What is it to “Take a Stand” Against Evil?
It is often said these days, we are living in “fascinating times.” At minimum, that is a gross understatement.
This week, an S.O.S. was put out by Australians asking the world for help to free their once free country from the tyranny of their own government. And the very next day, a video was released reportedly of a baby being ripped from her Australian mother’s arms by police enforcing the country’s vaccine mandate.
Sadly for Australia, their problem is the rest of the world is busy with their own problems.
Vaccine mandates are being enforced—or at least attempted—on a global scale in most otherwise “civilized” countries, including our own. They pressure people to take—against their will—an inadequately tested “medication” in violation not only of their God-given rights, but the Nuremburg Code. In response, people are understandably protesting these mandates around the world and across America.
Meanwhile, foreigners are invading our nation illegally at our southern border that, for all practical purposes, no longer exists. These invaders—purported immigrants that are neither vaxxed nor vetted—are being dispersed to take up residence amongst us, in secret and without our approval, by the very government whose sworn duty is to do the exact opposite—i.e. to protect our traditions, our culture and our Constitution.
That being the same federal government that ignores the alleged treasonous acts of officials at the highest levels who, we all now know, actively attempted to destabilize, and if possible, unseat a duly elected President. And indeed, who ultimately did successfully remove that President via election fraud committed in jurisdictions controlled and corrupted by those who now rule the nation in his stead.
All of this leaves patriotic Americans finding themselves living in a land where the Rule of Law has been turned on its head and replaced with the Rule of Power; presenting America with a two-tiered system of accountability for crimes committed. A system that now openly either enforces or turns a blind eye to violations of our laws on the basis of a perpetrator’s partisan affiliations. Democrats don’t get prosecuted; Republicans do. A place where those clinging to “politically correct” causes can even burn buildings and attack the police with impunity, while others with the audacity to merely enter their own nation’s Capital on the wrong day to protest an election that many believe to have been stolen are held in solitary confinement in perpetuity without substantive due process. All done, in part, to intimidate those who may be even thinking about challenging the legitimacy of the newly installed regime, including those identified among our nation’s newly-minted class of “domestic terrorists”—i.e. parents who dare to appear at local school board meetings to object to their children being taught a vilified history of America and a gender-based dystopian view of the world.
And God help those who remain inclined to rectify the election of 2020. Like the unvaxxed, their jobs are threatened, their reputations are smeared, and whenever possible, the “system” is otherwise doing its best to bankrupt them into silence, while the rest of us are told to move along, there’s nothing to see here. Those in power by virtue of the election fraud promise us tomorrow will be brighter… if we just obey.
Based on the foregoing, one may not be so sure of just how bright the future may be. But of one thing we can be assured. Unless something is done now and quickly, we can most certainly expect it will be a future where reason and logic will cease to operate and we will be expected only to behave… i.e. obey.
Which leaves many of us today pondering interesting thoughts, like that recently expressed by Candace Owens on Telegram:
“Are Biden supporters ready to admit that the media brainwashed you into voting for your oppressor? Take a look around you: mandates, empty shelves, force-vaxxed children.
“Are you ready to stand alongside the rest of us yet—as Americans—and stand up to Biden’s evil regime?”
Of course, the gaping question Ms. Owens leaves us is how are we to define what it is to “stand up” to the evil of any regime? Specifically, is it a definition that is limited to include only those actions that are both “lawful” and “peaceful?”
Surely, it must include both, or one could quickly find themselves accused of things like treason, insurrection and/or sedition by the “regime” in power. However, were one to apply logic and reason, one might conclude, among other things, that what is “lawful” is not necessarily always “moral,” especially when those in control of writing the laws are also those serving at the behest of the very regime that is supposedly to be opposed—i.e. to violate even an immoral law is still, technically, unlawful.
Consider our cherished Declaration of Independence. In large part, it was written for the very purpose of protesting the King George’s immoral laws and procedures. However, under the King’s laws on the books in 1776, that Declaration presented the King with nothing less that clear evidence of a criminal conspiracy to commit crimes against the Crown. At minimum, does this not lead one to conclude that our founding fathers could only have decided that trying to remain “lawful” while taking a stand against an evil regime is most assuredly not always possible?
Logic and reason also present similar problems with respect to the concept of only having recourse to “peaceful” means to successfully “stand up” to a regime’s evil. If tyrannies throughout history have proven anything, it is that sometimes to achieve success, actions must be taken by those on the side of “good” that necessarily must fall far short of what is “peaceful.” For instance, consider World War II. To take a successful “stand” against the evils of the Nazi regime required actions that were about as “peaceful” as those used by George Washington to successfully take a “stand” against the evils of King George’s regime and ultimately defeat the British. Clearly, neither of these “stands” taken to oppose the evil of their days were remotely even “mostly peaceful.” And yet, were not both undeniably instances where violence was absolutely necessary and appropriate at those moments in our history?
Which, of course, then leaves us with the question of whether America today has been presented with a “regime” that would justify similar “unpeaceful” and “unlawful” behavior?
No doubt, most of us would conclude that we are not at that place … yet. And, in fact, anyone with any sanity—among whom, I include myself—would most certainly want to cling to the hope that America’s people will never be compelled to arrive there.
Nor is this a call for it to happen. At most, it is an honest assessment that it’s more than possible if the world’s social trajectory continues on its current path. And that is what makes the times in which we find ourselves now living today so much more than merely “fascinating.”
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