Homeland Security Just Lied. So What?

A story broke Monday night, and has bot been given much traction at all in the mainstream media.  

The story is about a hotel employee and Navy veteran who was fired for taking pictures and videos of Homeland Security videos at his place of work, the Drury Plaza Hotel in Chesterfield, Missouri.

Read the whole story here:  http://www.trunews.com/navy-veteran-fired-drury-plaza-hotel-posting-photos-homeland-security-vehicles-facebook/

This story alone should be enough to wake people up to the draconian police state that we live in, except…it doesn’t.  People don’t care.  So what?

Just days earlier, in a story submitted by Allison Blood of local St. Louis CBS affiliate KMOX-TV, there was a tip that “Homeland Security was in town”.  It turns out that the owner of a tactical equipment company said that a member of DHS was there looking to purchase cold weather gear, and that there were about 80 others there as well.  

Read THAT story here:  http://stlouis.cbslocal.com/2014/11/17/is-the-department-of-homeland-security-in-town/

Obviously, they are there in anticipation of any trouble that may arise as a result of the verdict of the Officer Wilson/Michael Brown grand jury.But why all the cloak and dagger nonsense?  In the report by Blood, a representative of Homeland Security DENIED there was a presence of agents there, essentially saying that it was a local matter.

We know they lied.  We have the evidence they lied.

So what?  Who cares?

Last night America was enamored with the latest round of ‘Dancing With The Stars’, cheering on Alfonso Ribeiro as he ‘danced through his pain’.  America loves to be entertained, and America loves the drama of others.

Homeland Security lied.  So what?  Who will will DWTS?  Ah, now that’s something we can talk about!

After a speech, a pro-life activist was approached by an old man. Weeping, he told her the following story:

“I lived in Germany during the Nazi holocaust. I considered myself a Christian. I attended church since I was a small boy. We had heard the stories of what was happening to the Jews, but like most people today in this country, we tried to distance ourselves from the reality of what was really taking place. What could anyone do to stop it?

A railroad track ran behind our small church, and each Sunday morning we would hear the whistle from a distance and then the clacking of the wheels moving over the track. We became disturbed when one Sunday we noticed cries coming from the train as it passed by. We grimly realized that the train was carrying Jews. They were like cattle in those cars!

Week after week that train whistle would blow. We would dread to hear the sound of those old wheels because we knew that the Jews would begin to cry out to us as they passed our church. It was so terribly disturbing! We could do nothing to help these poor miserable people, yet their screams tormented us. We knew exactly at what time that whistle would blow, and we decided the only way to keep from being so disturbed by the cries was to start singing our hymns. By the time that train came rumbling past the church yard, we were singing at the top of our voices. If some of the screams reached our ears, we’d just sing a little louder until we could hear them no more. Years have passed and no one talks about it much anymore, but I still hear that train whistle in my sleep. I can still hear them crying out for help. God forgive all of us who called ourselves Christians, yet did nothing to intervene.

“Their screams tormented us . . . If some of their screams reached our ears we’d just sing a little louder.”

Now, so many years later, it is happening all over again in America. God forgive us as Americans for we have REFUSED to see the signs of God’s judgment on this nation!

The holocaust is here. The response is the same as it is in this story - SILENCE!

Have you ever wondered HOW people could have stood by and let the holocaust just happen? Do you wonder why the Christians in this story chose to just sing their praise to God a little louder to drown out the victim’s cries?

The old man’s story is in the past. The past cannot be changed. It is easy to think we would act differently now. 

As American Christians, we have become so comfortable in our lovely buildings and padded pews. We have beautiful fellowship halls for our many banquets. We have the latest sound equipment for our praise and worship. We have computers to keep our records. We gather together each week and shut ourselves inside our buildings. We raise our voices as loud as we can, all in the name of God.

If the Christians in the old man’s church had done something, they would have probably been killed. That is not the case with us. We don’t even have that as an excuse for our silence.

So what?  Sing a little louder folks….Just SING A LITTLE LOUDER!!!