america's mad state of rebellion: how much iniquity doth one wicked ex-president cause, 3

“…The heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live…” (Ecclesiastes 9.3)
 
Wherewith shall I come before the LORD,
and bow myself before the high God?
He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good;
and what doth the LORD require of thee,
but to do justly, and to love mercy,
and to walk humbly with thy God? (Micah 6.6, 8)

america's mad state of rebellion: how much iniquity doth one wicked ex-president cause, 3
​10 february 2022

In our paradigmatic text for this series (Mosiah 29.17, 21-23), the Book of Mormon redactor warns of the evils of a wicked king.
 
“For behold, how much iniquity doth one wicked king cause to be committed, yea, and what great destruction!
 
“And behold, now I say unto you, ye cannot dethrone an iniquitous king save it be through much contention, and the shedding of much blood. For behold, he has his friends in iniquity, and he keepeth his guards about him; and he teareth up the laws of those who have reigned in righteousness before him; and he trampleth under his feet the commandments of God; And he enacteth laws, and sendeth them forth among his people, yea, laws after the manner of his own wickedness; and whosoever doth not obey his laws he causeth to be destroyed; and whosoever doth rebel against him he will send his armies against them to war, and if he can he will destroy them; and thus an unrighteous king doth pervert the ways of all righteousness”
 
The warning is 100% applicable to the wickedness of America’s latest ex-president, who continues to breath threats and inspire insurrectionists against American democracy. Not a single day, not one, passed during his administration but what witnessed yet another example of his “tear[ing] up the laws of those who… reigned… before him and pervert[ing] the ways of all righteousness [all that is right].” Few days have passed since the defeat he arrogantly refuses to acknowledge but what additional examples of his ripping at the fabric of American society are discovered and published. This example of his wickedness literally involves tearing and ripping.
 
President Donald Trump tore up briefings and schedules, articles and letters, memos both sensitive and mundane.
 
He ripped paper into quarters with two big, clean strokes — or occasionally more vigorously, into smaller scraps.
 
He left the detritus on his desk in the Oval Office, in the trash can of his private West Wing study and on the floor aboard Air Force One, among many other places.
 
And he did it all in violation of the Presidential Records Act, despite being urged by at least two chiefs of staff and the White House counsel to follow the law on preserving documents.
 
“‘It is absolutely a violation of the act,’ said Courtney Chartier, president of the Society of American Archivists. ‘There is no ignorance of these laws. There are White House manuals about the maintenance of these records’” (“‘He never stopped ripping things up’: Inside Trump’s relentless document destruction habits,” Ashley Parker, Josh Dawsey, Tom Hamburger and Jacqueline Alemany, Washington Post).
 
This man must be stopped from ripping America further apart. His wickedness must be exposed on national TV. It must be broadcast to every rooftop satellite, through every fiber optic cable, upon the pages of every print publication, and via every social media outlet. And his “friends in iniquity” must be made to publicly confess and repent of their sedition in supporting him, or lose all position and honor and, perhaps, freedom in society. How’s that for a Captain Moroni imitation?