Which master do you serve?
November 2024
Have you ever had a job that caused you to compromise on your core personal values? If so, did you go along to get along—despite your moral principles, or did you draw a firm line in the sand and—at some point—eventually refuse to participate? What master did you choose to serve?
Considering your personal standard of ethics, where and when does your “line in the sand” kick in—that invisible boundary beyond which you would never go? To what extent are you typically willing to go along before you finally say, “enough is enough” and push back on a corrupt or evil agenda?
I recently watched a documentary by undercover investigative journalist James O’Keefe called Line in the Sand, which investigated the enablement of the migrant crisis, not only at our southern border but all throughout the US. While the first half of this documentary focuses on how migrants from all over the world make their way into the United States via Central America, the second half focuses on the myriad organizations and individuals that facilitate the transporting of thousands of migrants, including unaccompanied minors, to towns and cities across our nation every single day.
One whistleblower interviewed in this documentary was a Senior Contract Specialist with the US General Services Administration (GSA), Clarissa Rippee. According to her, the GSA essentially manages all the services for the federal government. Clarissa works on the transportation side of the GSA, in an organization that manages all travel, transportation and logistics (TTL). Her TTL team awards the contracts to the contractors that provide these products and services to the federal government.
Clarissa claimed that she wasn’t even aware of the companies involved in transporting illegal immigrants until she moved into the TTL division and discovered the shocking details of a $347 million contract awarded to MVM, the company responsible for transporting unaccompanied minors across the United States.
According to Clarissa, “I had just gotten a promotion for a position in that particular division. I was not aware—at all—that the agency that I worked for was party to transporting unaccompanied minors.
“Once I found out about the contract, that night I got on my computer and started doing a Google search—keyword searches on ‘Transport unaccompanied minors’ / ‘transport of immigrant children’—and all these websites popped up that led back to some of these NGOs [Non-Governmental Organizations], companies like Acuity, the original awardee of the contract.
“As I continued to read the documents I found online, I found out these are illegal immigrants—minors who are coming over without their parents, without anyone they knew, being shipped at every hour of the day, especially late at night, when we’re all sleeping in our beds and our children are safe at home. But these children are being shipped all over the place….
“They wanted the contractor to transport a thousand children within a 24-hour period of notification—a THOUSAND children. Why a thousand, every time, within a 24-hour period? Now that I’m privy to this information, I can’t forget about it.”
Rippee claimed, “My line in the sand moment was when I found out that GSA had awarded a contract to a company to transport unaccompanied minors…. It was like someone kicked me in the gut…. You know the saying, ‘You don’t know what you don’t know.’ But now you do know, you cannot unknow what you know now.
“It’s just an accepted part of the bureaucracy. But the reality is, this is exploitation, and it has to stop…. We have to protect our children…. That’s my duty now. I cannot unknow what I know now.”
What would you do if you found yourself in Clarissa’s position?
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Another powerful documentary I watched recently was Vaxxed III: Authorized to Kill, a Tommy Burrowes Production for Children’s Health Defense (CHD) Films. The film is dedicated to all those killed or injured by approved Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) vaccines and Covid hospital protocols.
Vaxxed III documents a nine-month bus journey—undertaken by the CDH team to 30 states across America—in which stories were collected from over 1,300 individuals spanning all walks of life. Interviewees ranged from the vaccine-injured and surviving family members to professionals in the medical, scientific and legal fields. All stories were shared voluntarily, and the videos were unfiltered. The consistency of the stories was alarming.
The story shared below, by an unnamed Registered Nurse (RN), is but one example:
“I didn't notice right away the harm of these protocols until I had to tell family members that they couldn't come to the bedside of their dying loved ones. That to me was a crime against humanity and a violation of my oath, that I knew right away should not have been happening.
“We isolate people in prison. We put them in the brig when they've done something wrong to torture them, and that's what I felt like I was being forced to do when I had to tell my patients’ family members when they couldn't come into the hospital to be near their dying loved ones.
“I've been taught in my undergrad—my bachelor's degree program for nursing—that you do not administer an antiviral more than 24 to 48 hours post symptom-onset for a viral infection. This medication was being given to patients who were hospitalized with Covid, usually not until between 10- and 12-days post symptom-onset. We have evidence showing that the administration of antivirals, more than 2 days post symptom-onset, causes more harm than good. The risk benefit analysis does not correlate.
“This was an experimental use product, and I knew that each one of those doses cost over $3,000.
“Now we are left with medical facilities full of people who don't have a backbone to stand up and do the right thing. I am very concerned about the future of medicine in this country because we have criminalized and disciplined all the practitioners who were actually there to protect our patients and families.”
The CHD film narrator concluded, “Thank God for those brave nurses that spoke about this—what went on in the hospital—because they really validated what the parents and the people who lost loved ones were saying. Many lost their licenses. I'm told they would never work in health care again because of ‘spreading misinformation.’ But they were just telling us, simply, what they saw.”
Meanwhile, hospitals and pharmaceutical companies have largely maintained that the claims of those interviewed in this documentary are “untrue.” They continue to assert that their protocols and vaccines are the safest methods for treating Covid.
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If you were in some way involved in this catastrophic healthcare debacle, where was your “line in the sand”? Did you elect to simply go along to keep your paycheck coming? Or did you elect to take the harder road—by quitting or blowing the whistle—regardless of the potential cost to your family or your career, knowing that you couldn’t live with yourself otherwise?
The English Standard Version of the New Testament bible passage found in Matthew 6:24 says, “No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.”
As much as you might wish to, you really can’t have it both ways. Either you hold fast to your core values and serve God, or you pay the price to the evil piper. It’s your choice.
Of course it’s hard to walk away from a job, or a paycheck, or a title you worked long and hard to attain. But taking the easy way out—attempting to serve two masters—usually comes at an extremely high cost in the end.
Knowing what you know now, which master will you serve going forward?