Sowing Lawlessness… to Reap a Police State?

 Sowing Lawlessness… to Reap a Police State? – Hal Lindsey - https://harbingersdaily.com/sowing-lawlessness-to-reap-a-police-state/ On his third day in office, Manhattan’s new District Attorney, Alvin Bragg, instructed his staff to stop the prosecutions of many serious crimes. They will no longer prosecutepeople for resisting arrest, prostitution, theft of services, or most instances of trespassing. Where he can, the new District Attorney is downgrading crimes like armed robbery from felonies to mere misdemeanors. That means people using a gun to commit robberywill, in some cases, be back on the streets without ever seeing the inside of a jail cell. These changes, he said, will “make us safer.” Imagine a James Bond-style master villain with practically unlimited resources. Let’s say this villain wants a global police state. That’s a tall order. Our villain willhave to move strategically. So, he starts with the world’s most influential nation — the United States. How would one go about turning a free nation into a police state? When you think about it, the answer is obvious. Inundate that nation with the seeds of lawlessness, thenwater those seeds. Encourage the weeds of crime while removing good and fruitful plants. Get rid of things like order and justice. Open the prisons. Make arrests meaningless. Reward evil and penalize good. Carefully nurture a garden of evil. This, in turn, will make life so miserable for ordinary citizens that they will not only tolerate more government reach into their lives, they will demand it! The villain’sgoal is to make them want peace and safety at all costs. That’s where Manhattan, Los Angeles, and other major jurisdictions across the United States are headed. This country has chosen to embrace and even celebrate all kinds of sin and debauchery. Unless the US turns from this wickedness, it will fall. And that fall will devastatedemocracies everywhere. On our way down, the villain (in this case, Satan himself) plans to use American dysfunction to bring ever-increasing chaos to the whole planet. The Bible describes these two seemingly contradictory things both coming true in the last days — lawlessness and a police state. In Matthew, chapters 24 and 25, Jesus givesa discourse on the time leading up to His return. In Matthew 24:12, He said, “Lawlessness will abound.” [NKJV] Revelation 13 describes global government control so complete that people will be required to worship its leader. It describes a control mechanism so strict that peoplewill not be able to buy or sell without government approval in the form of the mark of the beast. The technology enabling that level of economic control has only recently been developed and is just now coming into use. To enforce such draconian rules willtake a surveillance state backed by a police state. How could people ever put up with such changes? Fear. And a big part of that fear will be the fear of lawlessness. People are beginning to hear the chaos of the streetspounding on the doors of their homes. More and more are afraid to go out. They fear every random sound in the night. As this gets worse, they will demand police protection at any cost, including the cost of their freedoms. In the long run, defunding policeand failure to prosecute criminals will mean an increase in both police power and in government control. -------------------------------------------- New York City Has Turned into San Francisco – ToddStrandberg - https://www.raptureready.com/category/nearing-midnight/ It just dumbfounds me that one major city after another is having people vote into office individuals who are dingbats. When the people of Chicago voted for a cop-hating,Lesbian, leftist black woman, I knew it was going to be a disaster. Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot turned the city streets over to criminals. The City of San Francisco is one of the most lawless cities in America. Drug addicts can shoot up with heroin in plain sight of a cop, and thieves can walk into a Walgreensand steal up to $950 worth of products with no consequences. The homeless can set up camp anywhere they like. Seattle, like most other Democrat-run cities across the US, has experienced a massive spike in crime thanks to radical, felon-first policies that have emboldened criminalslike never before. Employees of KIRO News Radio captured a shocking example of this new policy in action when they recorded a driver of a stolen vehicle casually driving away from several police officers who had surrounded the car with their weapons drawn. In every other time in history, the reaction to what is taking place in Chicago, San Francisco, and Seattle would be an overwhelming demand for tougher policies on criminalactivity. There would be a recall election for Lori Lightfoot to replace her with someone who makes the city safer for citizens. Amazingly, the surge in crime has had no effect on the trend towards lawlessness. The people of New York City voted into office a D.A. that is clearly on the side of criminals.In his first memo to staff, Alvin Bragg said his office “will not seek a sentence” except with homicides and a handful of other cases, including domestic violence felonies, some sex crimes, and public corruption. Bragg’s memo also detailed the following instructions for prosecutors to reduce charges filed by cops in various cases: Armed robbers who use guns or other deadly weapons to stick up stores and other businesses will be prosecuted only for petty larceny, a misdemeanor, provided no victimswere seriously injured and there’s no “genuine risk of physical harm” to anyone. Armed robbery, a class B felony, would typically be punishable by a maximum of 25 years in prison, while petty larceny subjects offenders to up to 364 days in jail and a $1,000fine. Convicted criminals caught with weapons other than guns will have those felony charges downgraded to misdemeanors unless they’re also charged with more serious offenses.Criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree, a class D felony, is punishable by up to 7 years behind bars. Burglars who steal from residential storage areas, parts of homes that aren’t “accessible to a living area,” and businesses located in mixed-use buildings will be prosecutedfor a low-level class D felony that only covers break-ins instead of for more serious crimes. Those more serious crimes, class B and class C felonies, would be punishable by up to 25 and up to 15 years in prison respectively. Drug dealers believed to be “acting as a low-level agent of a seller” will be prosecuted only for misdemeanor possession. Also, suspected dealers will only be prosecutedon felony charges if they’re also accused of more serious crimes or are actually caught in the act of selling drugs. That felony would mean facing up to seven years behind bars. Bragg also ordered his staff to stop pursuing low-level offenses. People involved in prostitution, drug use, and petty theft now have an assurance that even if they arearrested, they will never see any jail time. If you don’t enforce lesser crimes, you will end up with more serious crimes. Someone who gets away with stealing from a drug store will be just as willing to rob a bank. “In Bragg’s Manhattan, you can resist arrest, deal drugs, obstruct arrests, and even carry a gun and get away with it,” Drug Enforcement Administration president Paul DiGiacomosaid in a prepared statement. The moves sparked immediate outrage from cops who said the new policies will lead to more crime and shootings. The head of the NYPD’s largest union, the Police BenevolentAssociation, expressed “serious concerns about the message these types of policies send to both police officers and criminals on the street.” The reason why judges and district attorneys have gone soft on crime is because of our eroding moral foundation. Bragg doesn’t understand the basic nature of evil. He thinksif we just lower the standards on prosecution, the crime problem will go away. When New York quickly turns into San Francisco, there will be no backlash against Bragg’s policy change. San Francisco has a D.A. that operates just like Bragg, and no one caresbecause most people’s hearts are blind to the truth. “And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold” (Matthew 24:12). ------------------------------------- Another Major Shortage Alert: The Florida Orange Crop In 2022 WillBe The Smallest Since World War II - by Michael Snyder - http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/another-major-shortage-alert-the-florida-orange-crop-in-2022-will-be-the-smallest-since-world-war-ii/ Over the past couple of years, we have been hit by one thing after another. Whenever it seems like things may be calming down, another crisis suddenly erupts, and as a resulta lot of Americans have developed a really bad case of “crisis fatigue” at this point. According to Google, crisis fatigue is “a burnout response to prolonged exposure to unexpected and stressful events”. Perhaps you can identify with that definition becauseit sounds exactly like what you are experiencing. Unfortunately, the truth is that what we have been through so far is just the beginning. As I have been warning for years, as “the perfect storm” gets rolling it is just going to keep getting worse and worse. This week, I was shocked to learn that we are now facing a major agricultural nightmare in the state of Florida. According to Fox Business, it is being projected that thiswill be “the smallest Florida orange crop since World War II”… Government agricultural forecasters said they expect the smallest Florida orange crop since World War II, touching off a rally in juice futures that were already at theirhighest level in years because of the pandemic. The U.S. Agriculture Department said last week that it expects Florida to produce 44.5 million 90-pound boxes of oranges this year, trimming its already low expectationsand predicting that the crop will wind up smaller than the one that was ruined by 2017’s Hurricane Irma. If the forecast is accurate, it will be the smallest harvest since 1945. In 1945, there were 139 million people living in the United States. Today, there are 329 million people living here. So we are actually going to have less than half as many Florida oranges per person as they did in 1945. Let that sink in for a moment. At a time when food supplies are already getting very tight, we are being told that the orange harvest in Florida is going to be at a frighteningly low level. The primary reason why the harvest is going to be so bad is due to a plague called “citrus greening disease”… The big culprit this time around, the Florida Department of Citrus said, is citrus greening, an incurable disease that thins the crowns of trees and saps their vitality.Spread by invasive tree lice, greening has plagued Florida’s groves since it was first detected there in 2005. In a report on Wednesday, the Agriculture Department said a lot more oranges than usual are on the ground, and the fruit that is being harvestedis unusually small. Needless to say, this is going to impact all of us. There will be less oranges in our grocery stores, and those that are available will be much more expensive… “You have your classical supply-demand mismatch,” said Shawn Hackett, president of Hackett Financial Advisors, which specializes in agricultural commodities analysis. Becauseof that, consumers should expect “much higher prices at the supermarket.” Orange juice is already ridiculously expensive. I can’t even imagine what a “much higher price” for orange juice would look like. Meanwhile, nationwide shortages of cold medicine and cough syrup continue to intensify. The following comes from an article about what is going on in north Texas… Shoppers in North Texas are noticing stores running out of cold medicine and cough syrup. Many stores are selling out of the items as soon as new shipments arrive. Chains say they are still struggling with disruptions to the supply chain. Many in the mainstream media are insisting that many of the painful shortages that we are now experiencing will begin to subside once warmer weather arrives. You can believe that if you wish. But the truth is that there are several factors which could soon make our supply chain headaches even worse. For example, a strict new vaccine mandate for truckers going into or out of Canada just went into effect. A similar mandate for truckers going into or out of the United States will be implemented on January 22nd. And unfortunately the trucking industry was given very little time to prepare for these mandates… When questioned about this, Canadian Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic Leblanc says the trucking industry “has had adequate time to prepare for this.” Keep in mind,the mandate was announced 45 days ago (November 30th). According to the Canadian government, changing the structural rules for all the logistics and commerce in cross border shipping, 45 days is enough notice. Needless to say, this is going to cause even more supply chain problems, but at this point nobody is quite sure how bad things will get… The truth is no one knows how bad the disruption will be. What we do know is that there will be disruption, and there is no infrastructure for a level of rig-switching atthe border crossing region that could accommodate changing rigs, drop-offs and/or pick-ups or driver transfers on the scale that is being discussed. The logistics here are a total mess. Personally, I think that Canada will be hit harder by this than the U.S. will. When the CEO of Canadawide Fruits was asked about the new mandates, he said that transportation costs increased by 25 percent last week alone… The mainstream media is finally warning that the trucker vaccine mandate will likely increase the costs of fruit and vegetables. The CEO of Canadawide Fruits told Bloombergthat the cost of transporting produce climbed 25% last week. Another major factor which is going to make things even more difficult in 2022 is the new energy crisis which has erupted in recent months. All traditional forms of energy are becoming more expensive, and that includes the price of oil. In fact, the price of West Texas Intermediate just hit the highest levelin seven years… Crude prices rose to their highest level since the 2014 shale-induced oil crash, a milestone in a rally that is gathering momentum as geopolitical tensions threaten to knocksupply. Futures for West Texas Intermediate, the main grade of U.S. crude, added $1.61 per barrel, or 1.9%, to $85.43 on Tuesday. That marks the highest closing level since October2014, when oil prices were moving in the opposite direction as a gusher of U.S. crude flooded the market. It takes energy to produce the food that we eat, and it takes energy to transport that food to the stores. So higher energy prices will inevitably lead to higher food prices. Of course it isn’t just the price of food that is going to be shooting up. Just about everything is going to cost quite a bit more in 2022, and the inflationary spiral that has now begun is going to be exceedingly difficult to deal with. But our leaders in Washington insist that they have everything under control, and they want you to continue to trust their judgment. -------------------------------- Biden’s destructive delusion - Bill Wilson – www.dailyjot.com Economic indicators such as manufacturing production continues to fall. Retail sales fell 1.9% in December. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported on January 12 that inflationrose 7% in the 12 months through December, the highest since June 1982—that’s 40 years. Average hourly earnings adjusted for inflation fell 2.4% during the same time. Housing rental costs were up nearly 18%, the largest increase in history. Yet Joe Biden wasdelusional when addressing these historically bad numbers by saying: “Today’s report—which shows a meaningful reduction in headline inflation over last month, with gas prices and food prices falling—demonstrates that we are making progress in slowing the rateof price increases.” What? No wonder Rasmussen Reports indicate that 58% disapprove of Joe Biden’s job performance, 48% strongly disapprove. The guy’s policies are destroying the nation’s economywhich is felt most by those of us who are considered the middle-class backbone of the country. You just can’t do what he did and have a good report. Think about it. Within his first week in office, he stopped work order on the keystone pipeline, killing11,400jobs. The American Petroleum Institute said halting oil and gas drilling on federal lands would cost a million jobs. The Chamber of Commerce estimated the Paris Climate reentry would cost 6.5 million jobs. All in all, the new president may have put over 7.5million Americans out of work in his first week. Plus, his actions raised fuel costs, which raises the cost of everything. What have you been paying for gas? Let us remember how the media and the delusional democrats attacked and demonized President Trump. Under just four years of Donald Trump, the economy grew at an averageof 2.5% per year, not counting the COVID lockdown. Under the first three years of Trump, unemployment declined to 3.5%. Democrats and the mainstream news media like to say that Trump’s final employment report was far worse than any president, but they failto say that the COVID lockdown turned Trump’s employment record upside down. Prior to the lockdown, the number of employed Americans broke 25 records, reaching an all-time high of 158.8 million. More Black folk were employed than in any time in US history.All this is wiped out with Biden’s systematic destruction of the economy in favor of statist control and heavy-handed government. Biden promises to kill the oil and coal industries and do all these things that will financially harm every American. The populated city areas vote him in anyway. Then hedoes it, costing us all, disproportionately the poor fools who voted for him. Proverbs 18:2 says, “A fool has no delight in understanding, but that his heart may discover itself.” You would think that when a guy says he is going to put you out of work, raiseyour taxes, and his actions will raise the cost of living for everyone, that people would understand his words. Even with all that, he says we are making progress. Progress at what? Destroying the nation and enslaving its citizens? How much foolishness doesit take to have at least minimal understanding? Biden’s foolishness is both intentional and delusional. Nevertheless, it’s…Say it with me… Stupidocrisy. --------------------------------- VISIT: PROPHECY WATCHER WEEKLY NEWS: HTTP://PROPHECY-WATCHER-WEEKLY-NEWS.BLOGSPOT.COM