Are you as aghast as I
am watching chaos reign in much of America? In your lifetime did you ever
imagine catching glimpses of glass obscured sidewalks and streets as shop
proprietors scrambled to affix plywood substitutions for their smashed windows.
Bottles of liquor, intentionally smashed on side streets and alleyways when
emptied, made it clear that the looters embraced the opportunity for mayhem.
The anarchist revolution may not be televised, but apparently it will be
commemorated with Smirnoff, Crown Royal...
Many, like me were
angered, outraged, and saddened by the images of rioters pillaging and setting
ablaze business after business, as if it were a game. To say the results were
an embarrassment for many of this nation’s Governors and Mayors would be a
blatant minimization. As a concerned American citizen watching communities
suffer at the hands of criminal miscreants orchestrated by domestic terrorists,
I cannot help but view some of these riot plagued states and city leaders as
being wooden-heads, and in a rational world, would jump ship for the betterment
of their city/state’s citizenry.
Are the riots done? Will
they return with even greater viciousness or spread elsewhere? Nobody but the
outside agitators, instigators and riotous reprobates can answer these
questions. There are still demonstrations, purportedly about combatting
racism. It is these protests, which begin as an exercise of free speech,
that often devolve into what much of mainstream and social media portrays
as mostly peaceful affairs... in which a constituent of a whole
breaks off to raise havoc, widespread devastation and dismantling of societal
norms.
We've been through the
grind of months long, avoidable, and recklessly extravagant or wasteful use of
resources in community lockdowns. Tens of millions of Americans have lost their
jobs. And the federal government has spent trillions of dollars in emergency
funds. We are just now beginning to reopen many of cities and get our lives
back to something closer to normal... and then we have violent riots that
threaten to further weaken our already wounded nation.
If nothing else, this
has been a wake-up call for many residents of both small and large
municipalities across America. Left-wing elected officials cannot protect you,
don't care about you or your property, and are more concerned with using the
police to make sure you are "socially distancing" out on a park
bench, on a beach, in church pews, than deploying the full weight of law
enforcement against looters and rioters who want to undermine our entire society.
Think about it. The run on gun buying has already started. Will there also be a
run on people leaving our urban centers. American cities have been able to
endure a pandemic in 2020, but the risks of incompetence at the hands of select appointed administrators and elected politicians may be just too much to bear.
The saving grace for America is not
found in a Progressive, Conservative, Marxist, Black Lives Matter activist,
White Supremist, Antifa miscreant nor any person who is professionally involved in politics, especially
as a holder of or a candidate for an elected office. America's saving
grace is found in our Savior, Jesus Christ. It is through His mercy and grace
that give us hope - for me, you,
the nation and for our world. Grace and mercy are never deserved. All
that may be known of God for our salvation, especially his wisdom, love,
goodness, grace and mercy on which the life of our souls, our
nation, the world depends, are represented to us in all
their splendor in and through Jesus the Christ.
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