Posted on 04/11/2024 1:59:25 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Sorry but I’ve lost all trust in our government.
Yep, there are tons of “churches” around these days who preach a phony “hyper-grace” false gospel. That is the notion that Christians should only focus on love and forgiveness, which they interpret as being “nice” to everyone at all times, and tolerating whatever they do. A misuse of Jesus’s admonition to “judge not, lest you be judged” is their mantra. Of course, Jesus was talking about personal interactions, and about not being a hypocrite by holding others to standards that you wouldn’t want to be held to yourself.
Yes, we should all be deeply thankful and humbled by the fact that God not only pardoned us from our sins, but paid the price Himself. That is love that is beyond our capacity to understand. But God is not only loving and merciful, He is also perfectly JUST. While we as individuals are forgiven when we didn’t merit forgiveness, and should therefore be merciful toward others in our personal lives, God does not extend that mercy via the power he has given governments to “wield the sword” to punish “evildoers.” The admonitions for mercy and forgiveness in our personal lives do not extend to how governments should act, either toward domestic criminals or toward international enemies. Similarly, when the government itself becomes the dangerous criminal, it is the DUTY of any Christians within it to fight against that tyranny. It’s the principle of the watcher on the wall. We are at all times to protect and defend innocent life. If the watcher sees the evildoer coming and does nothing to stop him, and he enters the city and commits horrendous crimes, the blood of those victims is not only upon the head of the evildoer, but upon the watcher’s head as well. In essence, if you are in a position to protect the innocent, and you stand idly by, then YOU are just as culpable as the criminal who harms them.
I think that principle applies equally to every form of evil that tyrants attempt to inflict upon innocent citizens. Mike Johnson is in the wrong if he thinks he can “split the baby” here and let the government continue to abuse the rights of innocent Americans.
he capitulated and now takes orders
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Exactly.
He never flipped. He always planned this.
Mike has definitely flipped. I think MTG is right he’s possibly being blackmailed.
Maybe he received a briefing showing what they have on him.
Recent Congressional testimony on You Tube brought forth testimony/evidence that 278,000 times the FBI had used it’s access to intelligence system computers in an illegal manner such as FBI agents checking on their neighbors, checking on their girlfriends, celebrity’s and on and on.
So, beyond a reasonable doubt, and with no dispute, US Government Agencies misuse the intelligence “system” 278,000 times and that’s ok with the new speaker. OMG!
....nice family...."
"...be ashamed if, well...
...you know, the thing..."
They showed him the file they have on him.
The Blackmail Industrial Complex strikes again!
They probably showed him a video tape they had of him diddling a young boy.
Remember, they couldn't touch the 19th pilot because of "the wall".
In an age where communication is "in the air".....702 is a necessity....not an option.
The only way to deal with blackmail - even that which includes the threatened release of damaging personal secrets - is to AIR those secrets in public with full disclosure, and then release all YOU have about the enemy. This was a great plot twist in the BBC drama "A Very British Coup" in the 1980s, wherein the commie Harry Perkins turns the tables on the establishment this way.
Ooooooh, classified !
Funny how classified only applies to the Kangaroo Courts that are trying Trump
Pedo Joe Biden skips when it comes to classified.
Johnson is just another NeoCuck
Please..
Either cowardice, payola, or blackmail. Take your pick. And you are an enabler if you grant him the ignorance excuse.
Yeah in the briefing they showed him the dirt they have on him.
He’s a real flip-flopper alright. Typical gullible weak kneed Republicant.
All of them and the plot were well known. They could have all been expelled from the country easily. 702 was not needed.
Coleen Rowley the FBI agent nailed it before it happened and was shut down.
Same for the Boston Bombers. Russia repeatedly warned us that they had been to a training camp in the Caucasus region, were radicalized and were going to attack. We blew it off because “stupid Russians”.
702 and mass surveillance of Americans would not have changed a thing. What WOULD have changed things was Bill Binney’s targeted NSA approach rather than the Stellar Winds grab every single thing approach.
What would have helped is not giving Saudis student visas when CIA was screaming that they had bad connections.
Jaime Gorelick made it illegal for the CIA to notify the US government that a terrorist was entering the country.
702 is a turn key Stasi tool and is only aimed at increasing the power of DC, not saving Americans.
Quick question, if DC and the intel community are so worried about protecting Americans, why were they silent when Bush and Obama increased islamic immigration 16 fold? (800,000 each)
Why were they silent about 12 million completely unvetted migrants allowed to flood in? Well not completely silent... the FBI went hard after anyone opposing it.
Why did they allow C-17 loads of Afghan taliban into America, again unvetted?
No, they do not have the slightest interest in keeping us safe. 702 is only for them to suppress dissent and get information to control people.
What’d they do? Slide a picture of JFK across the table and say, “have we made ourselves clear?”
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