Police Gone Wild and Muted Christian Leaders
This video is disturbing, so if you are faint of heart, or have a tendency of getting through life by keeping your head in the sand, then please don't watch. Videos of the growing police brutality in America are legion, and we are entering a new era in Western history in which public enemy number one is the public itself. A woman who called 9-11 after being assaulted ends up being treated as the criminal and then violently strip searched by two Nazi-like thugs while assisted by female officers. Because the video is difficult to watch, you'll have to use the link featured above to view it. However, this clip is taken from a local news broadcast, so there is no blood, visible nudity, or profanity. The disturbing nature of it is its injustice.
And now I must step on some toes. Despite my pleas for other Christian ministers to speak out against the growing tyranny in the United States, they remain silent. They have nothing to say regarding torture, illegal surveillance, unjust war, RealID Act, or the nullifying of liberty. Instead, they spend their time on the ACLU, liberal candidates, or the repeated diatribes on the Christianity of America's founding fathers.
I'm not saying that these are not issues. They simply pale in comparison to the real injustices being perpetrated on the American people. How can we as Christian ministers be silent before such inhumanity? I have never witnessed so many otherwise bright Christian leaders so easily stifled by the doublethink methods of state propaganda.
I have a prediction to make: if a Democrat is elected as president in 2008, we will see these conservative ministers--as they did during the Clinton years--begin harping on the threat to liberty and the growing police state. But not until then. Why? Because, for the most part, they believe Republicans when they speak. Because they believe we are about to be overtaken by millions of invisible Islamic radicals; and we've only avoided another 9/11 because of the draconian measures instituted by the American Super State.
Christian Conservatives suffer because they can only think in the dual political categories of "Left vs. Right," and do not recognize that these ostensible political choices are essentially the same. That's why, since FDR, the federal government has only increased, and it was a Republican that ended the gold standard, and it was a Republican that initiated the greatest expansion of the federal government since FDR.
The only Republican nominee determined to end unjust taxation, shrink the welfare state, end expensive wars, protect our borders, shut down the Federal Reserve, and restore constitutional liberties was ignored and denounced by nearly all Christian conservatives--including a few reconstructionist leaders. My concern is not the political victory of Ron Paul, but supporting and equipping the millions of his supporters that are learning about the evils of statism for the first time. This is a tremendous opportunity, but again, our illustrious Christian leaders deem it a greater purpose to preserve nativity scenes on government property, or something of that ilk. God help us.
And now I must step on some toes. Despite my pleas for other Christian ministers to speak out against the growing tyranny in the United States, they remain silent. They have nothing to say regarding torture, illegal surveillance, unjust war, RealID Act, or the nullifying of liberty. Instead, they spend their time on the ACLU, liberal candidates, or the repeated diatribes on the Christianity of America's founding fathers.
I'm not saying that these are not issues. They simply pale in comparison to the real injustices being perpetrated on the American people. How can we as Christian ministers be silent before such inhumanity? I have never witnessed so many otherwise bright Christian leaders so easily stifled by the doublethink methods of state propaganda.
I have a prediction to make: if a Democrat is elected as president in 2008, we will see these conservative ministers--as they did during the Clinton years--begin harping on the threat to liberty and the growing police state. But not until then. Why? Because, for the most part, they believe Republicans when they speak. Because they believe we are about to be overtaken by millions of invisible Islamic radicals; and we've only avoided another 9/11 because of the draconian measures instituted by the American Super State.
Christian Conservatives suffer because they can only think in the dual political categories of "Left vs. Right," and do not recognize that these ostensible political choices are essentially the same. That's why, since FDR, the federal government has only increased, and it was a Republican that ended the gold standard, and it was a Republican that initiated the greatest expansion of the federal government since FDR.
The only Republican nominee determined to end unjust taxation, shrink the welfare state, end expensive wars, protect our borders, shut down the Federal Reserve, and restore constitutional liberties was ignored and denounced by nearly all Christian conservatives--including a few reconstructionist leaders. My concern is not the political victory of Ron Paul, but supporting and equipping the millions of his supporters that are learning about the evils of statism for the first time. This is a tremendous opportunity, but again, our illustrious Christian leaders deem it a greater purpose to preserve nativity scenes on government property, or something of that ilk. God help us.
