THE VIRUS OF MASS DESTRUCTION

   So it was sunny this weekend, and I decided to take a few days off to practice Civil Disobedience. After all, living on the West Coast---behind the Pacific Iron Curtain---two forgotten holidays were afoot. First there was Thursday, May 8th. The 75th Anniversary of this day, 

   The Corporate Media, of course, swept this one under the rug: too many people might start drawing comparisons. Several cities out here did announce the cancellation of July 4th Celebrations---odd, considering all of their alleged reopening strategies are supposedly being implemented. 

  Sunday was Mothers' Day, which like upcoming Memorial Day was observed with gatherings forbidden. 

  This has been a Spring beyond the imagination of the Whacko Left Wing. Sure, Pride Parades were cancelled; but churches closed at Easter; veterans ignored; mothers kept from their families---and the delightful prospect of Independence Day forgotten must have them all giddy with excitement. 

  There has been some good news during the week. Texas Attorney-General Ken Paxton---a real Conservative who kept Texas' RINOs on a short leash during the 'Crisis'---announced today that localities could not enforce lockdowns. Which means that Texas has freed itself. And in Michigan, the Sheriff and County Executives of Shiawassee County have nullified any spurious orders emanating from the Whitmer Regime. 

  While on vacation, I had a chance to go through some articles and came across one titled The Virus of Mass Destruction by C.J. Hopkins. I don't know much about this author, he appears to be a Liberal but one of those rare types among them who actually thinks for himself. The article is worth reading; Hopkins seems to have a good grasp on where this is all heading. 

   "There comes a point in the introduction of every new official narrative when people no longer remember how it started. Or, rather, they remember how it started, but not the propaganda that started it. Or, rather, they remember all that (or are able to, if you press them on it), but it doesn’t make any difference anymore, because the official narrative has supplanted reality." he says; and this has been my greatest fear since this Rebellion began; the longer that these restrictions remain in place, the reasons for their imposition will recede from public consciousness. This is how 'New Normals' get created. 

  This is also why I'm deeply suspicious of this recent waves of 'reopenings.' In some States like Georgia, Tennessee, Texas, Utah and few others the lockdown is probably not coming back. In many of the others, the lifting of restrictions has been partial and conditional. Now that the Elites have taught us that our welfare depends wholly upon their will (or so they think); we---the little people---can be graciously given a few of our remaining liberties back. And these can be revoked at any moment if we don't behave ourselves.

  Hopkins alludes to this in historical contexts and then describes the practical result:  "These facts did not matter, not in the slightest. By that time, Westerners were totally immersed in the official War on Terror narrative, which had superseded objective reality. Herd mentality had taken over. It’s difficult to describe how this works; it’s a state of functional dissociation. It wasn’t that people didn’t know the facts, or that they didn’t understand the facts...People functioning in this state know that what they believe is not real. Nonetheless, they are forced to believe it (and do, actually, literally, believe it, as impossible as I know that sounds), because the consequences of not believing it are even more frightening than the cognitive dissonance of believing a narrative they know is a fiction. Disbelieving the official narrative means excommunication from “normality,” the loss of friends, income, status, and in many cases far worse punishments. Herd animals, in a state of panic, instinctively run towards the center of the herd. Separation from the herd makes them easy prey for pursuing predators. It is the same primal instinct operating here."

   What he's describing here is Political Correctness. Americans have been immersed in this kind of stupidity for the last three decades and our continual submission to the most overt injustices and humiliations have led us to where we are now. Incidentally, what Hopkins describes is the reason why Civilization's rise is also connected to human liberty. Civilization is about freeing mankind from the Herd Mentality. Our Faith teaches us that fear is not rooted in holiness; likewise our Founding Fathers taught us that Reason alone should dictate civil policy. The man rooted in Faith, guided by Reason and confident in his Freedom is already prepared for pursuing predators because his primal instinct is under the control of his mind. And a man like this knows that there are no predators to be feared these days; and that the real threats are from within the herd itself. 

   Hopkins sees this too and says: "It is the goal of every official narrative to generate this type of herd mentality, not in order to deceive or dupe the public, but, rather, to confuse and terrorize them to the point where they revert to their primal instincts, and are being driven purely by existential fear, and facts and truth no longer matter. Once an official narrative reaches this point, it is unassailable by facts and reason. It no longer needs facts to justify it. It justifies itself with its own existence. Reason cannot penetrate it. Arguing with its adherents is pointless. They know it is irrational. They simply do not care.

  "We are reaching this point with the coronavirus narrative. It is possible that we have already reached it. Despite the fact that what we are dealing with is a virus that, yes, is clearly deadly to the old and those with medical conditions, but that is just as clearly not a deadly threat to the majority of the human species, people are cowering inside their homes as if the Zombie Apocalpyse had finally begun."

   What especially sad to see is that, after thirty or so years of being imposed upon by one lying cheat after another with their politically-correct hoaxes, the American people seem to have learned nothing and Hopkins doesn't seem especially optimistic either. What's going to turn the tide against the Usurpers is the strength of local officials in what the Elites contemptuously refer to as Flyover Country. The cities are where the Herd Mentality has the most effectiveness. Regardless, we are in a pivotal moment in our Country's history and whether or not we continue as a free people hangs in the balance.

SERIAL KILLER CAUGHT; POLICE ASK FOR PUBLIC HELP

   Police in Iowa overnight announced the arrest of a serial killer implicated in several murders during the early 1990s. This arrest was accomplished through the efforts of the FBI and law enforcement agencies in three states who were able to connect DNA matches leading to the suspect. In 2017, the Trump Administration eliminated many of the inter-jurisdictional bureaucratic barriers between sharing information between agencies, and it's helped considerably.  

  The case originally began in Wyoming, where DNA was collected from two Jane Does in hopes of identifying them. Both were murdered in 1992. The lab failed to make an identification; however specimens of male DNA at the crime scene proved that the same man was responsible for both killings. What wasn't known at the time was that the same DNA turned up in connection with the unsolved 1991 murder of Pamela 'Rose' McCall and her unborn child. Apparently, through a tip, detectives came to suspect a trucker named Clark Baldwin, of Waterloo, Iowa. Baldwin is now 58 years old.  At the time, Baldwin worked for a company called Marten Transport which is headquartered in Mondovi, Wisconsin. 

  Normally, we don't give these scumbags any publicity; but we're making an exception here in case any current or former truckers reading might remember this pig and be able to give the authorities further information. 

  The authorities in Wyoming especially are asking for help here because Baldwin hasn't (or won't) identify either of the two Does found there. Here are composite photos of them. 

   The first girl was a known hitch-hiker. She's believed to have been either partly or wholly of Hispanic descent. She wore a wedding band and had a caesarian scar, but no missing persons matching her have been reported. Her approximate age was mid-20s to mid-30s; and she had dental work done in the past. She was 5-8 and around 125 lbs. 

  The girl had a tattoo which was traced to an artist in Tuscon, Arizona. He stated that he'd seen her in the Fall of 1991. Her body was found dumped near the Bitter Creek Truck Rest Stop in Sweetwater, Wyoming. Hence, she's been known as Bitter Creek Jane Doe. 

  The second girl was found in an advanced state of decomposition in a ditch in rural Sheridan County, Wyoming. Very little was determined about her. She's believed to have been in her mid-teens to early 20s. Estimated height and weight 5-5 and about 115 lbs. 

  If anyone has information about these cases, please contact the Wyoming State Patrol's Department of Investigations at 307-777-7181, or leave a comment below for us to contact them. If anyone knows of Baldwin's further activities, please contact your local FBI Field Office, or feel free to comment here and we'll take care of it. 

  I should point out here again that---despite Feminist propaganda---it really isn't safe for women to be out alone. Granted, most men are friendly and protective, but all it takes is one encounter with a psycho like Baldwin to end up a Jane Doe or a murder statistic. And all of his (known) victims died horrible deaths. Granted, Baldwin is probably destined either for Tennessee's electric chair or Wyoming's gas chamber, but that won't bring back anybody's missing girl. 

CBS GETS CAUGHT FAKING COVID FOOTAGE

  As we move midway through the 9th Week of the COVID Coup, the Scum in the Corporate Media have been pushing a narrative of 'a second impending outbreak' alongside of increasingly brutal repression and tyrannical mandates implemented by Rogue Regimes. The genuine fear at this point is that, the longer this travesty drags on, the more accepting of these measures the people will become. 

 But the Corporate Media is having a tougher time these days; which is why they are among the Elites begging for censorship of the Internet. The intrepid folks at Project Veritas recently caught CBS News blatantly staging a photo-op at a Michigan hospital. 

 While trying to ginn up support for the flailing despot Whitmer, CBS News got employees at the Cherry Hill Medical Center in Grand Rapids to form a line outside the hospital to pose as patients. The network and the hospital since have been pointing fingers at each other; and both denying any responsibility for the sham. My suspicion is that they colluded together but fell out after they were exposed. 

 This isn't the first time that CBS has been caught spreading fake news about the COVID 'Crisis.' In April, they posted footage from overburdened Italian hospitals and palmed them off as scenes from New York. The same month they were forced to retract a fake video and story about surgical mask shortages in Chicago. As President Trump has said, the MSM is a national disgrace. 

  The Cherry Hill Medical Center itself isn't immune from partisan photo-ops. In early March, Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden appeared there where he was endorsed by the slimy Governor Witmer. The facility is a 'non-profit' though its CEO, Tasha Blackmon, draws down nearly $200,000 per year. 

  The 'frontline heroes'---Big Media and Big Pharma---everywhere we turn we see fakes. It's no wonder that people are seeing through the fraud and beginning to rise up against it. In California yesterday, Mendocino County became the 5th to break away from Gavin Newsom's iron-handed rule. In Alabama, Sheriffs Mark Moon and Hoss Mack of Blount and Baldwin Counties respectively, announced yesterday that the autocratic orders of RINO Governor Ivey are not going to be enforced. In Michigan, the Sheriffs and Prosecutors of Missaukee and Osceola Counties joined four others in refusing to enforce orders. Idaho County, Idaho; and Douglas and Tazewell Counties in Illinois have also broken ranks. 

  Hats off to Project Veritas. The more these crimes are exposed, the sooner the Rebellion will fall. 

OF POMP AND PROTEST

   Things aren't going well for the States in rebellion against the Constitution. This is usually the case with Left-Wing authoritarian regimes. It doesn't take long for them to descend into poverty and chaos. 

   As President Trump's May 1st deadline came and went, there have been stories from all over the country of businesses reopening and the Commissars impotent to stop them. There have been a growing number of brave and patriotic Sheriffs and local officials defying their respective regimes. In Arizona, the Sheriffs of Pinal, Mohave, Gila, and Cochise Counties have stopped enforcing RINO Governor Ducey's illegal orders. In Washington State, Franklin County Sheriff J.D. Raymond joined Snohomish County Sheriff Adam Fortney in standing up to the maniacal Jay Inslee. These two counties contain about 1/5 of the State's population. 

   In California, Yuba, Modoc, and Sutter County Executives nullified the Bolshevist Governor Newsom's mandates and are opening businesses again. The El Dorado County Sheriff has announced that he will no longer enforce Newsom's 'Emergency Orders.' 

  These men should all be applauded as heroes; but the swine in the Media are working desperately to turn the momentum back to the COVID Insurgents. The Jeff Bezos-owned Washington Post recently ran a snotty op-ed  by some angry Feminist complaining about these Sheriffs. The author, one Zoe Nemerever, teaches 'Political Science' at the UC-San Diego: one of the institutions of higher learning implicated in the recent Admissions Scandal. 

  Zoe Nemerever is a typical example of how a Swamp-Creature evolves. Born into one of the richest suburbs of Seattle, Miss Zoe has spent most of her adult life in political activism of one sort or another. Her first foray into the System was working as an Intern at the National Abortion Rights League (NARAL) while still in High School. In her 3rd year of college, she interned at the Soros-funded Human Rights Campaign in Washington DC. Another Summer later, she interned for Whacko Left-Wing Democrat Congresswoman Susan Davis. And, upon entering Graduate School, she worked on the UCSD Staff of Students for Barack Obama. Today she's a PhD Candidate and already publishing articles for The Washington Post. So, we can all assume that it's rather unlikely that anything she writes will contradict the Elites' Politically-Correct narrative. 

   In a way, I actually feel sorry for young women like this. She's been groomed almost since puberty to be an 'insider.' She's grown up entirely in a world of making the right connections, knowing the right people, going to the right schools, and knowing how to pull the right strings. She's never really seen Reality. 

   In contrast, a man like Sheriff Fortney whom she looks down upon, is risking his position by standing up to a very mentally unstable Governor and his fanatical and vicious Attorney-General. That's reality---where Principle is tried in the fire of Crisis. Also reality is the Narcotics Epidemic. Just before the COVID 'Crisis' Sheriff Fortney led a sweep through a dope-infested section of Snohomish County: picking off over 50 criminal scum and taking several pounds of Meth, Cocaine, and Opioids off the street. At the same time, six addicts who were found during the sweep were assisted by Fortney's men into Drug Rehabilitation Facilities. 

  Meanwhile, drug overdose deaths have surged nationwide 15% since the fake 'Crisis' tied up valuable resources to deal with the millions of deaths that the Elites assured us were impending. Men like Fortney understand this, because they've seen firsthand where social policies like those advocated by the UCSD Political Science Department actually lead. And, unlike these Elites, they actually do something about it. 

  But the Whacko Left Wing will hear nothing of this. They're writing the script to portray anyone who opposes their power-grabs as Right-Wing extremists. Most of this is all fake news. Note the 'Shutterstock' imprint on this photo, which yesterday was circulated throughout the MSM as a real photo from a North Carolina protest:

   In other words, it's just a photo that some Media Jackal bought from a stock-image firm---taken from Heaven-knows-where---and palmed it off on the public as genuine. In a similar vein are photos like this one:

  Described in the Associated Press as "members of a Michigan Militia." Yet, we're not told who these people are, what organization they belong to---nothing. They're just like those supposed nurses blocking protests in previous photos: they pop up out of nowhere and vanish into thin air again. None of this actually surprising any more. Conservatives shouldn't allow themselves to get distracted by spectacles like these; because the probability is that it's being faked anyway. 

  The Left is resorting to these desperate tactics now, because they realize that people are seeing through their lies---and that there's a good chance that many of them will be held to account for their crimes. We need to push even harder now to regain our liberties. 

  

LOCKED DOWN STATES SEE SIGNS OF LIBERATION

 As we conclude the 8th Week of the COVID Panic, we have also met with the President's May 1st timetable for finishing this nonsense. This entire 'Crisis' has been driven by public hysteria and political/economic opportunism; and there was little that the President could do other than to ride out the storm. This is proving to have been a good strategy---and to his enemies' chagrin---he's executed it by adhering to his Constitutional duties and personal principles. 

  Yesterday, President Trump dealt the Insurrectionist Governors a massive blow by issuing an Executive Order that denies them any Federal assistance in enforcing their illegal decrees. This move has opened the way for the oppressed citizens in Occupied States to sue their respective 'leaders' in Federal Court. Following the President's lead, many businesses have begun reopening in defiance of local despots. In some cases, entire communities are liberating themselves. 

   
   Nonetheless, some of the Rebel States have begun doubling down on their repressive measures. The Whitmer Regime in Michigan not only extended the dictatorship until June in defiance of the President; they did so over the objections of the State Legislature. Protests have broken out all over the State---some obviously staged by the Media Hyenas themselves. 

  In California, the repressive regime of Gavin Newsom sent State shocktroops against legitimate protesters today, arresting 33 people for "disobeying lawful orders" and "demonstrating without permission." Yet this knothead has consistently denied that California is under Martial Law. 

  North Carolina's Governor, Roy Cooper---an insipid toady of the DNC---turned his thugs loose on protesters in Raleigh on Wednesday. Next to the New York and New Jersey tyrants, Cooper has sated his thirst for power on more innocent citizens who've dared question his authority that nearly any others. He's also been a big supporter of Bill Gates' plot to introduce COVID-related surveillance technology into society.

  Obviously, this not a state of affairs which can continue. As Lincoln famously said, a nation cannot exist half-slave and half-free. And Bill Gates---one of the postmodern versions of the Slaveholders' Faction---saw his delusions of mandatory vaccines with corresponding tracking technology receive a sound setback today as Trump announced expedited FDA approval for Remdesivin. This drug has shown potential to break the COVID-19 Strain within five days. Gilead Pharmaceutical, which developed the treatment protocols, donated 1,500,000 doses to be deployed to critically-ill patients beginning Monday. 

  These moves by President Trump are quickly obviating the alleged 'necessity' for Emergency Powers and all but the blindest fanatics are beginning to question what the Swamp has been telling them. Hopefully, the tide is turning against the Insurgents and upcoming weeks will see some brought to Justice for their crimes. 

   

TRUMP STRIKES BACK

   President Trump said a few weeks ago that the country should 'reopen' by May 1st: which happens to be this Friday. As we enter Week 8 of the 'Crisis', some of the Insurgent Governors have seen the handwriting on the wall and are beginning to back down. After a meeting with Trump, the starch seems to have melted from RINO Florida Governor DeSantis' blood veins and that State is suddenly loosening its hostile policy. In Ohio, the Arch-RINO Mike Dewine passively-aggressively opened retail with a mandate for wearing masks and gloves. Today, in a red-faced press conference, Dewine said that wearing masks was only a recommendation. Meanwhile, though, several other of the Occupiers have doubled down; extending their measures deep into May. 

  I think that some of this is out of fear of a showdown with the President, who has taken some concrete steps to back up his words. Speaking today, he announced his intention to sign an Emergency Executive Order blocking the States from closing meat processing plants and overriding closure orders already given. 18 plants have been closed so far, threatening the national food supply. Several of the Bolshevik leaders---like California's Gavin Newsom---were pushing for governmental seizure of the food supply and these closures were instrumental in their plans.

  Trump not only has been blocking the Elites' schemes: he's begun taking proactive measures. The Detroit News reported today, that Federal Attorney Matthew Schneider has been appointed by the Administration to begin a official inquiry into the actions of State autocrats.

  

  In announcing the appointment, Attorney-General Barr stated that  "Many policies that would be unthinkable in regular times have become commonplace in recent weeks, and we do not want to unduly interfere with the important efforts of state and local officials to protect the public, But the Constitution is not suspended in times of crisis. We must, therefore, be vigilant to ensure its protections are preserved, at the same time that the public is protected. If a state or local ordinance crosses the line from an appropriate exercise of authority to stop the spread of COVID-19 into an overbearing infringement of constitutional and statutory protections, the Department of Justice may have an obligation to address that overreach in federal court.”  Michigan would be a great place to start cleaning house, since the Governor just extended authoritarian rule there until June. 

  In Illinois, Bolshevist Governor Pritzker received a major setback in his hopes to extend his power. A State judge ruled in favor today of a constituent from Xenia, Illinois saying that the Governor's actions were in violation of State Law. Predictably, Pritzker exploded with rage: holding a Press Conference vowing an appeal, asserting that his Orders still had legal force, and denouncing the decision, the Plaintiff, and spreading all sorts of pseudoscience pertaining to the COVID virus. 

   The President also earmarked another $320 billion for programs to save businesses closed by the Occupiers. All of these successes have brought down a chorus of contempt from the jackals in the Media. Besides all of their phony coverage of the virus during the last two months, they continue to make complete asses of themselves at every Press Conference. As the President has said, they truly are a national disgrace. 

  Word is getting out though about the Media cover-ups. If anyone is interested, vlogger Davey Crocko has a video clip on one of his recent podcasts of a healthcare worker leaking information about the real conditions in NYC hospitals. The clip starts at 43 minutes into the video. In less than 48 hours, this video has been scrubbed off most of the Internet, and Crocko is the only one that I know of who still has a copy of it posted. 

  The Elites have suffered some setbacks this week; and we're seeing our first rays of hope. Many have questioned President Trump throughout this 'Crisis', but he's acted within the Constitutional scope during this whole time. The insurgents are not finished yet, but there are definite cracks in their formerly united front against Freedom. We've still got an uphill fight on our hands, but we can still win if we stay the Right Course. 

  

THE PROBLEM OF EVIL

   As we enter now in Week 8 of the COVID-19 Hysteria, I doubt that many Americans haven't noticed a major display of Evil. On the Social Macro-level, an unknown number of fatalities have occurred related to the Influenza Outbreak; followed by the heartlessness of petty local dictatorships banning funerals. We're seeing a coup against the Constitution being waged by these same despots---the outcome of which is still to be determined. The scum in the Media and their masters in Corporate Media have been raking in the profits as fast as the political elite can grab power. 

   On the Social Micro-Level, we've seen about the worst in humanity brought out. Homicides and looting on a wide scale; people eagerly informing on their own neighbors and relatives; unbridled selfishness as small businesses crash, and so forth. 

  In the midst of all of this chaos, there have been some unmanufactured tragedies too, although nobody profits off reporting them. There's been a bad storm season in the American Southeast and many have been killed, injured, and seen property destroyed. I read of one recently at Adrienne's blog. A blogger she knows named LindaG, lost her family's home during a tornado touchdown in Louisiana.

   Now, America's wonderful Insurance Cartels---which have been raking in billions off the recent 'Stimulus Package'---won't pay for damages to the house. Adrienne set up a crowfunding page for Linda and her family; which as of this writing has reached about 2/5 of its initial goal. I don't know Linda other than through some comments I've seen at Adrienne's blog: but as you can see, this is a family in great distress. 

   Linda said of the incident: "Want to know how I know God is real; how wonderful He is and how He watched over us Wednesday night? Our son was in his room at his computer. He got up to get a drink. Just moments before he had been sitting where all those chimney bricks are now. And the ceiling and roof. We were blessed that night.God answers prayer. We were blessed that night."

  What Linda said reminded me of something I'd heard on the radio and meant to write about after the Tennessee storms earlier this year, but the COVID panic came up. Some angry Atheist was quoting some people expressing their Thanksgiving in a similar way, when he suddenly blew a fuse and shouted, "Well, what about all those people who died? Don't you think they prayed to Gawwwwwd too?!?" Let it never be said that Atheists aren't without compassion and empathy, right? 

  To answer his question, "Probably the deceased did pray too, but all true Christians understand that the answers to our prayers are contingent upon God's Will; and since we have the Hope of Heaven, no Christian need fear death. This part of a concept called Providence, though many churches and most of society has long forgotten what it means.

   Providence is, simply stated, a belief that life is a part of a Divine Plan. Though we live in a fallen world, God is in ultimate control of human destiny and what evils that the Good experience here is temporal. The Problem of Evil, as modern thinkers call it, was never much of an issue discussed anywhere in the West (including among the Jews and Moslems) until the 18th Century Enlightenment. The so-called higher critics then---and now too since Academia hasn't changed its arguments on the subject in 300 years--- posit:"How could a God who is infinitely Good and infinitely Just allow Evil to exist?" The very question is, of course, premised on the idea that God---if He exists at all---is neither Good nor Just. 

   

   Actually, only indirectly in most Evil circumstances. There are categories of Evil which exist in this world. 

   1. Accidents. We are created as Spiritual beings, but since we live in a Natural World, we are still subject to physical laws. The tornadoes are an example of the Evils which simply arise because our planet is subject to storms; and storms are sometimes fatal. 

   2.Human Wickedness: This doesn't need much explanation, but as creatures endowed with Reason and Free Will it happens that some abuse those gifts by preying on others. Much of what we've seen during the COVID crisis is a prime example of this kind of Evil in action. 

  3. Demonic Attack: This involves the direct action of demons, and the instances of possession is much more uncommon than Hollywood makes it out to be. However, humans who are especially steeped in evil---especially on a spiritual plane---are inspired by demons to commit evil acts the same way that Christians are inspired by the Holy Spirit to engage in good works. 

   Yes, it does. For even though Evil is indiscriminate against whom it strikes, God permits us to experience evils for reasons which align with His Will.

   1. To call us to repentance. When those, especially unbelievers, experience Evil they can come to reflect upon Powers and Causes greater than themselves. Recognizing God's Providence in a time of Evil can be effected through prayer. An example of this happening are the astounding number of conversions we're seeing in the Middle East since the downfall of the ISIS Caliphate. 

  2. To test our Faith: testing in the sense here of strengthening faith. A good example of that is the recovery efforts from those recent storms; or some of the brave officials here who've stood up to the power-grabs during the COVID-19 panic. 

   While we live in an imperfect world, God (and those who serve Him) bring Good out of Evil circumstances. As one scholar eloquently wrote recently:

   "Creating opposites such as good and evil is from the perfection of God’s Wisdom, and making them observable to us is from His Graciousness. Creating the night and day, the sweet and the sour, the hot and the cold, pain and pleasure, death and life, sickness and health, also reflect His Greatness and Perfection. Though the attributes of God are inherently perfect, not seeing them manifest in our world would render us less capable of recognizing God’s Greatness. Were it not for the creation, recognizing God’s quality of being a Creator would be more difficult. Were it not for God creating people who exhibit evil, recognizing God’s qualities of Forbearance and Pardon, and even His qualities of Justice and Dominance, would be that much harder to recognize. If a king were to limit himself to just one of the many actions he is capable of performing, this king would either be unaware of his own abilities, or unaware of the great benefit these actions would entail for others. As for the One with perfect Knowledge and perfect Ability, He does not restrict Himself to a single action or type of action, for that would be a flaw in His Sovereignty. It is from God’s perfect ability that He both gives and withholds, rewards and punishes, uplifts and debases, honors and humiliates, empowers and vanquishes, accelerates and delays, benefits and harms. At the same time, it is due to His Wisdom that, because humans are not identical, they are not treated identically, for that would be contrary to His perfect Justice."

   In other words, this whole question of the Problem of Evil revolves around a premise that Life has no meaning or purpose. It shouldn't be any surprise, therefore that the ones who hold to that premise are the ones responsible for generating much of the Evil and human suffering that happens in this world. When one rejects God's Providence, it's only a small leap of twisted logic to make plans of their own. That's how we get 'leaders' like George Soros, Hitler, Lenin, Robespierre, Pol Pot, etc. In the grand scheme of things, they represent nothing more than the social equivalent of those tornadoes we mentioned. They sweep through, with darkness and destruction; but one day, the homes are rebuilt, the forests grow again, the lawns are green and they are eventually forgotten.