Showing posts with label Zoning laws in Connecticut. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Zoning laws in Connecticut. Show all posts

Saturday, March 02, 2024

The Church: Just One More Vehicle For The Connecticut Democrat Government To Use Against The Taxpaying Citizens Of Connecticut



Holy Bible: Matthew Chapter 16, (Verses 18-20)

18 And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.

19 And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.

Over two thousand years ago, Jesus Christ of Nazareth declared to the Apostle Peter his design and vision for the Christian church. This vision was founded under the design of the Jewish Temple in the Old Testament and brought forward by Jesus. The objective was for the church to be an anchor and support for the believer to learn, grow, to have fellowship with one other, and to learn about the power and authority God grants to every child and believer to be strong in independence and God’s grace. Even to this day, churches and religion still play an important part in our society.

However, for many churches in Connecticut there has been a major shift in their role and political beliefs even though there is a supposed separation from church and state in our country. The separation is a necessary firewall so that churches cannot taint the Gospel mission with political causes. But for some Connecticut churches today, this rule is no longer in the book. These churches have seared their consciences and have consumed the pitcher of Democrat Kool-Aid to embrace whatever partisan-ism, electioneering and socialism handed to them provided there is some Democrats waving taxpayer dollars. In many cases, complaints of these unscriptural and illegal practices are often met with shaming and derision directed most aggressively against others by the very churches “benefiting” from these same practices.

Unfortunately, the Democrat political machine (enabled if not encouraged by Republican silence in many cases) has found a whole new profit center in co-opting obeisant churches and destroying the integrity of their doctrine and the vision of Moses and Jesus. This new profit center is based upon massively importing and housing illegal immigrants into the U.S.A in exchange for seemingly plentiful government cash. This crisis has caused a great upheaval in what the role of the church has become in this Democrat debacle in Connecticut, and throughout our country.

Of course, inept Connecticut needs one more social crisis as much as General George Armstrong Custer needed more hostile Indians in the massacre of Little Big Horn in 1876. For in Connecticut, we are all too aware of the past 34 plus years with massive crime, massive illegal drug problems, massive homeless problems, and massive taxes and debt. Of course, these problems have compounded into the nightmare conditions the state has today. Churches have echoed their desires to help but their desires have been perverted in many cases to become appendages to the state and local governments as political tools attempting to address the problems that the same state and local governments have created and expanded on over the years. More money thrown at these problems to any observer seems to do nothing other than to exacerbate the problems and make them much worse.

Sadly, many Connecticut churches today have become even more useful appendages for the Democrat design to destroy Connecticut cities and towns by parroting the new Connecticut government mantra of affordable housing especially by destroying local zoning decisions and alternatively setting up state-controlled transit center hubs that will have supposed affordable housing developments which somehow will inexplicably create this housing heaven on earth. It is fascinating to see how much profit becomes involved as politically connected developers and glad-faced hangers-on are all clamoring for a cut of the action by hoping to strip away zoning laws from state towns and cities to promote this agenda. Seeing parallel visions of state cash, some state churches are offering use of their church campuses and land to house the homeless and/or the undocumented and illegal. While being lauded by the political machine for this apparently honorable and righteous act, the sometimes well-meaning but always misled church leaders quickly realize that whatever commitment they have had to their founding doctrine or plain old right and wrong must now be extinguished in order to maintain their allegiance as satellites to the Democrat political objective. Instead of the illegal harboring of illegals, I submit to the affected churches that if they followed their ordained doctrines, they would provide comfort to the afflicted while then proceeding to tell the authorities to return their people to their rightful lands. For to do otherwise is to completely disregard the value of their very doctrines of self-determination that provided incalculable benefit to their devoted flock over time along with providing the life to their initial founding.

Other than destroying their ordained mission, nothing whatsoever resolves the long-term problem of why housing is so expensive compared to incomes in the high taxed and poisonously regulated state of Connecticut. Nothing whatsoever proposed by these political characters solves the transit issues in the state nor does it make the state subsidized bus fleet any safer to use since there is rampant and unchecked crime on state buses. Recently a man was stabbed in Hartford recently on a Connecticut Transit bus (https://www.ctinsider.com/capitalregion/article/hartford-stabbing-ct-transit-bus-18688425.php). Is this stabbing an example of why one would want to move to these affordable housing hubs around transit centers that have been subsidized with Taxpayers monies? Isn't crime down in the state according to the Connecticut Democrat Party? Does not the state administrate better than anyone on the planet and know what is best for all?

Unfortunately, the State of Connecticut buying and bribing of the churches continues. The state recently offered $5,000,000 of your money for “places of worship” and non-profits to help with their security. Thus, rather than enforcing and/or increasing legal punishments and incarcerations for these same crimes, the state must use Taxpayers monies in a faux prop effort to “combat” these crimes. Unfortunately, this reliance on government rather than self and the principles that Jesus and the prophets gave us, churches are not safe havens for prayer and worship anymore, especially those churches who have subscribed to full-scale political sellouts. Also, rampant violence is now the norm for Jewish synagogues that have been recent targets of the new “chic” pro-Hamas and Palestine protestors. Why are Hamas terrorists being "worshiped" by liberals in general and why is hatred being taken out on innocent Jewish worshipers? Where are the politicians decrying this sectarian violence? Is terrorism now “woke”? Are assaults against those believing in the God of Israel, now “cool”?

Of course, as some churches stray farther from their doctrines and into the will of politicians, they become mere tools in “voter engagement” efforts. Now addicted to government cash, these churches act like trained dogs in ballot harvesting and carrying out government marching orders to obtain more governmental funding and cheap favors from politicians. The sham election in Bridgeport certainly comes to mind as those close to the ground in the city have explained how the bread is buttered there, and the mess is anything but pretty. The endorsements that convicted felon Mayor Ganim seem both ridiculous and sickening in nature especially after the voter fraud that took place during this and previous elections. Moreover, it is puzzling to me that I have not seen any Bridgeport clergy to date protest the ostensible lack of a free and fair election and self-determination for their parishioners and their city.

In 2024 our economy and societal norms are unraveled in every stratum of American life. The biblical Book of Timothy is being actualized this day in that truth is now a lie and lies are truth. Theft is acceptable, if not encouraged. Boys are now girls, and girls are now boys. One must accept beliefs that defy logic or be condemned and canceled by the ruling elite. The house of worship was designed by Moses and later by Jesus to be an escape to one's faith and well-being, nurturing spiritual strength, personal development and empowerment and guidance. However, some churches in King Ned Lamont The Unaccountable’s Connecticut are following paths to ruin and destruction by accepting moral and spiritual destruction in exchange for cash. The church and state need to separate again. The clergy must divorce itself from politicians. The church should not encourage illegal behavior in any way. Religious freedom need not be questioned or vilified. This path to destruction needs to stop today.


Saturday, June 03, 2023

The Connecticut Courtship of Communism

 What is communism?  Communism is defined as "a theory advocating the elimination of private property".  Communism is a failed political system in which its citizens have no rights,  possessions nor freedoms.  Communism is a failed political system where an elite ruling class own all the possessions of the economy having freedom and money and while dictating to others what they can and or cannot have.  Communism is hated by most of the citizens in formerly Communist countries such as Czech Republic, East Germany, Poland and Hungary to name just a few.  The past two weeks I had an opportunity to travel to several former Communist Eastern European countries and experienced first hand what is actually going on there.  Freedom is alive and well in these countries and there is still a great hatred of all things Communist from their past history.  Americans could learn a great deal by this type of travel and experience.

Freedom is a precious gift that is taken away completely by Communism.  In these former Communist countries I heard many stories of life under Communist rule.  The stories in some cases were horrific and there is great hatred towards the former regimes.  Torture chambers, deaths, the splitting of families, families forced to move losing their land, farms and homes,  personal property seized for "the good of the country", Russian invasions of Czechoslovakia and Hungary while citizens wanted freedom, and other horrors were part of everyday life in these countries.  I learned of a Hungarian family that was forced to buy back their home they built and paid for when their country became "free".  I saw the elegant Communist buildings of the ruling elite while citizens were forced to live in literal slums.  I saw the history of Communism first hand.  I saw the beginnings of economic freedom that are still being developed 30 years later in these same countries even though they have high tax rates.  I see how their high tax rates and excessive social services especially in Hungary may negate its growth in the future at their current levels (27% VAT tax and a 33% social type income tax-flat rate).  But most of all I saw that people treasure their freedom and still look at America as a beacon of hope for economic prosperity, economic freedom and wealth.  This is undeniable there.

Freedom is a precious gift that continues to be eroded in Connecticut.  A sickening group of legislative bills were presented this session that clearly sync with Communist ideas and theories.  I have written about them in the past.  For example the constant global warming, climate change rhetoric of the left now takes a new twist by trying to make the state somehow become "carbon net zero" in a few years.  The freedom to heat and cool your homes as you choose is basically stripped away with this type of law and legislation being force fed by Connecticut Democrats.  The nightmare of new zoning laws that pretty much strip land owners their personal property rights is alive and well with the new zoning regulations being dictated by an non elected zoning "czar" who will dictate what can and can not be built in certain areas of the town you live in.  The illegal stifling of the freedom of speech and the First Amendment is proffered by a group of imperious and Constitutionally-illiterate legislators under the guise of preventing "gaslighting and abuses". Guns as we know well in Connecticut should be taken out of law abiding citizens hands and handled only by criminals and certain police officers (if any are left in the state) through tough "gun control" bills that are loved by Connecticut Democrats in Crime Free Democrat Connecticut.  There are also the perpetual cries of more money thrown at education, poverty, drug abuse, and other assorted social issues that remain perpetually unresolved.  Voting will now become even more meaningless now with literally unlimited voting and "ranked choice" voting that strips away yet another freedom you used to enjoy. To me and many others these bills and an oppressive one party Democrat Party rule led by an unaccountable King-like multi millionaire Governor with no transparency, brings us a new form of Communism to Connecticut.   

But Connecticut's form of Communism (even though you are not supposed to call it that) is pretty much the same type that former Russian Eastern European countries dealt with minus the tortures and deaths that ensued.  But please put a pin there. One can also argue that the deaths by criminal shootings occurring literally on a daily basis in Connecticut are equivalent to the tortures and deaths abroad especially in the inner cities, coupled with a flourishing illegal drug trade transacted on a daily basis.  Yet crime is somehow down in the state and prisons are now empty.  What a bunch of Communist-driven lies.  What a failed government.  Freedom has never been free. And we see even more clearly a new 1776 happening all over again if it is not too late for Connecticut.  I wonder if I am only one who can see this?