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Discernment – Confirm The Premise

 

House of Cards

I am training myself to read articles written by my opposition and to converse with my opposition more.  This requires discipline because doing it is painful, and I typically prefer to ‘opt out’ of optional pain.

As I read or talk with the left, there are often statements that twist facts in support of their narrative.  They often present these statements as factual but with minimal or no discerned substantiation for said fact. These statements provide the basis for their next great leap of predictable intellect.

But if you focus on the initial premise that serves as a building block to their argument, you may find that the house they build is a house of cards.

Take an article I read today wherein the author stated, “Biden’s Department of Justice has operated as it is supposed to: independently.”

Let’s assume the author is correct in this premise.  There are two overriding considerations with this statement.

First:  To whom does the DOJ answer if the DOJ operates independently? Certainly not to the people. Not to elected Republicans.  Wray is far from forthright in providing information.

In fact, according to the author, the DOJ is executing independent investigations and pursuing charges that are not accountable to any elected body.  It appears they are responsible to no one but themselves.  Even the once honorable press does hold them to account.

This is exceedingly troublesome.  The DOJ has enormous power.  They were never intended to be the fourth arm of our government but with no accountability to anyone.  They have become just that.

Second: If the DOJ operates independently and is accountable only to itself, what is its driving force, its overriding principle? Do you trust it?  Do the DOJ whistleblowers trust it?

Let’s take the very first Amendment of the Bill of Rights.

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

Does it matter if Congress passes no such law, but the DOJ colludes to censor speech? I refer you to the Twitter files. Is it simply coincidental that the Biden administration also colluded in this endeavor?

Why is a woman or pastor praying outside an abortion clinic not deemed a peaceful protester?

Should political protesters be held illegally and in deplorable conditions for months, years now, with no sentencing?  Should falsified tapes of a protest be used to sway the people?

Pull up the remaining nine Amendments to the Bill of Rights and ask yourself if the DOJ is acting in conformance. What about the Biden administration?

The author’s positions in the article I reference are mute.  The author is simply twisting the information to support a false narrative.

DOJ is acting independently, but its activities are outside the boundaries of our laws.  It does not matter what administration is in power.  We know this by many proofs during the Trump administration, including the Russia Russia Russia hoax and impeachment attempts. Unless stopped, the DOJ will continue to operate grossly outside the boundaries of our laws.

Is it coincidental yet convenient that the Biden administration holds and acts upon the same anti-law positions?  Our current administration and the DOJ have made laws an insignificant deterrent to illegal activity.  Ask the whistleblowers.

We cannot say the communists know not what they do.  They know full well what they are doing.

The devil is very smart.  Evaluate each premise with discernment.

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