“We are seeing two movies on one screen,” the late Dilbert creator Scott Adams once said. Minneapolis is exhibit one. One side calls it murder, the other, self-defense. One side says, “ICE is causing chaos.” The other side says, “ICE is there because of the rampant chaos there already.”

I’m not a law enforcement expert, but you don’t have to be an expert to have common sense. Do you listen to an officer giving an order to exit the car or do you follow your lawbreaking partner saying, “Drive baby, drive?” Renee Good listened to her lawbreaking partner. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

A t-shirt read: “Let’s make sense common again.” Isn’t that the truth? Common sense around law enforcement goes without saying. Snide, sarcastic, flippant, arguing, taunting, and berating words have no place in what’s said to those on duty. The ugly non-stop profanity spewing from the enraged anti-ICE mob makes President Trump’s mouth sound like a choir boy. Like the saying goes, “Profanity is the last stop for the ignorant.”

Recovering common sense coincides with restraining the rush to judgment. The Jamestown Justice Coalition rallying their people to protest called the shooting in Minneapolis a murder. You can say “fatally shot” or even “killed,” but to call it murder is naively premature. The coalition named the protest “ICE out for Good. They got it backwards. ICE wasn’t out for Good; Good was out for ICE. Good playing the stupid game of lawbreaking won the sad stupid prize of gone for good.

When you hear things like “She was just an observer,” establishing clarity is essential. Using a vehicle to block law enforcement is not observation but obstruction. An anti-ICE warrior ramming a vehicle into an officer is not a mere casual observer. Protesters crossing the line of interference are lawbreakers. That said, this case deserves a full investigation, including other matters pertaining to masks, searches and warrants, but disrespecting law enforcement on social media doesn’t sub for facts, law, or context.

It’s sorrowful and heart-breaking to see children now without their mother. Under the influence of reckless ideology, Rebecca Good forsook her upbringing and bought into the social justice warrior propaganda fueled by the ideology of communism. The Marxist cause had greater priority than her children. To state more bluntly, Good and others like her become gullible human shields for leftist ideologues in politics, religion and academia. To play their game wins the stupid prize. Now her children tragically are left with it too.

Renee called her ‘legal” lesbian sex partner Rebecca a Christian. Besides the fact of being in raw rebellion against God’s design for marriage, I saw no mention of the gospel of Jesus and his grace to forgive the sinner. It was just about her “good” deeds. No deeds, no matter how good, save anyone. Only Jesus saves by his deeds of obedience, death and resurrection. Outside of that, there are no Christians.

Not known near as well, another set of “Renees” and “Rebeccas” reside in Africa. They are half-sisters biologically but true sisters spiritually. Despite their polygamous father who practices sorcery, threatening to kill and use them as sacrifices, if they did not forsake their faith in Christ, Renee and Rebecca escaped their home and have no regrets regarding their devotion to Jesus. Two sets of Renees and Rebeccas: both sets suffered. One set suffered for vain ideology, the other for Christ. If you suffer, suffer truly for good. See 1 Peter 4: 15-19.

Celebrities at the Golden Globe Awards wore buttons saying, “Be Good”as in Renee. Borrowing from Scott Adams, there were 2 movies on the same screen in Minneapolis. The second movie was “Be wise” as to Scripture and common sense. “Be Good” led to a “dead-end” street. If you love your mother, keep her from being an ICE-stalker.

The Rev. Mel McGinnis is a Frewsburg resident.