Right Turn from the Left Lane

Into the dawn of April 19^th, Paul Revere galloped to alarm the local militias of the impending British invasion to seize weapons and ammunition at Lexington and Concord. Unfortunately, over hyped data from the CDC modeling of the day suggested a more dire message:

“The Zombies are coming! The Zombies are coming!”

…and the famed Minutemen of the Revolution retreated into self-quarantine and flipped on Netflix.

And the rest (as they say) is history: From then on, we would measure in meters, swill stale beer, and whine nasally about our crude colonial cousins.

America has always been at war with two viruses (neither of which is Covid-19): One is fear, the other is tyranny.

We rebelled against the King’s unelected unaccountable governors, for the right to be governed by our unelected unaccountable neighbors.

Apparently we lost.

[Jeopardy music plays softly]

Answer: Using the power of the POLICE, this kind of a STATE restricts freedom and denies the God-given rights of the people.

[Turn your screen upside down to reveal the Clue below.]

¿noʎ ʇ,upᴉp – uʍop ǝpᴉsdn uǝǝɹɔs ɹnoʎ pǝuɹnʇ ʎllɐǝɹ no⅄

Crisis-schmisis. Our fathers, and their fathers before them, fought…

Indians
Outlaws
Dust Bowls
Depressions
Civil Wars
World Wars
Disco

And not once did these the sons of The Sons of Liberty think it necessary to surrender their freedoms in order to flatten some mystical curve.

Free men do not ask permission. Or forgiveness.

What a nation of pussies we’ve become.

Faster than a democrat can steal an election, we went from: Lines of bread waiting for people, to lines of people waiting for bread. Or rather… lines of people waiting for toilet paper.

In our free fall from freedom, we flew past European Socialism and landed in Banana Republic. (Betcha this isn’t what your kid’s teacher had in mind when presenting The Virtues of Socialism in the State’s Department of Re-education warehouses.) Maybe it’s good they closed. Maybe they should stay closed.

What is Socialism but the State’s response to Covid-19?

Rights restricted
Freedoms curtailed
Gun shops closed
Houses of Worship shuttered

…but the pot shops are Open.

And liberals playing God by reclassifying workers (essential vs. non-essential) according to their ability to fulfill the needs of the State.

Signs greeting ill-fated travelers to the Garden State should read:

Welcome to New Jersey: The first state to ratify the Bill of Rights and the last to recognize it.

Yeah, be careful what you wish for. Socialism and tyranny are two sides to the same counterfeit coin. Fidel, the savior of his people, confiscated firearms condemning his people to a life of poverty. Forever.

To borrow a bumper quip…

Covid control isn’t about Covid. It’s about control.

Sure… after all this, the Bill of Rights will still exist (on paper). But any right, which can be rescinded by the State, or exercised only with permission from the State, is not a right. It’s a privilege.

So, that we may preserve our privileges, let us bow our heads and pray…

The State giveth. The State taketh away. Blessed be the name of the State.

Ah-men.

Self-Evident Truth
The Declaration of Independence
Millennial Mad Lib Edition

A Star Spangled Question
There is no room for competing allegiances or dueling anthems. One flag, one anthem, one nation… under God.

^{Genesis 22:7} And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said, My father: Behold the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb? ⁸ And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb.

^{Isaiah 53:3} He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief. ⁴ Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. ⁵ He was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.

^{John 1:22} Who art thou? ²³ I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord. ²⁹ The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.

^{John 10:9} I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture. ^{John 10:1} He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber. ^{John 10:10} The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly. ¹¹ I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.

^{Isaiah 53:6} All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.

^{Luke 24:7} The Son of man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and the third day rise again.

^{Matthew 27:11} And [Pilate] asked him: Art thou the King of the Jews? And Jesus said unto him, Thou sayest. ³¹ and led him away to crucify him.

^{Luke 23:33} And when they were come to the place, which is called Calvary, there they crucified him. ^{Mark 15:27} And with him they crucify two thieves; the one on his right hand, and the other on his left. ²⁸ And the scripture was fulfilled, which saith… ^{Isaiah 53:12} He was numbered with the transgressors.

^{Luke 23:34} Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do.

^{Luke 23:39} And one of the malefactors which were hanged railed on him, saying, If thou be Christ, save thyself and us. ⁴⁰ But the other rebuked him, saying, Dost not thou fear God, seeing thou art in the same condemnation? ⁴¹ And we indeed justly; for we receive the due reward of our deeds: but this man hath done nothing amiss. ⁴² And he said unto Jesus, Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom. ⁴³ And Jesus said unto him, Today shalt thou be with me in paradise.

But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. ^{Romans 5:8}

^{John 3:16} For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. ¹⁷ For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.

^{John 20:1} The first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulcher, and seeth the stone taken away. ¹⁵ Jesus saith unto her, Woman, why weepest thou? whom seekest thou? She, supposing him to be the gardener, saith unto him, Sir, tell me where thou hast laid him, and I will take him away. ¹⁶ Jesus saith unto her, Mary.

^{John 14:6} I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. ²⁷ Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.

The Cry of the Rocks
Truth can be ignored but cannot be made untrue. Truth just is, even if held by just one. One plus God.