Sessions Quoting Scripture to Us?
AG Jeffrey B. Sessions: “‘I would cite you to the Apostle Paul and his clear and wise command in Romans 13, to obey the laws of the government because God has ordained them for the purpose of order,’ he said. ‘Orderly and lawful processes are good in themselves and protect the weak and lawful.'”
I would quote back to the hypocrite Sessions.
Leviticus 19:33-34:
33 “When a foreigner resides among you in your land, do not mistreat them.
34 The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt.”
or perhaps?
Matthew 25: 41-45:
41 “Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.’
42 For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink,
43 I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.’
44 They also will answer, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?’
45 He will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.’”
We were all once foreigners . . . except for Sessions, Trump and many politicians who despise Mexicans and others.
Great post! Someone should count how many of the Ten Commandments have been violated by Sessions boss.
What Sessions ignores is that he and Trump are the government, able to construct the laws to be followed, and have used that power cruelly. One can obey the government and still criticize it. St. Paul doesn’t say otherwise.
Hi Jack:
Getting ready to leave CA and work and head back to Michigan.
Sessions and Trump can construct the law in any fashion they wish until over ruled. They can also interpret the law in a different manner than what was previously done which I believe is what is happening today. And then too, this is until they are over ruled. Unfortunately, it is rare they are ever taken to task in a manner a simple citizen would be for their purposeful abuse of the law to gain political, monetary, physical, etc. advantage. They walk and the damage caused is left for us to clean up and apologize for later. They need to incur the same abuse others have endured under their authority and be judged by the courts in a similar manner you and I would be.
Just pure evil.
“As the United States government continues to commit crimes against humanity—and against human children—along its southern border, we now have the iconic images for our most recent national disgrace. Earlier, we had Nick Ut’s shot of nine-year old Phan Thị Kim Phúc, fleeing naked down a road near Trang Bang in Vietnam in the aftermath of a United States napalm attack in 1972. We had Eddie Adams’s shot of Nguyễn Ngọc Loan’s summary execution of a Vietcong officer named Nguyen Van Lem.
We had John Filo’s shot of Mary Ann Vecchio kneeling in Jeffrey Miller’s blood at Kent State. We had hundreds of shots of civil rights workers being bludgeoned and beaten and Robert Kennedy on the floor of the kitchen in Los Angeles. In a sense, you can trace this history in images dating back to Alexander Gardner’s tour of the battlefield at Antietam, when The New York Times wrote that, if Gardner had “not brought bodies and laid them in our door-yards and along streets, he has done something very like it…”
And now we have the still photos and videos of children being forcibly removed from the parents who have brought them here from the charnel houses of Central America—the culmination of decades of brutality to which American meddling made a not-inconsiderable contribution. We see children weeping as their mothers are frisked by ICE agents up against automobiles.
We even had a little slice of a Theresienstadt strategy on Wednesday, when the people running one of the centers allowed reporters to take a tour of their facility. But even this carefully arranged visit couldn’t keep the essential authoritarianism of the place out of plain sight. In this, the ploy was a debacle for the administration*. The reporters allowed into the abandoned Wal-Mart facility knew a jail when they saw one. Jacob Soboroff of MSNBC deserves special huzzahs for his clear-eyed summary of the visit.
The nation’s capacity for shame, which has been shrinking almost by the hour for the last couple of years, is now being tested at the outside limits. A renegade president* hired Bull Connor in an expensive suit to run the Justice Department, and the latter has proven to have even less of a conscience on this issue than the president* he serves.”
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a21524970/migrant-children-detention-center/
Stephen Colbert shot back last night and suggested Sessions should have read a bit further to Roman’s 13:10.
https://crooksandliars.com/2018/06/stephen-colbert-rips-jeff-sessions-about
Today, we have Trump saying (supposedly joking, you know like Reagan did and Bush 2 did which considering today it authoritarian ideals are for real in conservative philosophy): Mr. Trump told Fox News’ Steve Doocy on the White House lawn Friday. “Don’t let anyone think anything different. He speaks and his people sit up at attention. I want my people to do the same.”
Pressed by a reporter about those remarks moments later, Mr. Trump said he was “kidding.”
“I’m kidding, you don’t understand sarcasm,” the president said. (CBS News)
The Constitution: It’s only a piece of paper.
I believe Sessions just said the Affordable Care Act is ordained by God.
What about separation of church and state?
An official of the government should never be quoting from a book a fairy tales.
Paul, the writer of many letters to sometimes ‘wayward’ congregations, was beheaded for his not submitting……………
I think Paul viewed the Roman “order” as not so “good”.
“As the United States government continues to commit crimes against humanity—and against human children—along its southern border,……”
The US is doing immensely worse war crimes on the edges of the empire!