Protection? What Protection?

My brother-in-law was recently kidnapped at gunpoint from his home.  As he pulled into his drive he noticed nothing unusual, but when he got out of his car two men wearing ski masks suddenly confronted him. “Get in the back seat,” one said. He remembers saying, “you’ve got to be kidding me.”

His ordeal began around mid-night on a Saturday evening as he was returning home from work and ended some six hours later when a good Samaritan (a jogger) found him wandering half-naked in a secluded park some thirty miles away.

Why he was selected is unknown. Police speculate it was just a random act of opportunity — They saw his car, a new Lexus, and apparently followed him home.  He owns his own business so there might be a business connection, but no one really knows. 

His injuries included a fractured ankle and ribs, multiple face and head lacerations that required stitches, and internal bleeding.  He was hospitalized for several days and after some three weeks still has some soreness.  I cannot imagine the mental anguish he has suffered not to mention the physical pain.  He still has trouble talking about it; he tells his sister, who would have made a good investigator given all the questions she has asked, that she does not want to know all the details. We thank God that he was not killed.

During his abduction he remembers being driven to ATM machines where his credit cards were used to withdraw money.  They told him not to worry because the credit card companies would give him the money back; I guess they know from being experienced kidnappers and were trying to console him (some consolation for all the pain).  After getting cash from the ATM’s the assailants used the money to make drug purchases.  Video pictures from the ATM’s show only masked faces.

Also during his ordeal he was “imprisoned” in the back seat of his own car. Any protest or speaking resulted in a blow to the head. He would occasionally ask to be released, and that is when he would be struck. He remembers the assailants talking about how, or if, they would be able to clean up all the blood on the back seat; head wounds bleed profusely.  When he returned to his home he remembers a section of his driveway being extensively blood splattered.

The police found his car later. It had been burned. Apparently the clean up was going to be too much trouble, and they wanted to burn any DNA evidence they may have left. 

Would having a gun have helped?  In this case “No.”  The assailants were on him too fast.  If he had had a gun in his hand maybe the out come would have been different, but who wants to walk around with a drawn gun and fearful that someone would attack you at any time?  Not me, that is no way to live one’s life.

In today’s world not only do you need protection from the criminal elements of today’s society, but you also need protection from your own government. Your best and only protection, however, is “Yourself!”  The government wants to take your guns.  Once they have your guns they will began to take other freedoms, and you will be left defenseless.

The criminals, however, will always have guns and they will rule over you if they are the only ones armed.  I say, “We, as American citizens, must take a stand and demand all of our rights as provided under our Constitution and our Bill of Rights.  We must demand that our full freedom to protect ourselves as “militia men and women” be restored until the criminal elements of society are defeated.” Write your State and Federal Senators and Representatives and demand legislation be enacted to allow every American Citizen the freedom to carry a gun without a permit until law and order is restored in these United States of America.

If you are concerned about defending yourself, look at the words of Jesus found in Luke 22:35-38 (NKJV). “And he said unto them, When I sent you without purse, and scrip, and shoes, lacked ye any thing? And they said, Nothing. Then said he unto them, But now, he that hath a purse, let him take it, and likewise his scrip: and he that hath no sword, let him sell his garment, and buy one. For I say unto you, that this that is written must yet be accomplished in me, And he was reckoned among the transgressors: for the things concerning me have an end. And they said, Lord, behold, here are two swords. And he said unto them, It is enough.” 

Until Jesus’ return we must protect ourselves.  Big government is here to stay and our freedoms are about to be taken unless the timid and cowardly join with the patriots who are trying to save America.

As I walked the beach in Clearwater this past week another thought occurred to me.  While watching the pelicans dive for fish, I also watched the gulls as they would hover around the pelicans, sometimes even sitting on their back, in attempts to take the pelican’s catch.  Even if they were successful other gulls would chase them in an attempt to steal what they had stolen.  You could almost hear them calling, “me, me, me.”

Many in America are the same way.  “It is all about me, selfish me.”  “Who will take care of me,” they proclaim in much the same way as the gulls?  When politicians are willing to sacrifice theirs and our children and grandchildren’s future for their own gratification and greed, our America as we have known it, will soon no longer exist.  I would rather make the big sacrifices now.  “Bite the bullet,” one would say.  Let us suffer the pain now.  No more bailouts, no more handouts, and no more government bureaucracy.  “NO MORE, NO MORE,” freedom-loving Americans cry out. 

In spite of the cruelty that abounds in this world, there is a protector in Jesus Christ.  Do you have Him as your protector?  He is the only one who can guarantee protection of your soul from the Lake of Fire and grant you eternal life. In my case He gave me a guardian angel to protect my body and the Holy Spirit to save my soul.  What about you?

Is anyone listening? Does anyone care enough?  Join the struggle! 

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