Time caves to press restrictions

This just in: The same supreme court that says that your political “core” speech is subject to restrictions and that property rights are conditional grants from the government; has now determined that reporters who refuse to provide their sources can to go jail. Of course, I’m sure it has to be “really” important. And they wouldn’t ask if it wasn’t a matter of national insecurity. The press has always enjoyed a particular freedom in this nation. Given the important function that the handbill printers provided at the onset of the Revolutionary War, this is not surprising.

That the press has often misused their freedom is a given. That they often mischaracterize, misreport, and misinform is a given. And that’s just the “mainstream” or “establishment” media. As Christians, we acknowledge that the goal is that people exercise their freedom for good, and not for evil, yet the government should not be the arbiter of what is good or evil. For governments rise and fall at the whim of the Almighty. None of them are worth a darn.

So what if they are God’s creation? So what if they are created for our good? That does and should not create in us any obligation to make it our master, let alone our conscience. What ever happened to “No king but King Jesus!”? The ultimate government will be the Physical Earthly Reign of our Lord Jesus, the Christ. All others are but fading shadows of His ultimate justice. As such, they have no right to advocate what is good or what is evil; but in the manner of the origination of this Federal Republic to help preserve and promote the maximum liberty of all.

We advocate for the freedom of each person to live according to his conscience, and to preach the word of God that some may come to know Him. In this we serve our God, and those he came to save.

Wasting our money

As if we needed another reason: The TSA’s audit shows that it wasted more than $300,000,000 in the run up to take over the screening of the nations airports. This amid reports that Private Screeners Do a better Job than their Government Employee Counterparts.

So why do we have the TSA in the first place? That $5 Billion Dollar (plus) should buy something! They do not increase security in an airplane, and manage to waste your money with remarkable skill. The TSA is like any other governmental agency. They exist to spend your money and to gain more power. Who benefits from their existence? Not you, not me. Them. (Bless their hearts)

So what do we do? Do we continually vest more and more power to a government that will either: Spend your money and take your freedom because they are evil? Or Spend your money and take your freedom because they love you and want to protect you?

Either way: We are the poorer for it.

Birthright abandoned

Walter Williams in today’s WND article:

There is nothing complex about those 12 words the framers wrote to protect us from governmental property confiscation. You need a magician to reach the conclusion reached by the Court's majority. I think the socialist attack on judicial nominees who'd use framer-intent in their interpretation of the Constitution might also explain their attack on our Second Amendment "right of the people to keep and bear Arms." Why? Because when they come to take our property, they don't want to risk buckshot in their butts.

The true nature of any government is to enslave it’s people. This nation was formed with the thought that we should vest the maximum power with the people via protections for speech, property and weapons (etc.) so that the power of the government might be checked. Even a cursory look at the Articles of Confederation (Yes; that was the first constitution of the US: I’m glad you remembered!) will demonstrate the paranoia that the framers had with powerful governments. They longed for liberty and were more than willing to deal with some discomfort in it’s pursuit. Not so today.

Today we have generation upon generation of people who crave comfort and peace at the expense of their liberty, (or that of someone else…). It is a foolish choice; and no choice at all. For with the abandonment of liberty you gain not peace, but the exchange of one master for another. Even today, you have a choice to serve God or to serve government. Consider the Catholic Charities in California being forced to provide abortion services to it’s members against it’s faith. Or churches being threatened with loss of their tax status if they speak out against a matter that some deem to be political speech. Empowering government to deal with YOUR fears places them in power to make YOUR thoughts, YOUR speech and YOUR faith illegal. As General Stonewall Jackson is credited with saying: “Never take council of your fears.” At the risk of throwing around too many quotes, I’ll add the following from George Washington:

"Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action."

This land was settled for liberty. This nation birthed for liberty. How far we have fallen.

And W isn't any better

Joseph Farah writes:

Through a clever public-relations campaign and political connections, he [GW Bush] and his partners persuaded a city and the state to subsidize directly a facility for their private business. But that was just the beginning.

Dirty hands. W can't say anything because if he did the left would call him a hypocrit. No - can't call him a hypocrit. I'll just call him one more Danger to Liberty in these United States. The problem isn't just the person, since I'll grant you that W is one of the nicer and more authentic people to inhabit the white house. The issue is that the power vested in government is inherently corrupting. And it isn't helped by vesting even more power into its thieving hands. The road to liberty is paved with liberty my friends, not with government.

Property rights eliminated

In the continuous arguments we hear from the left, the horrible corporations need to be held in check by the government. Yet once again, the evil lies not with the evil corporations, but with the government. The irony of a generation that railed against the evils of a government have created a government more intrusive and oppressive than the one they railed against. Regardless how you measure it, whether by taxes, use restrictions in private property, public and political speech restrictions; the increasingly liberal / socialist government has become a greater and greater threat to liberty. Now the "freedom" loving liberals get in bed with the "evil" corporations; just as long as they bring the tax money.

And it’s not just the Democrats. Republicans and Democrats alike, with rare exceptions, shift the tax burden to the rich, increase wealth re-distribution schemes, and make it harder for men to support their families. For years they have been inching toward the elimination of private property rights. Henry Lamb has been one of the most vocal opponents of Agenda 21; the UN property rights elimination program. Last week’s WND article being just the most recent in his long series. Yes all the nice politicians and government employees are busy implementing policies that have never been approved by any vote, and the few that have been voted on have been soundly defeated.

Now the Supremes have continued their part in the continuing saga. We all laughed when Bill Clinton famously stated: “it depends on what the definition of is is.” The Supremes have done this one better. After a heated debate, they have decided that public use means public benefit. So when they used to take your property to let people drive on it, now they take it because they think they have someone who can use your land better than you can; your property is at risk. In short. Private property is now conditional; and as such is not a right. Once again, those marvelous paragons against evil government have provided yet another reason to see that government is (absent one ruled by God Incarante), inherently evil; an institution that must be restrained and checked at every turn by a conscious, attentive, and suspicious populous.

B.K. Marcus on LewRockwell.com writes defending Dubin’s drawing parallels between Gitmo and Hitler/Soviet gulags/Pol Pot, etc:

Think of a reference to Jim Crow, Hitler, Stalinism, Pol Pot – whoever or whatever is your most effective symbol of political evil – as a rhetorical shortcut to the reductio ad absurdum. The question is this: are you willing to stand by your logic when I apply it in the extreme? That is absolutely not an unfair question. If the history of the 20th century teaches us anything, it's that these extreme cases are relevant. They do happen. And they not only can be part of a rational conversation about political principles, I would argue that they should be.

I sometimes wonder at the lengths that some libertarians will go to in their effort to fight the Statists in both parties. By any measure of reason, Durbin’s comments were not only impolitic, but ridiculously inaccurate. Marcus’s allusion that this is a variant shortcut to the decutio ad absurdum is in itself absurd. In order this argument to make sense, there must be some basis in reality: the types of prisoners, the quality of treatment, the ultimate end of it’s prisoners, etc. There are no parallels on any of these fronts, a fact that has been documented by so many. Of which Newt Gingrich’s opinion article in Washington Times is but one.

Not only that, but Durbin’s acts had nothing to do with the principles involved, but of specific actions. As such, Ann Coulter’s parallel seems far more appropriate.

In the interests of helping my country, I have devised a compact set of torture guidelines for Guantanamo.
It's not torture if:
The same acts performed on a live stage have been favorably reviewed by Frank Rich of the New York Times; You can pay someone in New York to do it to you; Karen Finley ever got a federal grant to do it; It's comparable to the treatment U.S. troops received in basic training; It's no worse than the way airlines treat little girls in pigtails flying to see Grandma.

Beyond this: What is the deal with all the libertarians supporting democratic operatives? Especially when they say stupid things? Contrary to pop culture and a plethora of pragmatic statists, the enemy of your enemy is NOT your friend. He is still your enemy.

I know most freedom loving people abhor what W has done. Hey cool. I agree! But that doesn’t automatically make them right. And definitely doesn’t make them worth supporting.

Repeating Israel's Mistakes

I was in my Men’s bible study this morning. We are currently studying the transition of Israel’s governance from tribal/judges to the Kingdom. I was struck in the reading of I Samuel chapter 8 by the actions of the elders of the House of Israel.

After seeing the depravity of the sons of Eli the high priest, they were grateful of the actions of Samuel. But then Samuel’s sons showed themselves, just as Eli’s sons, to be depraved, perverting justice and followers of their own desires instead of God’s. So the response of the elders was to ask for a King? This makes no sense. After watching two hereditary rulers (Eli and Samuel) fail in the second generation, they want to establish another hereditary government with even more power than the Judges they replaced.

How likely was this hereditary kingdom to be beneficial to the people? Well, Saul did not last even through his own reign before he ceased to follow God. David, for all his faults was a man after God’s own heart, but his own son started a civil war against him. How many times do we read of Kings that each was more evil than his father.. If the people were looking for Godliness and stability, they never found it in the earthly kingdom they asked God for.

Yet we see the same irrationality in the United States. Government steals from people, takes their life and liberty away, and the clamor for more and more governmental power grows more and more strident. When will we see that vesting more power in an inherently depraved institution is folly?

PCA votes for Gov't Indoctrination

The PCA wimps out, declining to adopt the “pull your kids out of government indoctrination” resolution. While claiming victory that at least the thing had some measure of debate, the measure died in flames. Two issues:

Though Warhurst said he filed a minority report, which gave him the right to present an argument in favor of the resolution to the full 1,000-member Assembly yesterday, a misunderstanding of the rules prevented him from doing so.

Once again, the proponents were prevented from making their full presentation to the general assembly. Not unlike the Baptists did last time. It is remarkable how so many misunderstandings can happen to prevent open debate…

According to Warhurst, those voting against the measure thought it was "inappropriate for the General Assembly to recommend that children be removed from the public schools, that it is better handled at the presbytery level and the local church level."

This is an interesting concept: To leave such matters to the individual churches/presbytery. I wonder if they are as consistent in this application. The Baptists of course, could not say such a thing, as they have Resolutions for and against alcohol, smoking, and a plethora of other things. After perusing their website, I have yet to find any other significant activism, so perhaps they are consistent in that regard.

The curious part however, is that PCA is one of those churches who believe that the government should follow the church's direction. (Part of that whole "government shall be upon His shoulders" thing..) As such, I suppose it's no big surprise that they should vote down a resolution calling for any separation between the church/state. On the other hand, given the willy-nilly way that government sees fit to institute paganism (masquerading as secular humanism) into these same school systems, there was a surprising lack of debate.

But the PCA is only 31 years old with a scant 120K family member units. It won't be long until the current generation sees their children swallowed in greater numbers by the "world" following the obligatory 13 or so years of government indoctrination. What will they do when they find themselves not immune to the statistics?

Maybe next time.

Passing laws on the personality of the Pres?

Vesting power into the hands of someone because “your guy” is more ethical than others is more than a bit shortsighted. Even if you do believe that GW is a hell of a guy, a straight shooter, an honest man; one with the best interests of you in his heart. Then next guy probably won’t be. In fact, one only has to look back at the patently illegal stuff that has been done in the past by presidents and their men to see the folly in investing more power into an office that could be held by anybody. All you Republicans out there recall the Clinton years, and he was a piker compared to the likes of LBJ, JFK, and the Roosevelts. And we don't have to look that far back to see the (illegal) abuse of the (legal) power of the IRS. These people will do enough on their own outside the law without you giving them a more or less legal means for the same abuse. No one in their right mind should cede more power to the government. I thought that is what “limited government” stood for in the current Republican mantra.

The patriot act, an act done is the emotional desperation of the 9/11 aftermath, is one of those things that never should have happened, and needs to die. We were looking for something to do, and the liberty thieves told us that all we had to do was surrender just a little more liberty and everything would be OK. I thought this was “the land of the free and the home of the brave.” Have we become so frightened, afraid of our own freedom; a bird afraid to leave it’s own cage? I hope not. In our little corner of the world the patriot act has few friends. The sunset provision of the act was the ONLY wise portion of the entire thing, now it’s up for re-authorization and our nice President wants the whole thing, plus a little extra. In fact, he’s even threatened to VETO the whole thing if he doesn’t get his precious library and bookstore fishing expeditions.

So I’m praying GW is a man of his word and that congress will call him on it. I pray that congress will leave out the parts he says he has to have and that the whole thing will die. I don’t see it happening, as the wheels of tyranny seem nearly unstoppable. In fact, I believe it would take a miracle for this thing to die. Fortunately our God is in the miracle business. Keep praying.

9 out of 10 Take Two

WND tells the story of how PCA gets to tell the nation how valuable it believes it’s children are with their stand on government indoctrination education. The Baptists had their first go-round and failed, now entering the final stage of round 2 (to be determined next week). How will the PCA crowd do? Their resolution reads much better than the Baptists, (no offense intended). Nice references to the bible abound, which is supposed to be the authority in these churches. Nice appeal to reason, which should also be prevalent in these churches. One particular section that I liked:

Whereas, The public school system does not offer a Christian education, but officially claims to be "neutral" with regard to Christ, a position that Christ Himself said was impossible (Luke 11:23), and

Whereas, The public schools are by law humanistic and secular in their instruction, and as a result the attending children receive an education without positive reference to the Triune God, and

I never ceased to be amazed at the number of parents who get upset when the Government’s indoctrination centers teach subject manner that is in accordance with their mandate. Government schools are mandated to teach, as the resolution states, a humanistic and secular education. How reasonable is it to think that the school is going to do otherwise? I mean a few may slip through the cracks, but if the money says “do this”, then you can safety bet the odds that “this” is going to happen.

I also wonder at parents who think that their child is the exception. I know “my kids are above average,” but give me a break here. If 9 out of every 10 kids leave “the faith,” many of them from well intentioned God fearing parents, what makes you think you children are going to escape the odds? Whatever happened to “bad company corrupts good morals?” My mother said that to me so many times that I’m sure, somewhere in Arizona, there is a canyon where her voice still echos those words. Why are we more concerned about the kids next door than the teacher in authority standing at the head of the class? And is it reasonable to expect that the 30-60 minutes that child spends with his/her parents will make up for the 6-8 hours indoctrination they received earlier in the day?

Well PCA, I wish you well and pray for your success.

Which type of speech?

This in on WorldNetDaily, Bush supports the porn industry. But only if they bring the money. This is remakable:

WASHINGTON – Russell Crowe's phone-throwing tantrum at a New York hotel cost him a dinner date with President Bush and a sleepover at the White House.

But a bust two weeks ago of a XXX-rated porn star so far hasn't deterred the president from plans to speak before a GOP congressional fund-raiser Tuesday with her and her pornographer boss among the invited guests.

I thought this was the president that signed the campaign finance reform bill so we should get all the "dirty" money out of politics. Guess I misunderstood.

Let's hear it for Gridlock

So the Republicans abandoned the hearing about extention of the Patriot act. Cool.

Rep. James Sensenbrenner, R-Wis., chairman of the panel, abruptly gaveled the meeting to an end and walked out, followed by other Republicans. Sensenbrenner declared that much of the testimony, which veered into debate over the detainees at Guantanamo Bay, was irrelevant.Rep. James Sensenbrenner, R-Wis., chairman of the panel, abruptly gaveled the meeting to an end and walked out, followed by other Republicans. Sensenbrenner declared that much of the testimony, which veered into debate over the detainees at Guantanamo Bay, was irrelevant.

We can only pray that the impass lasts forever, as in typical Washington fashion, this is expected to be just a short respite. Since most of the things in the patriot act were pushed by Democrats long before Bush got in office, I expect they'll be back to the table in no time at all. The irony is the Republicans, the once public advocates of the "Less is more" philosophy, are now pushing the extension of one of the most intrusive laws ever created.

We were once called "The Land of the Free, and the Home of the Brave." How far we have fallen, as we now allow our fears to drive us into greater servitude to the Government. The Patriot act presents us with a false choice: a little less freedom and security, or what you've got in fear and death. The truth is that the partiot act adds nothing to our security, and risks much from our liberty. It will not be long until living the Christian life is criminal and all those cool tools in the anti-terrorism toolbox will be used against Christians.

How long will Christians allow their fear to drive them into voting their future tormentors into power.

"And I'm here to help you..."

Bill Sardi on Lewrockwell.com on the great things that the government is doing to “help” it’s sheep citizens.

If you live in the USA you are in good hands, so say federal government websites. Federal health agencies abound, and they are not reticent to tell the public what they are doing to promote a healthy America. Tap water is cleaner than most countries, milk is pasteurized, terrestrial radon gas leaks into households are being detected and sealed daily, cattle are being tagged and monitored for disease, annual flu vaccination drives prevent seasonal epidemics, the Food & Drug Administration is doubling its efforts to ensure new drugs are safe, and the National Institutes of Health is led by honorable and ethical researchers who solely labor in the public interest. Now, for the next fairy tale….

Let’s conduct a quick public audit, just to see how federal health agencies really stack up.

What followed were a few paragraphs recounting but a small portion of the evil done by those who are doing it (to you) for your own good.

This little reminder brought to all of you with friends who think that the government is there to help you... I never cease to be amazed at the number of people who believe that the government is there to help you, or even for your benefit. Wake up.

While there are several passages in the New Testament about obeying government, and Romans 13:1-5 which states that the powers are ordained by God. And that good Christians are to obey those powers. But in every historical and biblical context, true believers are commended for not doing evil, and evil leaders are admonished for doing evil. So ordination of God is no guarantee of good behavior, not for individuals, nor the institution.

Government is AT BEST a necessary evil. One that constantly vies for control of your life and liberty. The vast majority of all government exists only to gain power for itself. We, in turn, do evil when we support it’s evil activities. So how many evil activities have you supported today?

Bush fulfills Mark Twain's prophesy!!

So the PREZ campaigns for the patriot act. Again. Big surprise. Yawn.

This out as the polls show more than before think the country is going in the wrong direction.

Big wonder. All those conservatives are finding out that their promised son isn’t so conservative after all. Oops. It reminds me other that quote recounted in Theodorus Rex speaking of TR: “If you close your eyes, he sounds like a Democrat.” The only consolation to the party conservatives seems to be “Well, at least he ain’t Kerry.” Whoo Hoo! Talk about your rousing endorsement. OKAY: Everyone in favor of changing parties names from Republican to Democratic Socialist party A and Democrat to Democratic Socialist Party B Raise right hand. And as my three year old son says: me too me too me too…

We can all agree that electoral politics is largely a matter of compromise. But we really aren’t supposed to be compromising our goals and ideals, only the time and path to their fulfillment. But we Christians just can’t do that: We elect in the guy we think will save us and then support him and his liberty thieving policies. Pity those with confused kingdoms again.

Speech and thought police act Patriot act: Check.
“Core” Free Speech Elimination Campaign finance reform: Check.
Government School Indoctrination Program No Child Left Behind: Check.
Papers Please REAL ID Act: Check

Samuel Clemens famous quote that “no man’s life or liberty is safe while congress is in session” seems tailor made for this administration. Despite holding a majority in both houses, the latest Bush to occupy the White House seems intent on proving Twain’s adage. One wonders how much worse Kerry the Demagogue would have been.

Confused kingdoms

As if we needed another reason to wonder about the decline in the effectiveness of the Church; we have these comments from Howard Dean as quoted in WND:

He characterized the Republican Party as "a pretty monolithic party. They all behave the same. They all look the same. It's pretty much a white Christian party."

Having abandoned the Truth of the Bible; mainstream churches are picking sides in the “which statist party is morally superior” war. Evangelical and conservative churches picking the Republicans and the liberal churches picking the Democrats. Hmmmm.

I wonder if this is an admission from Dean that the Christians in the Democratic party aren’t really Christian? [Christians in Name Only] Or is it that the evangelical churches have exchanged their spiritual mission to evangelize the world, with a temporal one to save it from it’s own depravity, whether it wants to be saved or not. I think Dean actually made a mistake here and spoke the truth.

Hey, I LOVE political activity by Christians; and believe that Churches need to be free to pontificate (irony anyone?) on whichever party or person they think will be the best for elected office. But to paraphrase the oft-spoken words of Chuck Missler: [Let’s not] get our kingdoms confused.

The work of the Church is to do the work of the Church. Not to get government (or anyone else for that matter), to do it for you. To often of late, the Church (both left and right: en toto) has been far to willing to hitch it’s wagons to the political party that will legislate the actions of people, in accordance with it’s own dictates. This advocacy is at best misplaced enthusiasm, and at worst, phariseeism and a false witness.

Christ says come as you are and I will save you and change you (In that order). The world’s pagan religions say; obey these rules to attain enlightenment or to please god. Unfortunately, the modern church sound tends to sound more and more like the pagans we’re supposed to witness to, instead of the God we witness for. Christianity is not a list of rules to be followed but a relationship with the one true God, who gave Himself to redeem mankind to Himself. Legislating faith is an oxymoron that falsely tells non-Christians that our God is not strong enough to change hearts, so the strong arm of the State is required.

Both membership in the genuine Church universal, and true faith, are gifts of God. It’s time we stopped acting otherwise.

Pride before the fall

So Kerry was afraid of his college grades and that’s why he refused to sign his special form? If so, then he is even more dense that we all gave him credit for.

He motivated a phenomenal amount of votes (for Bush) because a significant portion of the electorate thought he was not given an Honorable Discharge. He encouraged many more to oppose him because they thought that he was hiding something. In all the world, I don’t know of anyone who could have conceived that he could be hiding NO: THE HORROR! THE UNSPEAKABLE! John Kerry actually: hold on to your hat: was not a straight A student and in fact received a few D grades. Hell: Out here in Tennessee, that would have probably GOT him a few votes. Tell everybody that you were too busy having fun to go to class and got serious in your second year.

So rather than let people know he was (GASP!) A victim of his own youthful indiscretions, he preferred to let most of the nation think he was an “other than honorably” discharged treasonous deceitful snake.

Despite the truism that one would rather let the world think your are a fool than open your mouth and remove all doubt: Kerry let his pride get in the way of his ultimate goal. This is not one of those “go ye therefore and do likewise” things...

EU votes mean nothing

Vox Day on WND today speculates on the EU constitution.

...European voters can stab it with their steely knives but they
just can't kill the beast.

Born in shadow, nurtured in deception, the European Union has been a pack of lies from the very start. Intentions of a monetary union were denied when it was nothing but a free-trade zone. Once that was accomplished, the Europhile political elite swore up and down that the slightest inkling of a notion of political union had not even dreamed of crossing their collectivist mind.

As we have seen with Maastricht, the “NO” votes on the EU constitution means nothing. It didn’t undo the currency thing. It didn’t undo the trade thing. It didn’t undo anything that was done in the last 50 years. Brussels will still dictate laws to member states, as they have been doing for the last few years.
We really shouldn’t be surprised. People have been looking for a way to slow down this beast and they voted against it. But they didn’t really vote against the beast, they voted against it’s little finger, OK maybe middle finger, but finger none the less. All the other stuff that the unifiers have been pushing over the objections of the supposed electorate are still in place. Best intentions aside, the European electorate has never had any significant role in the unification of Europe, unless you count being a patsy as a significant role.

Absent another armed revolt, or at least some genuine nationalism among a few member states, the rise of the European Superstate is as inevitable as assimilation with Star Trek’s Borg: resistance is futile. The Roman empire has returned. Even if it is a mere shadow of it’s former self.

Just who do you want me to be?

Yet another book pretending to be the latest prophesy from God: http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=44563

I love this! Ya know...

This God, who created everything out of nothing, who created light where there was darkness, who parts the sea, who makes the sun stand still (on more than one occasion):
Needs us to define Him (or Her?) How marvelously arrogant of us. How fortunate God is to have us to tell him who he is...

9 out of 10

So the Baptists are once again deciding whether to recommend that the faithful raise their children according to their “faith” or to abandon them to the humanistic indoctrination centers that are promoted as “Public Schools”. Go figure!

It occurs to me that at some point, those in that particular denomination are going to wake up and realize that they have been sacrificing 9 out of every 10 of their children to the world. But maybe not.. I sat in a church service a little over a year ago and listened to the pastor (on this very topic) rail on about how he hoped that there weren’t any who thought we should pull our kids out of schools in this congregation. (or words to that effect). I took him at his word and left.

So what is it that little Jenny or Johnny will be learning in school?

How to be a Muslim and pray to Mecca. Start your own JIHAD!

How to put on a condom! (Now why this is something that needs to be taught is beyond me. Anyone to dense to figure out how to put one on has no business engaging in any activity that could even remotely lead to them propagating the species. What’s next: How to put on socks? REALLY! Any teacher who really believes that this needs to be taught needs to have their lobotomy reversed.)

How to be molested by a person in power.

How the world is run by bullies and the boy with the biggest stick gets his way.

All morality is relative.

That the state (government) and their un-elected minions should have the ability to limit what you say, what you see, and stop you for no apparent reason to search you for stuff they don’t like.

Let’s face it. Government schools are little more than indoctrination centers where children are taught to be little sheep, obeying whatever whim the great and mighty government wants them to do. While some education does take place, the vast majority of it is of the type that you really don’t want little Johnny or Jenny learning.

The Protestant Church(es) were at the forefront of the common (public) school movement. The Baptists even have a training curriculum that expounds on the greatness of the Baptist Educational history. Beginning with their Sunday Schools, where they taught children to read and write using the Bible, they have aggressively advocated the popular education of all children. It’s time to repent (walk away) from this fallacy and start advocating for Parents who will take responsibility for their children’s education.

No Privacy? No Problem!

So the latest from the People’s Republic of Minnesota is that the act of privacy is evidence of criminal intent? I think that’s a great idea. Now all we need to do is follow that to it’s logical extension at the various governmental agencies. CIA? Outta there! FBI? Ditto! Congress? ‘Bout time!