Welcome to the Trueborn Sons of Liberty radio broadcast. I'm your host, Stephen L. Anderson,
pastor of Faithful War Baptist Church in Tempe, Arizona.
Do you know what the word terrorist means? Well, the word came into our English language
from French, and it was first used in 1793 revolutionary France in reference to what
is called the Reign of Terror. Now, this is when the government in France decided that
in order to keep their people under control, they would institute a Reign of Terror, where
basically they mass executed huge amounts of people publicly on a daily basis. It was
very gory. They used the guillotine. And there were different factions in the government
at this time, and the faction in the government that was in favor of instituting the Reign
of Terror was known as the terrorist faction. And so if we go back to the origin of the
word terrorist, we're basically talking about political partisans in revolutionary France
who instituted the Reign of Terror. So in reality, the government in France was the
original terrorist. What does terror mean? Terror is extreme fear. I'm going to read
for you a scripture from the Bible. Isaiah chapter 54 verse 14, the Bible reads,
In righteousness shalt thou be established, thou shalt be far from oppression, for thou
shalt not fear, and from terror, for it shall not come near thee. Now, God here is talking
about the blessings that come with being a righteous nation, with doing what's right,
with being godly and following God's laws. And he says, In righteousness shalt thou be
established, thou shalt be far from oppression. Now, oppression is talking about when basically
a government takes control of the lives of their people, oppresses them, steals from
them, extorts money from them, takes away their freedom, puts them into slavery. He
says, Thou shalt be far from oppression, for thou shalt not fear, and from terror, for
it shall not come near thee. You see, oppression and fear, oppression and terror go hand-in-hand.
You see, governments throughout history have used terror as a way to keep their people
oppressed and to keep their people in submission. You see, when people are scared and terrified
and in fear, they don't mind giving up a few of their rights in order to have security.
And that's what we're seeing in the United States today. Our government is using fear
tactics. They're using terror to basically scare us into giving over our First Amendment
rights, our Fourth and Fifth Amendment rights. Look at the Patriot Act. The Patriot Act allows
the government to basically spy on American citizens without a warrant, all in the name
of preventing terrorism. But let me ask you this. Who is the real terrorist? Who is the
one who's trying to keep us scared right now? Who's the one who's putting us in fear? Let
me give you an example from my own personal experience. A few months ago, I was traveling
in New Mexico, and I was at a Border Patrol checkpoint. Of course, I was 75 miles from
the Mexico border. But I was basically told by a Border Patrol agent, he said, I'm pretty
sure you're a terrorist. Now, the reason that he told me he thought I was a terrorist is
because I wasn't letting him search my vehicle, and I was invoking my Fourth Amendment rights
from the Constitution not to be searched without a warrant. He said, I'm pretty sure you're
a terrorist. I said, excuse me? He said, right now, I'm pretty sure you're a terrorist. And
I said, you think I'm a terrorist because I'm standing up for my rights as an American?
And you see, my question is, who was I trying to terrify? Who was I trying to scare? The
reality was that he was the one trying to scare me. At one point, there were about ten
of these agents surrounding my car. One of them brandished a weapon at me. They were
threatening me. So my question is, who is the terrorist? Who's trying to terrify who
here? It seems to me that the government is trying to scare us with their threat level
orange and with all their fear tactics that they use into giving over our rights as American
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