My Comments: The Apostle Paul wrote, “For he [the civil magestrate] is God’s minister to you for good. But if you do evil, be afraid; for he does not bear the sword in vain; for he is God’s minister, an avenger to execute wrath on him who practices evil.” But what if a government, instead of fulfilling its proper, God-appointed role of punishing those who practice evil, refuses to do its job? What if instead of punishing those who practice evil it turns them loose to prey on innocent people? You’d probably say that government has failed in its most basic duty to the people it supposedly serves and could even be said to hate them.
Such behavior is now a commonplace in the West as governments refuse to do their most basic duty of punishing those who practice evil, instead releasing them on the public to do even more evil. This was certainly the case with the Cranston, RI jail that released an illegal alien charged with child molestation rather than turning him over to ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) per ICE’s detainer request.
From Bill Melugin’s post below, ICE was able to re-arrest the man apparently before he committed any more crimes. But that’s not always the case. Sadly, there have been many instances where illegal aliens, who have been deported many times or jailed and released many times for crimes they committed while on American soil, went on to commit additional heinous crimes.
What are we to say of governments that refuse to do their most basic duty of punishing those who practice evil other than that they hate the very people they claim to serve and represent.
Lux Lucet 