Evil Empire

  President Ronald Reagan once referred to the Soviet Union as “The Evil Empire”. Indeed Russia’s history has often been a bloody one. But not many nations have escaped that particular epitaph. The U.S. has perhaps had one of the bloodiest histories around. For confirmation of that, go ask the original American Native population…what’s left of it. Or ask the people of Hiroshima or Nagasaki who were civilians in a country that was trying desperately to surrender and were killed anyway. In an instant 300,000 died. And we do have some far flung “colonies” or territories and spheres of influence to this day as a result of that war. Does that make us an empire and evil? As a people, perhaps not. But as a nation - we have definitely crossed the line of late.

  Nearly every time you turn on the TV, you see talking heads descrying this nation or that as evil and in dire need of at least a good bombing. And the excuse is always the same – to protect our American freedoms or help the poor hapless people of said country to obtain democracy like ours.  Once we’ve bombed the country back to the stone age killing thousands of it’s citizens and maybe caused many millions more to flee as refugees in the process, we prop up a government that answers to the U.S. (not to mention a banking system that answers to the IMF) and then sit back and say gee whiz why aren’t they more appreciative of the democracy we’ve handed to them on a silver platter? Meanwhile their cities are rubble, their infrastructure is non-existent, healthcare is pathetic, and they’re wondering where their next meal is going to come from. But, hey, at least they now have a democracy instead of one of those nasty old dictatorships. Need a prime example? Go look at Gadhafi’s Libya before we intervened and take a gander at the turmoil that exists now. Then look at the rest of the Middle East countries we’ve demanded regime change in. And then take an unbiased eye view of life there before and after we put our boots on the ground. Then tell me again who the evil empire is?

  I know some will be horrified at these statements and accuse me of being un-American or worse a traitor. But I for one fail to see in all this anything positive or good. Oh but you say we have demolished terrorism all over the world and made the world safer for our democracy at least. First of all we don’t have a democracy…never have. So we need to quit saying we’re doing any of this to spread our democracy over the rest of the world that is just too ignorant to see that it’s just what they need. If you believe this is the reason for any of our recent history, then you need to pull you head out of cable news because they have turned your brain to mush. Secondly, is the world really rid of or safe from terrorism? Have any of the recent wars made any kind of dent on terrorism? On the contrary, it has provided the best recruitment tools a terrorist organization could ask for. And guess where most of them got their weapons?

  Now there’s this new boogeyman called ISIS (or ISIL as Obama insists on calling it since the L stands for Levant which includes Israel; a country he’s not overly fond of). Yes some members of ISIS are guilty of some horrible things. There has been killing of innocents and all those who refuse to convert to their particular brand of Islam. And then there’s the beheadings. On our cable news networks this is made out to be the worst, most barbaric thing imaginable and they scream for justice (bombs and boots) to rain down on these barbarians. Ok, beheading bad. We can all agree on that. But is it any more barbaric than sitting somewhere in Colorado and working a joystick to send a drone into some country half way around the world that we haven’t even declared war against and unleashing hell and fire against “terrorists” who are sitting down to dinner with their wives and children?  And calling their neighbors collateral damage, whose house was just a little too close to said terrorists. Is that any less barbaric? And did you know that there have been 59 “legal” beheadings so far in Saudi Arabia this year alone. Yet I’ve not heard cable news calling them barbaric or demanding boots and bombs rain down on that country. I won’t even get started on who ISIS really is and how they came to be. Let’s just suffice it to say that they provide a convenient excuse for bombing a country we’ve been chomping at the bit to bomb all along anyway and leave it at that for now.

  So let me ask you to step back here for a moment and tell me where it all went wrong? Many of you, I know, are going to point to 9/11 and say that is justification enough for what’s been happening in the world today. Is it? Even if you buy the story the President and the Main Stream Media told you of that tragedy (which I don’t) how is it that the one country that donated the majority of the terrorists on those planes and, it can be shown, the money that paid their way is still unscathed through all this. That country is Saudi Arabia. No bombs dropped there. And two countries, Iraq and Afghanistan - that had absolutely nothing to do with 9/11 - got attacked shortly thereafter and have been demolished for a crime they didn’t commit. And the ball kept rolling from there. And it doesn’t look like they plan on stopping it any time in the near future. Can World War III be too far off if this keeps going? And when history looks back at nations picking sides and going at each other, who will they say started it? Nineteen men with box cutters on some airplanes who were officially not representing any country at all even though fifteen of the nineteen were Saudi citizens. Or perhaps will they judge the U.S. harshly as overacting and killing the baby while throwing out the bathwater? I guess it will depend on who is left alive to write those history books.

  I have come to believe that our fall was predestined and set into motion much earlier than 09/11/2001. Although this country was conceived in the light of day, it was hijacked and took a turn towards the dark side a long time ago. People really do need to wake up and take a good, long, honest, look at where, when, and why this has happened. There are dark forces at work in human history. And those forces have concentrated their efforts in the good old USA of late. Unless the good people of this country rise up and put a stop to it, the world as we know it will come to a very nasty end.

  This country was built up as “One Nation Under God”. It says it right there on our currency, “In God We Trust”. But is this still true today? More and more, we as a nation have turned away from God. Materialism is our new God. When Israel did this, God sent a prophet, Isaiah, to warn them. But they didn’t listen. So God stretched out his hand towards them in the form of using their enemies to shake them in an effort to wake them up and cause them to repent. He did the same thing to America on September 11^th 2001. In fact using the very same enemy he used against Israel as related in the Book of Isaiah Ch. 9 which was the Assyrians (though they don’t call themselves that anymore those hijackers were of the same blood as those ancient Assyrians). But Israel would remain defiant. And boast about rebuilding and coming back stronger and greater. In Isaiah 9:10 they boasted that, “The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones; the sycomores are cut down, but we will replace them with cedars.”  Those very words were read into the Congressional Record on the day after 9/11 by the Speaker of the House. It was done in the manner of defiance and boasting that we would rebuild even stronger in defense and defiance of our enemies. Not even a hint of repentance in any of the speeches made then or since. And did you know that when the World Trade Buildings came down there was an actual sycamore tree in a nearby park (in an area where anything but concrete and asphalt is rare) that was knocked down by the falling debris? The sycamore was later replaced with a cedar. Also a huge stone was hewn from a mountain in upstate New York to serve as the corner stone for the new tower built to replace the old.

  So how did God handle an unrepentant and boastful nation? Isaiah 9:11 tells us that God stirred up King Rezin of the Arameans along with his enemies and brought them against Israel. In 9:12 “The Syrians before and the Philistines behind; and they shall devour Israel with open mouth. Even after all this, in 9:13, “For the people turneth not unto him that smiteth them (the Lord God), neither do they seek the Lord of hosts.”  Were those same people stirred up against us? Obviously, they were.

  But often in the Bible, when God sends a prophet and no one listens, and then he shakes them in an effort to get their attention they still don’t get it. So what happens next? A bigger shaking always happens. The World Trade Center was a symbol of America’s financial might. And it came crashing down. But did America change its ways? No not at all. The movement away from God continued. Greater attempts were made to remove God from schools, workplaces, even our everyday speech. So first the symbol of our economic power was broken and then, in 2009, Wall Street and our actual economic power was shaken to the core. It would have fallen into ruin if the government had not stepped in and bailed them out with our future earnings, devastating our economy then and for future generations to come.

  I wish I could say that we’ve gotten the message and repented as a nation. But that’s just not true. We have struck out at enemies in all parts of the world, still defiant as ever. And where there were no enemies we’ve created them. Many thousands have been killed, and millions more have been left homeless, displaced and living in misery. And there doesn’t appear to be any end to our hubris. Will God give us one more devastating shaking perhaps in the form of a total economic collapse to finally get our attention? Or will this next one leave no brick standing one atop the other?

  I believe that this country is under judgment by God, and we will suffer the same fate that Israel did under similar circumstances. Unrepentant Israel was demolished and ceased to exist as a nation. We may soon suffer the same fate if we don’t change our ways and turn back to God. The question is, can we change them now or is it too late? And whose fault is it, anyway? Is it the President? Or is it perhaps all those seeming buffoons in Congress? Or maybe it’s the fat cats on Wall Street that we should blame for the mess we’re in. Surely some of those have a degree of blame to answer for. But only in that many of them have made themselves complicit with the real powers that be.    

  And just who are the real powers that have led this country astray? I know this part will get me ridiculed and labeled a kook. Most didn’t listen to or believe the prophets God sent either, and they were ridiculed or killed. But I firmly believe that this country is in the hands of those very fallen ones and their leader. Many men and women of power in this country, from Hollywood to D.C. and Wall Street, have entered into secret covenant with them and are working hand in hand with them to bring about our ruin and destruction. It is they who are steadfastly attempting to remove God from our society and have brought God’s judgment upon us. Our only hope – pray! Pray for all you’re worth.