Kopp Disclosure
(John 3:19-21)
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Devotional Before Oath of Office
(Summary)
for
Officers Matthew Korn and Mark “Rich”
Weiland
Belvidere Police Department
Boone County Sheriff’s Department
City Hall
Belvidere, Illinois
September 21, 2016
I’ve been
a Kopp all of my life.
Get it?
Sounds like…
Anyway, I’ve been a police chaplain,
more on than off, since 1978.
First appointed by Mayor Bernie
Yarusavage of Clark, New Jersey and then about 11 years ago by Belvidere’s
Mayor Fred Brereton, it’s been a fulfilling and joyful part of my life and
ministry.
So I love Kopps with a K and cops
with a C even if nobody but me finds any humor in that.
Now that I’m within 20 years or more
of retirement after over four decades in the business – more psyched than ever
before to point people to Jesus for existential encouragement and eternal
certainty – and won’t leave our family of faith on the corner of Lincoln and
Main unless assassinated or Grandpa Jacob’s cancer genes catch up with me, I
tend to tell the truth as I see it with the promise that I will confess my
errors, repent, and ask forgiveness if shown otherwise by Jesus, the Bible, and
common sense.
While it may hold true for some
Kopps with a K, I think cops with a C have it tougher than ever before because
of a very, very, very small group of buffoons who are given sooooooo much
attention because they have such big mouths enabled by recklessly egocentric
and incendiary America-haters in media, politics, churches, education, and
entertainment.
If you don’t know what I mean by
that, you’re ignorant, deceived, defiant, apathetic, or co-conspiratorial with
those dedicated to destroying America.
Or as my biker buddies like to say,
if you don’t know what I mean by that, you’re too dense to get it and I’m not
going to waste my time trying to lift your fog.
Instead, let’s talk about the
responsibility of law enforcement juxtaposed to our Declaration of
Independence, Constitution, and those amendments called the Bill of Rights; and
let’s just sum it up by saying everybody’s free in America to be who she or he
is designed by God to be with the proviso that law enforcement officers are
charged to make sure one person’s freedom doesn’t inhibit or infringe upon
another person’s freedom which is why police enforce laws to keep it that way.
Or something like that.
That brings me to Colin Kaepernick.
You know the story; so I’m not going
to spend any time regurgitating his superficial silliness ridiculing,
demeaning, defaming, and lying about the only nation on the planet where
everybody’s got a chance to be free with no respect to color, class, or
culture.
I’m just going to say, yes, he has
the right to be a buffoon.
You, as law enforcement officers,
have a responsibility to protect him from those insulted by his right to be a
buffoon.
As the youngster bites the hand that
has been feeding him – Check out his story and you’ll be amazed by his lack of
gratitude for what America has done for him and just about everybody else who’s
embraced American values! – we have a right to say he’s a buffoon.
You, as law enforcement officers,
have a responsibility to protect us from those insulted by our right to say
he’s a buffoon.
Getting very specific, Kaepernick
has been especially critical of police; exaggerating the miscreance of a very,
very, very miniscule few to a level betraying his pejorative personal
pathology.
In other words, while he’s obviously
wrong, he’s not apathetic about human rights at best but ignorant, deceived, defiant, or
co-conspiratorial with America-haters at minimum.
Again, if I can be proven wrong, I
will confess, repent, and beg forgiveness; but my research and experience lead
me to conclude law enforcement officers have a record of miscreance far below
politicians, professors, clergy, lawyers, educators, entertainers, and
newswomen/men.
So what does this have to do with
our new officers?
It means most people know Kaepernick
and his enablers are buffoons, affirm and appreciate law enforcement officers
with affection, and praise God for the privilege to live in a nation under Him
where law enforcement is among the most noble of ministries.
Quoting Paul, it means law
enforcement is a call from God to serve Him by protecting citizens from
evildoers encouraged and enabled by buffoons who forget our Declaration of
Independence, Constitution, and Bill of Rights are all about the freedom of
self-determination with respect to everyone else’s freedom of
self-determination: “Let us not grow weary of doing good…Don’t get discouraged
and give up, for we will reap a harvest of blessing at the appropriate
time. Whenever we have the opportunity,
we should do good to everyone.”
Let us pray.
Thank You, God, for the privilege of
law enforcement as a sacred calling to honor You by protecting freedoms
enfleshed in Jesus, explained in Holy Scripture, and expressed in our
Declaration of Independence, Constitution, and Bill of Rights. As we beg Your most excellent encouragement
as Holy Spirit, help us to be Your accomplices of affirmation and affection for
officers Matthew Korn and Rich Weiland in tandem with our Mayor and Council,
municipal employees, firefighters, Fire Chief, Police Chief, Sheriff, incumbent
and newly elected State’s Attorneys, Judges, public servants, and citizenry
dedicated to the highest values of America inspired and guided by Holy
Scripture in the name of Jesus. Amen.
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Blessings and Love!
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Look up! Stand up! Speak up! Act up for Jesus!
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