Some Demons Can Only Be Driven Out by Prayer and Fasting!
I hardly recognize the country I grew up in these days. In 1963 when JFK was shot I was a sophomore in high school. Everyone in the country, all the leaders in government, joined in mourning. Were there some conspirators crying crocodile tears? The more we learn, the more it seems likely, but no one publicly rejoiced or danced in the streets. Of course, social media was non-existent: no Tik Tok or Instagram or Facebook so we were spared the fulminations of lunatics. Did people rejoice over evil? If they did, it was private. I don't remember anyone saying, "He deserved it" about Kennedy or Martin Luther King or Robert Kennedy. The country pulled together in shock and grief.
That unity is a thing of the past now. Violence and murder always took place as criminal acts, but we didn't hear rationalization from Walter Cronkite on the news or Johnny Carson on the Tonight Show.
Things have certainly changed and not for the better.
We keep hearing the Left say that Republicans are responsible for the violence, that their words have no impact. History tells a difference story. I wrote about mobocracy in a post in 2020 picked up by LifeSiteNews. I quoted the work of Gustave Le Bon who witnessed the French Revolution. One of the things he said was this:
Certainly, it is possible that the advent to power of the masses marks one of the last stages of Western civilization, a complete return to those periods of confused anarchy which seem always destined to precede the birth of every new society.
No one incited the huge crowd at Charlie Kirk's memorial to go out and avenge his death, to take over the streets. They were reminded that we are in a spiritual war that requires prayer and truth as its "weapons" not violence. Democrat leaders have been calling for violence for years! They have labeled not only Donald Trump as a fascist but all his supporters, the so called MAGA Republicans. The language has been extreme and the bias deep. Even NBC admitted media bias against conservatives in a 2018 article:
In 2014 liberal protesters were calling for the murder of cops calling them the KKK. [Source] Have things improved since then? Today they're still going after cops and now ICE agents are particularly targeted not just with words and chants, but with bullets.
The fact is that these Democrat agitators are either ignorant of history or liars, probably both. If Trump were a fascist and his followers were the gestapo, they would have arrested and murdered their adversaries long ago. Did Jasmine Crockett ever read about the night of the long knives? From June 30 - July 2, 1934 in Operation Hummingbird, Hitler ordered a series of executions to eliminate his political rivals and consolidate his power. If Trump really were the fascist dictator being portrayed Crockett, AOC, Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, Maxine Waters, Gavin Newsom, etc. would be long gone.
Tyrants like Hitler and Stalin didn't let their opponents attack them on late night TV or in the media. They completely controlled the press and the radio. They rounded up their political enemies and made them disappear either to graves or the gulag.
And when you think of censorship who comes to mind? Google and Facebook weren't censoring the left! Fortunately, other sources have arisen so the public can get the truth from more trustworthy outlets. And there are signs that a godly counter-revolution is rising. If the Left doesn't police itself and its violent rhetoric, more fanatics will be triggered and take up weapons. With the Democrat party in major disarray, let us pray many will lose their seats in the next election. Let us pray to Christ the King that we may return good for evil.
I'm praying for Jasmine Crockett. She is an articulate and beautiful woman. Think of the impact she could have if she turned her talent to doing God's work instead of being a mouthpiece for the evil one who loves death and destruction.
Remember, some devils are only driven out by prayer and fasting. Let's do it!
"I don't remember anyone saying, "He deserved it" about Kennedy or Martin Luther King or Robert Kennedy. The country pulled together in shock and grief."
Regardless of your memory, RFK was anti-Vietnam and pro-civil rights--as was MLK. Their positions were not popular with significant segments of the country. JFK was the most popular of the three and the president, however, even he was not mourned by all: "In the South, where Kennedy was not popular because of his position on civil rights, some isolated incidents occurred, where some expressed joy to the death of Kennedy: schools in Mississippi,[52][53] Louisiana,[54] Alabama[55] and suburbs of Dallas itself.[56]
President of the Memphis Citizens Council Richard Ely told the Nashville White Citizens Council that "I firmly believe Mr. Kennedy died a tyrant's death. He did not set back communism. He encouraged integration, which has the support of communism. He was a tyrant", causing half of the room, some of whom were Peabody College professors, to leave after they unsuccessfully demanded Ely to provide evidence for his claims.[57][58] In Biloxi, Mississippi, student Thomas Hansen was thrown across a front glass door, after protesting against banners of celebration of the local section of the John Birch Society, before being hit with ultimately abandoned charges of vandalism.[59]
As written by William Manchester in Death of a President: An Oklahoma City physician beamed at a grief-stricken visitor and said, "Good, I hope they got Jackie." In a small Connecticut city a doctor called ecstatically across Main Street – to an internist who worshiped Kennedy – "The joy ride's over. This is one deal Papa Joe can't fix." A woman visiting Amarillo, the second most radical city in Texas, was lunching in the restaurant adjacent to her motel when a score of rejoicing students burst in from a high school directly across the street. "Hey, great, JFK's croaked!" one shouted with flagrant delight, and the woman, leaving as rapidly as she could, noticed that several diners were smiling back at the boy. In Dallas itself, a man whooped and tossed his expensive Stetson in the air, and it was in a wealthy Dallas suburb that the pupils of a fourth-grade class, told that the President of the United States had been murdered in their city, burst into spontaneous applause.[60]
On December 1, after Malcolm X made a speech, reporters asked him for a comment about the assassination of President Kennedy. The spokesman for the Nation of Islam said that it was a case of "chickens coming home to roost", and added that "chickens coming home to roost never did make me sad; they've always made me glad."[61]
The New York Times wrote, "in further criticism of Mr. Kennedy, the Muslim leader cited the murders of Patrice Lumumba, Congo leader, of Medgar Evers, civil rights leader, and of the Negro girls bombed earlier this year in a Birmingham church. These, he said, were instances of other 'chickens coming home to roost'."[61] The newspaper noted that his comments were greeted by "loud applause and laughter" from the all-black audience. It quoted an unnamed audience member, who told a reporter he applauded Malcolm X's remarks "more for the fact that he had the nerve to say it than that I really approved of it".[61] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactions_to_the_assassination_of_John_F._Kennedy
The LBJ administration made no pronouncements against these "haters" at JFK's funeral. Nor were they fired from their jobs and banished from public life. They were not "de-banked" or told they would be deprived of "all their power."
The examples you cite are ordinary citizens, not members of Congress, other government leaders and famous media influencers promoting violence in the wake of the assassination.
And speaking of 1968, as you then lived in DC, I am sure you remember the military stationed on every street corner to keep order. Somehow, I do not remember the demonstrations and ranting about "fascism" at that time. Oh, I forgot: a Democrat was president. It's OK when They do it.
I was working at the Main Navy building on Constitution Ave. I remember standing in the stairwell watching the anti-Vietnam marches. Ironic that the liberals who already championed murdering the innocent in abortion and worked to get it legalized in D.C. before Roe v. Wade, called the returning Vietnam vets "baby killers." The hypocrisy of the liberal Left is wide and deep and keeps growing.
"I don't remember anyone saying, "He deserved it" about Kennedy or Martin Luther King or Robert Kennedy. The country pulled together in shock and grief."
ReplyDeleteRegardless of your memory, RFK was anti-Vietnam and pro-civil rights--as was MLK. Their positions were not popular with significant segments of the country. JFK was the most popular of the three and the president, however, even he was not mourned by all: "In the South, where Kennedy was not popular because of his position on civil rights, some isolated incidents occurred, where some expressed joy to the death of Kennedy: schools in Mississippi,[52][53] Louisiana,[54] Alabama[55] and suburbs of Dallas itself.[56]
President of the Memphis Citizens Council Richard Ely told the Nashville White Citizens Council that "I firmly believe Mr. Kennedy died a tyrant's death. He did not set back communism. He encouraged integration, which has the support of communism. He was a tyrant", causing half of the room, some of whom were Peabody College professors, to leave after they unsuccessfully demanded Ely to provide evidence for his claims.[57][58] In Biloxi, Mississippi, student Thomas Hansen was thrown across a front glass door, after protesting against banners of celebration of the local section of the John Birch Society, before being hit with ultimately abandoned charges of vandalism.[59]
As written by William Manchester in Death of a President: An Oklahoma City physician beamed at a grief-stricken visitor and said, "Good, I hope they got Jackie." In a small Connecticut city a doctor called ecstatically across Main Street – to an internist who worshiped Kennedy – "The joy ride's over. This is one deal Papa Joe can't fix." A woman visiting Amarillo, the second most radical city in Texas, was lunching in the restaurant adjacent to her motel when a score of rejoicing students burst in from a high school directly across the street. "Hey, great, JFK's croaked!" one shouted with flagrant delight, and the woman, leaving as rapidly as she could, noticed that several diners were smiling back at the boy. In Dallas itself, a man whooped and tossed his expensive Stetson in the air, and it was in a wealthy Dallas suburb that the pupils of a fourth-grade class, told that the President of the United States had been murdered in their city, burst into spontaneous applause.[60]
On December 1, after Malcolm X made a speech, reporters asked him for a comment about the assassination of President Kennedy. The spokesman for the Nation of Islam said that it was a case of "chickens coming home to roost", and added that "chickens coming home to roost never did make me sad; they've always made me glad."[61]
The New York Times wrote, "in further criticism of Mr. Kennedy, the Muslim leader cited the murders of Patrice Lumumba, Congo leader, of Medgar Evers, civil rights leader, and of the Negro girls bombed earlier this year in a Birmingham church. These, he said, were instances of other 'chickens coming home to roost'."[61] The newspaper noted that his comments were greeted by "loud applause and laughter" from the all-black audience. It quoted an unnamed audience member, who told a reporter he applauded Malcolm X's remarks "more for the fact that he had the nerve to say it than that I really approved of it".[61]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactions_to_the_assassination_of_John_F._Kennedy
The LBJ administration made no pronouncements against these "haters" at JFK's funeral. Nor were they fired from their jobs and banished from public life. They were not "de-banked" or told they would be deprived of "all their power."
The examples you cite are ordinary citizens, not members of Congress, other government leaders and famous media influencers promoting violence in the wake of the assassination.
DeleteAnd speaking of 1968, as you then lived in DC, I am sure you remember the military stationed on every street corner to keep order. Somehow, I do not remember the demonstrations and ranting about "fascism" at that time. Oh, I forgot: a Democrat was president. It's OK when They do it.
ReplyDeleteI was working at the Main Navy building on Constitution Ave. I remember standing in the stairwell watching the anti-Vietnam marches. Ironic that the liberals who already championed murdering the innocent in abortion and worked to get it legalized in D.C. before Roe v. Wade, called the returning Vietnam vets "baby killers." The hypocrisy of the liberal Left is wide and deep and keeps growing.
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