Fourth of July 2020 Message

What are America's patriots to do? It seems the United States is at a disintegration juncture, and in certain circles, there’s prodigious pressure to denounce and dishonor our history. If you live in specific parts of the country, this might feel like America’s last Independence Day. But all isn’t lost, and we would be well-served to remember America has been here before. Our ability to overcome social unrest and restore the rule of law is what makes the great American experiment work. It’s what makes us great and proud. 

Granted, if you live in certain parts of the country, this might feel like America’s last Independence Day. What are we as Americans to do? Well, my friends, one must remember our Republic has been there before. We have in the past been able to overcome social unrest and restore the rule of law. What is required of us today is the same right-minded and may I add, righteous allegiance required at our nation’s founding and other tumultuous moments between 1776 and the here and now.

This Fourth of July, our Independence Day, we as American patriots should remind our fellow citizens, loved ones, and friends why they too should proclaim their pride in our nation’s founding, it’s Founding Fathers and vociferate or call out at the top of one’s voice, that the forces of divisiveness, revulsion, wrath and cancel culture cannot stand.

Let us recall what President Lincoln once stated: “If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.” The choice is now on our watch, as it’s come to so many before: “live free or die.” As for me, I choose to live, and to fight those who would destroy our Republic and do so as a proud American Veteran. 

Time for The Curtains to Come Down on Counterculture Actors

It has been said that an optimist thinks that this is the best possible world. As a pessimist, I fear this is true. Today's counterculture movements actors appear to have two rules: Anything can happen and something must happen. I can't believe I said that. The last thing I need right now is to have my body riddled with bullets by annoyed collectivists of the cultural revolution over yet another post deriding the counter culture, radical liberals and the uninvited miscreants such as those now camped out in CHAZ or CHOP or, whatever they want to call that Marxist-Leninist-Maoist amalgam in Seattle’s Capitol hill precinct. And they and their malevolent behavior really pisses me off. Why? They’ve taken over parcels of property in downtown Seattle that doesn’t belong to them by force, just like those vile white European inhabitants of old. They’ve driven off law enforcement. They have their own armed band of insurrectionists. They issue mandates and still bank on, taxpayers to bring them clean port-a-potties and soft drinks. And, of course, sandwiches and snacks. The bright side of this dark cloud; At least the collectivist cockroaches are confined to a six-block area of Seattle. Now, where’s the Raid?

When Antifa and other groups’ militants took over a six-block section of Seattle’s Capitol Hill precinct, the liberal media treated the occupation blithely. They portrayed the takeover as a way activists, with limited resources can garner attention from an unjust and tyrannical establishment. Too many conservatives assume that the CHAZ, will end up something like the ill-fated maiden voyage of the Titanic or end like Occupy Wall Street movement. Both, a mere asterisk in history. Not so fast! The tenants have already changed the name to CHOP, which means Capitol Hill Organized Protest. Others think a childish display of progressive emotions of persons who will soon tire of their games and leave when the trash piles up, water is turned off and port-o-potties along with toilet paper are removed.

Regardless of what activist movements of the past called themselves, there is a difference this time around. These are not ridiculous mixed-up adolescents that act as if they are pubescents. They are revolutionaries with weapons and an itinerary. In case you have been in a monthlong coma, these terrorists have infinite media coverage that amplifies their effect far beyond Chaz or Chop or Seattle.

Here’s the reality: CHAZ now CHOP, a self-declared autonomous zone is a threat, as are its unsolicited denizens. They are violent revolutionaries that put forward their edition of class struggle to mimics across America. This is not civil defiance, but a methodical effort to remove sections of the U.S. from the rule of law. In other words, these revolutionaries have placed a restriction on the authority and influence of law in society, especially when viewed as a constraint on individual and institutional behavior; hence the principle whereby “all members of a society, to include government, are considered equally subject to publicly disclosed legal codes and processes." These violent players have proven their intentions by pelting police with Molotov cocktails, rocks, bricks, tire irons... Even now, they impede police, firemen and EMS from responding to emergency calls in their subjugated area, thus endangering further the residents they have commandeered. Indulging them with legitimacy will only inspire them to propagate. The only way to fight against these vicious actors is to deprive them of their stage. 

The role of these insurrectionists is not to overthrow the American government. They serve to propose radical goals that will captivate the public and facilitate the movement of all society, especially the moderates, toward a revolutionary target. By presenting a root-and-branch objective, they make slightly fewer draconian proposals seem more reasonable and helps the radical activists come across to moderates as the lesser evil. All too often centrists are willing to cede a little to avoid losing all. Kowtowing by Local, State and Federal officials, celebrities, Silicon Valley Technocrats and other crucial or essential liberals is the main strength of any extreme activists’ movement, not its anarchists and allied activists. Thus, liberals following a policy of surrender are the greatest danger to the nation. Both MSM and Social media that favorably portray these anarchic experiments are also more dangerous than the insurrectionists are. Both convey legitimacy upon the lawbreakers. Both help spread the class struggle narrative that has resulted in more misery around the world, than one can shake a stick at.

The most efficient way to end the experiment is to condemn and unmask these architects or actors. They are always found in civil upheavals ceding far more than what anarchists/revolutionaries demand. Paradoxically, their heads are more often than not the first to roll when, thanks to their limitations, revolutions succeed. We, the American people are being blinded by the curtains in the windows of our eyes. Either we open these curtains and see the production for what it is or keep the curtains closed and never see what's behind them. I am of the opinion, it's time for a final curtain call for all the actors. Like Gone With The Wind, the counterculture movement's latest theatrical dramas have run their course.  It is time for a final curtain call for all actors involved in this tragedy and recognize them for who and what they are; Marxist-Leninist-Maoist extremists’ composed of anarchists, revolutionaries, domestics and external terrorists aided by Left-wing politicians and Deep State autocrats bent on the destruction of the United States of America and all for the want of power.

Riots, Riots Everywhere

First it was Minneapolis-St. Paul, then NYC, LA, Phoenix, Denver, Louisville, Memphis, Atlanta, Columbus, Portland... Seattle.  Riots, riots everywhere and all that was right was no more. Riots, riots everywhere nor a business left intact.  All were looted, trashed, and burned everything for the want of leadership and subversion from outside sources.

Which brings one to question leadership’s role and its competency in dealing with the true miscreants involved in the actual violent public disturbances. Who oversees those cities and states? Who oversees the police in those cities? Democrats. Democrat Mayors, Democrat bureaucrats and Democrat Governors. Why do these things keep happening in primarily Democrat controlled municipalities and states? Is it encouraged by local, state governing guidance? Is it a result of sound strategy? Or, could it be the lack thereof?

Progressives have long been the party to claim racial inequality, but this inequality seems to happen, most often on their watch. It's like a rinse and repeat strategy. Employ policies that citizens view as biased, unjust, and oppressive then watch the riotous demonstrations morph into chaotic calamity. Sadly, Democrat leaders typically benefit from these riots, politically, as they tend to run back to their protestation of racial disparity. These types of remonstrations are starting to look like the firefighters who start a fire to be praised for putting it out. One thing they all have in common is weak leadership. The second thing is, well, you probably know by now. 

Gone, Extinct, No More, Compliments of "Cancel Culture"

First, it was the Jihad Culture’s contention that Gone With The Wind was a reminder of institutional slavery and has to go. And so it is now Gone. Just like yesterday’s wind, it is no more. The classic film has met the same fate as the Dodo bird and the Tasmanian Devil. Both are now extinct, gone the route of the Pony Express. Now it is Aunt Jemima. SJW’s joined by academia gurus and a myriad of radical activists claim it is “an image that harkens back to the antebellum plantation... is that kind of stereotype is premised on this idea of Black inferiority and otherness.” Did Quaker Oats, a subsidiary of PepsiCo suddenly become “WOKE”? Or, are they acquiescing to a minority of a subgroup within a subculture who has awakened from a societally induced slumber, thus “were self-aware,” and now are “WOKE.” Judging by the social upheaval we currently daily witness, they indeed are “WOKE.” As one who is somewhat skeptical of Corporate and Social Activist Group agendas, Progressive Politics, and revisionists of history, I find it hard to swallow those product representative icons, statues, Memorials, trademark images will now cause others to presently question the dominant paradigm and strive for something better. In no way do I believe Quaker Oats, or any large business enterprise who are threatened with the possibility of being “Canceled” by those identifying with the “Cancel culture” or “Call-out culture,” would acquiesce to the demands of SJW’s, and so on and so forth Truth is, “Cancelling” them out, would result in a sharp decline in relevance and the bottom line... profit$. It’s not the cause resulting in change. It the power of the bottom line.

Tides of Tyranny: There is Hope Amidst America's Climate of Chaos

Tides of Tyranny: There is Hope Amidst America's Climate of Chaos: 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 obscure...

There is Hope Amidst America's Climate of Chaos

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. 

The Most Potent of Weapons is Not What You Think

We come across people during our lives who aim to purposely cause chaos, disrespect our laws and hurt others at every turn. These kinds of toughs are in every walk of life, not just on the streets of our inner-city neighborhoods. They are white, black, brown, young, old, male, female, educated and uneducated. They are in corporate boardrooms, on assembly lines, on the public dole, even in public and government office. Like many other areas around the world, they roam the streets looking for trouble. These broken individuals are filled with ire and expect nothing less back from the world in which they live. However, time and time again, we’ve seen how even the most hostile of hearts have been conquered by the most potent weapon known to humankind.

That weapon is not a bat, a brick, a knife or gun. It is the gospel of forgiveness in Jesus shining from one man’s heart to another. “Let your light shine before men that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father who is in heaven.” (Matthew 5:16). Granted, forgiveness is not always easy. On the other hand, what does perpetual or lasting anger achieve? Enduring anger achieves nothing. Let us remember “to be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable, because God has forgiven the inexcusable in us.” C.S. Lewis.