Lux Lucet

I was shocked but not surprised. Shocked, because it’s so patently ridiculous. Not surprised, because it fits the same pattern we’ve seen time and again. I’m referring, of course, to the decision of FBI Director James Comey not to recommend charges be brought against Hillary Clinton over her mishandling of classified emails.

In a case such as this, it’s tempting to launch into writing some doom and gloom post proclaiming the end of the republic and, for that matter, the world as we know it too.

Ten years ago, John Robbins wrote a must read essay he titled The Religious Wars of the 21st Century, the basic thrust of which was that the ongoing civilizational collapse West, a collapse brought on by its rejection of the Gospel of Justification by Belief Alone, would lead to a terrible century of religious wars. Wars that would be all the more terrible because they would be fought with modern weapons in the name of the false medieval religions Islam, Judaism and Roman Catholicism.

Robbins had this to say about the collapse of the West,

The West has been in collapse for more than a century. The Biblical theology that created the Western civilization five hundred years ago has all be disappeared in the West. The rejection of Christianity in North America and Europe, and the rise of several false religions – including Arminianism, Romanism, Pentecostalism, atheism, and mysticism – have led to the collapse of the West. That collapse is marked by, or, more accurately, is the dissolution of the Biblical family (husband, wife, and children), the economic and political regimentation of the individual and business enterprises; government ownership and control of most educational institutions; the growth of crime; the waning of civility; the acceptance of public profanity, obscenity, and homosexuality; and the resurgence of brutality.

Robbins’ citation of the growth in crime is particularly apropos here. The sheer audacity of Hillary Clinton’s fraud – not just what Andrew Napolitano termed “her grossly negligent failure to keep state secrets in a secure venue,” but also the obvious manipulation of the justice system and the news media effected by her and her supporters – is breathtaking. I’ve never seen anything quite like it.

Woodward and Bernstein? Deep Throat? Forget ’em. Nobody needs those guys. Not when the Deep State oligarchy and its minions have gotten so brazen with their criminality that they hardly even both to hide it anymore.

According to Comey, he elected not to indict Clinton because there was no sign that Clinton meant to break the law. “We did not find evidence sufficient to establish that she knew she was sending classified information, beyond a reasonable doubt, to meet the intent standard,” Comey is quoted as saying.

But as Andrew Napolitano points out, “The espionage statue that criminalizes the knowing or grossly negligent failure to keep states secrets in a secure venue is the rare federal statute that can be violated and upon which a conviction may be based without the need of the government to prove intent.”

But beyond that, what part of setting up an unsecured server in her bathroom fails to rise to the level of intent? As former CIA Operations Officer Scott Uehlinger put it, “The fact that she set up a private server, in and of itself, means she is guilty of a felony right there. Obviously, by having a private server, she was conspiring to evade her signed sworn statements that she would uphold secrecy agreements. The fact that she simply established that (private server) regardless of what was on it, she intended to go around and circumvent the law.”

The FBI’s failure to recommend charges against Clinton is a travesty. One is reminded of Isaiah’s lament over Judah’s collapsing civilization. Wrote the prophet, “How the faithful city has become a harlot! It was full of justice; Righteousness lodged in it, But now murderers” (Isaiah 1:21).

So, is this the end of the republic? It’s tempting to say yes. But the truth is, none of us knows the future. When Isaiah wrote his lament, things looked pretty bleak for Judah. But not long after those words were penned, Hezekiah, one of the best kings ever to sit on the throne of David, would lead the nation to spiritual renewal. Has God’s arm been shorted that he cannot do the same in our time?

While we cannot say for certain that Hillary Clinton’s preternatural ability to dodge indictment represents the end of the republic, it is clear that the failure to charge her is a severe blow to the rule of law in this nation. If she’s allowed to get away with these crimes while a candidate, what she will attempt once in the Oval Office I care not to think about.