Self-proclaimed democratic socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez put an office policy in place this week that changed the wage structure of staffers working in her office. In hopes of providing a living wage to junior staffers, she raised their wages. This was accomplished by means of several financial adjustments, including a slight reduction in the wage of senior staffers.
 
She has been immediately criticized by such characters as those on ‘Fox and Friends.’[i] Such criticism, of course, identifies these foxy personalities as being, in fact, “wolves in sheep clothing.” It identifies them as Atheists, Anti-Biblical, or heretical Christians--and certainly Anti-Mormons. On second thought, it is unfair to Atheists to lump them together with such blasphemers. The ignorant or willful rejection of scripture, Biblical Ethic, Christian Morals, and Mormon economic principles that is demonstrated by Fox’s wolves is based, of course, on the profoundly blasphemous capitalistic doctrines that stand in direct opposition to all that his Biblical and holy. It is absolutely certain that Ocasio-Cortez’s decision is based on solid Biblical teaching and Christian morality. If it isn’t compatible with “capitalism,” then capitalism is to be rejected not only as un-Biblical, and un-Christian, but as anti-Christ.
 
We will take Moses as an example. He instructs those who would be disciples of Yahweh
 
“If there be among you a poor man of one of thy brethren within any of thy gates in thy land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thine heart, nor shut thine hand from thy poor brother: but thou shalt open thine hand wide unto him, and shalt surely lend him sufficient for his need, in that which he wanteth” (Deuteronomy 15.7-8).
 
One might argue, I suppose, that the congresswoman’s staff members are not strictly speaking “poor.” Such reasoning would be wrong and miss the point, it seems to me, on two counts.
 
First, given the cost of living in the DC area, the normal wage for junior staff members is insufficient to live in a secure fashion. Their insufficient wages make them poor—especially given the fact that they earn 1500 times less than the worthless CEOs that drive so many companies into the ground.
 
But secondly, and more importantly, there is a principle to be drawn from the example. Those who would be thought of as followers of the true God are generous. They do as Paul admonishes: they “esteem other[s] better than themselves”….  not looking “every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.” They think and feel and act in this way because “this mind… was also in Christ Jesus” whom they seek to emulate (See Philippians 2.3-5).
 
In the same 15th chapter of Deuteronomy, Moses also instructs the Israelite slave holder. After a slave has faithfully served his or her master for seven years they are to be freed. In freeing them, the slave holder “shalt not let him go away empty: thou shalt furnish him liberally out of thy flock and out of thy floor, and out of thy winepress” (verses 12-14). Again, it would be wrong to conclude that the context of slavery makes the passage null and void in regard to any present application.
 
The principle is clear. Every human being is to be treated with dignity. Those down and out are to be assisted, set up, even, to succeed. To send the slave away empty handed would do neither—dignify or assist. If not assisted, the slave would soon be right back in his or her enslaved state. This would be unjust.
 
No, congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez’s junior staffers are not slaves. But “slave wages” enslave the child of God in a confining lack of choices. To help them succeed by giving them a portion of the wealthier employees’ wages is consistent with the principles found in this Deuteronomic passage.
 
Perhaps Ocasio-Cortez knows or cares nothing about Moses’ brand of the just society. Maybe she knows about early Christianity’s just society based upon “the apostles’ doctrine and fellowship?
 
“And all that believed were together, and had all things common; and sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all men, as every man had need” (Acts 2.44-45).
 
Yip, whether she knows it or not, the congresswoman from New York is acting the part of a Christian, one who follows the example of Lord Jesus.
 
Perhaps she is aware of Joseph Smith’s sentiments,
 
“we consecrate our property to the Lord it is to administer to the wants of the poor and needy, for this is the law of God; it is not for the benefit of the rich, those who have no need… Now for a man to consecrate his property, wife and children, to the Lord, is nothing more nor less than to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, visit the widow and fatherless, the sick and afflicted, and do all he can to administer to their relief in their afflictions, and for him and his house to serve the Lord” (HC, Vol. 3, p. 231).
 
Or, perhaps she is aware of another “apostle’s doctrine.”
 
“When we look abroad among the nations of the earth we see a great many evils in existence − evils that have existed for many centuries; in fact, they have existed from the earliest ages of which we have any account until the present time, in every nation and among all people. Our own nation is a case in point. When the foundations of the Government were laid, and liberty proclaimed throughout the length and breadth of the land, it was anticipated that this nation would grow to a pitch of glory and attain to a greatness and power that no other nation on the face of the earth had ever attained. Everything was favorable to this: a free Government had been established; a continent of almost illimitable extent spread itself before the people, and all that was necessary to develop its boundless resources was population, and industry on the part of that population. But little over ninety years have elapsed since the foundations of our Government were laid, and in that time we have grown to be a great people; but that which has been enacted in other nations has been re−enacted here. The evils that have flourished so long in what is called the Old World have been transplanted to this land. If Western men travel through the Eastern States they are struck with the great distinction of classes that exist there. There is an aristocracy of wealth fast growing up there; and at the same time there is another class in degradation and poverty, utterly unable to obtain the blessings and comforts of life. This is owing to various causes, the chief of which is the incorrect organization of society. (George Q Cannon, JD. Vol. 13, 97-98; emphasis added).
 
Of course, neither Joseph nor George were coming up themselves with such principles upon which a just society must be built. These were principles, as we have seen, that were given to men by a caring Father and God.
 
“Nevertheless, in your temporal things you shall be equal, and this not grudgingly, otherwise the abundance of the manifestations of the Spirit shall be withheld” (DC 70.14).
 
“But it is not given that one man should possess that which is above another, wherefore the world lieth in sin” (DC 49.20).
 
“Oh, but this is the ‘higher law.’ It only applies to the most righteous!”
 
“People like you, you mean? How are you doing with that?”
 
“Oh, well…. I haven’t been asked to live the higher law.”
 
“Gee, that’s sure convenient.”
 
“Whatever. It sure has nothing to do with our secular society! It is not expected to live by any such principles.”
 
“Wrong, wrong, wrong.
 
“It isn’t the ‘higher law.’ Crap, we’ve seen it reflected in the “Law of Moses”—what you call the ‘lesser law.’ Truth is, it is the most basic of laws. It’s the law of God regarding the just society—any society that wishes to call itself just. Its how societies work if they wish to endure. The only societies exempt from such godliness are those who choose to exempt themselves through rebellion and sin—you know, societies like our capitalist one.
 
“Why, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s “socialistic” society looks positively divine in comparison to our wolfish capitalistic system.”


[i] Justin Wise, “Fox & Friends' host says Ocasio-Cortez's staff salary plans 'socialism and communism on display,’” thehill.com

​Venezuela.
 
I’m not sure who gave the U.S. permission to be involved in and threaten every other nation on the planet…
 
Oh, wait, I do know. The culprit is the false god that goes by the name of ‘America.’
 
I wonder if that same idolatrous, bullying god who inspires Caligula to busy himself in Venezuela’s sovereign affairs would please, please call upon every other government on the planet to involve themselves in American political life. It could start by encouraging other nations to call for the removal of Caligula as president of America: foe to world peace.
 
Russia, if you’re out there… help us get rid of our Stalin wanna be.

 
“Governments,” the Doctrine and Covenants maintains, “were instituted of God” (134.1). The only problem with the idea of government arises when it is stolen by authoritarianism or “the voice of the people doth choose iniquity,” for “then is the time that the judgments of God… come upon you; yea, then is the time he will visit you with great destruction…” (Mosiah 29.27).
 
I do not quote these well-known maxims because in electing Caligula “the voice of the people [has chosen] iniquity”—though, of course, it has. I do not quote these passages because “the time [of] the judgments of God” draws near—though it does.
 
I mention them, first, to remind those who feel that the current U.S. government shutdown isn’t such a bad thing because, well, we don’t need the government anyway—“Give me liberty or give me death”— government is one of God’s blessings to humankind. What is cursed is the autocrat and mad citizenry.
 
This leads me to my second reason for mentioning these passages: In the midst of an unwarranted government shutdown instigated by an insane megalomaniac, we see signs everywhere of the citizenry’s madness, and the necessity of government to control an unruly humanity (I am not ignorant of the fact that even with government we often find our way to the animalistic side of our nature—as two world wars and the continuous smaller wars since demonstrate. Nevertheless…).
 
But, enough of the false enlightenment principle that “men are basically good.” Hogwash! We could quote about a hundred scriptures to demonstrate that such doctrine is about as unscriptural as it gets. I’ll not distract us from the observation that I wish to make in this post by quoting them here, but have a look, if you’d like, at the teeny-tiny few that I have quoted in the header and footer of this post.
 
I want to come back to government and the U.S. government shutdown (By the way, have you ever heard of any other healthily functioning government on good old planet earth shutting itself down? Of course you haven’t! It is a parade example of our disfunction.).
 
Anyway, since the mad and unjust shutdown of the U.S. government, some departments have attempted to remain functional with skeletal staffs and/or volunteers. One such department is the U.S. Parks Department. They have attempted to keep most National Parks open.
 
With each passing day, this has turned, increasingly, into a disaster. Now, we will cut the tens of thousands of park patrons slack when it comes to the build up of trash and the filth found in restrooms. I mean, we’re dirty animals. But with the passage of time, park patrons have increasingly shown themselves to be something worse than animals. It now appears that Joshua Tree National Park will need to be closed because patrons have been vandalizing the environment itself. Trees that have survived mother nature for centuries are being killed by stupid human activities in a matter of weeks. Park patrons are not simply cutting into trees, they are cutting pieces from the trees. How, oh how has the planet survived mankind this long?!?
 
“Enoch looked upon the earth; and he heard a voice from the bowels thereof, saying: ‘Wo, wo is me, the mother of men; I am pained, I am weary, because of the wickedness of my children.  When shall I rest, and be cleansed from the filthiness which is gone forth out of me?’” (Moses 7.48)
 
Now, my point is not so much environmental—though there is that. Rather, the stupidity taking place in the Joshua Tree National Park is a simple demonstration of the need for government; the reason it is such a blessing. Mankind usually acts like a pack of wild and unruly monkeys. As the simple events that have taken place in Joshua Tree National Park during the government shutdown so clearly demonstrate, we Americans, like all mankind, are in desperate, desperate need of government. We are in dire need of the checks it provides against our selfish, wild, and animalistic nature—the human beast inside each individual and every beastly society. Without this… well, see for yourself.
 
It’s a small thing, I know, this destruction of beautiful and aged Joshua trees. But, you know what they say… “By small and simple things….”

​With the death of two migrant children in a matter of ten days—how many others have died, the head of DHS is unwilling to say—policies adopted by Caligula’s administration are seen once more to be more akin to the oppressive policies of the Egyptian administration of Old Testament lore (“if it be a son, then ye shall kill him”) than those of any administration that could even remotely be thought of as “Christian.”
 
And make no mistake about it, the death of those children was a policy decision.
 
In an article entitled, “The US government deliberately made the desert deadly for migrants,” Natasha Elena Uhlmann writes
 
“Prevention Through Deterrence meant tremendous investments in surveillance and border militarization, with the aim of pushing migrants ever deeper into the unforgiving Sonoran desert. Though the border patrol denies accountability for deaths along the US-Mexico border, their very metrics for success under the policy include ‘fee increases by smugglers’, ‘possible increase in complaints’, and ‘more violence at attempted entries’. These children’s deaths were by no means unpredictable. Violence is built into the plan…..”
 
How, I ask, is this any different than what the un-named Pharaoh of Exodus did to the Israelites?
 
And how, I ask, can Americans imagine that their end will be any better than that of the ancient oppressors?

​There’s something I often wonder about.

A decade ago false prophets pranced about America, spending time especially on the perverted FOX-dressed-in-sheeps’-clothing network, peddling false prophetic narratives.

“Barack Obama,” for example, “is going to take white Americans’ guns, arm African Americans, and allow a rampage of lawlessness on American streets.”

The prophecy sold a lot of guns.
 
But, how’d that prophecy turn out?

“Barack Obama is neither an American or Christian,” many ranted. Rather he is Muslim. All this will come out after he is elected.”

How’d that work out?

Any one notice that our former “Muslim” president knows and honors the Apostles Creed far, far more than the infidel with whom American Christians have rebelliously yoked themselves? Why is the Muslim still pretending to be Christian? Why not come out of the closet?

Maybe because he really is a Christian. And American. While the current president is an infidel and Russian agent.

But here’s my question. Those false prophets, who spoke so presumptuously and lyingly? Are they still being listened to? Have those duped by the likes of Sean, Rush, Brett, Laura, etc. stopped listening to these false prophets? Surely, the dupes do not continue to foolishly listen to such dependable sources of misinformation. Surely, they’ve tuned them out and turned them off, right? They have to be at least this discerning… No?
 
No.

​Though the rule is so simple that any child could understand it, they continue to willfully feed in the trough of their own lusts.

​Today, we simply highlight yet another shameful example of a fine modern-day pharisaical hypocrite posing as a Christian, in this case the variety of Christian formerly known as Mormon.
 
“On Monday evening, Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch (R), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, also told CNN’s Manu Raju that he was not concerned about Trump being implicated in a felony. ‘The Democrats will do anything to hurt this president,’ he claimed.
 
“When Raju explained the implication had come from a document filed by the Southern District of New York, Hatch doubled down.
 
“‘Okay but I don’t care,’ he said. ‘All I can say is he’s doing a good job as president.’
 
“He added ‘you can make anything a crime under the current laws.’
 
“Hatch’s words contradicted his own past comments. In 1999, just before casting a vote to impeach President Bill Clinton, Hatch criticized the president for lying to the public about his affair with a White House intern.
 
“‘Committing crimes of moral turpitude such as perjury and obstruction of justice go to the heart of qualification for public office,’ Hatch said at the time. ‘…This great nation can tolerate a President who makes mistakes. But it cannot tolerate one who makes a mistake and then breaks the law to cover it up. Any other citizen would be prosecuted for these crimes’” (Ryan Koronowski, “Crimes aren’t Crimes. Trump and his allies are moving the goalpost to legally protect him,” thinkprogress.com).
 
We’ll just pass by the ridiculous notion that Caligula is “doing a good job as President.” It doesn’t matter.
 
Any Christian, Mormon or otherwise, worth their salt, or worthy of the name “salt of the earth,” can discern Caligula for what he is.
 
The man is a criminal.
 
A gangster.
 
An organized crime boss.
 
A Gadianton Robber.
 
An America disgrace.

​I see that that ungodly man/monster, Caligula, has once again shown his ignorance and brutal lack of basic human decency and compassion. Speaking of the recent teargassing of refugees at the U.S. southern border, he ignorantly declared,
 
“You really say, ‘Why is a parent running up into an area where they know the teargas is forming and it’s going to be formed and they were running up with a child?’” (Turn around, go back home': Trump claims migrants commit more crime than US citizens, theguardian.com)
 
I wonder—no, actually, I don’t wonder; I know what blasphemy would escape his vile lips—what would he have to say to those Israelite parents who took their children into the Red Sea, its waves looming turbulently above their heads, in order to escape oppression and murder, and breath the air of freedom and security?
 
Pure madness.
 
Or, what about those desperate parents of the people formerly known as Mormons who sent their teenage sons into rivers packed with floating winter ice… over, and over, and over again until they were frostbit and, and a few cases, dead?
 
How irresponsible can one be! Such parental neglect!

​Two thousand years ago the Roman Empire conspired with Jewish leaders to murder an innocent man, an innocent man who would become the founder of one of the great world religions.
 
The revelations that flow from this death are manifold.
 
From this death, we learn how vulnerable innocents are when they fall into the hands of evil empires.
 
We learn to be skeptical of an empire’s claim to a legitimate monopoly of force—especially the right to take life.
 
We also learn to be skeptical about an empire’s claim that those it kills are, by definition, guilty.
 
It appears that in the case of the American Empire, the death of this innocent man and the revelations to be found in that death were in vain.
 
The American Empire’s leader, Caligula (or should we call him “Pilate”?), has determined that he and his administration will conspire with the government of Saudi Arabia in covering up the murder of an innocent victim. By so doing, Caligula and his administration become accomplices to a murder. This complicity, by Caligula’s own self-condemning witness, is for the purpose of gain, mammon.
 
“Despite mounting evidence of the crown prince’s role, some of which the president has seen in briefings, Trump indicated that the importance of U.S. economic and national security interests — and in particular billions of dollars in arms purchases he said the Saudis would make — outweighed the need to establish whether Mohammed was involved and, if proven, impose punishment…” (Dawsey, Harris, DeYoung, “Trump defends Saudi Arabia’s denial about the planning of Khashoggi’s death,” washingtonpost.com).
 
Now, it is certain that this American Pilate never claimed to know or love Rome’s original innocent victim. He is quite obviously an infidel, as he makes known every day and every time he opens his mouth to speak forth his vile blasphemies.
 
American “Christians,” however, do claim to know and love the innocent victim, Jesus. Yet, they elected and continue to steadfastly support this American Pilate; this accomplice to murder; this criminal; this seller of innocent victims. If they continue to support him; if they do not stand up against him and hold him accountable for this crime, American “Christians” make themselves accomplices in the murder of the innocent victim. They crucify the original victim anew.
 
One is reminded of the original innocent victim’s words. 

​I read the following today concerning socioeconomic attitudes of “Tea Partiers,” so many of which are Evangelical and like to think of themselves as Christian,
 
“Liberals were asking them to feel compassion for the downtrodden in the back of the line…. They didn’t want to; they felt downtrodden themselves and wanted only to look ‘up’ to the elite. What was wrong with aspiring high? That was the bigger virtue, they thought. Liberals were asking them to direct their indignation at the ill-gotten gains of the overly rich… the right wanted to aim their indignation down at the poor slackers, some of whom were jumping the line” (Arlie Russell Hochschild, Strangers in their Own Land, Chapter 14).
 
My response to such attitudes is given away in the title of this post.
 
“Which way does Jesus look?”
 
When he came down to meet your needs, to rescue you, was he not under the necessity of looking down and back at you. Is it not, as the Psalmist declares a “humiliation” for him to “behold the things that are in heaven, and in the earth!”[i] Where would you be without his backward glance in your direction?
 
It is one thing to be weak. To find it difficult to follow Jesus and do as he did and does. That is forgivable, and worthy of mercy and grace.
 
But to deny the very doctrine of Christ? To deny, and even hold up to ridicule and hatred the very existence of his invitation—"If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me”?[ii] This is not so easily forgiven. This calls out for justice.
 
Be weak, acknowledge the difficulty. But do not rebelliously deny the reality of the call. Stop pursuing the false and idolatrous “American Dream.” It is a lie. An Illusion. It will ruin you. Make you unprofitable for Christ. If you are going to dream, dream of God. Of following him. Of being like him.


[i] Psalms 113.6

[ii] Matthew 16.24

It would be one thing if the evil little man simply lacked inspired imagination. Perhaps his “Christian” advisors could provide a little prophetic imagination. But, alas, both he and they lack a shred of inspired or prophetic imagination, let alone even a scintilla of human decency. Oh, but rest assured, they do have an imagination. They have an imagination enflamed by the fires of hell and inspired by satanic designs.
 
And what has Lucifer put into the little man’s head today?
 
If any of those “criminals” traveling as part of the refugee caravan dare throw stones at our heavily armed soldiers, our brave soldiers will be given license to riddle their bodies with bullet holes.
 
Tit for tat.
 
Who does Caligula think we are… Modern day Israel?
 
I am not sure that scripture provides a better description of any man than the description of a wicked man that is found in Psalm 10—a description that is oh so very apt to our wicked American Caligula.
 
“The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor:
   let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.
For the wicked boasteth of his heart’s desire,
   and blesseth the covetous, whom the LORD abhorreth.
The wicked, through the pride of his countenance,
   will not seek after God:
      God is not in all his thoughts.
His ways are always grievous;
   thy judgments are far above out of his sight:
      as for all his enemies, he puffeth at them.
He hath said in his heart, ‘I shall not be moved:
   for I shall never be in adversity.’
His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud:
   under his tongue is mischief and vanity.
He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages:
   in the secret places doth he murder the innocent:
      his eyes are privily set against the poor.
He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den:
   he lieth in wait to catch the poor:
      he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net.
He croucheth, and humbleth himself,
   that the poor may fall by his strong ones.
He hath said in his heart, ‘God hath forgotten:
   he hideth his face; he will never see it.’ (Psalm 10.2-11)
 
I’m telling you, if there are any real Christians out there who have our modern-day Pharaoh’s ear, they had better warn him about the perils of hardening his heart against the Lord God in this fashion.
 
“The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake,
   I will divide the spoil;
      my lust shall be satisfied upon them;
I will draw my sword,
   my hand shall destroy them.

 
Thou didst blow with thy wind,
   the sea covered them:
        they sank as lead in the mighty waters” (Exodus 15.9-10).

​In a June 12, 2018 Mad State of Rebellion posting entitled, “Ten Commandment Deviant-in-chief,” I enumerated a few examples of Caligula’s breach of the Ten Commandments. He has broken every one of them…. repeatedly. I only provided a sampling because I would need all day every day to keep up with each new affront the man commits against God.
 
Well, now, out of his own mouth, we have the man’s confession that, in addition to being a “Ten Commandment Deviant,” he is also an atheist—no great revelation this. At a—I choke and gag at the comically absurd hypocrisy of the next four words--rally for Ted Cruze, Caligula proudly declared,
 
“‘You know, they have a word, it sort of became old-fashioned. It’s called a nationalist. And I say, Really? We’re not supposed to use that word,’ Trump continued. ‘You know what I am? I’m a nationalist. OK? I’m a nationalist’” (Jim Wallis, “Trump’s Strategy of Fear, sojourners.com).
 
The foolish and ignorant man has balls, I’ll give him that. He knows well the abomination of his audiences. But, to kick so openly against the pricks in this manner? Pick a fight that can’t be won? Go to battle against a Being that can’t be beaten? Go to war with God, the greatest Globalist of all time and space?
 
Does he not know (certainly, none of his “Christian” supporters have informed him), or care, that God
 
“hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation; that they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us: for in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring”? (Acts 17.26-28)
 
In God, there are no Americans, no Japanese, no Mexicans. No black, no white.
 
How much longer, rebelling against God so brazenly, can this puny little atheist remain “in power”? How much longer will “Christians” support his anti-Christ attitudes, actions, words, policies? How much longer before the great and eternal and cosmic globalist monarch of heaven and earth slaps down this arrogant little nationalist as he has done to so many other nationalistic tyrants before him?

​Of all Caligula’s evils, too numerous to count, none are more damaging and damning than his attacks on truth through his consistent and constant lying. His desire to confuse and blur the line between truth and falsehood is clearly working, as evidence by and observation such as the following insane observation of one of his disciples.
 
“‘I bet $500 they are lying,’ he [a Trump supporter] said. ‘I bet it was a liberal who did it. Have you stopped to think why those bombs were only sent to high-level Democrats? They are trying to make it look like Donald Trump is encouraging terrorism….’
 
“His wife agreed.
 
“‘It seems like a lot’s been planted to make it look like a Trump supporter did it,’ said Carrie Pennington” (Ed Pilkington, “‘I Bet $500 they are lying:’: Trump Fans Skeptical about Pipe Bomb Arrest, theguardian.com).
 
What does one do with such insanity? What response can combat this sort of irrational and delusional attitude. Truth is useless in the face of this sort of willful ignorance. This sort of willful ignorance is simply irresistible. It leaves one with a sense of hopelessness and a belief that America’s “right” is “without principle, and past feeling” (Moroni 9.20).
 
Most discouraging and disturbing is Caligula’s success in blurring the truth among so-called Christians. It is truly brilliantly done. It is its very brilliance that proves that it is giving Caligula too much credit to say that the lying is his “strategy.” He is, obviously, not that smart. He is an ignorant man. No, he is another’s dupe. He is simply an ignorant tool of the cosmos’ most devious and conniving being—Lucifer, the father of lies. Caligula’s lies are not his. They are his father’s.
 
Truly, America is in need of an exorcism.

With each passing day, it looks increasing likely that Caligula’s fascist administration intends to conspire with Saudi Arabia to cover up the murder of Jamal Khashoggi. He and his administration are utilizing several means to do so: giving Saudi Arabia time to clean up the inconvenient physical mess that chopping humans up into little bitty pieces creates; giving Saudi Arabia time to find expendable individuals who can serve as “rogue” scapegoats; asserting that Saudi Arabia’s crown prince knew nothing about the murder; and, likely, refusing to listen to apparent audio evidence of the butchery in order to give him and his administration “plausible deniability.”
 
The ridiculous nature of each of these is apparent to anyone with half a mind or an ounce of moral integrity. Just consider Caligula’s devilish suggestion that the murder was committed by “rogue elements.” Really? The Saudi Arabian consulate gave entrance to twelve suspicious “rogue” actors, several of whom were the “praetorian guard” of the crown prince? The consulate then remained silent and passive during the long, agonizing screams of a man being quartered and butchered?
 
We should all be offended by Caligula’s assumption that we are such a bunch of idiots that we might accept such absurdities. Then again, his people have accepted one lying explanation after another concerning a host of absurdities.
 
Whether he and his administration will get away with this plot to allow murder for the purposes of getting gain—not just national gain through arms sells, etc., but personal gain that Caligula and his deviant family will gain through various business transactions—is yet to be determine. If past is prelude to the future, he likely will get away with it.
 
The man, as I have written previously, is a sorcerer. He having cast a spell that has sent about 35% of the American citizenry (about half of them “Christian”) into a moral and intellectual stupor, and made his blackened wickedness appear as white as snow.
 
The hypocrisy of the right is breath-taking and repugnant. They pretend to hate a strong and active federal government. They are doing everything in their power to undermine it. Yet, they sit idly by while that same hated federal government exercises its power to cover up a murder, making the nation and its populace complicit in the crime.
 
It seems that the right does not mind having blood on their hands as long as the cost of gas remains unnaturally low, their production of murderous weapons of mass destruction is not disturbed, and the profits from those same weapons is not threatened.
 
No, the “right” wants a strong federal government. They want a strong federal government that will maintain their obscene consumption of the planet. Of course, they want a strong federal government that will be active in such very important tasks as keeping gay people from enjoying their most basic human rights and being married.
 
What they do not want is a strong federal government that takes a pittance of their precious mammon in order to alleviate the suffering of the poor, the elderly, or the millions of disadvantaged children American greed has produced. Such help is anathema to them, for we all know that vulnerable Americas “brought upon [themselves their] misery.” And, of course, those who find helping others so repulsive, have earned every dime by their had work.
 
So, as we have come to expect from them, America’s wrong-headed right goes right on doing the one thing they are told they must not do.
 
“Perhaps thou shalt say: ‘The man has brought upon himself his misery; therefore I will stay my hand, and will not give unto him of my food, nor impart unto him of my substance that he may not suffer, for his punishments are just’— But I say unto you, O man, whosoever doeth this the same hath great cause to repent; and except he repenteth of that which he hath done he perisheth forever, and hath no interest in the kingdom of God” (Mosiah 4.17-18)
 
But now, this love of money has engendered a new evil, just as Paul said it would—"the love of money is the root of all evil” (1 Timothy 6.10). The love of murder. This latest scandal involving international murder, coverup, and secret combinations demonstrates that Caligula’s hoards are willing to look the other way, accept the most horrific crimes, swallow the most obviously ludicrous alibis, and thus become accomplices in murder as long as their everyday comforts of life are not in any way threatened.
 
They seem not to understand, or willfully refuse to understand, that it is, in fact, the very evil that they countenance in their government that threatens, not only their comfortable life, but their very eternal souls.