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ld or hese card. 'ill of der- tand r de- y for hope ome lear- ebolt View and vhis- atrol from leS. J. All alker dand pas- it us :as - s the L one ;tand ages ass!" thnic ttries v liv- Vhen s" in the ,nnor .llyn hose rical ting 'ated I. We ' and lines lling oles, lried s in ohn Readers" €]ournal: Be wary of religious leaders Editor, The Journal: The Egyptians and Greeks and Romans had many gods. So did the many cultures throughout the world. There seems to be no end to prophets to whom God or his mes- sengers have spoken, and yet this one and the same god tells them different things! That should give rise to some doubt by the members of all the faiths as to what these prophets are saying. For certain- ly, there is only one God and He is not prone to error, whereas, these prophets were all men, hu- man beings, like you and I, and are capable not only of error, but of disingenuousness. • Leadership in organized reli- gion is greatly coveted, for with it comes great power and great wealth in tithes and endow- ments. But today, three major religions that are so intolerant of one an- other - Judaism, Christianity and Islam _ are actually of a common origin. That origin is the prophet Abraham, who about 2000 B.C. preached the concept of one God, thereby replacing the gods of fer- tility, rain and fire, etc. Just one god, creator of all these things and mankind as well. Judaism: Abraham had two Sons, Isaac and Ishmel. Isaac continued the teachings of his fa- ther, and Judaism traces its roots to Isaac. Ishmel will not play a part until the coming of the Islam prophet Mohammed, thousands of years later. Judaism grew by word of mouth until about 1000 B.C. when Moses spoke with God in a private conversation and wrote the Ten Commandments. His teachings led to the five books of Moses and eventually the Torah. Judaism divides: The ,Jewish faith split in two with the com- ing of Jesus. Jesus claimed to not only speak with God but to be the son of God. This was the one and same God of Abraham and Juda- ism. Not all Jews believed this to be true. Those who did, together with all new converts to the teach- ings of Jesus, were now a separate religion, Christians. Islam: About 600 years after the birth of,Jesus, a wealthy mer- chant, Mohammed (said to be a direct descendant of lshmel), pro- fessed to have spoken to the angel Gabriel, who told him that neither the Jews nor the Christians had it quite right and proceeded to tell Mohammed how things should be. Mohammed wrote these new rules as the Koran, with which he established a new religion in Arabia, the home of Ishmel and Ishmel's many other descendants. This religion is known as Islam, and its followers are known as Muslims. Islam divides: When Moham- med died in 632 A.D. there was a power grab for the control of the Islam faith, resulting in a war between two factions, the Sunnis and the Shiites. The Sunnis were allied with Mohammed's widow Aisha, and the Shiites were al- lied with Mohammed's son-in-law Ali. This power struggle, fueled by mutual hatred and indiscriminate murder, goes on to this day. Christians divide: The Chris- tians have divided into Catholics and Protestants and Mormons and many more. New sects and cults spring up constantly, with char- ismatic new "prophets." Fortunes have been made while expanding from humble tents to "televange- list" temples. God not divided: In the end analysis, no one needs a go-be- tween to speak to God. Be wary of leaders of any faith who tell their flock that followers of all other faiths are going to hell. This could NOT be the wish of God for any of His followers, who all worship Him but just in different ways. Our religions mayhave divided, but He has not! Ray Tate Hoodsport Detentions are un-American By ANTHONY PIEL don't actually bring criminal create a new category of person Thanks to the application of charges against him. Do you fol- and label every "rebel" American the Freedom of Information Act, low the logic'? in the rebellious colonies as an "il- tape recordings have become Illogic aside, the U.S. Consti- legal enemy combatant," to be im- available of the military hearings tution is really quite explicit: "In prisoned indefinitely without trial, held at Guantanamo to determine all criminal prosecutions, the ac- as the United States is now doing whether detainees are "unlawful cused shall enjoy the right to a in Guantanamo? What would our enemy combatants." Listening to speedy and public trial, by an history textbooks today have said these tapes confirms one's worst impartial jury; to be informed of about the British of yesterday? fears of what has been going on the nature and cause of the accu- What will the history books of to- behind closed doors at Guanta- sation; to be confronted with the morrow say about Americans of namo. witnesses against him; to have today? The tapes demonstrate that compulsory process ibr obtain- What can Americans do to many, if not most, of the Guanta- ing witnesses in his favor, and to avert this historical shaming of namo detainees have in fact been have the assistance of counsel for America? To begin with, patriotic wrongly arrested, tortured, con- his defense." Every one of' these Americans can take advantage vlcted without evidence or wit- constitutional conditions is being of the shift in balance of power nesses and denied elementary due violated at, Guantanamo. in the U.S. Congress and Senate. process. The tapes revealed in one All Americans are concerned They can call on their legislators • case that the detainee had been to confront terrorism and bring to curb an executive branch gone previously indicted, tried and ac- criminals to justice. But there is wild. They can close down Guan- quitted in a national court, but no need to violate the U.S. Con- tanamo. They can bring the CIA, Was promptly picked up by CIA stitution in order to do so. If we NSA, FBI, Homeland Security agents as he left the courthouse give up our constitutional rights and the Pentagon back under the and was spirited away to Guan- and freedoms, the terrorists have rule of reason, the rule of law and tanamo, where he was secretly won the battle. That's what they the rule of the American people. Incarcerated without knowing the want us to do. The mistreatment They can bring back the "Fourth charges against himorhavingthe of Guantanamo detainees, as re- Estate" to fulfill the mission of °Pportunityto see the evidence or vealed in the tape recordings, a free and responsible press in Ppeal to a court of law, all in rio- is un-American, undemocratic, America. ation of the express terms of the un-Christian, unconstitutional, Patriotic Americans must initi- I5.S. Constitution as well as inter- unlawful, unnecessary and an ate full investigation of how the national law. unprecedented violation of the current situation in Iraq and in The U.S. Constitution asserts Geneva Conventions and other Guantanamo got so tragically out that "No person shall be deprived international treaties and agree- of control. It may be necessary to of life, liberty or property without ments to which the United States prosecute and convict some of the due processoflaw. Nor shall any is signatory, perpetrators, to pass a message Person" be subjected to "cruel and If these violations of American that will ensure that this violation unusual punishment." The terms and international principles of of law and morality, this shaming ao person" and "any person" pre- law are going on in Guantanamo, of America, will never again be clude the possibility that the Con- which receives at least a modi- foisted on the American people. stitution recognizes any category cum of attention from the press What is at stake is nothing of Person, such as "unlawful en- and humanitarian organizations, less than a mandatory return to e ,, ray combatant, who is not en- what must the offenses be like in American principles, American titled to the due process of law. To the CIA-run secret gulag prisons, values and the rule of American .PUrPort to create such a category hidden from our eyes elsewhere law. is to advocate violation of the U.S. around the world? One shud- Anthony Piel, aresidentofSha- Constitution. ders to think. It more than meets ron, Connecticut, is a former legal The Guantanamo tapes reveal the predictive warnings of Dos- counsel of the World Health Orga- that detainees are treated and toyevsky, Kafka and Orwell. nization. This piece was originally Prosecuted as criminals and ira- Hypothetically, what if circa printed in The Lakeville Journal Prisoned as if they were proven criminals, but without actual 1776 the British had decided to in Connecticut. trial. Indeed, practically none of the Guantanamo detainees has ever been brought to trial in a court of law. The bizarre theory of the legal counsel to the U.S. adminis- tration is that so long as a person is never brought to trial, the gov- ernment does not have to respect aY of the constitutional rights af- rded criminal defendants. The illogic is striking: You can subject a person to cruel and un- USual treatment, so long as you C-[ASSIFIED ADS FILL BILL 15 words for s6.50 tall The IHmal 426-4412 r (00SCRATCH t HIGHLAND LAYER CRUMBLES OR PELLETS YOUR CHOICE 50-lb. bag 1015680, 281350 7.99 CRACKED CORN 50-lb. bag 112151 6.49 ROLLED RATION With molasses. 50-lb. bag 10449/ I LIVESTOCK BLEND 50-lb. bag. 07826500 RABBIT RATION 50-lb. bag t05411 8.99 f ALFALFA 90-# bale Quantity Price Break 1-9 Bales ......... 10.99 ea 10-19 Bales ..... 10.64 ea 0-29 Bales ..... 10.39 ea. J INTEGRITY 10.99 INTEGRITY 7 99 SUET CAKE / 1.49 each OIL SUNFLOWER SEED GARDEN 201bs. 81121 22-LB. BIRD SEED ] ':i Wild bird food I attracts many i species of birds. Pay for three ; 20lb. bogs. Get 6 Ibs. free! 81995 Hardware First & Mill, Shelton BRAND 426-4373 or 426-2411 MondoySaturdoy 7:30-6 5.99 each Sunday 8:30-5 Thursday, January 4, 2007 - Shelton-Mason County Journal - Page 5 ld or hese card. 'ill of der- tand r de- y for hope ome lear- ebolt View and vhis- atrol from leS. J. All alker dand pas- it us :as - s the L one ;tand ages ass!" thnic ttries v liv- Vhen s" in the ,nnor .llyn hose rical ting 'ated I. We ' and lines lling oles, lried s in ohn Readers" €]ournal: Be wary of religious leaders Editor, The Journal: The Egyptians and Greeks and Romans had many gods. So did the many cultures throughout the world. There seems to be no end to prophets to whom God or his mes- sengers have spoken, and yet this one and the same god tells them different things! That should give rise to some doubt by the members of all the faiths as to what these prophets are saying. For certain- ly, there is only one God and He is not prone to error, whereas, these prophets were all men, hu- man beings, like you and I, and are capable not only of error, but of disingenuousness. • Leadership in organized reli- gion is greatly coveted, for with it comes great power and great wealth in tithes and endow- ments. But today, three major religions that are so intolerant of one an- other - Judaism, Christianity and Islam _ are actually of a common origin. That origin is the prophet Abraham, who about 2000 B.C. preached the concept of one God, thereby replacing the gods of fer- tility, rain and fire, etc. Just one god, creator of all these things and mankind as well. Judaism: Abraham had two Sons, Isaac and Ishmel. Isaac continued the teachings of his fa- ther, and Judaism traces its roots to Isaac. Ishmel will not play a part until the coming of the Islam prophet Mohammed, thousands of years later. Judaism grew by word of mouth until about 1000 B.C. when Moses spoke with God in a private conversation and wrote the Ten Commandments. His teachings led to the five books of Moses and eventually the Torah. Judaism divides: The ,Jewish faith split in two with the com- ing of Jesus. Jesus claimed to not only speak with God but to be the son of God. This was the one and same God of Abraham and Juda- ism. Not all Jews believed this to be true. Those who did, together with all new converts to the teach- ings of Jesus, were now a separate religion, Christians. Islam: About 600 years after the birth of,Jesus, a wealthy mer- chant, Mohammed (said to be a direct descendant of lshmel), pro- fessed to have spoken to the angel Gabriel, who told him that neither the Jews nor the Christians had it quite right and proceeded to tell Mohammed how things should be. Mohammed wrote these new rules as the Koran, with which he established a new religion in Arabia, the home of Ishmel and Ishmel's many other descendants. This religion is known as Islam, and its followers are known as Muslims. Islam divides: When Moham- med died in 632 A.D. there was a power grab for the control of the Islam faith, resulting in a war between two factions, the Sunnis and the Shiites. The Sunnis were allied with Mohammed's widow Aisha, and the Shiites were al- lied with Mohammed's son-in-law Ali. This power struggle, fueled by mutual hatred and indiscriminate murder, goes on to this day. Christians divide: The Chris- tians have divided into Catholics and Protestants and Mormons and many more. New sects and cults spring up constantly, with char- ismatic new "prophets." Fortunes have been made while expanding from humble tents to "televange- list" temples. God not divided: In the end analysis, no one needs a go-be- tween to speak to God. Be wary of leaders of any faith who tell their flock that followers of all other faiths are going to hell. This could NOT be the wish of God for any of His followers, who all worship Him but just in different ways. Our religions mayhave divided, but He has not! Ray Tate Hoodsport Detentions are un-American By ANTHONY PIEL don't actually bring criminal create a new category of person Thanks to the application of charges against him. Do you fol- and label every "rebel" American the Freedom of Information Act, low the logic'? in the rebellious colonies as an "il- tape recordings have become Illogic aside, the U.S. Consti- legal enemy combatant," to be im- available of the military hearings tution is really quite explicit: "In prisoned indefinitely without trial, held at Guantanamo to determine all criminal prosecutions, the ac- as the United States is now doing whether detainees are "unlawful cused shall enjoy the right to a in Guantanamo? What would our enemy combatants." Listening to speedy and public trial, by an history textbooks today have said these tapes confirms one's worst impartial jury; to be informed of about the British of yesterday? fears of what has been going on the nature and cause of the accu- What will the history books of to- behind closed doors at Guanta- sation; to be confronted with the morrow say about Americans of namo. witnesses against him; to have today? The tapes demonstrate that compulsory process ibr obtain- What can Americans do to many, if not most, of the Guanta- ing witnesses in his favor, and to avert this historical shaming of namo detainees have in fact been have the assistance of counsel for America? To begin with, patriotic wrongly arrested, tortured, con- his defense." Every one of' these Americans can take advantage vlcted without evidence or wit- constitutional conditions is being of the shift in balance of power nesses and denied elementary due violated at, Guantanamo. in the U.S. Congress and Senate. process. The tapes revealed in one All Americans are concerned They can call on their legislators • case that the detainee had been to confront terrorism and bring to curb an executive branch gone previously indicted, tried and ac- criminals to justice. But there is wild. They can close down Guan- quitted in a national court, but no need to violate the U.S. Con- tanamo. They can bring the CIA, Was promptly picked up by CIA stitution in order to do so. If we NSA, FBI, Homeland Security agents as he left the courthouse give up our constitutional rights and the Pentagon back under the and was spirited away to Guan- and freedoms, the terrorists have rule of reason, the rule of law and tanamo, where he was secretly won the battle. That's what they the rule of the American people. Incarcerated without knowing the want us to do. The mistreatment They can bring back the "Fourth charges against himorhavingthe of Guantanamo detainees, as re- Estate" to fulfill the mission of °Pportunityto see the evidence or vealed in the tape recordings, a free and responsible press in Ppeal to a court of law, all in rio- is un-American, undemocratic, America. ation of the express terms of the un-Christian, unconstitutional, Patriotic Americans must initi- I5.S. Constitution as well as inter- unlawful, unnecessary and an ate full investigation of how the national law. unprecedented violation of the current situation in Iraq and in The U.S. Constitution asserts Geneva Conventions and other Guantanamo got so tragically out that "No person shall be deprived international treaties and agree- of control. It may be necessary to of life, liberty or property without ments to which the United States prosecute and convict some of the due processoflaw. Nor shall any is signatory, perpetrators, to pass a message Person" be subjected to "cruel and If these violations of American that will ensure that this violation unusual punishment." The terms and international principles of of law and morality, this shaming ao person" and "any person" pre- law are going on in Guantanamo, of America, will never again be clude the possibility that the Con- which receives at least a modi- foisted on the American people. stitution recognizes any category cum of attention from the press What is at stake is nothing of Person, such as "unlawful en- and humanitarian organizations, less than a mandatory return to e ,, ray combatant, who is not en- what must the offenses be like in American principles, American titled to the due process of law. To the CIA-run secret gulag prisons, values and the rule of American .PUrPort to create such a category hidden from our eyes elsewhere law. is to advocate violation of the U.S. around the world? One shud- Anthony Piel, aresidentofSha- Constitution. ders to think. It more than meets ron, Connecticut, is a former legal The Guantanamo tapes reveal the predictive warnings of Dos- counsel of the World Health Orga- that detainees are treated and toyevsky, Kafka and Orwell. nization. This piece was originally Prosecuted as criminals and ira- Hypothetically, what if circa printed in The Lakeville Journal Prisoned as if they were proven criminals, but without actual 1776 the British had decided to in Connecticut. trial. Indeed, practically none of the Guantanamo detainees has ever been brought to trial in a court of law. The bizarre theory of the legal counsel to the U.S. adminis- tration is that so long as a person is never brought to trial, the gov- ernment does not have to respect aY of the constitutional rights af- rded criminal defendants. The illogic is striking: You can subject a person to cruel and un- USual treatment, so long as you C-[ASSIFIED ADS FILL BILL 15 words for s6.50 tall The IHmal 426-4412 r (00SCRATCH t HIGHLAND LAYER CRUMBLES OR PELLETS YOUR CHOICE 50-lb. bag 1015680, 281350 7.99 CRACKED CORN 50-lb. bag 112151 6.49 ROLLED RATION With molasses. 50-lb. bag 10449/ I LIVESTOCK BLEND 50-lb. bag. 07826500 RABBIT RATION 50-lb. bag t05411 8.99 f ALFALFA 90-# bale Quantity Price Break 1-9 Bales ......... 10.99 ea 10-19 Bales ..... 10.64 ea 0-29 Bales ..... 10.39 ea. J INTEGRITY 10.99 INTEGRITY 7 99 SUET CAKE / 1.49 each OIL SUNFLOWER SEED GARDEN 201bs. 81121 22-LB. BIRD SEED ] ':i Wild bird food I attracts many i species of birds. Pay for three ; 20lb. bogs. Get 6 Ibs. free! 81995 Hardware First & Mill, Shelton BRAND 426-4373 or 426-2411 MondoySaturdoy 7:30-6 5.99 each Sunday 8:30-5 Thursday, January 4, 2007 - Shelton-Mason County Journal - Page 5