Also, Ruby, you may not have considered the fundamental truth of the Christian faith that Jesus came not for political revolution but for spiritual revolution – not to repair the prevailing unjust relationship between human government and the governed, but between God and man. Paul’s admonition for the slave to obey an unjust form of human government can be understood in this light.

It fell to our founding fathers to address the issue of political justice, i.e.: just government power deriving from the consent of the governed, and whose purpose is to secure our sacred, essential God-given human rights to life, liberty and (creative) pursuit of happiness.

Intellegence and wisdom are two different things; something George Orwell understood perfectly.

“There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.” George Orwell

Motive + Method (plan) + Opportunity + Target/victims = terror action.

In a free society, seems like it takes less resource to intercede on Motive, as it is a “War of Ideas.”

“LASTLY, the crime of piracy, or robbery and depredation upon the high seas, is an offense against the universal law of society; a pirate being, according to Sir Edward Coke,10 hostis humani generis [enemy to mankind]. As therefore he has renounced all the benefits of society and government, and has reduced himself afresh to the savage state of nature, by declaring war against all mankind, all mankind must declare war against him: so that every community has a right, by the rule of self-defense, to inflict that punishment upon him, which every individual would in a state of nature have been otherwise entitled to do, any invasion of his person or personal property.”

That is the lineage of the Common Law in the UK, US, India, Australia, Canada and any of the former Crown Colonies. While the Nations that arose from those may seek to go back further to William for their Admiralty power, the basic understanding of that power that each sovereign Nation has is just the same. Private War is something we agree to give up as an asserted right and liberty given to us by Nature. It is a scourge when practiced, a true evil to inflict war without governance, without setting recourse for accountability, to put on no uniform and be answerable to no one. There is no justification for it when practiced outside of any sanction given by sovereign Nations. By taking up such negative liberty those who do so disdain all civilization and return to being in a State of Nature, red of tooth and claw. For that we have the liberty to defend ourselves as individuals – no government may remove that right as it reappears the moment any individual is threatened.

When we lose this understanding of civilization, those who practice such ways reappear to threaten us, all of us. Now we have pirates at sea and rogue terrorist organizations that will not answer to anyone, to any Nation, to any power save their own. It is not the civilized world that has stepped away from them, but they are the ones who have decided to do this and stand against us all as our common enemy. There is no difference between them, no justification that stands to reason, nothing that allows inflicting war without accountability save by those taking up defense against you.

They have chosen to resurrect the Law of Nature against all mankind and wage war on their terms.

Are we so decadent, in such a high state of decay, that we cannot say this and recognize it? If that is the case we will be known as well as the Hittites were and Roman Empire… who succumbed to rogue forces at land and at sea and could fashion no response to save themselves. They are both dead civilizations… are we next?