manifesto

“And seeing the people in a state of such awful wickedness, and those Gadianton robbers filling the judgment–seats—having usurped the power and authority of the land; laying aside the commandments of God, and not in the least aright before him; doing no justice unto the children of men; condemning the righteous because of their righteousness; letting the guilty and the wicked go unpunished because of their money; and moreover to be held in office at the head of government, to rule and do according to their wills, that they might get gain and glory of the world, and, moreover, that they might the more easily commit adultery, and steal, and kill, and do according to their own wills—now this great iniquity had come upon the Nephites, in the space of not many years; and when Nephi saw it, his heart was swollen with sorrow within his breast; and he did exclaim in the agony of his soul… ‘I am consigned that these are my days, and that my soul shall be filled with sorrow because of this the wickedness of my brethren.’” (Helaman 7.4-6, 9).

​You may consider today’s blog post a sort of manifesto. A sort of going out, rather than coming out party.
 
The last straw.
 
As any visitor of this site knows, I was never a tRUMP fan. Right from the start I was utterly disgusted by the man and all those who jumped on the insane and immoral tRUMP train. He was then, and is still today, America’s version of the mad Caligula. Who knew there were so many other psychotic little boots lurking in America’s underbelly only waiting for a Fuhrer to give them permission to slither out of the dark into the light of day?
 
So, I am not coming late to the never-tRUMP party. I am an original.
 
Even so, the madness that has followed the 2020 US election has risen to whole new levels of mass psychotic breakage. Every day sees fresh insults to all things rational. Every day sees fresh attacks on all things good and true. But, this week’s “presidential pardons” represent a new low.
 
This week America’s Caligula has carried out the latest and greatest mafioso crime spree of his four-year reign of terror in the form of a mass jail break he has organized and carried out—a crime spree that will go down as one of, if not the greatest and most corrupt act of organized crime in American history. All of this is saying too little. I am being too temperate.
 
So, we come to the manifesto aspect of today’s post.
 
Every legislator, judge, or attorney who remains cowardly silent in the face of this latest avalanche of putrid corruption and profane lawlessness forfeits every right to draft criminal justice legislation, pass judgement upon any matter of criminal law, or prosecute any individual of any crime. Being accomplices to the destruction of the republic and co-workers in the creation of chaos, they will lose all authority. Until such time as they stand up against such gross wickedness—gross wickedness that is against all that is good and upright and law abiding—I will not acknowledge their authority or acquiesce in their having any legitimate role in my life. I will not, under any circumstances, pledge allegiance to their defiled flag.
 
Furthermore, every Protestant minister, pastor, or priest; every Catholic priest, bishop, cardinal, or pope; every Mormon bishop, president, apostle, or prophet who remains obsequiously quiet in the face of this vile affront to God, angels, and every individual who has ever witnessed for truth; yea, those  shepherds, who thereby abandon their flocks to ravenous wolves, will forfeited every right to lecture, sermonize, preach, proclaim, or otherwise admonish any one of their abandoned sheep about any moral matter. They too will be named as accomplices in Caligula’s defilement of American society. But, far worse, they will also be judged as accomplices in his blasphemy against the God of Heaven and every righteous principle He has ever revealed. All appeals such wicked and blind watchmen make to my allegiance will go unheeded, rebuffed with utter faith and conviction that I am in the right to reject them as legitimate messengers of a just God.
 
This is another moment of testing for all who would claim to lead in either secular or sacred spaces. Over the past four years, I have watched with growing alarm and contempt as too many secular and religious leaders have failed one test after another. Let’s hope they are up to this latest, but, likely, not last test.

“For as their laws and their governments were established by the voice of the people, and they who chose evil were more numerous than they who chose good, therefore they were ripening for destruction, for the laws had become corrupted. Yea, and this was not all; they were a stiffnecked people, insomuch that they could not be governed by the law nor justice, save it were to their destruction” (Helaman 5.2-3).