Daily Verse | 2 Chronicles 16:9
For the eyes of the Lord range throughout the earth to strengthen those whose hearts are fully committed to him.
It’s Tuesday May 4. May the Fourth be with you.
You may have read last week that twenty retired French generals and more than a thousand lesser officers wrote an open letter warning that the country is close to civil war. From the introduction:
In France this week, 20 retired military generals, 80 officers, and 1,000 lower-ranking soldiers signed an open letter expressing concern over “mortal dangers” they say face the Republic. President Macron’s government has instructed the army chief of staff to discipline the signatories for inciting insurrection.
The letter bears close attention on several grounds. Although the signatories warn they wish to act only after the outbreak of civil conflict, Macron’s response shows the government understands the situation has already deteriorated to a point where a true coup or uprising—an event quite unlike the shambolic ordeal in Washington on January 6th—might erupt at the slightest provocation.
At the same time, the letter itself shows just what failures of statecraft and betrayals of representation run the inexcusable risk of provoking the kind of civil breakdown the signatories decry.
What they’re speaking of is radical Islam and the government’s refusal to hold jihadists to a common standard of law and order in their country.
Crumbling-apart through Islamism and the hordes from the Banlieues. Several patches of our nation have been detached and turned into territories put under submission to dogmas contrary to our Constitution. Every Frenchman, regardless of belief or non-belief, must be everywhere at home in France; there cannot and must not exist any city, any neighborhood, where the laws of the Republic do not have writ.
For expressing their deep concerns and predicting that “there will be an explosion, and our comrades in active military service will be forced to step in and undertake the perilous mission of protecting our civilizational values and the lives of our fellow citizens,” eighteen active duty servicemen were relieved of duty and all of the signatories were accused of “inciting insurrection.”
Being accused of inciting insurrection for expressing your concerns publicly seems to be the hot new trend in global politics and therein lies a problem. Resident Biden is allowing the FBI and DOJ to be weaponized in searching out anyone who opposes his administration or happened to attend the January 6 rally (seriously: click the link and read the story).
If we can’t express our dissatisfaction with our government for fear that we will be arrested for “incitement” or for some other made up charge, we will quickly find ourselves under the boot. That, or there will be a backlash against the lawlessness shown by our government.
What we need in America are current and former generals and lesser officers who are willing to rein in the current occupiers in Washington. Resident Biden is not enforcing our laws, such as we have about illegal aliens. In fact, he’s acting as though there is no law and no one can do anything about it. On the other hand, he’s prosecuting innocent Americans.
I’ll leave you with this:
