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The Constitution shields religious worship, but there must be an inherent and implicit understanding that it does not shield hostile and invasive ideologies that pervert civic responsibilities in a manner designed to destroy the very society necessary for our constitutional order to flourish.
Ideologies that aim to replace the constitution, including the civic culture and the civilization that sustains it, with something else, are not immune from governmental confrontation. For over a hundred years, the danger of anarchists has prompted law enforcement to monitor and investigate anarchist networks, and the state has deported noncitizens associated with anarchism. The government has legitimate powers to minimize these threats: the Constitution is not a suicide pact.
-- Nathan Pinkoski, currently translating Éric Zemmour’s bestseller The Suicide of the French (Le Suicide français) into English for Encounter Books.
Janet Yellen shocked the banking world when she said that America's “needed belt tightening is significant—larger than in most programs supported by the International Monetary Fund."
Yes, even larger than the bankrupt nations now beholden to the IMF, which demands a kind of austerity Americans might not survive. Examples:
By 2010, Greek debt had spiraled to 130% of GDP and climbing. No one was willing to lend them money anymore... forcing the IMF to swoop in with a "rescue" package that came with brutal strings attached.
Pensions were slashed by 40%. Public sector wages were frozen, then cut. Over 150,000 government workers were laid off. State assets—airports, ports, utilities—were sold off at fire-sale prices to foreign investors.
Greece's economy contracted by 25%. Youth unemployment hit 60%. An entire generation was hollowed out.
Argentina has been through the IMF wringer multiple times; in fact in in 2018, Argentina received the largest bailout in IMF history: $57 billion....
Martyn Lloyd-Jones declared, “Whenever you put happiness before righteousness, you will be doomed to misery. That is the great message of the Bible from beginning to end. They alone are truly happy who are seeking to be righteous.”
Attention antifa and transtifa and insurrectionists who hate ICE:
Nearly every state has specific statutes that criminalize willfully interrupting or disturbing a religious assembly or worship service. These laws protect the right of people to gather and practice their religion without intentional interference.
Let the Minneapolis arrests begin.
