Tribalism est Rex

America is increasingly becoming a land without law, that is law passed by duly elected officials and enforced by legitimate authorities. I suppose that one can be delusionally functional on this matter, but the one-time aberration is now becoming the norm. There was a time that this was kept in the ghetto, but helped in part by the tireless efforts of civil rights leaders and protesters, the ACLU, and mindless liberalism, but largely fueled by a wholesale rejection of God and His written Word, anarchy is fast becoming an equal opportunity affliction.

I have heard ad nauseum those talking heads that express fear that the influence of Christian conservatives pose a great danger to freedom. I don't care what poll says otherwise, but America has bought into this fear that loving God with all of your heart and soul and mind is bad, along with loving your neighbor as yourself. Oh, the humanity!! With our new-found, hard-won freedom we can no longer allow our children to play in their own front yard without responsible adult supervision. Two doors down from my home resides a registered sex-offender who assaulted a ten-year old girl. The courts put this guy back on the street, and his only punishment is the stigma attached to his crime. And I'm supposed to bask in my freedom?

Joseph Edington, a patent lawyer in Fairfield, Connecticut, was told by his wife after coming home from work that their two year old daughter was sexually assaulted by a 58 year-old single man living next door to them with his 87 year-old mother. Edington decided to not wait for the courts or police to investigate and act, but that night climbed through the neighbor's window, and killed the guy with a knife. Taking the law into his own hands--which was wrong--is understandable, knowing how our current legal system, being an extension of current cultural norms, operates. But that is where we are. We are headed for vigilanteism where might makes right. Yes, that's a cliche, but that doesn't change the reality of our present condition. We are in trouble, and tragically, only a small minority has more than a clue.