Just say NO

[Tigger56]

I noticed my last post on going quietly into the night was quickly and quietly disposed of. I am beginning to feel this site is very similar to Facebook in the Gestapo type filtering. This is a truth that won't be appreciated and likely this post will be removed quickly. But It is in the power of those who own and run the website and I do recognize their authority without approving of it. This will likely be my last post and if you get to read it before it is removed I hope it gives you something to think about.  I am attaching an article from American Greatness entitled, Just Say No.  I hope you enjoy it.

 

Just Say No

If America is to enjoy a new birth of freedom, it starts with those Americans who believe there are some things more important than safety, some things dearer even than life.

By Dan Gelernter

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August 24, 2021

In 1938, one year before the outbreak of World War II, Winston Churchill gave his famous “the lights are going out” speech, in which he said, instructively: “Alexander the Great remarked that the people of Asia were slaves because they had not learned to pronounce the word ‘No.’ Let that not be the epitaph of the English-speaking peoples.” 

In 2021, the world takes stock of its freedom and finds out just how little is left. In Australia, Melbourne has been locked down for 19 months and the police are shooting violators with rubber bullets. In New Zealand, citizens testing positive for COVID-19 were quarantined by force in government camps run by the military: “I cannot allow the gains we have all made to be squandered by processes that are not followed,” said New Zealand’s prime minister. 

In Great Britain, the National Health Service built an app that “pings” people who have been near a person with a positive COVID test and requires those people to leave work. Last month the app was “pinging” more than half a million people every week. Boris Johnson’s spokesman says the app is doing “what it’s designed to do.” 

In America, New Yorkers will not be allowed indoors anywhere—no bars, restaurants, museums, movie theaters, gyms—without their “Key to NYC” proof of vaccination. This despite the fact that the vaccine only inhibits one from developing symptoms, but does not at all affect the likelihood of having the virus in one’s system or passing it to others. 

This year, much of the world discovered that its freedom was illusory: Nothing more than words and slogans to soothe the credulous, feeble public. But not in Florida, where I happen to be at the moment. When “Key to NYC” was announced by Bill de Blasio, I knew it was the right time to visit some friends in the south and see how the other half lives. 

And down here, under the calm guidance of the best governor in America by far, and with no masks, no restrictions of any sort whatsoever, life is free and normal. The press reports a high number of COVID cases in Florida without showing the inconvenient truth—that despite the number of people testing positive, the outcomes are extremely good. Hospitalizations are rare and deaths exceptionally so, despite the Mayo Clinic’s estimate that only half the people down here are vaccinated. 

The reality in Florida exposes the worldwide response to the novel coronavirus for what it is: An exercise in oppression. A precious opportunity for governments to see just how far their tentacles can intrude into peoples’ daily lives. An excuse to grant governments across the world extraordinary, emergency powers that, once granted, will become normal and then permanent. It’s an excuse—that’s all it is. A phony pretext for everything the government wanted to do anyway. 

Coronavirus may have been the careless, Fauci-funded mistake of criminally inept Chinese researchers. But governments everywhere saw COVID as a gift. It is the global equivalent of Putin’s Russian apartment bombings, or Hitler’s Reichstag fire. Out of panic, power. 

It is chilling and sobering to see how aggressively governments will subjugate populations of whom they are not afraid. In almost every country in the world, people are coming up against the unfortunate realization that, when push comes to shove, they are utterly helpless.  

And they allowed themselves to become helpless: In 1996, Australia enacted a mandatory “buyback” for semi-automatic firearms and confiscated 650,000 rifles over the next year. Britain banned all handguns in 1997. New York City has the most restrictive gun laws in America. It is no coincidence that gun confiscations have preceded other government abuses of power. A gun ban renders a population defenseless and—perhaps even more importantly—it tests a peoples’ inclination to obey. If you’re willing to give up your firearms, you won’t say no to anything else the government tells you to do.  

When the Nazis invaded Western Europe, the first act of the occupation government in every province of Holland, Belgium, Denmark, and France was to demand the surrender of all personal firearms. Failure to comply was punishable by death. These confications were followed, in the cities, by mandatory curfews. 

Most people in most places complied. Many—especially in France, to their eternal shame—cooperated actively and eagerly with the new authorities by turning their resistant neighbors over to the police. These neighbors, they felt, were making life more dangerous for everyone else. Incidentally, New York wants you to know that if you suspect someone of trying to use a fake proof of vaccination, you should please email the COVID Gestapo at STOPVAXFRAUD@health.ny.gov. 

A people disarmed is a people enslaved. Enslaved not only by their lacking effective means of resistance, but by their having shown their willingness to surrender those means to the authorities. When you look at American states with the freest gun laws, you know you’re looking at states with the freest people: Not simply because these people have guns, but because they had the strength of character to keep them. They were the ones who, when the government came around to lock them in their homes, said “No.” 

If America is to enjoy a new birth of freedom, as I believe it will, it starts with those Americans who believe there are some things more important than safety, some things dearer even than life. To those in less-fortunate circumstances and places, it may fall to you to take the first step towards freedom regained: The government will ask you for your papers. You know what to say.

[Alive]

THere is almost no end to what folks think about regarding the perceived current and past events and an individual's opinions of how important they are. These things can become very large and looming in minds and take on a level of importance that is not shared by others. When something of this nature is not shared by others, there is inevitably some reaction to that lack of sharing the importance or even crisis level of buy in.

Such is the way things are and will continue. If a thing is of the Lord, then it will bear fruit. If not, then it won't.

I don't think a hammer makes any difference.

[teddyv]

No.

[IloveyouGod.]

No!

[Faith-Not-Fear]

Well said Tigger. I thank God I don't live in an oppressive state run by the Demonrats. But you are so blessed to live in the free state of Florida under the best governor! Keep fighting the good fight.

[Marathoner]

Just say "NO" to political thinking and earthly nationalism, the cares of this world fashioned into a snare to trap the unwary. Fear, suspicion, hatred, entitlement, grumbling, belligerence, blindness, declaring evil as good, lionizing the corrupt... all works of the flesh bearing fruits of the flesh. 

Politics are a cesspool of this flesh and nationalism is the antithesis of God's words and the teaching of the Lord and His apostles.  

God is no respecter of persons (Acts 10:34, Romans 2:11-16);
And neither should we be respecters of persons as the Lord Himself commands us, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself" (Leviticus 19:18, Matthew 22:39, Mark 12:31). Our neighbor is not a "Democrat" nor a "conservative."
There is no Jew nor Greek in Jesus Christ (Galatians 3:28), a rebuke of nationalism and dismissal of ethnicity by the Lord's apostle.
We are to submit ourselves to civil authority (1 Peter 2:13-17), remembering that authority comes from God (Romans 13:1). Those who are disobedient bring judgment upon themselves (the following verse). This convicts the grumblers, the disobedient, the suspicious and the fearful who denounce and act against authority of lawlessness. Agitating against civil authority because one didn't vote for the authority nor approve of said authority is rebellion against the Lord God, who appoints all authority. 

Teaching others to stumble by preaching lawless and ungodly conduct, lionizing the deeds of the wicked as commendable and worthy of praise, is a grave matter. Just say "no" to this ungodly nonsense and serve the Lord Jesus Christ, who teaches us to be no respecters of persons.   

 

[Marathoner]

On 8/28/2021 at 7:42 AM, Tigger56 said:

I noticed my last post on going quietly into the night was quickly and quietly disposed of. I am beginning to feel this site is very similar to Facebook in the Gestapo type filtering. This is a truth that won't be appreciated and likely this post will be removed quickly. But It is in the power of those who own and run the website and I do recognize their authority without approving of it. 

Address your grievance to a moderator in the appropriate venue --- a private message --- because doing so publicly is a violation of the TOS which you agreed to when you registered as a member of Worthy. 

You claim to recognize the authority of the site owner but your display proves otherwise, @Tigger56. If you were cognizant of the site owner's authority and his Terms Of Service, then you would abide by this authority even though you don't approve of it. One would not create a public spectacle of disobedience as we all have witnessed in the OP. 

Have you stopped to consider why your offending topic was removed? Have you approached a moderator about this matter? 

Think about that, my friend.