This is absolutely a big deal. Don’t buy the bullshit otherwise.
It was not a standard op. The MAL raid was an unprecedented action with significant potential for confusion and blue on blue issues and conflict. It also involved competing equities between federal agencies (FBI & USSS) with equal statutory claims to interrupt the other’s activities.
Anyone telling you otherwise is either dumb, or playing dumb. I’ve done more deconfliction with Russians in a foreign op I did for the USSS than the FBI did in their search warrant at MAL.
Only a dumbass would pitch the “it’s the standard paperwork” line. Go serve a search warrant at the White House in the cocaine case while filling out your “standard paperwork” and see how that works out for you. Wake up.
Spiritual Drift - The Colossian Heresy
Colossians 2:6-7
"Therefore, as you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him, rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving."
Paul wrote this letter from prison (likely in Rome around AD 60–61) to a church he’d never visited personally. Paul had only heard of the church in Colossae, he'd never been there or met these people he wrote to. It sort of organically evolved out of the witness of the gospel that was spreading throughout southern Asia Minor.
The city was part of the Roman and Byzantine province of Phrygia, along the road through the Lycus Valley near the Lycus River at the foot of Mt. Cadmus, the highest mountain in Turkey's western Aegean Region. In antiquity it was notable for its healing springs and its veneration of the Archangel Michael.
It seems that lies and heresies were spreading throughout that region, to which Paul was addressing. And it seems that people have a penchant for heresy. Almost a hereditary ...
