WHAT IS BEHIND THE RIOTS?
By
Dr. Stephen Jones: 5-30-2020
Blog Post Date: 5-30-2020
As
the smoke rises from the riots across the country, contributing to “global
warming,” so also is the political heat being turned up.
Amy
Klobuchar was hoping that Biden would choose her as a vice-presidential running
mate. The Minneapolis riots have now scuttled her hopes and dreams.
In fact, the senator’s chances of being chosen
decreased so sharply that Dr. Jill Biden, the former vice president’s wife,
canceled a digital event with Klobuchar and coronavirus first-responders. A
source on Biden’s team said that this decision was made “partly because we need
to avoid her.”
Ouch.
As
we saw in previous cases, Antifa was called in to instigate riots and looting.
Antifa is the antifascist Fascist organization, the paramilitary wing of the
Democratic Party. They pay their thugs $20 an hour to riot and offer them
fringe benefits through looting.
So
also Minnesota’s Democrat governor told the police and national guard to
withdraw, leaving the city helpless in the face of the rioters. What a
brilliant idea! When will Minnesotans realize that their politicians are
working against them? When will the black community realize that destroying
black-owned businesses is not helping the black community? Neither does such
looting gain any respect for the black community. In fact, the initial
widespread sympathy for George Floyd and for the black community as a whole has
since been destroyed by images of fires and looting.
For
that, you can thank Governor Waltz for his inaction and cowardice, George Soros
for his financial support of Antifa, and CNN reporters for calling rioters
“protesters,” even while buildings were burning in the background. No doubt
those who are pushing for a repeat of the summer of 1967 think that somehow
they can blame Donald Trump for their actions and thereby defeat him in the
November election. But anyone can see that most “police brutality” today is
coming in Democrat-controlled cities. And Antifa is a Democrat-controlled Fascist
organization pretending to fight Fascism, while protected by the
Democrat-controlled press.
It
is hard to see how these huge problems in Democrat cities can be blamed on
Donald Trump. But then, intelligence and reason are not priority items in
politics. People need to understand that politics is the art of deceiving
people into supporting the policies of ambitious men whose goals are hidden
behind a veil of euphemisms and mislabeled legislation.
In
recent years, politics has evolved and the parties have polarized more and
more. There are still good and bad in both of the major parties, of course, but
overall, the Democratic Party has become the champion of Babylon and every
anti-Christian principle, even threatening to destroy Christian churches in
Chicago.
The
Republican Party has been moving in the other direction. The result is that the
nation is becoming very polarized between a Babylonian Party and Christian
Party. Yet not many are aware of this political shift, because they do not
understand the news that they hear or read.
Traditionally,
the Church has largely been united with Babylon. The Church has been in bed
with Jezebel. The Church was fed a large dose of Babylonian Socialism, which
presented the Christians with a policy of legalized theft that did not respect
men’s labor or property. This sounded good to all who might stand to gain by
such a policy. The problem was that eventually the government runs out of other
people’s money. That is when problems arise.
America
was founded on the principle that owning the fruits of one’s labor was a sacred
right under God that governments were bound to defend (not grant).
This encouraged everyone to work, because government was set up to defend them
from thieves. The Protestant work ethic prevailed wherever the church was
strong. Men were ashamed to receive “charity,” preferring to be given work to
earn a living.
Loving
one’s neighbor meant that you would help to defend him against thieves and
share if he suffered disaster. It did not mean that the government would take
property and wealth from one man and give it to another who was less fortunate
or one who did not have the skills to achieve the same level of wealth.
The
rioters seen today are those who do not respect the property rights of others,
regardless of color. So the retired black firefighter who saved all of his life
to build and own a bar suddenly found his labor go up in flames in the name of
social justice. Other business owners were looted in the name of justice for
George Floyd, dishonoring his name in the name of honoring him.
This
is the result of Babylonian thinking, which is based on old-fashioned carnal
greed that says, “What’s yours is mine, and what’s mine is mine.” These are the
new “American values” that have been perpetrated upon us by our Babylonian
rulers, who, because they are losing ground among Republicans, now work
primarily through the Democratic Party. If you don’t believe me, just read the
party platforms. It is not a secret.
Decades
ago, shortly after taking a course on Political Science at the University of
Minnesota, I began to see that politics was not what most people thought it
was. I came to despise all politics and saw that both parties were just
different arms of the same corrupt rulers. It was George Wallace (in 1968) who
said, “There's not a dime's worth of difference between the Democrat and
Republican parties.” At the time, he was right.
Things
have evolved today as the differences have become sharper in many ways. I still
don’t like politics, because neither party fully supports Kingdom government.
But I look not at where they are but what direction they are moving. The
Democratic Party platform is moving toward Babylon; the Republican Party
platform is moving toward the Kingdom of God. Therein lies the conflict,
because these represent two very different forms of government with very
different definitions of freedom.
It
appears to me that divine judgment is coming to the big cities, most of which
are Democrat controlled. God is beating them with their own stick, or, as Jeremiah
2:19 says, “Your own wickedness will correct you.” As I see it, the
ways of Babylon are now coming back to bite us.
MINNEAPOLIS RIOTS
Last
Monday, May 25, police in Minneapolis were called in to investigate a man
paying with a suspected counterfeit bill. After the arrest, one of the officers
put his knee on the man’s neck, probably blocking the carotid artery. As a
trained officer, it seems strange that he wouldn’t have known what he was
doing. The man, George Floyd, died at the scene.
George Floyd has been identified as the Minnesota man
who died in police custody after
a harrowing video showed a Minneapolis police officer kneeling on the
back of his head and neck for several minutes. Floyd, who was 46, was
identified as the victim by his sister on Facebook. Floyd was a beloved
security guard at a Minneapolis bar…
The incident occurred on Memorial Day, Monday, May
25, in the 3700 block of Chicago Avenue South, Minneapolis Police say. The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal
Apprehension and the FBI are investigating Floyd’s death.
The officer in the video seen kneeling on Floyd has
been identified by the Minneapolis Star Tribune as
Officer Derek Chauvin. Chauvin’s partner, Tou Thao, can be seen in
the video ignoring bystanders who were begging Chauvin to get off of Floyd. A
photo shows two other unidentified officers, who are blocked by the SUV in the
video, were also holding Floyd down.
Four officers involved in the incident have been
fired, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey announced Tuesday.
Officer
Derek Chauvin was often an off-duty guard at the restaurant/bar where George
Floyd was also employed as a security guard. So it is certain that the two knew
each other, which no doubt will cause the investigators to ask about their
relationship. Did they get along? Did they dislike each other? Was there a
motive?
When
the news of Floyd’s needless death began to circulate, riots erupted in
downtown Minneapolis. After all, an innocent victim should be avenged with more
innocent victims, or so it seems.
Meanwhile,
the four police officers involved were fired. Jesse Jackson was called in to
try to calm the rioters—with little or no success. The FBI is now taking the
lead in the investigation. George’s girlfriend said that he would have
condemned the rioting, saying, “He would give grace.”
Courteney
Ross, the fiancée of the late George Floyd who died in Minneapolis police
custody earlier this week, said he would not like the chaos that is coming out
of his death and that “he would give grace.”
“You
know, if he was here, he would say that he’s a man of God. He would stand on
that firmly,” Ross told WCCO. “He stood up for people, he was there for people when
they were down, he loved people that were thrown away.”
Ross
said that Floyd came to Minnesota to get a “fresh start,” stating that Floyd
saw the state as a place where people were “kind and open to him.”
“You
can’t fight fire with fire, you know,” Ross said. “Everything just burns.”
“I’ve
seen it all day today. People hate. They’re hating, they’re hating, they’re
hating, they’re mad, and he would not want that. He wouldn’t. He wouldn’t. He
would give grace. He would. I stand on that today he would still give grace
to those people,” Ross asserted.
