health-care murder

"How is the faithful city
    become an harlot! 
it was full of judgment;
    righteousness lodged in it;
        but now murderers.
Thy silver is become dross,
    thy wine mixed with water:
Thy princes are rebellious,
    and companions of thieves:
every one loveth gifts,
    and followeth after rewards:
they judge not the fatherless,
    neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them” (Isaiah 1.21-23).

The passage that heads today’s post, speaks of the relationship between collusion of the wealthy and government officials and “murder.” “Murder,” in this context, includes actions other than those that involve the active and violent physical taking of another life.

According to Isaiah, murder includes those circumstances when vulnerable people suffer and die because government officials pass immoral laws due to the corrupting influences of bribes and kickbacks provided those officials by the wealthy class.

“Murder,” then, is far more encompassing than our current legal system acknowledges or prosecutes. There are many wealthy murderers in America. There are murderers sitting in every branch of the U.S. government.

In just the past few days, spiteful and ignorant actions have been taken regarding health care that will cause suffering. Vulnerable people will not receive the health care they need because they will not be able to afford it. At the same time, of course, insurance companies’ profits will soar.

Vulnerable people will die because of these unjust and immoral “executive orders.”

The prophetic voice announces in such moments as these: Murder has been committed.
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There will, of course, be no trial. We do not try the rich, powerful, of politically connected for any of their many crimes. Murderers will go scot-free. But judgment is coming. Oh, it is most certainly coming.

"Now this is the state of the souls of the wicked, yea, in darkness, and a state of awful, fearful looking for the fiery indignation of the wrath of God upon them…” (Alma 40.14)