jim hancock: God Save Us from Being Judged by Our Own Standards

Tuesday, October 14, 2025

God Save Us from Being Judged by Our Own Standards

President Trump’s National Security Presidential Memorandum, Countering Domestic Terrorism and Organized Political Violence [NSPM-7], is explicit about ideological positions that merit federal scrutiny — though the order is disturbingly vague about how any of these is defined under law:

Anti-Americanism
Anti-capitalism
Anti-Christianity
Support for the overthrow of the United States Government
Extremism on migration, race, and gender
Hostility toward those who hold traditional American views on family, religion, and morality.

These six … *things* are they? … are listed as common threads that animate political violence and that, therefore, can trigger legal scrutiny from the government against individuals, organizations, and institutions even when those *things* are expressed through political advocacy, protest, nonprofit activity, or charitable giving.

I keep saying *things* because Trump hasn’t described, defined, or explained them. Is this like the old definition of pornography: You know it when you see it?

Here’s something I saw: I saw a Presbyterian minister, David Black, the friend of a Chicago friend, wearing a clerical collar, arms wide open, praying at a peaceful assembly to petition the government for a redress of grievances, targeted and shot in the head with a pepper ball by an ICE agent on a rooftop. Not lethal, but exceedingly meaningful.

*That* — if anyone asks — was a government agent committing an act that was anti-American, anti-Christian, and hostile toward those who hold traditional American views on religion, and morality. So, three out of six.

ICE agents and supervisors, Tom Homan, Kristi Noem, and those who fund them should be investigated for violating NSPM-7 — President Trump’s National Security Presidential Memorandum, Countering Domestic Terrorism and Organized Political Violence.

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