The pirates are all around us now. We can’t ignore them anymore. Their tactics are discernible for anyone willing to see them.

Pirates steel in order to keep for themselves what they can’t make or do on their own. Traditionally piracy has involved theft from ships at sea or intellectual property of musicians and software engineers, but today piracy has spread to many more non traditional areas. Let me explain…

Laws provide guardrails to prevent theft, but there must be an enforcement mechanism in order to uncover wrongdoing and hold accountable those responsible for theft. Of course, an enforcement mechanism is only as good as those in charge of the mechanism. What if those in charge are accepting bribes or are benefiting from their lack of oversight? If this happens, then what should be a transparent system becomes extremely secretive, akin to an addict who lies in order to keep their drug habit alive. A system like this also requires enablers who live with the addict in the hope that someday the addict will see what they are doing and change. This system is not sustainable to the health of anyone involved! But who will lead the intervention?

Piracy is Godless behavior. Those who take advantage of our liberties and freedoms by steeling within our republic are soulless, and they live only for themselves. Their community involvement is only useful for their own interests. The health of the whole community is secondary to their own addictions. At some point a change is necessary. This is never easy on anyone, especially the addict. The addict needs to admit their problem, take ownership of it, make amends to those that they affected, and do the hard work to correct the problem. That hard work must involve giving up their control issues to God. Only an honest relationship with God and community can reestablish the soul.

The problems we all must admit to typically involve monetary fraud and political power. Yes, large sums of taxpayer dollars have been used by many nonprofits to line their own pockets. Yes, the bureaucracy is too big and fails to oversee the handouts they provide. Yes, our representatives have a lot of insider information and trade on it. Yes, political party operatives do manipulate how elections are conducted. Humans are not angels. We must also admit that through our own apathy, ignorance, and enabling the problems will be allowed to persist unless we do the hard work to honestly address them.

So, who leads the intervention? The Trump administration must! Interestingly this administration is ignoring the activism and resistance behavior, both of which are merely distractions enabling the pirates to loot our resources. Also, I believe that this administration has begun the intervention by prioritizing our health and safety in our own hemisphere…China no longer controls the Panama Canal, drug lords located south of our border are not terrorizing their nations, our borders are closed to illegal drugs and unknown threats, fraud is being eliminated, adjudicated deportees are being discovered and processed accordingly, and rogue countries are being tamed.

The only intervention remaining is with our very own Congress. It is up to the voters to hold them accountable and tell them to create the laws that hold them in check. Only then will government get its soul back and be the representation we need in our states and on Capitol Hill.

We the people must stop with the “resistance” attitude and start doing the hard job of discerning who the real pirates are and stop them. Only then can we truly live together in peace and prosperity.