The Emperor’s Conundrum
The Emperor’s Conundrum as posed by observing the current White House is: “What do the lawless have to do with freedom and the rule of law?” We need to look no further than Secretary of State John Kerry and Attorney General Eric Holder for the answer. In Kerry’s case, he has made remark after remark about how his world view should be imposed upon others, such as Israel and Africa. In Holder’s world view, only the laws that he believes are just should be enforced–marriage, border security, voting, offshore drilling–all fall by the wayside without the consent of the governed. In the president’s case, he rules over the Conundrum as its Emperor, nurturing and defending its insidious tyranny.
The Weekly Standard reports that Kerry spoke to US Embassy staff in Ethiopia. He told them: “This is a time here in Africa where there are a number of different cross-currents of modernity that are coming together to make things even more challenging. Some people believe that people ought to be able to only do what they say they ought to do, or to believe what they say they ought to believe, or live by their interpretation of something that was written down a thousand plus, two thousand years ago. That’s not the way I think most people want to live.” Here again, Kerry is trying to appear intelligent and esoteric, but small things like words get in the way.
Kerry appears to be saying that there is a trend in Africa that people believe they should have freedom of speech and the freedom to exercise their religious beliefs, and that is creating challenges. This demonstrates his total lack of understanding and awareness of freedom of speech and of religion. These underpinnings of natural rights are valid only under the law. All law was given by the one true God, YHVH. The moral code of humanity is recorded in the book given by God called the Bible. There are no real cultural challenges when one refers to the Bible in how humans should behave both as individuals and as nations. But both Kerry and Holder miss this point.
Islam, for example, believes that those who do not accept the Koran and the prophet Mohammad should be committed to slavery or killed. It is throughout the Koran. Islam, to this day, is the largest purveyor of slavery and human trafficking in the world. It is also the source of terrorism around the world. It is against God’s law. Therefore, those who practice the violent beliefs of Islam are against God. Kerry should not be confused on this. But he lacks understanding. Likewise, Holder and the president believe morality is relative as evidenced by their selective enforcement of law. They are attempting to replace God with their own will. When people say “freedom” but act lawlessly, apply Matthew 24:4, “Take heed that no man deceive you.”
