningful support is exactly why more people don’t do it, or why they end up having to fold, no matter how hard they tried to fight. They can’t fight this alone against the weight and power of this fascist state-what would be the best way to support them? Giving money is great, but it can’t be the only thing, because if they lose the court battle, that will be just money that gets stolen from them by the court. They need some heavy-weight lawyers-where are the Christian heavy-hitters fighting their case? Can’t they see that if the Kleins lose, all of us are next? You’d think they’d help them out of future self-interest, if no better reason. What can the rest of us do? I really want to know, I’d be willing to go there and take a stand in support of them if we can enough numbers that it doesn’t actually harm them by making their support look feeble-and then there’s the fact that the media will ignore any number of supporters for them, unless the number is so large, and that would need to be very large, that they can’t be ignored. We could call ourselves “Freedom Fighters”, taking a page from the civil rights’ players book. I’m not trying to shoot every potential action down, just saying that we do need to do something, and we need to make it matter, because it would be hard enough to get a large number together there just one time.
Where are the Christian equivalents of a Soros who could provide funds for busses for supporters to go there and make our support for the Kleins seen? I know conservatives are willing to pay their own way, but that does make it more difficult to get the large numbers, because not enough of us have the kind of time and money this needs, without outside help.
Just thinking about the money those “blab it and grab it” types rake in from misguided suckers makes me angry, when I think that they are the exact people who could fund Christians to go there to support the Kleins, if they weren’t too busy funding their lavish lifestyles with the pittances from widows.