Last night I attended a “Glow Walk” to honor our police and take a damn stand against a depraved media liberal culture that routinely undermines and even demonizes them.
I put it this way to the chief who shook my hand and thanked me for coming: I pointed to the American flag over our heads – which was at half mast over the police station due to the assassination-murder of two police officers in an adjacent city – and I said, “I came because of THAT.” Because every time I drive by and see that flag at half mast it makes me sick, it makes me seethe with rage, because I know what it represents. We have to choose sides right now in this nation; and I’m choosing my side. I’m choosing to side with law and order and justice and decency over murderous ideological vermin and the cultural elites who are supporting those vermin.
For the record, I have had several opportunities to spend time with my chief of police. He is a truly wonderful man. I have met his wife, and they are a loving, caring, dedicated couple. He is a professional: if he were serving another city, he would serve that city to his utmost. As it is, he is serving MY city. And while I don’t get to see him work in the office as the chief, he never seems to miss an opportunity to be an ambassador for his department. He is always affable, always listening, always caring. And our crime rate has dropped dramatically in the time he has served. We are lucky to have this man as our chief. Period.
EVERY human life matters.
But ONLY people who are pro-life have any right whatsoever to say that. Because ultimately either EVERY human life matters, or NO human life ultimately matters. Because when you start parsing out human life, and arguing that this life matters, this one doesn’t: this human life is sacred because mommy wants her; but with this human life we can stick a tube in her head and suck her brains out and then crush her skull with forceps and pull her mutilated body out of what God intended to be the safest place for her on earth. When we can do something like that, then NO LIFE MATTERS. Because we ALL start from that same exact place in the womb. And according to science – according to the branch of science which is specifically charged with classifying organisms into their proper categories – we never become more “human” than we are from the very moment of conception.
A zygote, in her mother’s womb, is:
I created that image just a few moments ago, under what I believe was divine inspiration. Because the science on the left and the image of the baby in the womb on the right scream the identical same message: that baby in the womb is HUMAN. A child in the womb is HUMAN by virtue of her parents; she is a BEING by virtue of the fact that she is a living thing: SHE IS A HUMAN BEING.
We are all equal as humans because we all have the same human nature which we had at the very first moment of conception. And either human life matters because it’s human life or it doesn’t. And if it doesn’t, then whoever is in power gets to start playing games with what ought to be sacred and sacrosanct.
Either that unborn baby’s life matters, regardless of her level of “intelligence” or “ability” or “accomplishment” or spatial location, or else there is nothing logically or morally preventing us from going the way of the Nazis, or the Stalinists, or the Maoists, or the Khmers rouges, or the North Koreans, etc. and just start killing by the millions, by the tens of millions, every single human being who fails to measure up to our a priori determination of what a valuable “human” is.
Senior citizens’ lives don’t matter: they are no longer producing, they are soaking up benefits that others could be putting to more productive use and to pay out those benefits undermines more viable “humans.” Or black lives don’t matter: too many of these individuals are on welfare, producing nothing, only costing society, and now to make matters even worse they are creating societal unrest. And so on. Look at that damn cripple over there in that wheelchair. What a waste of flesh! Look at that dwarf! It’s like a human head on a monkey body! And therefore, “The members of these groups whose lives don’t matter should be euthanized in the most efficient and inexpensive process possible, so that more fit, more productive “humans” may live and flourish. Which is the very heart of evil.
According to the so-called “science” of Darwinism, that is actually a FAR more scientifically valid argument than murdering healthy babies who have their entire lives before them and have unimaginable potential. After all, who can demonstrate that we didn’t abort our next evolutionary link that would have made us better – and now our entire SPECIES will perish because we didn’t evolve when we needed to. And all because we kept aborting our next step to evolutionary greatness…
It is an incredibly arbitrary, and murderous act to kill human beings merely because they have not yet reached the stage that they most certainly WOULD have reached had they merely not been killed yet. Why don’t we kill five-year olds? What good are THEY? What do THEY produce? I mean, hell, let’s wipe out the teenagers; they are FAR more trouble than they are worth according to most objective standards!!!
EVERY human life matters to anyone who truly believes the Bible, because the Bible declares in Genesis 1:26-27 that:
Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.
The Bible is crystal clear regarding the unborn and their precious humanity:
You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body and knit me together in my mother’s womb. Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex! Your workmanship is marvelous–how well I know it. You watched me as I was being formed in utter seclusion, as I was woven together in the dark of the womb. You saw me before I was born. Every day of my life was recorded in your book. Every moment was laid out before a single day had passed. How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them! I can’t even count them; they outnumber the grains of sand! And when I wake up, you are still with me! — Psalm 139:13-18
When it comes to humanity, any morally sane being would err on the side of humanity; which is to say that no one would EVER harm something that even MIGHT be an innocent human life unless they were either truly insane or genuinely evil. So if you are a mother, and you have several children, and you hear your oldest daughter say, “Mommy, can I kill this?” from behind you while you are cutting up vegetables, YOU LOOK TO SEE WHAT SHE IS TALKING ABOUT. Because she might be talking about her little sister. And in the same way, anybody who says, “Well, who is to say WHEN “human life” begins, so let’s leave it up to anybody who wants to make their own choice one way or another,” is no morally different than the Islamic State caliphate allowing its adherents to decide whether Yazidis are “human” or not: and you go ahead and kill ’em as you want to if you don’t think they meet the standard.
It’s particularly easy for Bible-believing Christians – who were demonized by liberal media culture well before that culture began undermining and demonizing our police officers – to realize that Jesus loves EVERYONE regardless of their race or anything else that has nothing whatsoever to do with our fundamental humanity as His image-bearers:
Jesus loves the little children
All the children of the world
Red, brown, yellow
Black and white
They are precious in His sight.
Jesus loves the little children
Of the world.Jesus died for all the children
All the children of the world
Red, brown, yellow
Black and white
They are precious in His sight.
Jesus died for all the children
Of the world.Jesus rose for all the children
All the children of the world
Red, brown, yellow
Black and white
They are precious in His sight.
Jesus rose for all the children
Of the world.
ALL LIVES MATTER.
I still recoil in SHOCK at the fact that the Democrat Party actually forced a candidate running for president – and the following statement destroyed that candidate’s chances of winning the nomination of the Democrat Party – to apologize because he made the “mistake” of saying that “ALL LIVES MATTER” to a group of liberals who demanded that only BLACK lives matter. Those liberals can play all the damn pseudo-intellectual word-games they want; they can equivocate all they want; but the same Democrat Party that booed the statement that “all lives matter” is the same party that has systematically exterminated ten times more innocent human life than the Nazis did during the Holocaust.
EVERY human life is of what morally intelligent philosophers describe as “incommensurate value.” There is no price, no amount of gold or gems or any other form of value, that can compensate for the life of a human being.
For the record, the death penalty itself – which is BIBLICAL – is itself a testimony of that above fact: if you murder another human being, there is literally NOTHING you can do or give that will compensate for the sheer magnitude of your moral crime. YOU took a life – you STOLE a life – and YOUR life shall be taken in return. The scales of justice will be BALANCED. And that act of JUSTICE in recognition of the value and the magnitude of innocent human life will become an object lesson to us all.
All lives matter. Even the lives of those who have been murdered, who have been expunged, who have been aborted.
But police lives matter MORE.
Why do I say that?
It is not that police lives are more valuable because police are somehow better “humans.” That is not true. Police officers are as “human” as the rest of us. They too were zygotes, were embryos, were fetuses, were infants, were toddlers, were teenagers, and capable of making all the mistakes and errors that are prone to frail, imperfect, fallen humanity.
Police officers sweat. Police officers feel fear. Police officers have families and they want desperately to see their children grow up and grow old with their loved ones.
Police officers are human. Nothing less. Nothing more.
But a police officer wearing the badge, wearing the uniform, bearing the weapon that he or she is uniquely entitled to bear because that officer has been given the trust of a society to serve and to protect that society, becomes something even more special, even more sacred, to the flourishing of that society.
If I am murdered, it is a heinous crime. Nothing on earth can purchase my life back, or properly compensate for the fact that I am now dead because someone made the decision to murder me. And the person who murdered me ought to be hunted down by the police, placed on trial for his or her life by a court of law according to our laws, and imprisoned and ultimately executed after the proper appeals process determines that no grievous mistakes were made in the trial that would make that execution an act of injustice.
That is true of every single American: red, brown, yellow, black and white; male or female; young or old; disabled or abled; rich or poor. Because all are precious in God’s sight.
But if a police officer is murdered in the line of duty, the statement I made above about the dignity and value of all human life is true, but there is something even beyond that: that officer’s murder represents an attack on our very system of justice itself, upon the society that has created that system of justice and ordains it, and literally an attack upon human civilization.
Police work has always been dangerous. Officers pursuing fleeing suspects or attempting to apprehend dangerous criminals could very well use deadly force against the police. But today we are seeing something radically different: we are witnessing ideologues assassinating police officers from complete ambush.
It’s literally like Vietnam where soldiers could never know who the enemy was or for that matter modern Iraq and Afghanistan where terrorists plant Improvised Explosive Devices to kill or maim without warning.
Police must therefore treat everyone like a potential assassin – which guarantees more shootings as terrified police with hair triggers try to stay alive knowing a target is on their back and they can be murdered for no reason other than they are police officers at any moment. Which guarantees more shootings as frightened police see guns where otherwise they would have exercised more restraint. Which then gives the ideologues more “justification” to kill more police. Which the ideologues knowingly intend to create a vicious cycle. And everyone who kills a police officer in the name of “Black Lives Matter” is in actuality guaranteeing that more black lives will be killed by terrified police. And they actually WANT that!
Furthermore, the police – being “human” – will withdraw from communities that do not support them. They will stay in their cars in the inner cities and innocent black people who could have been saved will die because the police are too frightened of being either killed or prosecuted for doing their jobs. That too is part of the vicious cycle.
And this vicious cycle can only stop when society treats police with the respect they deserve and need to do their vital jobs.
As I said before, our police officers are human. They are in a very nearly impossible job, trying to serve justice in situations that are so depraved, so confused, that it becomes impossible for any other being but God Himself to be able to know what to do. Then you add in the next human factor of fear: that officer is in a situation in which his or her very life is at stake if he or she hesitates to pull that trigger at the right moment when the subject is about to take that officers’ life. Did that officer shoot before he or she should have fired? People come in after the fact who are themselves completely SAFE at that point and make that determination. Which is why YES, it is REASONABLE to give that officer of the law the benefit of the doubt in complex situations.
The Bible, the Word of God, is crystal clear in this:
Every person is to be in subjection to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those which exist are established by God. Therefore whoever resists authority has opposed the ordinance of God; and they who have opposed will receive condemnation upon themselves. For rulers are not a cause of fear for good behavior, but for evil. Do you want to have no fear of authority? Do what is good and you will have praise from the same; for it is a minister of God to you for good. But if you do what is evil, be afraid; for it does not bear the sword for nothing; for it is a minister of God, an avenger who brings wrath on the one who practices evil. Therefore it is necessary to be in subjection, not only because of wrath, but also for conscience’ sake. — Romans 13:1-5
The police bear the sword of government for our own protection, for our own good.
That comes from the pen of St. Paul, who was beheaded by the unjust system of justice of the very government whom he was upholding. Because under divine inspiration, St. Paul understood that, even in a wicked regime like ancient Rome, or modern-day North Korea or Iran, the police largely exist to ensure a stable, peaceful society. God ordained them for that role.
For better or worse, this is the government we have, and if we are to change that government, or that system of justice, we are to do it PEACEABLY and through legitimate means.
And so yes, we all agree that there are times when an officer acts unjustly, when an officer acts in a depraved manner. There are also times when JUDGES act in such unjust, depraved manner. And there are times when the system that appoints those judges acts in an unjust, depraved manner.
By the very standards I have set above, when an officer, or a judge, or a politician, commits a violent act under the color of sacred authority, that officer should face even GREATER penalty.
But it is NOT up to ANY individual in ANY society to make that determination for himself or herself, that an officer of the law, that an officer charged with justice and peace for a society, should be killed. Because that is the path toward anarchy and nihilism and the end of civilization.
All lives matter. But no life matters more than the life of a police officer who is wearing the uniform and the badge and the weapon serving and protecting his or her community to the best of his or her ability.
And that is why I support and honor my police officers.
And anyone who claims otherwise is an agent bent upon the destruction of our society and everything it stands for.
As a military veteran, I urge veterans to see our police officers and introduce themselves and say, “Thank you for your service.” Because police work is literally taking place in a war-zone, a modern-day battlefield, today in America.
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