Category: Liberation

Modern Day Piracy

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?

We must sunset all the pirates!

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.

The “Liberation” Generation

In its truest sense liberation means the setting free of someone or something. We can understand that animals raised in captivity are often unprepared for their liberation when they are released back into the wild. Treating an animal in this way would be cruel. Captivity has given the animal food without it fighting for food and a home without searching for its appropriate hiding/nesting place. The animal’s instincts for survival have been deteriorated.

In a political context liberation can be referred to activities connected with removing the disadvantages experienced by particular groups in a society or removing a tyrannical government. I don’t think the current generation truly understands what a disadvantage is these days.

Those who seek liberation related to a political context are often called activists. They are acting on behalf of a particular cause so as to make the “world” a better place. Think of climate change or voting rights. But is making the world a better place a form of liberation? Who determines what is “better”? This is why we have democratic process. If we don’t have democratic process then activists would be imposing tyranny by mob rule or worse.

It’s okay in the United States to organize a group to bring awareness to a problem or cause. It’s against the law to bring that awareness by implementing force or destruction. But perhaps thwarting the law is an act of “liberation”? It is NOT!

States or cities declaring sanctuary, penalty systems removing bail bonds, employers hiring low wage “workers” and foreigners remaining in the country after a visa has expired are all methods of thwarting the law. What I find interesting is that all of these methods have few ways for the ordinary citizen to combat them because it is often the elected officials who have implemented them. The only way to hold them accountable is to elect new officials who demand that these actions stop and that existing laws are followed. Few states or cities that thwart existing laws seem to care about the unintended consequences of their actions. Though their actions “liberate” some people, these actions can create victims of other people. This is the real disadvantage.

Our society must get back to the work of recognizing the actual victims of violence and crime by giving them sincere justice. Liberation cannot mean that perpetrators have more opportunity to commit violence and crime by being given lax punishments which effectively turn them into wild animals trying to survive in civil society. Perpetrators need a form of captivity to be rehabilitated, and sometimes they should remain in captivity.

Which way will you go?

As I process the horrible assassination of Charlie Kirk, I can’t help but think that all of what I just wrote in the above paragraphs is connected to this incident. The killer was literally living in their own cage of mental anguish and fear of the “other”. Liberating themselves from their cage meant ridding the world of differing beliefs and the open expression of them. Charlie did not fear other beliefs and opinions. He was open to them and debated them head on…Charlie did not hate or use violence. Instead he used the liberal ideals of individual civil rights and liberties expressed and guaranteed in our Founding Principles.

The demons of Socialist/Marxist ideology have been uncaged. This type of “liberation” must end. As the prominent Christian minister and civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King once said, “Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” This quote reflects biblical principles found in verses like Matthew 5:44 and Romans 12:21. These verses encourage loving your enemies and overcoming evil with good, which aligns with the core message that only love can counter hate. How sad that he was assassinated too.

Speaking your mind with compassion is true liberation. We must act wisely to preserve this fundamental right.