Is enforcing the law illegal?! (The Eyes of Faith!™ 2025-08-30 #41)

Is enforcing the law illegal?! (The Eyes of Faith!™ 2025-08-30 #41)
Trump has had an unqualified success in DC Cleanup.
12 days no homicide. On day 13 (ahem!), first homicide. Are the news media gloating over a human death? Do they hate Trump so much that murder is a victory? How twisted have we become.
Expression "law and order." People assert it is a dog whistle/code word for racism. Racism is real, but not all human behavior can be reduces to racism. Reality is complex; people have complex and contradictory motives. It's an accusation that leads to lawlessness. Remember in Spider-Man 2, when Spidey retired, and what happened to the crime rate?
This is tied to the Post George Flloyd "Defund the Police" hysteria. Question who want the police defunded more--the law-abing or the criminals?
Cracker Barrel Crackup #2
Went back to the original logo. They made a mistake. They admitted they were wrong. They are trying to make things right. That's a success.
Lesson: Keep up the pressure
Maybe Disney (Star Wars, Indiana Jones) and Skydance/Paramount will see the light.
Why an issue?
Me, nothingburger supreme, but as watched other pundits ...
Traditional America
Once again, reductionist definition of America with Slavery and Racism. No one denies it, but it is an exaggeration and reductionist to say everything is racist and slavery.
Does Christ's atonement cover the sin of being a slave-owner? Can a slave-ower or racist repent?
Disneyland: Main Street, Frontierland.
Great America (1970s, when Marriott owned it):
Grand Carousel
Orleans Place
Yankee Harbor and Yukon Territory
Hometown Square
Midwest County Fair
Roller coaster: Turn of the Century
There was something good about this nation. Exceptionalism in (not manifest destiny)
Thomas Paine's Common Sense
Federalist #2.
Geoger Washington's 1789 Thanksgiving Proclamation: "for the peaceable and rational manner in which we have been enabled to establish constitutions of government for our safety and happiness"
Reagan 1982. "I have always believed that this anointed land was set apart in an uncommon way, that a divine plan placed this great continent here between the oceans to be found by people from every corner of the Earth who had a special love of faith and freedom.
A hardwired non-negotiable in BOM and D&C
Anti White Male
We need to come with with a good term for anti-white male racism
AWMR?
Male bashing, but does not include the racist part.
BYU
2018 1L 52% female. https://www.abajournal.com/news/article/women_comprise_most_of_byu_laws_ils_for_the_first_time#:~:text=For%20the%20first%20time%2C%20women,admissions%2C%20told%20the%20Daily%20Herald.
"Out of 104 students, 52 percent are women, Stacie Stewart, the law school’s dean of admissions, told the Daily Herald."
What happens to the displaced men? Bishops and stake presidents and mission and temple presidents?
Anti-white aspect to DEI, and wokeness. Equating all white people with slavery. People who don't read cuneiform wisdom. Slaver is a universal evil, not unique to Amerca's Peculiar institution.
This was pushback from the the new racism: anti-white. Racism replaced with Retaliation
Catholic school shooting
Context
New Report: Record High Hostility and Violence Against Churches in America
https://firstliberty.org/news/high-hostility-against-churches/
"Hostility and violence against churches in America is at an all-time high, according to a recent Family Research Council report. They documented more than 430 incidents in 2023—more than double the number in 2022. That’s an 800% increase in incidents since 2018 and an average of 39 attacks every month."
Minneapolis Mayor: Action Beyond Thoughts and prayers
https://komonews.com/news/nation-world/minneapolis-mayor-calls-action-beyond-thoughts-prayers-school-shooting-violence-trump-administration-jen-psaki-mike-johnson-capitol-hill
Items:
The evil spirit teaches a man that he must not pray. BOM
Prayer involves thoughts, and thinking is a form a prayer.
Issue behavior, character, or nature?
We can pass laws that change behavior, but not character and not human nature
President George Albert Smith, Conference Report, October 1949, First Day—Morning Meeting, p.6: We can legislate until doomsday but that will not make men righteous. It will be necessary for people who are in the dark to repent of their sins, correct their lives, and live in such a righteous way that they can enjoy the spirit of our Heavenly Father.
How to legislate control of mental health issues?
Past shootings
Columbine 1999
Highland Park Shooting, July 4, 2022
We passed laws, why didn't they stop this shooting
Law of Dimishing Returns: more laws we pass, the less effective they come
Don't deal with human nature issue.
Dark money for influences
https://www.wired.com/story/dark-money-group-secret-funding-democrat-influencers/
Groups offering $8K to social media influencers to post positive things about democrats.
Well, I'd take it.
My 2 cents:
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That's the passing scene, seen with the eyes of faith