Inappropriate Is The New Illegal

http://www.politico.com/blogs/joshgerstein/0311/Eric_Holder_Black_Panther_case_focus_demeans_my_people.html

“The Attorney General seemed to take personal offense at a comment (Congressman) Culberson read in which former Democratic activist Bartle Bull called the (Black Panther voter intimidation) incident (in Philadelphia) the most serious act of voter intimidation he had witnessed in his career.

“Think about that,” Holder said. “When you compare what people endured in the South in the 60s to try to get the right to vote for African Americans, to compare what people subjected to that with what happened in Philadelphia, which was inappropriate….to describe it in those terms I think does a great disservice to people who put their lives on the line for my people,” said Holder, who is black”

Re-read HOlder’s “my people” statement above. Isn’t it clear from that statement alone that Holder and the Justice Department have a mentality where the people they are most concerned with representing is not with Americans as a whole but with Blacks as a subset. It is almost as if a occupying force that distinguishes between the occupiers as a people and the occupied indigenous people and is concerned for the interests of the occupiers.

Would a Attorney General that was representing all Americans make a distinctions between his people and other Americans? In short Holder’s people are clearly not all Americans but rather Blacks. He is the Attorney General for Blacks and not for Americans.

Also, realize that as Attorney General Holder’s job is to enforce the law. It is not his job to enforce the law if he thinks some violation of the law doesn’t measure up to his interpretation of previous historical grievances. Either the law was broken or it wasn’t. If the law was broken, but not broken as egregiously as it may have been in the past, it does not matter. If the law was broken then the law must be enforced.

What this man is doing is basically saying … “Well, because my people had the law broken more egregiously in the 60’s and suffered far worse indignity than those white folks suffered in Philadelphia, therefore I don’t have to enforce the law now even though it was clearly violated.” Payback is a bitch don’t you know?

For Pete’s sake, the Attorney General even admits the action of the Philadelphia Black Panthers was “inappropriate.” Is that what we now call crimes by blacks against whites that we used to call “illegal?”

This is insane.

The 11th Plague

I am ashamed to admit that just today I caught the divine irony of the Egyptians drowning in the Red Sea. Years prior to that Red Sea event Egypt sought to eliminate God’s host by having them cast into the river upon birth. So, many years later, God returns the favor and casts the Egyptian hosts into the waters. Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

Government Education & The Disappearance of .400 Baseball Averages

“California Teachers Association President Lois Tinson had a simple answer for why test scores remain stagnant despite ever increasing public resources devoted to education. ‘Today’s low scores’ she explained, ‘are evidence of the high quality of today’s system.’

Tinson compared the disappearance of high test scores to the disappearance of the ….400 hitter in baseball. ‘The so-called decline in test scores is just the opposite. Instead of an elite five percent scoring 1100 , we have 50% or more scoring 900. And that is not decline, that is a spread of excellence. Further, just as the extinction of the .400 hitter reflects greater excellence in other aspects of the game of baseball, current test scores reflect the greater excellence of public education.'”

Cited in Peter Brimelow’s “The Worm In The Apple”

Out of their own mouths, advertised with a positive spin, we see what socialism always does. Socialism is a system that reduces everybody to lowest common denominator misery. In this case, socialism as applied to education, contrives to make all the students equally stupid. Now the genius in this is that the educational establishment has, for years, been lowering the bar on standardized testing so that lower scores are masked by dumbing down the tests. So a test, that has been dumbed down, finds more children being equally stupid but it is spun as fewer children being elite so that more children can be above average.

This kind of reasoning makes my head hurt.

Vanilla Confesionalism

“4.) Distinguish betwixt the moral, and ceremonial, and judicial law; the first concern manners, and the right ordering of godly conversation: and because these things are of perpetual equity and rectitude, the obligation of this law, as to that, is perpetual; and therefore in expounding of it, these two terms, moral, and of perpetual authority, are all one, and to be taken so. 2.) The judicial law is for regulating outward society, and for government, and doth generally (excepting what was peculiar to the people of Israel) agree with moral law; this, as given to them, is not perpetual, their policy being at an end. 3.) The ceremonial law is in ceremonies, types, and shadows, pointing at a Saviour to come; this is also abrogate, the substance being come; But their is this difference, that the judicial law is but mortua, dead; and may, where it is thought fit, with the foregoing caution, be used under the New Testament; but the ceremonial law is mortifera, deadly, and cannot, without falling from grace, Gal. V. 2, 4 be revived.”

James Durham – 1622-1658
Westminster Divine
The Law Unsealed; or, A Practical Exposition Of The Ten Commandments

Note, in Durham’s #2 that what we have here is the basic theonomic explanation of “general equity.” Durham, as a Westminster Divine, would have had no tuck with the idea that the Mosaic judicials were simply to be considered “expired.” This will be seen over the next few days as we continue to post quotes from this Westminster divine on the subject of the application of the OT judicials.

Vanilla Confessionalism

“…And this generall Rule give me leave to assert and commend to your most serious considerations and consciences. That whatsoever Law of God, or Command of His, we find recorded in the Law-booke, in either of the Volumnes of GOD’S Statute, the N.T. or the Old, Remaines obligatory to us, unless we can prove it to be expired, or repealed. So it is with the Statute-Law of this Nation, or any Nation.”

Herbert Palmer – 1601-1647
English Puritan
Sermon before Parliament — August 13, 1644