Governor Lard Hair took advantage of a garden variety virus to curb the liberties of forty million Californians. Most residents sheepishly believed one lie after another to surrender their intellect and rights.
Arrogant socialist rulers declared which people, businesses and institutions they considered essential and privileged to remain open while the others were chosen for extinction.
It amounts to government-assisted suicide to eliminate small businesses. Why would it occur? A Socialist country is not compatible with small privately-owned enterprises. It’s all about control.
Small business people are the resistance to government tyranny. Remember, the legislature last year passed the ‘Gig Law’ (SB5) nearly eliminating all nonemployee independent contractors.
Liberal leaders have clearly indicated their intentions for a centrally-managed society where all rights and freedoms are granted by government rather than by God. The Constitution has been deemed irrelevant with nary a whimper from citizens. Most Californians don’t even know what is in the document.
Rights (assembly, religion, press, guns, property) won by armed conflict and then lost are never regained by the vote. Sadly, these precious rights and freedoms are often flitted away by passivity and at the ballot box.
Liberals have not been coy but are declaring the future. You know the bully by his actions. If resistance develops to a Kommifornia, liberal leaders are being bold like wild turkeys strutting into the clearing before being shot.
Governor Newsom’s shuttering of small businesses, forced sheltering at home, closing of churches, and other nonsensical rules have established government’s management of every aspect of our lives. No fight, no right. It’s that simple.
Last week, thousands of churches declared they were resuming meetings without “government approval,” so butt-hurt Newsom devised a maniacal list of rules for compliance. It made him sound like he was a Communist leader from China or Vietnam. These are the rants of a mad man.
Unfortunately, most churches have lived-up to their “nonessential” label. Even if the shoe may not fit exactly it sure looks like it does. Church leaders are coming-up with embarrassing excuses to not be the church, thereby letting the bully government run their operation ala Monarchy or Communist style.
The government-registered church in China now uses facial recognition software for members to gain entry to a service. No children, students or military are allowed. Topics and pastors are chosen by government.
If China’s church-access rules were a condition for reopening here under Covid culture most churches would have complied gladly. Today, the underground church is much larger than the registered church in Asia because it remains free.
German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer declined an opportunity to escape Germany to save himself when the Nazi’s were elected in the 1930’s. His desire was instead to stay hoping to save Germany and it led to an attempt to assassinate Hitler. The effort failed.
He was arrested and hanged in Flossenburg Concentration Camp on April 9, 1945 just days before the camp’s liberation by the Allies. For church leaders today, Bonhoeffer’s sayings are popular to quote but not his life to follow.
To gain a perspective of the pitiful state of churches today French sociologist and political theorist Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859) is a good read. He traveled to the United States in 1831 to study its prisons and returned with a wealth of broader observations that became “Democracy in America” (1835), one of the most influential books of the 19th century. With its discerning observations de Toqueville’s accolades of early American churches should shame todays sniveling Americans and their pastors.
He writes, “I sought for the greatness and genius of America in her commodious harbors and her ample rivers – and it was not there . . . in her fertile fields and boundless forests and it was not there . . . in her rich mines and her vast world commerce – and it was not there . . . in her democratic Congress and her matchless Constitution – and it was not there. Not until I went into the churches of America and heard her pulpits aflame with righteousness did I understand the secret of her genius and power. America is great because she is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, she will cease to be great.”
Governor Lard Hair is now bullying churches in Kommifornia. Will anything be done about it?
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