Lately, there has been much protesting and rioting in our nation’s capitol. This demonstrating has left several people dead [Actually, police officer Sinknick was reported to have been killed by the protesters but he was not]. I, like everyone, have found this abhorrent and unnecessary. No one wants anyone to die. No one wants anyone to be killed because the police tried to subdue someone but that someone would not give-up or stop resisting. No one wants anyone to be killed because they wore a Trump t-shirt or drove into the wrong neighborhood. However, we are a passionate people when it comes to our constitutionally-protected liberties, given to us by our Creator.

We were warned that to protect such liberties, we would have to fight for them and be ever vigilant regarding them. In no uncertain words were we told that we could not be passive, politically-correct, and trust others to keep our democracy. We were told very clearly that we cannot worry more about inclusion and building community and good feelings and expect other countries and other ideologies to leave ours alone. They will not leave us alone especially when it has made us the most powerful and envied nation in the world.

For example, in 1787, Thomas Jefferson wrote a letter to William Stephens Smith (the son-in-law of John Adams). In this letter, he describes the English government as forcing the newspapers to tell lies regarding the colonies being in anarchy: Sound like CNN or MSNBC? I think it does.

Wonderful is the effect of impudent and persevering lying. The British ministry have so long hired their gazetteers to repeat and model into every form lies about our being in anarchy, that the world has at length believed them, the English nation has believed them, the ministers themselves have come to believe them, and what is more wonderful, we have believed them ourselves.

In this letter, he goes on to write:

And what country can preserve it’s liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

I am not telling anyone to go out and hurt someone in name of our American values. That police officer certainly did not deserve to be killed in name of doing his civic duty—and he did not, he died of a heart attack the day after. I am also not telling anyone to disobey the police. The Bible tells us that we are to respect and obey those put in authority over us (Hebrews 13:17 and Romans 13:1-14). But do I believe that those who were there were in Washington D.C. last week were doing the same thing that the patriots did when they dumped tea into Boston harbor or in some other way protested against the British. I also believe that they were doing the same thing that those who joined the Continental Army did. I definitely encourage everyone whose conscience dictates to resist Joe Biden and his comrades and their socialist agenda anyway you feel led. Remember that everything that those original patriots did was illegal. And everything that the Nazis did and Stalin did was legal.

However, as followers of the One-Above-All we need to see everyone as made in the image of God and love them accordingly. We need to love our enemies even as we say to them, “No I will not move” when told to stop protesting.

Will Bejing Biden take a page from Mao’s little red book? Probably. Will China continue to achieve its success through coercion and intimidation, here in the United States? Probably. Will more patriots’ blood water the tree of liberty? Probably. Will I continue to resist the sublimation of the Constitution and socialism? Yes.

Ecclesiastes 3:1 There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens:

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