In
the world today there are two major political camps; one comprises
those for some form of imperialism or statism and the other is
democracy. It is surprising how large the number for imperialism or
statism are including the Pope, subjects, the Queen, Brits,
corporatists, the Bushes, the Clintons, fascists, socialists, plutocrats, oligarchs etc.
That being said to the topic; national boundary
and security walls are not anti-Christian.
Everyone wants to be plugged in to the system though. No candidates on either side have any new ideas. Trump is friendlier to Christians than Obama, the two-headed Clinton candidacy or Sanders. Maybe the Donald can invent a way to build cities with bridges and no walls.
Jerusalem
was a walled city and wasn't condemned for that. Though the Romans
heated it with fire until it cracked and the people inside were
slaughtered it wasn't for having a city-wall. When Adam and Eve were
kicked out of Eden God built a security barrier guarded by four
cherubim to keep the wayward couple out. I think the cherubim refer
to four dimensions of spacetime and the flow of history myself rather
than visible to invisible barriers. Eden dried up and became a
desert; it lies in the past (God is eternal and temporal ekstasis are
transparent to him).
The
Pope borrowed a quote from Jesus and said; 14 And he said unto him,
Man,
who made me a judge
or a divider over you? When asked about homosexuality. Yet the Pope
is happy to judge those advocating opinions for border security
walls, moats etc to be not Christian in the effort. I have written in
support of a border control zone far more structured and better than
a wall on the Mexican border for years and am Christian, so I found a
need to differ with the papal misinformation here on my blog.
Christian
politicians are to be good stewards of their environment physically
and politically. They are to be good shepherds of their political
flocks as God's instruments. Especially in the U.S.A. that means
paying attention to the democratic will of the people and securing
the nation's borders from criminals entering illegally. Trump needs
to be like the good steward in the Gospel according to Luke who
watches politically over his master's household chapter 4 “42 And
the Lord said, Who then is that faithful and wise steward, whom his
lord shall make ruler over his household, to give them their portion
of meat in due season?”
Paul
in Titus chapter 1 explains that “5 For this cause left I thee in
Crete, that thou shouldest set in order the things that are wanting,
and ordain elders in every city, as I had appointed thee: 6 If any be
blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not
accused of riot or unruly. 7 For a bishop must be blameless, as the
steward of God; not selfwilled,“.
If
Trump is not doing anything wrong advocating for U.S. border
security; why chastise him?
Jesus
had said, and I suppose this applies to politicians in their tasks as
ministers of the Lord-even to those not Christian who are yet
instruments of God, in Matthew 16; “8 And the lord commended the
unjust steward, because he had done wisely: for the children of this
world are in their generation wiser than the children of light. 9 And
I say unto you, Make to yourselves friends of the mammon of
unrighteousness; that, when ye fail, they may receive you into
everlasting habitations. 10 He that is faithful in that which is
least is faithful also in much: and he that is unjust in the least is
unjust also in much. 11 If therefore ye have not been faithful in the
unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches? 12
And if ye have not been faithful in that which is another man's, who
shall give you that which is your own? 13 ¶ No servant can serve two
masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else
he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God
and mammon.”
First
Peter chapter four relates; “9 Use hospitality one to another
without grudging. 10 As every man hath received the gift, even so
minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold
grace of God. 11 If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of
God; if any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God
giveth: that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus
Christ,”. Hospitality does not mean let political anarchy and chaos
reign and subvert democracy with rule by non-democratic foreign
political force. Incidentally. a priesthood of believers structure
is supported in chapter ten.
Some
foreigners resent the prosperity of the U.S.A and search for ways to
redistribute opportunity and prosperity from the rich to the poor
overlooking the fact that in the U.S.A. 10% of the people have 90% of
the income as it is. Their point of view lacks all subtlety in
comprehension. Subverting the effective power of democracy to have
fair taxes on the rich adequate to prevent over-concentration of the
wealth is accelerated with much cheap foreign laborers illegally
migrated here. Mexican should instead labor in their own fields to
upgrade the status of Mexico and ask for U.S. assistance in the work
now and then.
The
Lord allowed laborers different pay rates in effect in Matthew
chapter 20. It appears that the work is more important than the
compensation, for all good laborers shall enter the kingdom of God
eventually, and making the world a better place with saved souls and
a healthy ecosystem and standard of living all over isn't an
exclusive process-yet it requires deliberation. Chapter 20; “1 For
the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder,
which went out early in the morning to hire labourers into his
vineyard. 2 And when he had agreed with the labourers for a penny a
day, he sent them into his vineyard. 3 And he went out about the
third hour, and saw others standing idle in the marketplace, 4 And
said unto them; Go ye also into the vineyard, and whatsoever is right
I will give you. And they went their way. 5 Again he went out about
the sixth and ninth hour, and did likewise. 6 And about the eleventh
hour he went out, and found others standing idle, and saith unto
them, Why stand ye here all the day idle? 7 They say unto him,
Because no man hath hired us. He saith unto them, Go ye also into the
vineyard; and whatsoever is right, that shall ye receive. 8 So when
even was come, the lord of the vineyard saith unto his steward, Call
the labourers, and give them their hire, beginning from the last unto
the first. 9 And when they came that were hired about the eleventh
hour, they received every man a penny. 10 But when the first came,
they supposed that they should have received more; and they likewise
received every man a penny. 11 And when they had received it, they
murmured against the goodman of the house, 12 Saying, These last have
wrought but one hour, and thou hast made them equal unto us, which
have borne the burden and heat of the day. 13 But he answered one of
them, and said, Friend, I do thee no wrong: didst not thou agree with
me for a penny? 14 Take that thine is, and go thy way: I will give
unto this last, even as unto thee. 15 Is it not lawful for me to do
what I will with mine own? Is thine eye evil, because I am good? 16
So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called,
but few chosen.”
Mexico's
internal criminal turmoil is partly a result of the existence of a
porous border with the more-prosperous for the present nation to the
north-the United States. The vast criminal underworld that flourishes
on both sides of the border is fueled by drugs and human smuggling in
turn fueling political corruption, civil disorder and the failure of
security for Mexicans and Americans alike. The need to close the
Mexican border to any unauthorized immigration is plain; only in a
secure environment can democracy be on an equal footing with
organized crime and the killers causing more fatalities than America
experienced in the Vietnam war. If on an equal footing, democracy, law
and order retake the city on a hill that is Mexico's capital and
cities closer to the U.S. border back from the drug traffickers and
corrupt politicians flipping justice, equal protection of the law and
opportunities for a stable home investment environment.
Human
intelligence requires fluid adaptivity to civil challenges that
subvert social order and progress. The Republican Party having
retaken the legislative branch of government have a clear and present
obligation to seal the Mexican border with a physical boundary
impassable to casual or determined law breakers. There are numerous
ways that would create jobs and a better economy including elements
of traditional boundaries such as the Romans and Welsh built to keep
the barbarians at bay-in this case the barbarians are the savage drug
traffickers and human smugglers as well as those taking jobs from
Americans and subverting labor wage relations with management
regarding labor supply and the value of labor.
The
Pope and select global Plutocracrats including Gates, Buffet and
Adelson trio have pressurized the U.S. Congress to pass a quick dirty
cheap labor amnesty bill in order that global plutocracy may better
develop an imperial empire including the U.S.A. Instead of investing
in construction of a border-control water-desalination evaporation
zone on the Mexican border creating thousands of shovel-ready jobs
the ultra-rich and their puppet President Obama want amnesty for
millions of illegal aliens and/or a few billion to process illegal
aliens and hire more lawyers to represent them while their aren't
enough public defenders for Americans as it is.
They
ought instead to consider the actual facts of labor supply and real
wage compensation in relation to demand for labor and seal the border
against illegal immigration entirely. If jobs that can't be
outsourced are must be filled by legal workers the value of labor
will increase and wages will naturally rise. It would be a simple
matter to create hundreds of thousands of new temporary jobs building
a vast Mexican border boundary control zone that is ecologically
advanced with canals for desalinating seawater to make fresh water
for irrigation and drinking along the desert. Maybe escaped
evaporation will help cool global heating effects in the American
Southwest and increase rainfall.
The
U.S. economy should reform capitalism to decrease concentrations of
wealth and power. Corporate ownership by individuals should be
downsized and limited to investments in just three. Taxes ought to be
raised to at least 60% on the top bracket. A vast Mexican border
security zone using salt water canals for desalinization to produce
fresh water should be constructed for a park and farm irrigation
water generating way to stop all illegal migration. The built-in
feedback mechanism of increased illegal immigrant heap labor when
minimum wages are raised is as cyclical as when the unemployment rate
is below 4% and wages rise naturally. Real politic would halt the
illegal immigration through physical boundary security in the effort
to create full employment from the bottom up-the portion of the
unemployed most harmed by the Obama administration policy.
Without
the b and-aid of a border canal evaporation and berm control zone
corruption is the default policy. The Pope and the plutocracy with
various sorts of supporters that prefer imperialism prefer a corrupt
society that concentrates wealth. The Congress should create a Mexico
Training Corps of volunteers in some respects like the Peace Corps
that sends volunteers to Mexico to help where Mexicans need it most
to improve the environment, security and the standard of living of
the poor. Mexico already has NAFTA and free trade. What they need is
legal prosperity that doesn't subvert that of the U.S.A.
The
United States should help Mexico rid itself of drug traffickers
sending Rangers and the Delta Force to hunt down drug gang leaders.
It should provide trained police investigators and F.B.I. specialists
to uncover and prosecute police corruption. The U.S.A. could lead in
making vast solar projects infrastructure useful to real poor people,
and help make low-cost microwave toilets that don't require water.
Air
quality in Mexico City used to be bad. I don't now how it is today,
however ending air and water pollution in Mexico and regreening such
areas as are possible is necessary if the people are to take bad
their nation as a good place to live. Until wages equalize north and
south of the border free enterprisers will build new factories for
production in Mexico creating jobs. The longer the cross border
illegal entry continues and corruption flourishes the more time it
will take for the disease to heal. It is exploiters of the poor
besides terrorists that most want illegal immigration and porous
borders between the United States and Mexico.
