(PNN) PPSIMMONS News and Ministry Network: RIOTERS ARE JUST SCHOOL YARD BULLIES

by Rev. Joda Collins

Most of us remember the elementary school-yard bully.

Most of us know a person or two who qualifies as an adult bully.

As a retired pastor I can name several church bullies I had to deal with. I have a behind-the-wheel driving school that I have operated since 2008 and I have to deal with a lot of adult bullies in this business. I will tell you about the most recent bully. A woman telephoned with a ton of questions for me. Her aggressive manner, tone of voice and use of words betrayed her as a bully.

If you cannot identify a bully by voice tone, verbal aggression or choice of words, then it will take too long to clarify. If you can, you automatically know what I am talking about. After a few questions were answered -- the questions kept coming each demanding more detail. I offered to send her an email copy of my Contract that would answer all of her questions in the detail she was asking for. She accepted my offer, provided her email address and I sent her the Contract immediately.

The next day she called and began quizzing me again with the same questions starting with "How much does it cost?" That is a loaded question because I provide a variety of services for which each service has a fee. She wanted a one sentence answer without telling me what services she wanted. There is no one sentence answer to that question and she lacked the patience or desire to allow me to clarify each service and the corresponding charge. Seeing, again, where this bully was trying to take me and verbally box me in, I said, "Did you get a chance to read the finance section of the Contact?" She said "No, I just have a few questions." I responded, "I do not mean to be rude, but I am just about to leave the office for an appointment" (which was true) "and I do not have the time right now to walk you through the Contact to answer your good questions in the kind of detail it demands. May I ask you to read the Contract and then if you have any questions remaining to call or email and I will be happy to respond." She said in a condescending snotty tone, "I will just sign up with one of your competitors!" I said in an upbeat tone (because I wanted her to go away forever), "Okay, please have a good day." She hung up.

That is a bully. "Give me what I want when I want it or I will make you pay."

She did not want to read the Contract. She wanted me to cater to her verbally with a flood of words in the hopes I might say something she could misquote or misapply and use that misquote/misapplication against me later for her personal gain at my expense, then, under threat of making me pay if I did not give her what she demanded based on the purposeful misquote or out of context application of my words. I am well-aware of that bully-game.

Rioters are bullies and rioters and bullies always want something you have. If you do not give it to them, they will do all within their power to make you pay! Pretty simple.

All of us know how to handle school yard bullies. You stand up to them verbally. If they do not back down, you hit them as hard as you can and as often as it takes for them to stop bulling you. You beat them into submission with the force of confrontational words or fists. That is all they understand because they are bullies. If you happen to lose the fight, most of them will still stop bulling you. They really do not want to fight because school yard bullies are almost always cowards. They only want what is yours, not your verbal or physical attack.

Many cities are under attack by bullies. The only way to stop them is to stand up to them verbally. If that does not work, then attack them physically with as much force as you can muster. When you do that, they will run for cover in the rat holes of their lives. Until you do that, they will continue to destroy you and yours -- and demand more and more. The whole situation could not be easier to understand.

Solution:

Attention Rioters: The police and the National Guard will shoot you on sight. Nine rubber bullets followed by one live round, and repeated until all rioters are gone.

Start slow. Increase the percent of live rounds with each riot.

You cannot pacify a bully with sweet or kind words, pleas or logic. You must be willing to annihilate them and when the time is right, attempt to do so. The time is right. Lock, load, unlock, be ready. Be sober-minded, be vigilant; because your adversaries as roaring lions, walk about, seeking whom they can devour. (See First Peter 5:8. See also https://ppsimmons.blogspot.com/2020/09/civil-war-no-mercy-hesitation-or-apology.html)