A couple of days ago, I was at my local Post Office here in Livermore, California.…Two people from the local East Bay TEAParty organization were set up at the corner of 2nd and Livermore Avenue in front of the Post Office with their table and their umbrella protecting them from the sun along with their “Impeach Obama” signs, complete with the “Adolf Hitler Moustache” drawn on.…When I encountered them, they seemed friendly enough, and I told them that “I liked their sentiment, but what do you intend to do if you get your way, because we can’t be having more of the same?”…These people had no answer.…I had to explain to these folks that even if they got rid of the politician they hated so much, they still weren’t going to get rid of the system that allowed that politician to become president in the first place, let alone get re-elected to a second term and that if this one was removed from office, the same system will put in another that may be just as bad or even worse and that these TEAParty folk needed to address all the flaws that this system has and not just its leadership.…Then one of them asked me what I had in mind.…I told them that we needed another civil war and that 1/3rd of the population had to be killed off fighting it and if the Federal Government was intent on keeping the Union together so that it could continue doing what it has been doing to us, regardless of whoever is in charge and/or their political/familial ties to the other families and parties that are choking the life out of this republic, perhaps that government needed to be done away with and overthrown, too.…I also told them that the western states in both the Breadbasket and points west needed to secede, either walk out on the Union as one group or separately, asserting their own national sovereignty as necessary.…And the more details I gave to these TEAParty people on this corner of 2nd and Livermore Avenue in front of the Post Office, they thought I was crazy and did not want to talk to me any further.…On the next day, these TEAParty folks were still there on that street corner still trying get signatures for their petition, which I didn’t sign, still trying to hawk their own agenda, which in my opinion doesn’t go far enough in solving the problems we have these days.…Once again, we must invoke something similar to what is written in the Bible for addressing folks out there who believe that their words and interpretation are The Word and Interpretation of scripture before all others, which was recently invoked by “Boyd Crowder” in a recent episode of “Justified” when he challenged a tent revival snake-handling preacher in his midst this season:_“…[D]o not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world. (I John 4:1).”_And when it comes to people trying to sell us on what needs to be done for our “national salvation”, we should be taking the same approach and question them.
A couple of days ago, I was at my local Post Office here in Livermore, California.…Two people from the local East Bay TEAParty organization were set up at the corner of 2nd and Livermore Avenue in front of the Post Office with their table and their umbrella protecting them from the sun along with their “Impeach Obama” signs, complete with the “Adolf Hitler Moustache” drawn on.…When I encountered them, they seemed friendly enough, and I told them that “I liked their sentiment, but what do you intend to do if you get your way, because we can’t be having more of the same?”…These people had no answer.…I had to explain to these folks that even if they got rid of the politician they hated so much, they still weren’t going to get rid of the system that allowed that politician to become president in the first place, let alone get re-elected to a second term and that if this one was removed from office, the same system will put in another that may be just as bad or even worse and that these TEAParty folk needed to address all the flaws that this system has and not just its leadership.…Then one of them asked me what I had in mind.…I told them that we needed another civil war and that 1/3rd of the population had to be killed off fighting it and if the Federal Government was intent on keeping the Union together so that it could continue doing what it has been doing to us, regardless of whoever is in charge and/or their political/familial ties to the other families and parties that are choking the life out of this republic, perhaps that government needed to be done away with and overthrown, too.…I also told them that the western states in both the Breadbasket and points west needed to secede, either walk out on the Union as one group or separately, asserting their own national sovereignty as necessary.…And the more details I gave to these TEAParty people on this corner of 2nd and Livermore Avenue in front of the Post Office, they thought I was crazy and did not want to talk to me any further.…On the next day, these TEAParty folks were still there on that street corner still trying get signatures for their petition, which I didn’t sign, still trying to hawk their own agenda, which in my opinion doesn’t go far enough in solving the problems we have these days.…Once again, we must invoke something similar to what is written in the Bible for addressing folks out there who believe that their words and interpretation are The Word and Interpretation of scripture before all others, which was recently invoked by “Boyd Crowder” in a recent episode of “Justified” when he challenged a tent revival snake-handling preacher in his midst this season:_“…[D]o not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world. (I John 4:1).”_And when it comes to people trying to sell us on what needs to be done for our “national salvation”, we should be taking the same approach and question them.