Posted on 01/08/2024 2:46:28 PM PST by Twotone
~I'm glad to see I wasn't the only one who got a mordant laugh out of this line in Joe Biden's Feast of the Insurrection sermon:
"Political violence" is when the FBI kicks in the door of a fat old man with a cane and guns him down like an animal for putting up some spicy Facebook posts.
What Joe Biden is saying is he'd like to retain a monopoly on the political violence in America. https://t.co/gqs8glCuRx — Jesse Kelly (@JesseKellyDC) January 5, 2024
So "political violence is never ever acceptable in the United States political system. Never, never, never. It has no place in a democracy. None."
An odd thing to say about a "political system" in which Lieutenant Michael Byrd was able to kill Ashli Babbitt in cold blood as his Capitol Police colleagues were able to do likewise to another defenceless woman, Mariam Carey. I would hope to be wrong, but I would be surprised if America gets through this year without more "political violence" - because one side seems to be fomenting it as a pretext for intensifying what Mr Kelly calls their "monopoly" on it.
That monopoly is part of a broader problem in the United States: the abolition of equality before the law. If you can avoid getting dispatched as swiftly as Ms Babbitt, you will nevertheless have what remains of your life ruined by detention without trial, solitary confinement, double-digit years of prison with no possibility of parole... Americans have gotten the message. Do you recall, after the Canadian truckers' heroic Covid protests inspired the world, there was talk of a similar American Freedom Convoy?
Oh, you don't remember? Me neither.
(Excerpt) Read more at steynonline.com ...
Mark paints a bleak but accurate picture. It really bums men out.
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The message I’m getting is that a world that turns its back on God will get exactly what their asking for.
My favorite quote about the entire situation in the US is, “God watches, and waits”. What is he waiting for? People to take charge of their own affairs. Tell me the last time God intervened on a Nations behalf? Was it like thousands of years ago? Thought so. He may have hand a small hand, but it was in the middle of people DOING SOMETHING for the good of all.
(The message I’m getting is that a world that turns its back on God will get exactly what their asking for.)
Yep.
But they openly defy Him.
12 And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.
13 And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works.
14 And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.
15 And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation%2020%3A12-15&version=KJV
Revelation 14:9-12
King James Version
9 And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand,
10 The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb:
11 And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name.
12 Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation+14%3A9-12&version=KJV
Oh man. You just gotta love Stein.
STEYN!
I submit that the American Revolution had the Hand of God in it.
I not only read the article but followed one of the links to his commentary on Maria Carey’s death, thinking I might have been bamboozled by the MSM.
His description and Wikipedia’s are wildly different. Ms Carey kept driving and driving around in DC despite numerous efforts to stop her after she had driven, unauthorized, into a driveway and hit a bike rack placed in the road and the officer who was holding it.
She was shot as she attempted to escape by backing into an official vehicle.
I am disappointed in Steyn.
There are ways to disable a vehicle without resorting to shooting the driver. And are you sure about Wikipedia’s version of events? Steyn can certainly be wrong, but it does seem that cops are all too willing to shoot first when other methods of dealing with a situation might’ve been used.
Maybe, because there were Methodists, Protestants, Lutherans, and no Catholics.
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