Much like many of my generation, as a child, my mother use to repeat the phrase “two wrongs don’t make a right”. Obviously as a child, I really didn’t grasp the depth or even the full application of this phrase. Yet today, if we just look at the news, we see the most glaring illustration of this truth unfolding before our eyes over-and-over.

America woke up today to another day of some of the worst violence and rioting we’ve seen in quite some time in relatively small Kenosha, WI, where 19 year-old Jacob Blake was shot by police over the weekend. The violence seems to be a magnified version of the rioting that took place in Minneapolis in response to the ugly death of George Floyd.

Let me preface this with the following: I abhor injustice. I honestly do not believe anyone can be an honest, sincere follower of Jesus Christ and not be deeply affected when someone, regardless of their skin color or the circumstances, loses their life. And yes, it can be particularly shocking and grievous when the death comes at the hands of those who’s job is “to protect and to serve”. I will also take this moment to say that, YES – there is a problem with injustice in our legal system. While I might not agree with HOW we define many things labeled as unjust, and further – in many ways I would definitely disagree with what “JUSTICE” might ought look like. I won’t get into the statistics that actually paint a much different picture than the “open season on Black men” claim of the #BLM movement – what we have is FAR less a skin color problem and far more heart issue. We have seen some pretty brazen and senseless violence and deaths at the hands of law enforcement. And YES, the “system” has allowed many to go unpunished.

But we have seen a great deal of attention placed on police and the sad over-use of deadly force. The system IS changing. Unfortunately, we now live in a knee-jerk, emotion-driven society that doesn’t care to wait and give the justice system a chance to do what is right. Instead, a whole new form of vigilante “justice” has been born, primarily led by the #BLACKLIVESMATTER and #ANTIFA anarcho Marxists who’s immediately response to ANY possible unjust case: RIOT (though the media seems to want to call them “Peaceful Protests”, no matter how many people are hurt or businesses burned and looted).

In our most recent example of the shooting of Jacob Blake: nobody seems to be willing to give the prosecutory, police department, and the justice system as a whole the opportunity to do what is right. In the cries of “INJUSTICE”, these folks actually prevent justice from being had! Governor Tony Evers didn’t even wait for the body of Br. Blake to grow cold before he labeled this shooting as criminal and pronounced the officers involved to be murderers. GUILTY! And in his public proclamation, he has likely tainted any chance for justice to be done.

You see – while the system has a history of failures and missteps, the foundation of our legal justice system is suppose to be “innocent until proven guilty”. We have seen many police-involved cases where the initial, even damning video or witness testimony turned out to not tell the whole story. But even if the initial video of this particularly death turns out to be teh “whole story” (and evidence has already emerged that there is, indeed, more – even if not exculpatory). The point is, there has not been enough time passed to evaluate even the known evidence, much less give time for even a preliminary investigation. Yet almost immediately, massed took to the streets – and in two days, it appears that more damage and property loss has occurred in little Kenosha than happened in Minneapolis. Businesses and property destroy – that have no connection to the police. And this is being done in the name of “Justice”? Burning down a youth correctional facility? Burning an office furniture business?

The reality is – these so-called “protests”, are simply acts of injustice perpetrated as a supposed answer to injustice. This is NOT about Justice! And again, “two wrongs don’t make a right”. In Minneapolis, the officers involved in the death of George Floyd were not just suspended, they were terminated. They were arrested and charged – all in the matter of three days – a stituation being taken very seriously. Did this do anything to quell the violence, looting, and even deaths? Nope. Likewise in Kenosha, the dead man’s body wasn’t even in the morgue and the “protestors” – aka: violence-minded, hate-filled rioters, were already about their dastardly actions. This is NOT about Justice! This is all about unregenerate people burning, destroying, and bringing evil into an already hurting community. This is about destroying justice, adulterating justice, cheapening justice. And it must stop. Unfortunately, this is directly tied to America’s political far-Left. A pattern that was actually promoted by the previous President, and is being perpetrated by the political party that had its “virtual” convention last week, where they completely refused to even mention the massive damage and injustice perpetrated by #BLM and #ANTIFA mobs on cities across the country.

TWO WRONGS DON’T MAKE A RIGHT!