http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0612/S00040.htm
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Bill Berkowitz: Charles Colson's Complaint
Saturday, 2 December 2006, 9:42 pm
Opinion: Bill Berkowitz
Charles Colson's Complaint
Opponents of faith-based prison programs enable terrorists, says Watergate
felon
Bill Berkowitz
WorkingForChange
From: http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?itemid=21697
11.30.06
Those opposed to faith-based prison projects are blind to the threat of
terrorism in the "homeland" from former inmates who have converted to Islam
while in America's prisons, Charles Colson, one of President Richard
Nixon's key operatives during the Watergate years, recently charged in one
of his BreakPoint commentaries.
Stung by a federal district court judge's decision that his InnerChange
Freedom Initiative, a faith-based prison program operating in Iowa's
prisons is unconstitutional, Colson, used a recent report about the growing
threat of Islamic terrorists being recruited in U.S. prisons, to argue that
support for his faith-based prison program is essential to preventing
terrorist attacks in this country.
In his BreakPoint commentary titled "What's Hidden in the Shadows: Radical
Islam and U.S. Prisons," Colson, who founded Prison Fellowship Ministries
after serving time in prison for Watergate-related crimes and recently
retired as its head, warned that a terrorist attack in the homeland could
be spearheaded by "home-grown Islamist radicals" who are converting to
Islam while in prison.
"I don't usually make predictions," Colson wrote, "but here's one I'll
venture: If, God forbid, an attack by home-grown Islamist radicals occurs
on American soil, many, if not most, of the perpetrators will have
converted to Islam while in prison
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You are invited to check out the following:
The Rise of the Theocratic States of America
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/theocracy.htm
American Theocrats - Past and Present
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/theocrats.htm
The Constitutional Principle: Separation of Church and State
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/index.html
[and to join the discussion group for the above site and/or Separation of
Church and State in general, listed below]
HRSepCnS · Hampton Roads [Virginia] SepChurch&State
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HRSepCnS/
[Its not just Hampton Roads folks who are members, there are members from
all over the US and a couple from overseas as well]
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.. . . You can't understand a phrase such as "Congress shall make no law
respecting an establishment of religion" by syllogistic reasoning. Words
take their meaning from social as well as textual contexts, which is why "a
page of history is worth a volume of logic." New York Trust Co. v. Eisner,
256 U.S. 345, 349, 41 S.Ct. 506, 507, 65 L.Ed. 963 (1921) (Holmes, J.).
Sherman v. Community Consol. Dist. 21, 980 F.2d 437, 445 (7th Cir. 1992)
.. . .
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"You pilot always into an unknown future;
facts are your only clue. Get the facts!"
That philosophy 'snipit' helped to get me, and my crew, through a good
many combat missions and far too many scary, inflight, emergencies.
It has also played a significant role in helping me to expose the
plethora of radical Christian propaganda and lies that we find at
almost every media turn.
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THE CONSTITUTIONAL PRINCIPLE:
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http://members.tripod.com/~candst/index.html
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