Less than two weeks ago my wife was talking with a friend of hers and learned of a recent experience of theirs. The couple, early 60’s, were at a thrift store doing a bit of shopping. They had driven their truck and left the windows partially rolled down, but the doors were locked. Just as they were checking out they heard a scream from the vicinity of their truck.

Well, the reason they had left the windows down was to allow fresh air for their large part-golden retriever that was in the backseat of the truck. The scream…well, that was from the person that had reached in the window to unlock the door to steal some items in the front of the truck. The dog decided that wasn’t going to happen…bit the guy’s arm and held on. Hence, the scream.

The couple walked the 100’ to the truck, the wife pulled out her handgun and the husband told the dog to let the guy go. The wife then suggested to the man to lay on the ground face down…or the alternative would not be pleasant. He complied.

Police were called, arrest was made, the would be thief placed in the back of a patrol car to be hauled off to jail.

When my wife related the story to me I began to wonder a bit…what other serious crimes were taking place in our area. A few days before the truck incident a man had broken into a local house to commit a burglary. However, a woman was home…and of course the criminal just had to shoot her in the face. Thankfully the woman was not killed and is recovering.

Well, I had to keep digging…and found a whole series of serious crimes, most of them violent or with the threat of violence. I stopped my research with an incident at our local Walmart 3 years ago when a man broke into a Walmart store prior to the store opening. He held the store employees hostage at gunpoint while he attempted to steal money.

So…what did these violent crimes have in common? Yes, a criminal, obviously. But an interesting thing about all these criminals. But, before I get into that let me share with you an interesting statistic…the two adjoining towns where the handful of crimes took place has a combined population of 11,000 people and located about 1-1/2 hours from any city of any notable size. The combined dual-town population is about 16% of the average NFL football game attendance. Yeah, two very small towns.

So the common denominator…the criminals all had Hispanic names and appear to have come across the southern border illegally.

What was the crime rate before 2020 in those two small towns…virtually nothing.

So next time you hear the politicians in Washington, or the whole list of agency heads, talk about how secure the border is…think about the 10’s of thousands of serious violent crimes taking place each year by illegal aliens. Everything from rapes of young children, murders of teenagers, drunk drivers killing entire families, not to mention the thefts and drug industry…all at the hands of illegal aliens.

But I am not done yet…

One day last week we heard of two incidents of a slightly different nature. Incident #1, a distant neighbor had a visit from county ‘code enforcement’. The family is building a small house out in the middle of nowhere on 40acres. They had a well drilled, solar system built, septic tank system installed, and were finishing up the inside of their home. They were expecting to move in about 2 weeks from now. Oh noooooooo! The county employee posted a ‘cease and desist’ letter to stop the building and prevent them from moving into their home. Why? They hadn’t asked the county for permission to build their home.

Incident #2 was the next day. Another distant neighbor received an order to vacate his home. Yeah, he had the nerve to be living in a large, well-built, comfortable, secure, and rather nice camper. You see county employees don’t think people should be living like that…so he too is being kicked out of his home.

Two families are now becoming homeless based on a county employee whim…albeit, based on a county ordnance. In addition to two families now homeless…I would estimate that the total combined financial loss for them to be about $200,000 or so. And if they violate the county’s demands…heavily armed men will show up and will throw them in jail. Or, if there is any resistance to that action they could end up shot.

Now here is a question for you…well, maybe a couple…

1 – To hijack a biblical term…wherein lies the great sin? A criminal, at the threat of violence/death steals from people…or government stooges taking people’s homes and money from them at the threat of violence/death from heavily armed men?

2 – It is obvious that we should not tolerate criminal activity. But, why do we tolerate such behavior when the dimwits are from the government?

Let me close with a thought…in the Declaration of Independence there is the phrase:

“…all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness—That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed…”

Most of us understand the whole life and liberty thing pretty well. But, the pursuit of happiness part sometimes is not clearly understood. Most informed scholars agree that ‘happiness’ as Jefferson intended it is this… the goal of virtue and excellence in our personal and civic lives because that is the foundation of liberty which frees us from enslavement. The specific virtues, according to Jefferson, are primarily courage, moderation, and justice. And remember this…who had enslaved the colonists when Jefferson was writing this? The tyrannical British government.

The Declaration of Independence was pretty clear on what our God-given rights were…basically, to be left alone from government interference in our lives. That is the life and liberty part. But how does the happiness thing work into it? We have to treat each other with moderation, we have to understand what true justice is…and we must have courage to defend our rights…our God-given rights.

Notice that governments only have legal power when it is granted by the consent of the governed. Notice that both of these families lost…due to nothing more than an ‘ordnance’ passed by some group of county employees based on their opinions and bias.

Finally, here is a part of that Declaration of Independence that virtually ALL politicians and most people are totally ignorant of (or choose to ignore), “…That to secure these Rights…” is the mission of government. So tell me…how did our county government secure these folks rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?

Hell, when was the last time ANY level of government anywhere do anything to secure these basic God-given rights for anyone?

Yeah, I thought so!

Maybe politicians need to be reminded of the whole entire purpose of the Declaration of Independence…and how that turned out.

 

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