Andrew Breitbart, the conservative blogger and journalist, died suddenly on Thursday morning.
I will be honest, I was at work and my blackberry chimed and when I saw that Andrew Breitbart had died, and I was shocked. I screamed no, no, no! He was so young, my age! I was just stymied. 43 is just too young to die.
Now, after the shock I was thinking a man didn’t take care of himself in regards to health is just a normal story.
Of course many of my friends on the left are waiting for me to say something disparaging about his actions. Well, I'm not certain that what I am about to say will meet your standards.
Breitbart did what he did because he was paid.
I'm not certain who paid him; don’t have the names of the powers that be. I am certain that his position, actions, and alliance with the right was paid for. Does that make him a bad person? I would love for my answer to be no. I have very selfish reasons for wanting to say no. It would absolve me of my actions when money was a factor. The answer is a resounding YES!
He released a video to harm a woman that had not done harm just so that he could make his bones in a political party that pays when you can take down someone or anyone that harms their brand. He was the hit man. Does it matter that he claims that he didn’t doctor the video? Of course it does! He forgot the most universal and important rule of life.
“Do unto others as you would have others do unto you”
But let’s be honest, I could write a ten page thesis on the deplorable acts that he did. I would be remiss if I made the point about him and not what the inspiration is…
Matthew 19:24 (Whole Chapter)
And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
For the love of money, Breitbart is not alone. He is but a small example, one miniscule anecdote pertaining to what so many of us have become just to make a check. We have become like crabs in a barrel in order to make a check, to keep a check, and to keep others from making a better check.
Non-union workers complicit in destroying unions in order to stop the guy that makes $12,000 a year more than you as if you can get that money transferred to your check. What you kill for the powers that be becomes property of the powers that be.
Americans blaming immigrants for the falling wages, as if an immigrant being deported will be your gain… What you kill for the powers that be becomes property of the powers that be.
A drug dealer in a poor neighborhood that excuses his poison peddling by thinking that if he didn’t someone would.
A man acting as if a woman’s reproductive rights are your business…all for the love of a false status those men never had. Only rich men matter.
Denying gay marriage because it would hurt a straight marriage foundation built on a 50 percent divorce rate and a religious perspective that is unconstitutional and against a God that many “Christians” wouldn’t recognize if they met God.
You are being complicit in race baiting, oppression, and division just because of a fear that never existed. All the while you are watching the powers that be make you into the very “slaves” that you now have created a 99% that is hard for most minorities to be a part of.
When you are walking the path of everyman for himself instead of I am my brother’s and sister’s keeper.
When you believe health care is not a right.
You can lie on a friend to gain an upper hand.
We have allowed democracy’s value to be destroyed by political cynicism.
What am I saying…money matters far too much. Not so much that I am saying that we get rid of money, we need to lose the love of it.
I hope that Breitbart’s life and death is a wakeup call to us all.
We can be better, we must do better.
In closing, for Breitbart’s friends and family I am so sorry for your loss.
Here is the part my friends on the left were waiting for…
Mr. Breitbart, you were not evil, you were mean and weak.
You didn’t make a deal with the devil, you chose right now instead of doing what’s right.
So if there is a hell…they have processed your paperwork.
My people on the left, I urge you not to celebrate too quickly…
Because, when he was faced with the love of money, he showed hatred for his fellow man.
Can you say you acted differently under the same circumstances?
Psalms 31:18, "Let the lying lips be put to silence;"
Psalms 101:7, "He that worketh deceit shall not dwell within my house: he that telleth lies shall not tarry in my sight."
Proverbs 19:22, "The desire of a man is his kindness: and a poor man is better than a liar."
