Jack of Harts

I watched the recent President Biden speech. From when the Marines marched in until Biden’s upbeat ending. I watched the lights turn blood red. I watched the Biden’s march up to the speaking stand to the martial music. I watched Biden shake his fist for the camera and yell angrily. I had the feeling that I’ve seen this speech before, many times, in historical recordings of speeches made over the last hundred years. The way he singled out a large group of citizens and called them a threat to the nation. How he accused those citizens of believing things and doing things that are antithetical to civilization, many of those things being what his own leadership has encouraged, and his own people have done. I have seen this kind of speech and rhetoric before, and those nations that remained on that path have progressed through dangerous and deadly ground for years or decades to come. We must stop this. Or what will come next will be far more dangerous for all of us.

My mom had a lot of Christian romance books, and I have been trying to find a place to take them. A place that would make good use of them. I’ve talked to numerous churches and I ended up getting pointed to a Christian bookstore in my hometown. They are part of an evangelical church, and the proceeds of their sales go directly to missions. Mom graduated from Bethany Missionary College. It was her dream to be a missionary for God, but she was horribly terrified of speaking in public, so she was never sent into the field. They want her books. Now mom will help others do what she was called to do in life but never could.

I was 17 going on 18 when Ruby Ridge and Waco happened. I was a child going on adulthood, and I still thought that the government was looking out for me. I totally bought into the government narrative about both Ruby Ridge and Waco. That they were dangerous people that the local police departments couldn’t handle. It was up to federal law enforcement to bring them in or kill them if they refused to be good American citizens. I remember saying that to my best friend. But he forced me to take a step back and look at all the facts. When I did, I began to see the world through different eyes. Randy Weaver’s only crime was making illegal shotguns, and those he only did because an ATF informant solicited him to do. He didn’t do that on his own. It was classic entrapment, which is illegal. Everything else was a disaster of government errors and assumptions and orders that escalated everything to a deadly result. And the government walked away from it by paying 3 million dollars.