The recent decision by the Indiana Supreme Court regarding no-knock police raids is simply acknowledging the unofficial policy they’ve followed for quite some time.
Thomas Jefferson had it right when he insisted a good society would destroy it’s own government in a bloody revolt quite regularly. That’s the point of his famous quote about the Tree of Liberty and the blood of tyrants. Given the context of what folks taught and believed back then, it should be pretty obvious they envisioned a state apparatus which never quite gelled, never quite got a handle on things, because it was always at risk of complete overthrow. In their minds, the balance of power should tip toward the chaos of regular folks regulating themselves. This was the dominant political theory of the time, but it didn’t win out in the end. The US Constitution was carefully designed to give lip-service to such notions even as it left the door open for returning to the same calcified government oppression everyone had just fought to throw off.
That is, Jefferson was right in the context. However, that’s merely admitting you can’t put the genie back in the bottle for Western Civilization. If you understand the Bible, you know the entirety of Western Civilization is all wrong from the very start. The only form of government God likes is tribal national government, and there should be no such thing as the modern nation-state. The real problem is not the decision of the Indiana Supreme Court. That simply puts official sanction behind the unofficial policy of police state authority we’ve had for quite some time. The only relevance this story has is ripping the cover off, removing the pretense. Let’s be honest; it’s increasingly rare when the courts will hold the police accountable for misconduct. The laws do not apply evenly, and government thugs have a free pass. Your life is forfeit, citizen, because the government thugs are never wrong.
For now, a few states have on paper a theoretical limit. For example, here in Oklahoma, state laws include the notion a policeman can be wrong, and citizens can defy police orders they know are wrong. Police have been lobbying hard to remove that. They see themselves as too oppressed in their daily work, and reject the notion they should be constrained by such accountability. Get it through your heads: The police do not serve us, are not a reasonable extension of our desires for social stability. They protect the government prerogatives, whatever those may be, and the system will ensure no one coming into the system is permitted to make anything more than cosmetic changes. That’s because the police are duty bound in writing to ensure the system does not change. Where it’s not honestly enshrined in written policy, we know it’s simply the orthodox religion of the state.
The biblical approach recognizes there is no such place as Utopia — which means literally “no place.” It’s not possible to live in a safe and risk-free world. This world is broken and it will not be fixed. As noted in yesterday’s post, it’s blasphemous to assume God is responsible for fixing what’s broken here in this world, that He is somehow logically bound to explain how we can make a Utopia, and is required to make it possible. He said quite openly in His Word He is not going to do that. So all our theoretical foundations for having a stable society are blasphemy, because it assumes mankind can be reconditioned to act good enough to make it worthwhile. Thus, all this theoretical work and field tests — the whole gamut of behavioral science — presumes to do something God said couldn’t be done. Worse, it rejects what He said could be done to make it as good as it could be.
Human government cannot ever be objective and fair. It’s a sin to believe is such nonsense. In God’s eyes, no one on this earth has any business poking around in your daily business who isn’t related by blood or covenant. I’ll cut off the silly discussions of The American Social Covenant by pointing out there is no such thing, because the Bible uses the word “covenant” differently than we do, because our use refers to something otherwise known as the Social Contract. A covenant is an agreement between individuals, personally sworn to and binding only upon their individual lives. No one can be born into a covenant; they have to individually sign on when they reach that point of accountability, or the covenant is void for them. It’s entirely personal. So any government which does not acknowledge the fundamental accountability between living individuals is not valid in God’s eyes.
It’s assumed on this blog you aren’t a sucker for the mainstream media, but you are no better if you are a sucker for the alternative press. All this rattling about what a horrific decision was issued by the Indiana Supreme Court, and the rumblings and threats traded by the government and the patriot underground — it’s just noise. It’s intended to keep you from thinking about what really matters. The US is a police state. Get over it. Commit yourself personally to living by God’s Laws to the degree you honestly can, and know He will surely bless that in various ways. It’s not as if He takes no interest in getting involved here, but He promised all His efforts would be either a response to our obedience to His Word, or something He planned for His own reasons. Fixing things in general has no part in those reasons. But He will offer some limited protection to those who, regardless how it crosses human government laws, are more interested in His Laws because those Laws reflect something from a higher plane, where things really do work as they should.
His Word was around before the lying press, and it will be effective long after the press is gone. That’s because His Word points to eternal truths, not some passing fancy of human interest.
