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Fare thee well, FBCOFER: An open letter to the members.
It has been my great privilege to serve the members of FBCOFER and the community of Eaton Rapids through them these past 25 years. It was with great sadness that it all came to an end this past week as many of you know. I have sent a copy of the letter I received from Continue reading
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Law, justice, governance and the Millennial Reign: The right to self defense.
Of all rights, perhaps none rival in importance the right to self defense. It is the most basic instinct of all living things. The deer or the elk care very little that a pack of wolves has banded together with the intent to kill and has the power to do so. Its power is limited Continue reading
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Law, justice, governance and the millennial reign: The importance of freedom of speech.
In Matthew 15 Jesus says, “But the things that come out of a person’s mouth come from the heart, and these defile them. For out of the heart come evil thoughts—murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander.” Matthew 15:18&19. To know what is in a person, you have to allow them to speak. In Continue reading
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Law, justice, governance and the Millennial Reign: The Ten Commandments, perfect law, part 2.
In the last writing I discussed what makes a law useful to people in that they are determined by specific harms that are unacceptable. Harms to body, property and falsely to reputation. All of these point to the necessity of bodily autonomy of each individual without impinging on the basic right of others as in Continue reading
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Law, justice, governance and the Millennial Reign: The Ten Commandments, perfect law, part 1.
In this series, I have been writing that things such as traffic enforcement rules and other mechanisms like them exist only to serve themselves. In so doing, they pervert justice by punishing those who do no harm, immediate or corrosive(more on that later). And given the size of police departments, one would think the streets Continue reading
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