In Genesis 18 and 19 we find the history of the destruction of the ancient cities of Sodom and Gomorrah: an event that is still well-known at least in Western Civilization.
Theories abound about exactly how the destruction occurred, especially among people who have a problem with “miracles” and seek some natural explanation for everything. The destruction was with “sulfur and fire,” according to Genesis, brought on the “Cities of the Plain” by YHWH, the Lord God of Israel, for their evil. Today, it is generally agreed that these and the other three cities “of the plain” are located in the south bay of the Dead Sea, on the border between the State of Israel and the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. (Though there are people who argue otherwise.)
Nathan, what does this have to do with liberty and politics?
A lesser-known part of the incident was Abraham, the future father of the nation of Israel (and many other nations including the dozen or so Arab nations) negotiating with YHWH over the decision to destroy these evil cities. Abraham asked God, “will you destroy the righteous along with the unrighteous?” The good along with the evil?
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Steve Baker of The Blaze arrested, humiliated
As warned, this morning the investigative reporter Steve Bake was arrested by the FBI in Dallas, being charged with four unidentified misdemeanors involved with the 6 January 2021 Capitol events and his reporting of those events.
Perhaps it is his finding and revealing several things very embarrassing to the FBI that caused the FBI agents in Texas to treat him more like a mass murderer than someone with some misdemeanors. He was handcuffed, shoved into the back of an FBI black sedan, and reportedly put into leg-irons and the now-infamous orange jumpsuit.
From the video and the reports made by friends and colleagues, the clear intention of the thugs was to humiliate him. Just as the charges themselves seem to be obviously planned to intimidate Baker and other reporters and media. Media who do not kowtow to the Biden regime and the FBI. An agency which more and more resembles the Stasi, KGB/NKVD and the Geheimstaatspolizei (Gestapo). Just as the American federal government seems to slide more and more rapidly into tyranny.
The former American republic is now obviously a police state. The tyranny grows daily.
Admittedly, a “gentler and kinder” type of tyranny than what we have seen and see in places like China and North Korea, Argentina, Honduras, and other places. But still less and less resembling a constitutional republic.
Even as States like Illinois are joining Colorado and Maine is seceding, de facto, from the Union by denying voters their constitutional right to vote on certain persons. And others seceding by denying their people the rights guaranteed by that constitution, as Hawai’i has done.
But what is the response? Who is responding? When? Are we indeed sheep to accept whatever our self-proclaimed masters demand?