A Truely Christian Display

If you did not see Sixty Minutes this past Sunday night, you missed an intriguing report by Lesley Stahl about criminal convictions based upon eyewitness accounts. The most fascinating aspect is the truly Christian attitude of the falsely convicted man. This man demonstrates a Christian attitude that is rarely seen, especially during the days of political "Christians" who pray for the president's death and lie, cheat and steal, while hiding behind the Bible. One has to wonder how these "Christians," who bash gays and Muslims and condemn to hell those who do not agree with them, would handle this situation.

Because of true forgiveness, neither of these two people are brooding and looking back on a terrible mistake. They have looked forward and are both doing very well. Take the time to watch these two parts of the report. You will be alarmed, if you do not already realize that eyewitness accounts are often inaccurate, but you will also feel very good when it is over:


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Protests nor Upside Down Flags Aren't Illegal

A man in a small Wisconsin town is flying the American flag upside down in protest of the city's refusal to give him a liquor license. An upside down flag is a distress signal. The man says he is in distress because he will soon go bankrupt. See this article on Yahoo.

Prior to July 4th, the city police went onto his property, apparently without a warrant, and removed the flag. The police said that flying the flag is not illegal, but creating a disturbance is. Just what kind of disturbance he was creating was never explained. Some of the town's people were upset over the flag, so I suppose that was the "disturbance."

This is definitely a First Amendment issue and the ACLU is considering a lawsuit on his behalf. Seizing private property without a warrant is illegal. Although the flag was returned the next day, that does not right a wrong. The police would certainly say that if tomorrow I returned money that I stole today.

I hope the ACLU files the suit, and I hope it costs the City of Crivitz a good sum of money in the end. Maybe then the police and the District Attorney, who advised them, will learn the value of respecting the Constitution. There is always a right way and a wrong way to approach a problem. This was the Bush/Cheney way and, of course, the wrong way. It may have been that a simple request to take the flag down or change its orientation during the holiday might have solved the problem. Police-state tactics are not the solution.

We Marry Other Species?

We who, white man? This imbecile, whoever he is, may marry other species, and there are a few others whom I sometimes think may have sprung from such a union, i.e Limbaugh, Hannity, O'Reilly, Rove, etc., but I believe that is illegal. Typical crap from FALSE News. This country has never had a "pure" society by his definition. Watch:



Let me add one more thing. This country did have a "pure" society until 1492, but we Europeans, Asians, Africans, etc. eventually screwed it all up.