Jim Crow laws - Garner Ted Armstrong Evangelistic Association https://www.garnertedarmstrong.org Let No Man Take Your Crown Sun, 18 Jul 2021 11:20:10 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 https://www.garnertedarmstrong.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/cropped-Screen-Shot-2024-05-16-at-1.06.13-PM-32x32.png Jim Crow laws - Garner Ted Armstrong Evangelistic Association https://www.garnertedarmstrong.org 32 32 Weekly Update by Mark Armstrong – 16 July 2021 https://www.garnertedarmstrong.org/weekly-update-by-mark-armstrong-16-july-2021/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=weekly-update-by-mark-armstrong-16-july-2021 Fri, 16 Jul 2021 03:21:46 +0000 http://www.garnertedarmstrong.org/?p=40123 Greetings from Tyler, Heads spun around when we were told casually this week that agents of the administration were in close touch with social media companies to “flag disinformation.”  If that startling admission turns out to be true, the courts have no choice but to weigh in.  Assuming they’re just.  Otherwise, the First Amendment ceases...

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Heads spun around when we were told casually this week that agents of the administration were in close touch with social media companies to “flag disinformation.”  If that startling admission turns out to be true, the courts have no choice but to weigh in.  Assuming they’re just.  Otherwise, the First Amendment ceases to exist.  Freedom of speech will be an historical phenomenon. But the social media censors, now admitted to be in cahoots with government propagandists, don’t exactly have a perfect record.

You just might be a “dangerous extremist” if you’ve studied up on Dr. Fauci.  According to our official lecturers, people that believe the last presidential election was not strictly on the up and up represent the greatest threat since the Civil War.  Books and articles make the most sensational claims about Rudy Giuliani, Donald Trump and whoever might believe a word of what they say.  Now there are tell-all “insider” books that purport to “prove” that Rudy and Trump cooked up the “stolen election” lie.  They call it the Big Lie (the term was used by an earlier fascist dictatorship), and if you should believe such blatantly obvious falsehoods, you might be a “dangerous extremist.”  The addled impostor himself used that language this week.  He surely doesn’t know of its history.

Given the new set of righteous “values” coming down the official pike, it is reasonable to wonder if everything you believe and know from life experience isn’t somehow “extreme” in the eyes of those who count.  Much of the media propaganda is telling us what is proven scientifically and what we’d better “stand for,” lest we be accused of being extreme and therefore “dangerous.”  Who wants that label?  Nobody wants to be tagged with unsavory epithets.  Therefore there are certain things you must believe or condemn.  Otherwise…

You notice that there is this flood of emergencies.  Not issues you’d like to see resolved, but seemingly an urgent need to add to the problems thinking people are worried about.  This is life and death! we’re told.  The Mad magazine presidential candidate, who is ever so proud to be married to another man, says they can solve global warming when they requisition some three trillion nonexistent dollars.  It’s human infrastructure.  That’s a term we’re not familiar with, but that’s a big part of the profligate spending that’s about to be added to a debt that’s already so out of control nobody even wants to speculate as to how that will ever be resolved.  Our grandkids will understand, surely.

But the reviled former President Trump is suddenly on the lips of every reporter.  He’s even worse than they thought.  Suddenly there’s a swarm of insider books and newspaper articles proving that all claims you may come across from time to time were cooked up by a drunken Rudy and unhinged Trump when they realized the election was going sideways.  It’s perfect timing too.  It just happens to hit as the Arizona election audits are to be aired. If you’re the least bit interested in any of this, you might be a danger to society.

Could we at least wait for the result of the Arizona audits before the name-calling commences?  For some reason no court, including the Supreme Court, would hear a case.  It didn’t matter if there was eyewitness testimony, it didn’t matter if there was evidence on security camera recordings.  It seems none of the states that were concerned about the way the election was handled had “standing.”  Sure enough, no court has seen evidence of election fraud.  How could they, having refused to consider any case?

The attempt by the State of Texas to positively identify people who vote (according to public statements), is as despicable as Jim Crow laws and segregation.   Someone who finds themselves on the wrong side of the government-mandated opinions on any of these subjects is a suspicious and dangerous individual that needs official scrutiny.  Even our best attempts to avoid the idiocy being presented with a condescending tone aren’t enough.  The habit of being informed is nearly impossible to break given the reach of mainstream media to every conceivable device.  There’s no escape this side of the wilderness.

Everything under the sun falls under the accusation of racism.  If laws require voters to identify themselves, how racist is that?  Not intentionally turning the mainstream argument, delivered with angry vitriol on its head, isn’t it insulting to suggest that there are groups of people unable to prove their identity?

The UN is being tasked with investigating racism in the United States.  We can hardly wait!  No doubt the various committees and commissions of the UN have the best interests of American citizens in mind.  What are these global institutions doing in our business?  They haven’t proven to be corrupt to an absurd degree?  You’d have to be completely blind not to see that the wrecking crew in D. C. intends to hook us up with international and global concerns.  These things need to be universal after all.

Saving the planet, instituting communism, partnering with organizations dedicated to the downfall of the United States.  Won’t it be great?  Your guess is as good as mine as to why a majority seem to buy into the fear, the false numbers.  And here they come again.  There’s as much or more Coronavirus scaremongering as last year.  Today’s paper (in Tyler) got with the program and reported hundreds of cases in every little berg in the area.  This, mind you, is the much more contagious Delta variant, run for your lives.  Put on your masks, whether they do any good or not.  Show the world that you’ll do whatever they say, you’re that afraid.

But there is one new wrinkle in the current news.  That is that even people who have been “fully vaccinated” are getting the virus.  Is that misinformation too?  Has this been reported before the masters of information had a say?  Good luck getting the rest of the population to submit with this kind of information swirling around.  Maybe we’ll find out that it’s not true after all.  Maybe the social media companies don’t yet have their marching orders.  The spokes-lady casually admits that the government is urging social media companies to “do more,” but it seems they’re already running roughshod over freedom of speech at the government’s behest.  Maybe someone should sue!  (Someone just did).  If the courts are not just, it won’t even matter.

For a year it was verboten to suspect the virus escaped the Wuhan Lab, and the social media companies invented algorithms to make sure nobody got away with making that claim.  Now the censors have learned the virus may well have escaped the Wuhan lab.  So maybe those who dared suspect the truth and were “banned” were right after all.  But what does it matter where it came from, or even if Fauci was responsible for the whole thing.  We’ve got this predicament regardless.  Here it comes again.  It’s looking like a permanent excuse to run everybody’s lives.  Barely had the report been released about the rasper in chief mumbling “door to door” but squads are making their way through neighborhoods with arguments and needles at the ready.  Resist them, and get reported as a danger to society.  You don’t suppose they’re overplaying their hand?

Mark

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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) took actress and activist Alyssa Milano to task over remarks she made questioning Second Amendment rights.

On Sunday, Milano questioned the validity of the Second Amendment in a tweet following the news of a mass killing that took place Saturday in Texas.

A 36-year-old suspect shot and killed at least seven people on the streets of Odessa, Texas, in what appeared to be random attacks. The incident resulted in the injuries of nearly two dozen other people. The Midland Police Department announced that the suspect was killed in a police exchange of gunfire shortly after the suspect carried out the heinous attack.

What happened during the exchange between Cruz and Milano?

In a pointed tweet, Milano wrote, “Can someone cite which passage of the Bible God states it is a god-given right to own a gun? This guy is unbelievable and is clearly owned by the gun lobby.”

She was responding to a tweet from Rep. Matt Schaefer (R-Texas), who promised that he would not allow the mass killer’s acts put a damper on the Second Amendment rights of Texans.

Schaefer wrote, “I am NOT going to use the evil acts of a handful of people to diminish the God-given rights of my fellow Texans. Period. None of these so-called gun-control solutions will work to stop a person with evil intent.”

Cruz noticed Milano’s complaints and responded in kind.

He wrote, “An excellent Q, worth considering carefully w/o the snark of Twitter. It is of course not the right to a modern-day firearm that is God-give [sic] but rather the right to Life & the right to Liberty. Essential to that right to life is the right to DEFEND your life & your family.”

The Texas lawmaker continued, “The right to self-defense is recognized repeatedly in the Bible, eg Exodus 22:2: ‘If a thief is caught breaking in at night & is struck a fatal blow, the defender is not guilty of bloodshed.’ (Note, though, verse 3 says it IS murder if during daylight (ie, not self-defense).”

Cruz backs up his point

He went on to cite a passage from the Declaration of Independence to bolster his explanation.

“The Declaration of Independence acknowledges our rights thusly: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness,'” he quoted. “And, for that reason, the Second Amendment provides ‘the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, SHALL NOT be infringed.’ It wasn’t to protect people’s ability to hunt, or to shoot target practice, but to defend their lives, their homes & their families.”

Cruz invoked the name of Texas resident Stephen Willeford, who risked his own life in an attempt to stop the Sutherland Springs, Texas, mass murderer.

“Stephen Willeford exercised that fundamental right when he risked his own life to stop the Sutherland Springs murderer, saving countless others as a result,” he added.

Cruz continued by pointing out the ideas of St. George Tucker as further reading for Milano.

“St. George Tucker, one of the most important scholars in early America, explained the reasons behind the Second Amendment as follows: ‘This may be considered as the true palladium of liberty. . . . The right of self-defense is the first law of nature … in most govts it has been the study of rulers to confine this right w/in the narrowest limits possible. Wherever…the right…to keep & bear arms is, under any…pretext whatsoever, prohibited, liberty, if not already annihilated, is on the brink of destruction.'”

“That’s also why, post Civil War, disarming Black Americans was a critical objective of the KKK and was memorialized in countless Jim Crow laws — to strip African-Americans of their God-given right to self-defense from violence,” he reasoned. “I’m a Texan. What happened in Midland-Odessa — and El Paso, Santa Fe & Sutherland Springs — was sick, deranged & horrifying. We need to do MUCH more to stop violent criminals & those w/ dangerous mental illness BEFORE they murder & I’m leading the fight in the Senate to do so.”

He concluded that “playing politics” with such heinous crimes is not the way to carry out lasting change.

“Playing politics w/ these deranged crimes — and trying to use them as an excuse to violate the constitutional rights of law-abiding citizens — won’t make anybody safer. Forcible gun confiscation (as some 2020 Dems urge) won’t prevent mass-murders. But it would weaken our self-defense.”

Ted Cruz@tedcruz

An excellent Q, worth considering carefully w/o the snark of Twitter. It is of course not the right to a modern-day firearm that is God-give but rather the right to Life & the right to Liberty. Essential to that right to life is the right to DEFEND your life & your family. 1/x https://twitter.com/alyssa_milano/status/1168293913825693697 …

Alyssa Milano@Alyssa_Milano

Can someone cite which passage of the Bible God states it is a god-given right to own a gun? This guy is unbelievable and is clearly owned by the gun lobby. #NoRA https://twitter.com/repmattschaefer/status/1167989249745899521 …

Ted Cruz@tedcruz

An excellent Q, worth considering carefully w/o the snark of Twitter. It is of course not the right to a modern-day firearm that is God-give but rather the right to Life & the right to Liberty. Essential to that right to life is the right to DEFEND your life & your family. 1/x https://twitter.com/alyssa_milano/status/1168293913825693697 …


Alyssa Milano@Alyssa_Milano

Can someone cite which passage of the Bible God states it is a god-given right to own a gun? This guy is unbelievable and is clearly owned by the gun lobby. #NoRA https://twitter.com/repmattschaefer/status/1167989249745899521 …

Ted Cruz@tedcruz

2/x The right to self-defense is recognized repeatedly in the Bible, eg Exodus 22:2: “If a thief is caught breaking in at night & is struck a fatal blow, the defender is not guilty of bloodshed.” (Note, though, verse 3 says it IS murder if during daylight (ie, not self-defense).

Ted Cruz@tedcruz

2/x The right to self-defense is recognized repeatedly in the Bible, eg Exodus 22:2: “If a thief is caught breaking in at night & is struck a fatal blow, the defender is not guilty of bloodshed.” (Note, though, verse 3 says it IS murder if during daylight (ie, not self-defense).

Ted Cruz@tedcruz

3/x The Declaration of Independence acknowledges our rights thusly: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”

Ted Cruz@tedcruz

3/x The Declaration of Independence acknowledges our rights thusly: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”

Ted Cruz@tedcruz

4/x And, for that reason, the Second Amendment provides “the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, SHALL NOT be infringed.” It wasn’t to protect people’s ability to hunt, or to shoot target practice, but to defend their lives, their homes & their families.

Ted Cruz@tedcruz

4/x And, for that reason, the Second Amendment provides “the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, SHALL NOT be infringed.” It wasn’t to protect people’s ability to hunt, or to shoot target practice, but to defend their lives, their homes & their families.

Ted Cruz@tedcruz

5/x Stephen Willeford exercised that fundamental right when he risked his own life to stop the Sutherland Springs murderer, saving countless others as a result.

Ted Cruz@tedcruz

5/x Stephen Willeford exercised that fundamental right when he risked his own life to stop the Sutherland Springs murderer, saving countless others as a result.

Ted Cruz@tedcruz

6/x St. George Tucker, one of the most important scholars in early America, explained the reasons behind the Second Amendment as follows: “This may be considered as the true palladium of liberty. . . . The right of self defence is the first law of nature….”

Ted Cruz@tedcruz

6/x St. George Tucker, one of the most important scholars in early America, explained the reasons behind the Second Amendment as follows: “This may be considered as the true palladium of liberty. . . . The right of self defence is the first law of nature….”

Ted Cruz@tedcruz

7/x “…in most govts it has been the study of rulers to confine this right w/in the narrowest limits possible. Wherever…the right…to keep & bear arms is, under any…pretext whatsoever, prohibited, liberty, if not already annihilated, is on the brink of destruction.”

Ted Cruz@tedcruz
Replying to @tedcruz

7/x “…in most govts it has been the study of rulers to confine this right w/in the narrowest limits possible. Wherever…the right…to keep & bear arms is, under any…pretext whatsoever, prohibited, liberty, if not already annihilated, is on the brink of destruction.”

Ted Cruz@tedcruz

8/x That’s also why, post Civil War, disarming Black Americans was a critical objective of the KKK, and was memorialized in countless Jim Crow laws—to strip African-Americans of their God-given right to self-defense from violence.

Ted Cruz@tedcruz

8/x That’s also why, post Civil War, disarming Black Americans was a critical objective of the KKK, and was memorialized in countless Jim Crow laws—to strip African-Americans of their God-given right to self-defense from violence.

Ted Cruz@tedcruz

9/x I’m a Texan. What happened in Midland-Odessa—and El Paso, Santa Fe & Sutherland Springs—was sick, deranged & horrifying. We need to do MUCH more to stop violent criminals & those w/ dangerous mental illness BEFORE they murder & I’m leading the fight in the Senate to do so.

Ted Cruz

✔@tedcruz

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9/x I’m a Texan. What happened in Midland-Odessa—and El Paso, Santa Fe & Sutherland Springs—was sick, deranged & horrifying. We need to do MUCH more to stop violent criminals & those w/ dangerous mental illness BEFORE they murder & I’m leading the fight in the Senate to do so.

Ted Cruz@tedcruz

10/x Playing politics w/ these deranged crimes—and trying to use them as an excuse to violate the constl rights of law-abiding citizens—won’t make anybody safer. Forcible gun confiscation (as some 2020 Dems urge) won’t prevent mass-murders. But it would weaken our self-defense.

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