Posted on 06/03/2020 4:20:15 AM PDT by Kaslin
In 1992, I operated a small publishing business in Los Angeles. It was destroyed as a result of riots that ensued after four police officers were acquitted of charges of excessive violence in the beating of Rodney King.
It changed my life. I focused my resolve to work in public policy to change destructive realities that were taking our distressed communities, and the whole nation, in what I saw as the wrong direction.
That was almost 30 years ago. Yet it's still going on: chaos and destruction, supposedly justified by racial injustice. Why?
For the past week, I sat bunkered at night in my Washington, D.C., apartment as the nation's capital was being transformed into a war zone.
Domestic terrorists roamed the streets, destroying private property, wanting to destroy our nation, pretending to be rioting to save it. They defaced the Lincoln Memorial and the World War II Memorial, and torched St. John's Episcopal Church, where presidents have prayed since 1816.
President Donald Trump touched the heart of the issue in remarks he made in the White House Rose Garden, saying: "America is founded on the rule of law. It is the foundation of our prosperity, our freedom and our very way of life."
He then courageously ventured off the White House grounds, crossed Lafayette Square and stood in front of St. John's Church, holding up a Bible, and declaring the greatness of our nation and his resolve to keep it safe.
I do not believe any president has presented himself outside in public in this fashion since President Ronald Reagan was shot in 1981. Yet, the left-wing media mocked Trump.
No sane American -- of any political persuasion -- is not appalled at the horrible death of George Floyd at the hands of a policeman.
But the answer to flouting of the law by anyone demands that we recommit ourselves to universal respect and execution of the law, not throw it in the trash.
In an announcement from my organization, UrbanCURE, that called for a national "Pastoral Prayer for America," I note: "George Floyd did not die as a black man but as a human being, under the protection of American laws, and the mortal assault on him inflicted a deep wound on every American, not just American blacks. People who think it their duty now to express sympathy to black folk must learn how to recognize that the grief is their own and not that of some 'other' looking for their generosity."
Regarding allegations of racism, I say: "I don't agree that our nation is racist. That mantra is the poison that entrenches resentment and division among us. The daily hunt for racism from top to bottom of our nation's institutions have institutionalized the perception of racism in the post-Civil Rights era."
"They have systematically reduced the fundamentals of citizenship to race, in the guise of diversity and inclusion -- and these illusive lies have sown increasing distrust and painful social distance in conflict with our reality," I say. "Most Americans are cordial to their neighbors, work hand in hand across racial lines, and just want to be left alone."
Why this chaos today, 30 years after Los Angeles was torn up and my business destroyed?
I say it is because respect for the law and every human being comes only with humility, and that humility comes only when we see that law rooted in God and every person created in His image.
But too much of our nation's reality has been controlled arrogance, not humility: arrogance that we don't need the God of our fathers and founders. Those on the left have convinced too many that our answers lie in politics, their secular humanism and moral relativism.
The result is the destruction of life and property that true law, adhered to by true believers, protects.
Only return to eternal truths will save us.
I used to fear martyrdom would involve refusal to deny my Faith. Looks like it could be failure to believe in white privilege.
Only return to eternal truths will save us.
She’s right, and I think that’s what Trump meant by holding up the Bible. And we can see what kind of reaction that got.
People are consciously rejecting eternal truths and the laws of God. It is the spiritual anarchy that has led to the anarchy in the streets. Even Thomas Jefferson, a deist, knew that the US could survive only with a faithful people.
‘...and that humility comes only when we see that law rooted in God and every person created in His image.’
I understand and respect the faith that goes into believing a statement like that, but it is needlessly limiting in its assessment of the human capacity for moral codes bolstered by such as humility...atheists can be as humble, and moral, as any theist, and both can be as arrogant and amoral as they can possibly be...
It is auto-theists (believing you are a god yourself) and can create the proper rules for all mankind.
“what’s this nonesense police bowing the knee to protesters?”
Our local homosexual news anchor had a montage this morning of police officers kneeling with protesters. All of them were apparently peaceful daylight protests, but it was still not encouraging.
Evidence of Fentanyl and Meth HEART ATTACK! OD.
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That might be, but I am sure it didn’t help that the policeman had his knee on George Floyd’s neck and put pressure on his throat
Although true, doesn’t matter. The train has already left the station.
No it didn’t and he should have to pay the price.
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Metformin was just issued a Nationwide Recall. Mainline med for Type 2.
Media is impossible to listen to regarding these riots. They are sooo completely detached from the publics opinion, for they laborously attempt to sway the obvious truths we all see to the fairytale utopian political positions of the leftist aged leaders of the 60’s....and those coming out of their snake holes.
Would’nt have made any difference ....Floyd was already in the thros of a full coronary stress attack, which I believe likely began when he passsed his conterfeit bill and as he attempted to escape before the police arrived, and as well throughout the arrest. It would be impossible for the officers to see any medical issue through his drugged/alcohol stupor..
Claims for reparations are claims that blacks are victims, and that they deserve to be made happy. But if your self-worth depends on being a victim, you cannot allow yourself to be happy. And your unhappiness makes you dangerous; no one can think that a suicide bomber is happy. Or that a happy person can be a suicide bomber.Dennis Prager makes the point that “Happiness is a moral virtue.” And that feeling follows action - you will feel happy if you act happy, even if acting happy is the last thing you feel like doing at the time.
His book on the subject is
- Happiness Is a Serious Problem:
- A Human Nature Repair Manual
The five-minute Cliff Notes version is found at Prager University.
If you have time for the 52 minute version, I recommend it in preference.
Atheists Steal Rights From God
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