Can You Smell?

One of my high school teachers was on a trip to some big city here in the US. Early one morning as he was driving through this big metropolis, he stopped at a light where some small kid was hawking the local fat Sunday newspaper from a traffic island. “Buy a paper!”

My teacher leaned out the window and said, “I can’t read.”

The kid never hesitated. “Can you smell? It’s all bullshit anyway! Buy a paper!”

So it is today with much of what I see in the news. I had a friend who told me he’s not worried about government snooping because he has nothing to hide. This was after I had learned the ultimate level of cynicism as a Military Policeman. I told him, “The government that lies about snooping on you is the same government that will tell lies about what it found if it decides you are in the way.” I’ve can’t count how often I was ordered to write a report making someone out to be dangerous or harmless using facts that could be slanted either way. We’ve seen it in the past couple of years, people who were arrested on pure lies and put away for things they could not have done. It’s bad enough people are prosecuted for things that should not be crimes in the first place.

There is no accountability and the fiction of accountability is falling away before our eyes.

When Kaspersky told us about finding Duqu 2.0 on their systems, they provided enough data to make it at least plausible. When the US OPM claimed it had been hacked, no proof was offered. When it claimed the Chinese had done it, even less proof was offered. Now we are told UK’s MI6 is pulling its spies from Russia and China because, not only did they get their hands on Snowden’s cache of documents, but decrypted them, too.

Again, no proof is offered. Then again, I’m not too sure about Snowden and his handlers, either.

Whatever is actually going on, you can bet it’s planned to harm us, and the plutocrats don’t want to admit just how damned evil they are. No, there’s not much you can do, except take your cue from David. In our recent Bible lesson, David refused to use his 600 troops and his superior tactical genius to attack Saul or those who betrayed him. It’s not that he had qualms about warfare; we know better than that. Rather, he knew his calling and what divine justice required of him.

Trust God for things clearly in His hands. Don’t be a nuisance. Be prepared to step out the path of destruction as it sweeps through — and it surely will. Commit yourself to God’s moral character; learn to see His wrath as a blessing in your life. And don’t buy the bullshit.