Law, Order and The Silent Majority

People believe they are appeasing the rioters and vandals. Its apparent they believe they are de-escalating by doing nothing. Wheeler in Portland has said as much. He said this will burn itself out. Actually, it's not going to stop until there is nothing left to burn. Doing nothing is not de-escalation. It is passivity in the face of violence. Passivity is always an invitation for invasion. Chamberlin and Hitler ring any bells? If anything, once hostiles find out there are no consequences for their actions, they will escalate their activities until they find the boundaries of what they can get away with (Romans 1). If they got away with nothing, then nothing would get done and this would've ended.

Romans 1:28-32 And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God any longer, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do those things which are not proper, being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, evil; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice; they are gossips, slanderers, haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, without understanding, untrustworthy, unloving, unmerciful; and although they know the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, they not only do the same, but also give hearty approval to those who practice them.

Psalm 81:11-14 But My people would not listen to Me, and Israel would not obey Me. So I gave them up to their stubborn hearts to follow their own devices. If only My people would listen to Me, if Israel would follow My ways, how soon I would subdue their enemies and turn My hand against their foes!

Paradoxically, those arrested are the most aggressive, so if you took them off the street, even for a few weeks you would suck the energy out of the riots. Instead it's been revolving door justice of arrest, book, release, arrest, book, release ad nauseum. No repercussion. No punishment due. Within a day they're back on the street burning, killing and terrorizing. So much so they accosted a senator and his entourage two days ago. The people in charge are absolutely fools given over to poor thinking (again, Romans 1). The system of the world is the gatekeeper for more of their own ilk. The inmates are running the prison.

Quick history lesson...Nixon won on a 'law and order' platform in 1968 (as Trump likely will 52 years later). People were fed up with the countries unrest. Even democrats in the burned-out cities. They see the ineptitude and complete lack of leadership in those cities which is mostly Democrat. Portland, Seattle, Chicago, portions of New York, Philadelphia, etc. There is enough unrest and uncertainty to put nearly every other major city on notice: We're coming for you.  The irony is that the very history that the current mob wishes to destroy and to erase would've educated them to the net end result or the counterproductive actions that are now occurring...but they chose to burn, riot and loot that history too. So now it repeats right in front of their eyes. The irony is complete. I just sit back and admire its continuity. It is literally a carbon copy of the Israelite behaviors in the Old Testament. Obedience, disobedience, Chastisement, correction, obedience, disobedience, etc.

Not only have we not learned from the Bible history, we’ve not even learned from a generation of people that are still here walking the earth.