Johnny D. Symon
Judgment on serpent's scales
By Johnny D. Symon
My whole adult life so far, generally speaking, has proven to be a wrestling match involving my sense of judgment, how I judge myself, others, entities, and the world in general. For me this is the trickiest part of life, the art of correct and sound judgment.
Before receiving God's Commandments, the children of Israel had a full 7 weeks to anticipate their arrival. Jewish Rabbis explain that the magic figure of 7 weeks was a time for the people to harmonize themselves in preparation for the big day. In other words, the Law can be used for good or evil purposes, as can the owning of firearms, but the true application of law and gun requires those of sound judgment. Obviously therefore in our ever growing secular world, those in authority not having, or indeed caring to have, a spiritual grounding in legal application, are wide open to biased judgment.
One judge may sentence a small-time fraudster to time in a hell pen in Texas, and Madoff to America's most luxurious detention spot. That's flawed judgment in the spiritual sense. The application of an evil inner legal grounding. True judgment is unbiased, uncolored, untainted, and lacks emotion, natural emotion. True judgment is not vindictive. Cold, though by no means heartless, is that thing called sound judgment, otherwise the world falls into a trap of its own making.
Spiritually unsound law-makers and law enforcers have become the order of the day, a most recent example, much lauded by the world's Leftist politicians and media, goes by the name of judge Balticzar Garzón. Recently suspended from his post, after attempting to put dead people on trial for genocide enacted during the Spanish Civil War, and against the "Ley de Amnistía," the world's press presented him as a hero, and he presented himself as an "esclavo (slave) of the law." The real truth, however, places him not as a slave to the law, for he in fact directed the law as a master would direct his slave.
Example? Okay, here it is.
While the Balticzar solely directed his legal intent on the deceased Franco Regime, he conveniently ignored a living figure of the Communist Republican Left, and another genocide issue, named Santiago Carrillo. Santiago, back in Madrid 1936, became Councilor for Public Order in the Defense Council. During this time, and while in supreme authority, though directly under Communist Russia's rule, thousands of men, women, and children, were murdered. Those massacres perpetrated by his own Communist Regime, occurred at Paracuellos del Jarama and Torrejón de Ardoz. Within this murdered number were around 7000 priests and nuns. Yet the Balticzar cared not to try the leader most likely to have been behind that bloody decision.
This therefore is a prime example of defective judgment and legal bias, of attempting to use, nay abuse, the law to serve his own evil ends. Small wonder the world is lauding him so. It's a sad sign of the times really, for while he attempts to bring dead people to justice, he ignores the living, because the guy happens to be on his own side.
But man's inhumanity to man, to my way of thinking, should recognize no borders, and so therefore should go the application of law. Genocide is genocide, whether it's perpetrated on innocents by Right or Left, for that's true judgment, an unbiased view, and yet another example of why the children of Israel had 7 weeks to ready themselves, to make themselves worthy, of sound Law, and most importantly, the correct application thereof.
The base of true judgment is an understanding of all that entails the art of loving God and keeping His Commandments. And that endeavor requires a sound Biblical knowledge, the wisdom to comprehend the workings of both God and man. Without that vital foundation, judges become unreliable hair-triggers. They serve two masters; their own evil inclination, and the political entity of their particular leaning, which, in Biblical terms, means the act of rebellion. The place of evil. And a place that must be viewed as an anathema to folks like ourselves, seeking sound judgment. That's why, as mentioned earlier, my whole adult life has been a wrestling match on that subject, the subject of sound judgment.
Basically, our battle is waged on a no-man's land, with God on one side, and man-unkind on the other, a kind of juggling match really, in an attempt to reconcile both and play a vital part in the peace-making process, while reminding ourselves that no peace can be achievable without sound minds, and sound minds produce sound judgment, thereon peace becomes the order of the day.
When a judge, on the other hand, utilizes the rule of law in partizan manner, peace and harmony are impossible goals to achieve, and his rewards and accolades remain in the finite. God's judgment on their deeds, however, shall rain down in the hereafter.
In response to the April 9 New York Times article, "An Injustice in Spain," an article that neglected to include the Marxist-Republican massacres outlined above, genocide most likely, in my opinion, to have been ordered by Carrillo, six Spaniards submitted a letter the Times failed to publish, that can however be read here, entitled "The New York Times And The Garzón Case," of which, in my opinion, provides a clearer and most definitive balanced view of Civil War genocide.
The authors of the article present a sane, balanced and unbiased picture of that era's, and region's, example of man's inhumanity to man. The fact that this article was withheld is for me a sad sign of the times, New York, and all points of the globe to boot. No accolades for our six Spanish writers unfortunately, for balanced truth and judgment does not form part of the secular world's ways. Truth is inconvenient. Only half-truths, from a half of the whole, sell newspapers.
The Balticzar Garzóns of this world are heroes because they represent chaos in a palatable way. A world-view far removed from the Ways of God. They present darkness with a rosy glow and a silver lining on a portal to hell. They're sick, yet everyone's fooled into the desire to be healthy and rich like them. Fool's gold, fool's wisdom, and fool's judgment ... that's what the unsuspecting world wants.
Now the Balticzar has been invited onto the International Court. A Court the New York Times article claims to cancel out Spain's Ley de Amnistía. But if that's the case, national sovereignty and jurisdiction, especially as regards legal framework, is shortly to become a thing of the past, and that raises the question of how many people of sound mind would choose to relinquish their Constitution and Bill of Rights, to hand over the matter of due legal process onto the lap of a biased, one eye blinkered, judge like Balticzar Garzón ... a judge wishing to "try and condemn" dead people. Aw, shucks, call me old-fashioned, but I've always foolishly held the view that only The Righteous Judge could do that!
© Johnny D. Symon
May 21, 2010
My whole adult life so far, generally speaking, has proven to be a wrestling match involving my sense of judgment, how I judge myself, others, entities, and the world in general. For me this is the trickiest part of life, the art of correct and sound judgment.
Before receiving God's Commandments, the children of Israel had a full 7 weeks to anticipate their arrival. Jewish Rabbis explain that the magic figure of 7 weeks was a time for the people to harmonize themselves in preparation for the big day. In other words, the Law can be used for good or evil purposes, as can the owning of firearms, but the true application of law and gun requires those of sound judgment. Obviously therefore in our ever growing secular world, those in authority not having, or indeed caring to have, a spiritual grounding in legal application, are wide open to biased judgment.
One judge may sentence a small-time fraudster to time in a hell pen in Texas, and Madoff to America's most luxurious detention spot. That's flawed judgment in the spiritual sense. The application of an evil inner legal grounding. True judgment is unbiased, uncolored, untainted, and lacks emotion, natural emotion. True judgment is not vindictive. Cold, though by no means heartless, is that thing called sound judgment, otherwise the world falls into a trap of its own making.
Spiritually unsound law-makers and law enforcers have become the order of the day, a most recent example, much lauded by the world's Leftist politicians and media, goes by the name of judge Balticzar Garzón. Recently suspended from his post, after attempting to put dead people on trial for genocide enacted during the Spanish Civil War, and against the "Ley de Amnistía," the world's press presented him as a hero, and he presented himself as an "esclavo (slave) of the law." The real truth, however, places him not as a slave to the law, for he in fact directed the law as a master would direct his slave.Example? Okay, here it is.
While the Balticzar solely directed his legal intent on the deceased Franco Regime, he conveniently ignored a living figure of the Communist Republican Left, and another genocide issue, named Santiago Carrillo. Santiago, back in Madrid 1936, became Councilor for Public Order in the Defense Council. During this time, and while in supreme authority, though directly under Communist Russia's rule, thousands of men, women, and children, were murdered. Those massacres perpetrated by his own Communist Regime, occurred at Paracuellos del Jarama and Torrejón de Ardoz. Within this murdered number were around 7000 priests and nuns. Yet the Balticzar cared not to try the leader most likely to have been behind that bloody decision.
This therefore is a prime example of defective judgment and legal bias, of attempting to use, nay abuse, the law to serve his own evil ends. Small wonder the world is lauding him so. It's a sad sign of the times really, for while he attempts to bring dead people to justice, he ignores the living, because the guy happens to be on his own side.
But man's inhumanity to man, to my way of thinking, should recognize no borders, and so therefore should go the application of law. Genocide is genocide, whether it's perpetrated on innocents by Right or Left, for that's true judgment, an unbiased view, and yet another example of why the children of Israel had 7 weeks to ready themselves, to make themselves worthy, of sound Law, and most importantly, the correct application thereof.
The base of true judgment is an understanding of all that entails the art of loving God and keeping His Commandments. And that endeavor requires a sound Biblical knowledge, the wisdom to comprehend the workings of both God and man. Without that vital foundation, judges become unreliable hair-triggers. They serve two masters; their own evil inclination, and the political entity of their particular leaning, which, in Biblical terms, means the act of rebellion. The place of evil. And a place that must be viewed as an anathema to folks like ourselves, seeking sound judgment. That's why, as mentioned earlier, my whole adult life has been a wrestling match on that subject, the subject of sound judgment.
Basically, our battle is waged on a no-man's land, with God on one side, and man-unkind on the other, a kind of juggling match really, in an attempt to reconcile both and play a vital part in the peace-making process, while reminding ourselves that no peace can be achievable without sound minds, and sound minds produce sound judgment, thereon peace becomes the order of the day.
When a judge, on the other hand, utilizes the rule of law in partizan manner, peace and harmony are impossible goals to achieve, and his rewards and accolades remain in the finite. God's judgment on their deeds, however, shall rain down in the hereafter.
In response to the April 9 New York Times article, "An Injustice in Spain," an article that neglected to include the Marxist-Republican massacres outlined above, genocide most likely, in my opinion, to have been ordered by Carrillo, six Spaniards submitted a letter the Times failed to publish, that can however be read here, entitled "The New York Times And The Garzón Case," of which, in my opinion, provides a clearer and most definitive balanced view of Civil War genocide.
The authors of the article present a sane, balanced and unbiased picture of that era's, and region's, example of man's inhumanity to man. The fact that this article was withheld is for me a sad sign of the times, New York, and all points of the globe to boot. No accolades for our six Spanish writers unfortunately, for balanced truth and judgment does not form part of the secular world's ways. Truth is inconvenient. Only half-truths, from a half of the whole, sell newspapers.
The Balticzar Garzóns of this world are heroes because they represent chaos in a palatable way. A world-view far removed from the Ways of God. They present darkness with a rosy glow and a silver lining on a portal to hell. They're sick, yet everyone's fooled into the desire to be healthy and rich like them. Fool's gold, fool's wisdom, and fool's judgment ... that's what the unsuspecting world wants.
Now the Balticzar has been invited onto the International Court. A Court the New York Times article claims to cancel out Spain's Ley de Amnistía. But if that's the case, national sovereignty and jurisdiction, especially as regards legal framework, is shortly to become a thing of the past, and that raises the question of how many people of sound mind would choose to relinquish their Constitution and Bill of Rights, to hand over the matter of due legal process onto the lap of a biased, one eye blinkered, judge like Balticzar Garzón ... a judge wishing to "try and condemn" dead people. Aw, shucks, call me old-fashioned, but I've always foolishly held the view that only The Righteous Judge could do that!
© Johnny D. Symon
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