Home Invasion

Here in the upstate of South Carolina, there have been frequent news reports recently of home invasions. A home invasion is different from theft or burglary, in that the orcs will enter the house even though they know people are home.

These individuals tend to be desperate, vicious and therefore highly dangerous. They seem to target the dwellings of the weak & elderly. After all, as Jesus said,

When a strong man armed keepeth his palace, his goods are in peace. (Luke 11:21)

The pundits blame these violent manifestations on the economic climate. They are wrong. The present depression is a catalyst, not a cause.

The cause is a lack of moral restraint on the part of the perpetrators. Hard times merely provide the occasion for their criminality.

But what of the other home invaders? I'm talking about the advance guard of the police state? They now can invade homes and terrorize the occupants on simple suspicion of wrongdoing. In the eyes of officialdom, questioning political policy, homeschooling or selling food in a co-op may now all be signs of terrorism.

(Drpaleophd sent me a forward just this morning that says the new administration is likely to ratify the treaty called the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. This would put your family under international law, opening up new opportunities for the civil authorities to invade the privacy of your home and your family affairs.)

Do good, moral people think and act that way? Do they break down the doors of otherwise peaceful fellow-citizens and hold them at gunpoint? To my way of thinking, both those who give the orders nor those who carry them out are the institutional moral equivalent of the orcs who force their way into the homes of the elderly and forcibly take their money and goods.

We, as Christian Martialists, know what we would do if the first type of home invader came through the door. We'd dial 911, right? We'd dial 911 and tell them where to send the ambulance to pick up the would-be robbers.

The second type of invader is more problematic. "When a strong man armed keepeth his palace, his goods are in peace," it is true. What Jesus said after that is also true:

But when a stronger than he shall come upon him, and overcome him, he taketh from him all his armour wherein he trusted, and divideth his spoils. (Luke 11:22)

To resist the hooded, jackbooted troops of the police state you would need three things:;

1. Good conscience (springs from the legitimacy of your actions, & political legitimacy must ultimately rest on theological & moral legitimacy);
   
2. The will to resist;
3. Solidarity (lest they pick you off one by one).

Is this the proper forum to discuss these things? I want to know what you think before I write a series on this topic.