Morality and current events

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Glenn Jacobs / 130 N. Poverty Flat / Box 954 / Eagar, Arizona 85925 / 928-333-3517
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Evil deeds cause depression and captivity

Letter to the editor;

The Bible and the Book of Mormon both testify to us that the key to peace, prosperity and freedom is to obey the Commandments of the Lord.

You can check this out: When a critical mass of the people of any nation fall away from the morality of their ancestors, the innocent suffer with the guilty and the whole population falls into wars, depression and bad government. This is history.

We are taught that the way out of these bad situations is to take government handouts, create our own version of morality, invest correctly and vote for the lesser of two evils.

WRONG-O! The correct answer starts out, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy might and with all thy mind.

It includes Honor thy father and thy mother.

It goes on to list things NOT to do: Thou shalt not murder. Thou shalt not commit adultery. Thou shalt not steal. Thou shalt not bear false witness. Thou shalt not covet anything that is thy neighbor’s. There are more. You can look them up.

And it’s not enough to slavishly follow these Commandments. We have to have the right attitude about it.

The connection between morality and prosperity are not immediately apparent to the atheistic mind. The modern, politically-correct, sophisticated, college-educated mind is likely to scoff at this as antiquated, superstitious and simplistic.

However, it follows from “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.”
(Notice that it doesn’t say, “In the beginning, the self-existent elements sort of fell together at random and the earth and its atmosphere were the accidental results”.)

(However, if you want to take it from the atheistic perspective, you can still make the connection between morality and prosperity. It’s there, and it’s real.)

We are not going to get out from under this by electing magical politicians who can create wealth out of thin air. We should work, pray, be thrifty, read the Scriptures, take care of our families, grow gardens, sing hymns, patch our clothes and help our neighbors.

Glenn Jacobs
Eagar, Arizona

The new low-key wealth and social order

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It will not always be easy for us

Letter to the editor;

The ancient Roman Empire was finished when wolves prowled in down-town Rome.

“But that was then and this is now. It just can’t happen in these modern times.” (Oh?!)

Some people know how to make whiskey, and some know how to make black powder.

We had all better learn how to grow grain and beans and corn and squash and tomatoes.

It will not be enough to patch our old clothes: We had better learn to spin and weave as well, or get used to wearing only the shreds of mop-rags thrown away by the poor.

In short, we can look forward to a New Great Depression that will be the gift of God to turn us toward a revival of American values.

By the Grace of God, the coming Great Depression will last until --

-- the Politically-Correct learn that evil actions MUST be harshly rejected;

-- Environmentalists learn that all our needs must be taken from the environment;

-- Leftists learn that government produces exactly NOTHING -- and that we can expect from government much less than it takes away from us first.

-- hedonists learn that food, shelter and clothing come before sex, booze and drugs;

-- the guys who hang around street-corners, leaning on lamp posts and annoying passers-by, learn that they must work or starve;

-- the violent-crime boys repent and work for their keep, or are maimed or killed by their intended victims;

-- lawyers learn that there is more to the Law than their slimy, dishonest, vile, sneaky end-runs around truth and justice; and MAINLY,

-- we learn ALL God knew what He was talking about when He said, "Thou shalt NOT . . . "

Glenn Jacobs
Eagar, Arizona

Deliberately killing human beings

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Killing men and babies

Letter to the editor;

You probably think this is going to be a flaming polemical against abortion.

Actually, I am very much in favor of a certain variety of abortion.

Some men are so awfully evil that the only reasonable way to deal with them is to “cancel their birth certificates” and RETROACTIVELY abort them.

(Wow! Even from way back here, I can see the hackles rising on the politically-correct. There seems to be a correlation coefficient of about zero-point-nine between those who favor abortion and those who oppose capital punishment.)

Well, I also oppose capital punishment -- of two varieties: When the guilt of the defendant is not actually, truly, “proven beyond a reasonable doubt” – and when the “defendant” is too young to have done the crime, or even too young to be born, and is sentenced to death merely for being inconvenient.

We don’t need a Constitutional Amendment to take care of this. We already have the Fourteenth Amendment, which says that no State shall deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. That is, we are all to be protected by law from being murdered – including those who are not yet born.

As for capital punishment, the same Amendment says no State shall deprive any person of life, liberty or property without due process of law. That indicates that States may deprive murderers of life, but only after due process of law. See? Retroactive abortion.

Glenn Jacobs
Eagar, Arizona

The duty of Congress to impeach bad apples

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Impeach often

Letter to the editor;

Congress should be watching the actions of every incoming President very closely. Should he break laws, violate the Constitution, or abuse his power, citizens should urge Congress, early and often, to start impeachment proceedings in earnest.

Realizing that Abraham Lincoln did not actually have TIME to say all the wise things that are attributed to him, he is reported to have said a President should be authorized to hang five men a year without having to answer a lot of questions.

A member of his Cabinet supposedly said that five was way too small a number.

Then Lincoln is alleged to have answered, "Yes, but we could get the word out to two or three hundred that they were being CONSIDERED for the honor."

Every President, Vice President, Supreme Court Justice, Member of Congress and federal bureaucrat ought to be continually under the pressure of "being considered for the honor" of impeachment.

It is not a Constitutional crisis to impeach a federal official. It is specifically provided for, in detail, in the Constitution. It even specifies that when the President is being impeached, the Chief Justice is to preside over the trial in the Senate.

A real Congress, representing the States and the People, ought to continually maintain itself ready to impeach somebody, and should, in fact, impeach some lying low-life politician or bureaucrat every few days just to keep in practice.

Glenn Jacobs
Eagar, Arizona

A political parable

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Politico holidays

Letter to the editor;

[This was composed by Don Blaster just for a guest-rant in this space. It is a rather good political parable, and it applies to BOTH “Demlicans” and “Republicrats”.]

There are two holidays that are sacrosanct to politicians: Hallowe’en and Christmas!

Before any election it is Hallowe’en: They study which false-face to put on for the audience they will face. If that face does not produce the best results, they put on a different one. They may go so far as to change faces for each appearance and occasion. Al Gore even hired a shrink to give him a personality, remember.

Then, when one wins the election, it is Christmas time in D.C. They hand out all of our goodies they had to promise everyone in order to become Santa Claus.

Clinton's first act was to repay certain constituencies with bills that he had promised.

Johnson's first was to cancel the orders Kennedy had issued to bypass the Federal Reserve with legal currency. Also, he stopped the return of our troops from Viet Nam, and many thousands more lost their lives.

Obama is on record as stating his first act will reverse any progress made in limiting abortions. He will follow up on his bill for the U.N to tax the U.S. for 1.7% GDP to “support poorer nations” (maybe like the “Oil For Food” debacle in Iraq?) Since we are the “richest nation on Earth,” this should be easy enough to do - - once we repay our $11 Trillion of debt we “rich” enjoy. See how it works?

Better cover your chimney: Santa is coming -- with an empty bag to carry away what’s left of our republic. (Better still, build a hot log fire to discourage the demoGrinch from entering at all. Turn up the heat to get others out to vote.)

Don Blaster
Benton, Kentucky