Disband the Police? Have Y’all Gone Mad?

What are you, nuts? Defund the police? That’s insanity! We saw what happened in Minneapolis when the police were ordered to flee the scene and not arrest the rioters. They burned down the precinct headquarters and scores of other buildings and businesses. With no police presence, complete chaos ensued—rioting, looting, arson, assaults, vandalism.

Disband the police? Are you crazy? If they ban the police, this is what will happen. Social tribes will form. On the left and right. In order to protect their homes, conservatives will become vigilantes. Somebody’s got to patrol the streets to protect our children and property.

With no law enforcement, existing gangs will become stronger and bolder. For an example, just look at El Salvador, and you will get a glimpse at what life would be like if you allow lawlessness to go unchecked. The citizens there are terrorized by the gangs. They cannot defend themselves because they do not have firearms. In the USA, we still have the right to bear arms. But that is next on their agenda—confiscating our guns.

The Answer

Getting rid of the police is utter madness. The question is this: Where did this insanity come from? Who put these insane thoughts into the radical left’s minds? The Bible is the source of truth. So I went there seeking an answer. The answer is surprising. The God of the Bible, the one true God of heaven, on many occasions sent madness upon the people. Yes, the LORD sent insanity. We don’t like to think that our Creator would do that. We wouldn’t. But then, our thoughts are not His thoughts, nor are our ways His.

So, why does He send insanity into the minds of people? He set before the people blessings and cursings. Blessings if they obeyed Him and cursings if they rejected Him. He promised blessings that would set us “on high above all nations of the earth…if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God” (Deut. 28:1-2). Great Britain and the USA once held that position with God. America use to be chaste and God fearing and polite and morally strong. But it has allowed the revolutionaries to take over our education system, our courts, and our culture. Yet, through it all, I know that there is a remnant, a small portion of we the people who lament the takeover of our Christian values as a nation. You know who you are. I salute you.

But as a nation, however, we have failed our Founder. We as a nation allowed international bankers and one world enthusiasts to commandeer our economic system. Now our currency is almost worthless compared to the true silver dollar that was in circulation until 1965.

We as a nation stood by and allowed Congress to legalize the killing of our unborn children. This killing of His own children is a stain that deeply blackens our national heart. We as a nation did not take to the streets by the millions over the abortion issue. They took away praying to the God of heaven at school. We as a nation did not protest en masse over that.

Our government’s armed forces have killed millions of people in unnecessary foreign wars. I saw gallons of blood in Vietnam. While there I asked everyone from the colonel on down why we were there. Nobody knew.

We as a nation have turned to pleasure as our guide and companion. We seek after the rush that our new god provides—Technology. The “whole world wondered after the beast”—the beast of technology and those who control it. What other movement in the earth has such a profound hold on the human imagination?

Because of these national sins against God and man, God promised to send curses upon His people. “However, if you do not obey the LORD your God and do not carefully follow all his commands and decrees I am giving you today, all these curses will come on you and overtake you… The LORD will afflict you with madness, blindness and confusion of mind.  The LORD will send on you curses, confusion and rebuke in everything you put your hand to…because of the evil you have done in forsaking him…(Deut. 28: 15, 28, 20; [really the whole chapter].

Wait a Minute

I know what some of you are thinking. That’s the Old Testament that’s been done away with. That is a wrong thought. They are the scriptures that the apostles and prophets and Christ Himself read and lived by. And these scriptures are quoted abundantly in the New Testament by the apostles and Christ. Furthermore, it was “the Spirit of Christ which was in them” (I Peter 1:11). Christ’s Spirit, living in the old prophets, did the writing. That is why the Old Testament is so important.

But some may ask, “What was done away with then?” After Christ’s shed blood, there was no need for the blood of animal sacrifices, which is only a type and shadow of the reality in Christ. All of the accouterments of old covenant worship has been done away. The Spirit of Christ’s love now writes our bylaws.

Don’t Think It Strange

Make no mistake. These people on the left who want to disband the police and bring in nihilistic anarchy are insane. But now we know what is happening. God’s hand is in it, since “we live, move and have our being in Him” (Acts 17: 28). Because of the sins of our nation, He has sent insanity into the minds of the powerful ruling class and those who follow them.

According to the Spirit of Christ coursing through the pen of Moses, God has smitten them with insanity and confusion. Why? Because they have turned their backs on our great King and Savior.    Kenneth Wayne Hancock