POLICE STATE
I have lived in a police state in Africa. I know how it works. What you read in the article below is the next step in a totally top down police state. The next step will be road stops where every driver has to pull over and prove he is an American citizen and not doing something criminal. It eventually becomes routine, both to the state police and to the victims. It sounds ominous now, but it will become common in the future and much less threatening than it sounds now. If Caesar threw everyone in jail on a whim, he would not have any taxes to collect.
As Bible believers, we must not let this cause us to panic. We must submit to it because America is no longer a democracy. We are in a slow (maybe actually rapid) decline into a tyranny. There will be many opportunities to represent Christ, both to the state thugs, and to the victims.
2 Timothy 1:7 For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.
The sound mind part of this verse tells me something important. It tells me the God will give us the sense to deal with tyrants. Sometimes we simply submit peacefully, and sometimes we say things that may actually defuse and charm the cynical mindset of the thugs.
After the Marxist coup in Ethiopia, there were road check points all over the country. I stopped there one day, and the corporal came to my car and asked, "Do you have any knives of ammunition?" I answered, with big eyes, "I have a BIG knife." The corporal stepped back with somber face and demanded to see the knife. What I had was a tiny pocket knife about 1.5 inches long on my key chain. I pulled it out of my pocket, and I opened the blade violently, and showed it to the corporal. I at once heard laughing over at the guard shack used by the soldiers. It was a major in command, and he was thoroughly enjoying my little trick on the corporal, who promptly told me to keep the knife and I could proceed. The next time I came to that road check point, the corporal just waved me on. He knew there was a crazy American in that blue Volkswagen.
My son had the station wagon full of friends driving along a highway near the Mexican border in Arizona. The Border Patrol pulled him over. Station wagons are very suspicious because they are used by coyotes (who help illegals enter the USA) to haul many people. My son rolled the window down, and said, "¿Qué pasa?". The Border Patrol agent at once saw that my son was not Mexican, and he asked who all the people in the back were. My son said, "Just a bunch of wet backs." The Border Patrol looked at them all carefully and realized my son was messing with his mind. He laughed and told my son to carry on.
I guess what I am trying to say it this.............. Try to find a way to make the thugs and tyrants laugh. They are conditioned to believe that we are all dangerous and doing something threatening. Give them a light moment, and all will be well.
This is what is meant above by "a sound mind." It is NOT sound thinking to resist the rulers and try to make fools of them. Social media is loaded with videos of people being stopped by cops, and they try to make fools of the cops and resist every request. In the future, this response will ALWAYS end badly.
Please do not let the following article make you fearful. I put it here so that you will start thinking about ways to defuse these confrontations if you have one:
