Hello again Judith,
JL>I agree with what you say about the constitution completely; however I
JL>would go one further and say that it has to start with individuals
JL>within themselves and then society as a whole may come back to it's
JL>senses.
What a wonderful concept!
JL>there is also that poem from a german protestant minister who says how
JL>he didn't bother the nazis when they took the jews because he wasn't a
JL>jew and he didn't bother when they took the communists because he
JL>wasn't a communist and he didn't bother when they took some other group
JL>because he wasn't a member of that other group and then they came for
JL>him, but there was nobody left to stop the nazis from doing it.
JL>It doesn't bother people until it hits home.
But, you see, it does "hit home", it's just that some people are not aware
of it and pay the price, anyway.
JL>Believe me, this whole issue pulls me a part.  One one hand I got
JL>someone very close to me, whose been falsely accused and a relative in
JL>jail for it as well as someone else I know who says he is also falsely
JL>accused and who completely a house arrest under electronic surveillance
JL>sentence, on the other hand I have been a victim of abuse - but I also
JL>know that that doesn't make everyone, not even all men, abusers, for
JL>sure.
Judith.  I want to share with you that I am a "convict", and a "threat
to society" in some peoples' eyes.  It pulls me apart too.  Guilty or
innocent, I did a lot of time in prison and my life was destroyed.  But
I know there have been hundreds of thousands of people who have given up
their lives, Jesus included, for the sake of righteousness.  On that I
can rely.  It is then, to me, only a question of numbers... how many more
before there is a measureable improvement in the human condition, how many?
JL>It bothers me to see injustice not only for the sake of the falsely
JL>accused, but it also bothers me to see the injustice that will result
JL>for the real victims of abuse - because it will come to the point where
JL>nobody takes US seriously and we are all assumed to be liars.
Your posts are so precious!
Yours truly,
Don Herman
 
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