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The Ultimate Evil Explained…

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As anyone who has not been living on a deserted island somewhere, we’re all painfully aware of the increasing incidences of violence and hate in our country and around the world. While these occurrences are obviously nothing new, everyone has their own opinions and thoughts as to the reasons these random (and also planned) acts of assaults, violence and homicides are happening and all you have to do is doom scroll on any social media platform to hear the so called talking head “pundits” or political blowhards espouse their beliefs as to the reasons why. Personally, I’m not on face book but have been made aware that even people I’m personally acquainted with are posting vile and vicious things supporting the very things I’m speaking of here. These things have had me thinking long and hard about my future relationships with these people, but that for another time as personal boundaries are a wonderful thing.

I could write a list a mile long as to what any one of these specific reasons may or may not be and I certainly yield the right of anyone to give their own opinions on what they believe these reasons again, may or may not be. But, I’m not going to do that here. I will however, join in the discussion and give my take on what I believe is the actual root cause is of what is actually occurring. I may provide an example or two to give credence to my thoughts so you get the total picture.

Let’s take for instance the absolutely tragic and abhorrent murder of the young Ukrainian woman (whose name is Iryna Zarutska) on the rail line a few weeks ago in Charlotte, NC. This was a woman sitting in a bus seat, minding her own business when a man sitting behind her decided to stand up, open a folding knife and plunge it several times into the right side her throat causing her to immediately bleed out. She looked up at him in horror, then slumped onto the bus floor in a horrible death. There were and are actual people in places of power defending this monster saying that he had obvious mental health issues and should have been given the help he needed, but nothing about the victim. But, a recent court proceeding deemed that unnecessary, and released him from jail a few months earlier, while those defending him cited failures in the criminal justice system for this occurrence. “Failures in the criminal justice system”…my goodness, how many times have we heard that phrase over and over in the past 100 years? He’ll certainly (we hope) spend the rest of his miserable existence in prison, but who knows…it wouldn’t surprise me if he is freed at some point in the future. My heart goes out to Iryna’s family and friends, who will never, ever see her again.

Now, there is the recent assassination of Charlie Kirk, a popular conservative political activist and author who spent many, many hours and days at various venues, mostly colleges and universities debating hotbed issues with students and adults trying to espouse reason in an unreasonable world. Charlie knew the risks, as some saw it as hate speech, but his spiritual and personal beliefs overrode those risks and he did it anyway believing the end result could be the opening of eyes and the possibility of helping others see things through a different lens. He was criticized, cursed at, reviled, vilified, spat on, assaulted, accosted, and threatened with death which ultimately happened and it cost him his life with a bullet through his neck. He left a wife without a husband and two young daughters without their father. While I did not personally know Charlie, the utter sadness of this murder still has me a bit shaken, but that is not the point of this blog post.

What “is” the point of this blog post are the reasons behind the viciousness of these attacks and the people committing them and those supporting them. For me, the reasons aren’t about trans issues or “gender” inequality, climate change and environmental justice, mental health issues, human rights, healthcare costs, homelessness, or the dozens of other social topics I could list here. While they may be relevant in their own spheres, these are just off shoots or symptoms of the real reason, and are not the actual root cause.

What is the root cause? It is pure, unadulterated demonic evil fomenting and born by and from a palpable and visible separation from God. While all of my friends who know me (and love me) for my spiritual beliefs and my fervent relationship with Jesus Christ, I may certainly lose other “friends” who just know me as Larry and are loosely acquainted with me and my personal and professional background. And, if I do lose those people in my world because they may not agree with me or wish not to understand my purposes for this reasoning…I wish you well and will always think of you fondly. It has been a pleasure to have known you.

Evil has many, many definitions, just ask google. But, the real reason for evil as I have mentioned is a total separation from a Higher Power. One Who knows all, sees all and has a complete understanding of the purposes and intents of evil doing and the evil people who are perpetrating these heinous acts. Through His Son, He has given free will to all and people have and will continue to act on it. And, through this, evildoers delight in their actions and the demonic celebrates it. I certainly believe that these actions grieve God, and some may ask “where was He when this or that happened?” My answer is that I do not know, as His reasonings are greater than we could ever understand. And, I won’t know any of these answers until I stand before Him.

Charlie Kirk knew this and accepted it. And, he placed himself in harms way hundreds and hundreds of times just to try and change one mind, one way of thinking…which he successfully did many, many times. While I may not have agreed with Charlie on all his societal beliefs, I fully understood why he was doing what he did, and THAT was the one thing I did fervently agree with him on. Charlie stands with the Lord now and has received his ultimate reward, and that is to walk in heaven forever with the Father.

I do know one other thing…

What happened to Charlie Kirk has changed the world. And, while some may horrifyingly celebrate and laughingly commemorate what happened to him, what they don’t know is that it created literally thousands and thousands of other Charlie Kirks. The demonic entity has overplayed his hand…and he knows it.

And, I am Charlie Kirk.

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The Right to Protest…

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The acts of protesting and picketing have been around for a very long time and for purposes of this blog entry, I’ll only discuss a few, if not just the more well known protests that have occurred in this country over the past 100 years or so. The right to protest, exercise free speech and enjoy freedom of the press was ratified in 1791 in probably the most famous of all Constitutional Amendments…the First Amendment. It states that:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

As examples, the suffrage movement for women’s rights began in the mid to late 1800’s with woman marching and picketing in Washington DC in 1917 (with 218 women from 26 different states being arrested for doing so) with the right to vote finally coming to fruition for women in 1920.

The nationwide alcohol prohibition law lasted from 1920 until 1933 when the 18th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified in 1919 and Prohibition began. During those 13 years, protests and picketing took place all over the country by thousands of people in support of the right to buy, consume, possess, sell and manufacture alcohol. Then in 1933, the 21st Amendment to the Constitution was passed and repealed the 18th Amendment. It was and still is big part of the “colorful” history of the United States.

The time periods during World War I, World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War all saw their shares of peaceful (and sometimes not so peaceful) protests and picketing all over our country. Many workplaces, schools, colleges, universities, towns and cities all participated in protests in one form or the other, and these again, are ingrained as part of the past of the United States.

Powerful protests and marches such as those in Selma, Alabama in 1965 were organized and arranged to ensure that African Americans could continue to exercise their constitutional right to vote. This was done in a deeply divided south and sent a formidable message to those in power at the time when even a known segregationist system couldn’t stop the right of African Americans to execute their lawful right to vote.

I staunchly believe in our Constitutional 1st Amendment and all its contents and concepts. Always have, always will. The issue I believe, with protesters of this day and age is such that they very often want to subvert the 1st Amendment and weaken it by attempting to label some free speech as “hate speech”. Therefore, in essence, stating that you, or I, don’t have the right to say anything we’d like as that speech may offend someone. Now, I understand that when it comes to threatening, intimidating or harassing language or actions, or even violence is where the line must be drawn, as this activity is egregious and illegal and should remain so. But, just by saying something that someone doesn’t like or is offended by, being construed as “illegal”, is where the topic gets muddied…and dangerous. And, unfortunately, it’s getting attention from lawmakers and certain politicians in power who certainly don’t want to lose their own power by pissing off their respective constituency. Some would rather change the very fabric of our society and the freedoms and rights we hold near and dear than lose their ivory tower status and positions.

Currently, the anti-Semitic protests occurring in and around our country that have polarized and divided our nation wherein the hate speech being spewed is just that, they have every right to do so. It doesn’t make it morally, ethically or even civilly right, but, as I’ve said, they have that constitutionally guaranteed right. However, the caveat here is several fold…one is that there is a marked increase in violence by the protesters. Unlawful assembly, the destruction of property, aggravated assaults, rioting, harassment, looting, vandalism, blocking roadways and personal intimidations are just a few of the crimes being committed by these so called “protesters”. Second, is that there is an insidious influence within the ranks of these protesters that they are organized. And, organized not in a good way. There is conclusive evidence that there are and have been professional “protest organizers and influencers” imbedded within their ranks and they have staunch financial backing and support. Many police statements I have read have indicated that some of those protesters arrested are from areas and even states nowhere near the actual protest sites and that they’ve been involved in these activities before. Their personal backgrounds within the scope of their presence there, to me, reflect a dark underbelly of subversion and the attempt to undermine and destabilize those Constitutional rights that we’ve enjoyed for centuries.

While I have my personal thoughts regarding the origins of this money, and they are just that, my own thoughts…they have however been substantiated by research done on the subject. But, for now, I’ll leave it at that.

Not to sound like a conspiracy theorist, I do personally believe however that there is a clandestine movement occurring that is attempting to erode and weaken our constitutional rights. Enter stage left, the subject of George Orwell’s book “1984”.

I pray that I’m wrong in some of my opinions and assumptions, but honestly, I don’t think I am. I’ve lived a long life and have seen many things, good and bad. But not to change the topic of this blog piece mid-stream, I also believe our government is way too big and has way too much power, no matter what party is in charge. And, my opinions about these protests and our government, in my estimation, seem to reflect an insidious correlation connected by a very imperceptible, yet thinly veiled, multi-level dotted line. Political donors are a very savvy bunch folks.

I’ve mentioned in prior writings regarding my thoughts about politics that “all politicians rule for their own benefit”. I still believe that, and I also believe the adage “power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely”. The nineteenth-century English historian Lord Acton knew and believed this and wrote it in a letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton back in the late 1800’s regarding the abuses of power by those “in” power at the time. I believe he knew exactly what he was talking about…even 150 years ago.

Everything is not well at City Hall.

I personally hold our Constitutional rights extremely close to my heart. I raised my right hand 50 years ago and swore a military oath to uphold and fight to the death to defend them and our country.

While I probably won’t be around to witness the possible degradation and collapse of our beloved Constitutional rights, I have a creeping foreboding about it, and in this country’s future.

To again mention George Orwell, and I think he had it right when he said, “Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship”.

There is much work to be done to ensure this does not happen. But, until God brings me home, I will be watching it with a hopeful, yet jaundiced eye.

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Believe Them…

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I’m going to write about something which for me is extremely unpleasant, that honestly goes against the very fabric of who I am and a promise I made to myself when I started this blog over eleven years ago. But, a certain event over the past few days has forever cemented in my mind as to how this country is being governed and one I’m going to write about directly, which is, you guessed it…politics. As I have certain beliefs about authority and about how those in power who have authority over us, know that my mind hasn’t changed course overnight, but over a period of many decades. The reasons for which much has been personally witnessed by me firsthand. You may have seen me mention in other blog entries that I believe “politicians always rule for their own benefit”, and this is something I still believe today. They may have “decent” intentions at first, but it never ends up that way. I do not follow one party or the other, or any political party for that matter nor do I banter or argue about politics…ever. I just don’t personally care for politics or politicians. Not in the least.

However, the particulars around this incident are extremely troubling, so much so that I felt compelled to write about it, which again, for me is quite loathsome to do. But I believe it needs to be said.

This past Wednesday, Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT), while being interviewed by MSNBC host Chris Hayes, said “the Democratic Party’s push for a path to citizenship in border legislation has failed the people they “care most about” in this country, “undocumented Americans”.

Let that sink in a moment.

Now, at first glance my initial question was, what is an “undocumented American”? It’s like being driving a car…you either are, or you aren’t. You’re either an American or you’re not. There are undocumented aliens flooding our borders by the thousands each day, and they certainly aren’t Americans. Let me say, however, that I do personally and strongly believe in the true, legally administrated immigration processes for those wanting to come to this country legally. But, for the purpose of this blog entry, this is beside the point I’m making here.

Here is the actual quote given the interviewer Hayes by Senator Murphy…”Well, I mean, Chris, that’s been a failed play for 20 years. So, you are right that that has been the Democratic strategy for 30 years, maybe, and it has failed to deliver for the people we care about most, the “undocumented Americans” that are in this country.” What he said was, and there is no walking it back, is that they care more about illegal aliens and those pouring into this country than they do about, oh goodness, let me see…their own constituents, rampant violent crime, homelessness, veteran mental health issues, tax money pouring out of the country for insane reasons, the quality of the U.S. educational system, infrastructure issues, inflation, health care, unemployment, just to name a few and the list goes on. No, what they “care about most” in this country, and Murphy actually verbalized it, are the illegal aliens flowing across the southern border like blood from a sliced jugular vein. A lot of whom are unaccompanied military aged males of Chinese and European descent. But, again, this is not the point.

This interview, and the statements made therein, should raise in you so many red flags and get you to begin questioning the actual, serious intent of those who hold power over you, your safety, your finances, your family, and your country. Why would they think this way you ask? C’mon, let’s be realistic…you know as well as I do, it’s about votes, plain and simple. Votes and power, the ultimate aphrodisiacs. Things are not well in City Hall.

If something absolutely and unbelievably catastrophic happens in our country similar to what happened on 9/11, and I believe that possibility greatly exists due to our open borders, the political grandstanding and finger pointing will be an incredible political extravaganza to witness. The soapboxes will be built, the suits donned, and the pontificating will begin…”it’s this one’s fault, it’s that one’s fault, it’s due to this or it’s due to that”. Then when the dust finally settles, and the funerals have been held, and the shedding of tears has waned, and the grief has somewhat subsided, and the country returns to normal (whatever that means), the politicians will simply get back into their tinted window limousines, and calmly and without emotion or sympathy, tell their handlers to take them to their favorite restaurant for dinner.

I could write pages on this issue, but I think I’m going to stop here. You get the point. And, yes…the emperor has no clothes.

If a politician tells you who they really are, believe them.