Daily Archives: September 28, 2010

Their lack of patience while handling this case, sets a bad example for others to follow.

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Two officers, Kevin Randolph and Paul Bauer, are expected to be charged with assault after the beat a black motorcyclists repeatedly, because he failed to stop when they instructed him to. One of the officers, Kevin Randolph has been terminated because he was still on probation. It appears that Andrew Collins (a motorcyclist) was traveling up the wrong way on a one way street when he was ordered to pull over. His first attempt to stop ended with him revving the motorcycle and speeding off, as though taunting the officers. When he finally gave up and pulled to the side of the road, the officers  ran up to him and began raining blows. At that point Andrew Collins was by no means resisting arrest and was immediately placed in cuffs, after a thrashing.
I have since thought that many inmates of insane asylums were brought there by experiences similar to my own. Their consciences were stricken with a sense of sin, and their trembling faith dared not claim the promised pardon of God. They listened to descriptions of the orthodox hell until it seemed to curdle the very blood in their veins, and burned an impression upon the tablets of their memory. Waking or sleeping, the frightful picture was ever before them until reality became lost in imagination, and they saw only the wreathing flames of a fabulous hell and heard only the shrieking of the doomed. Reason became dethroned, and the brain was filled with the wild fantasy of a terrible dream. Those who teach the doctrine of an eternal hell would do well to look more closely after their authority for so cruel a belief. (EGW – 1T 25)
Even though I am not an officer of the law, nor would I appreciate this sort of reaction from the people that were supposed to protect and serve me, let me suggest here that they may have been antagonized to respond the way that they did. These men were trying to do their jobs and someone who is obviously breaking the law, was making a mockery out of them. Having said that, let me say this, there is no acceptable reason for an officer of the law to “beat down” a citizen, the same one that he is expected to protect, their lack of patience while handling this case, sets a bad example for others to follow.
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Allow me to present exhibit number one.

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Showing little emotion during the hearing and offered straightforward answers, Richard McCroskey (also known as “Syko Sam” pleaded guilty to the senseless murder of his sixteen year old girlfriend Emma, her friend, eighteen year old Melania Wells, her mother, Debra Kelley (a Longwood University professor) and her father, her parents, Mark Niederbrock (a Presbyterian minister) With the possibility of the death penalty hanging over his head, the rapper wannabe, chose life in prison, without parole. Richard McCroskey focused on a particular kind of music, known as “horror-core”, which was what brought the young couple together in the first place. “horror-core” music is generally known for its  style that talks about  rape, murder and mutilation, however, it has been said that the murders had nothing to do with the music.
It does not become anyone to drop a word of doubt here and there that shall work like poison in other minds, shaking their confidence in the messages which God has given, which have aided in laying the foundation of this work, and have attended it to the present day, in reproofs, warnings, corrections, and encouragements. To all who have stood in the way of the Testimonies, I would say, God has given a message to His people, and His voice will be heard, whether you hear or forbear. Your opposition has not injured me; but you must give an account to the God of heaven, who has sent these warnings and instructions to keep His people in the right way. You will have to answer to Him for your blindness, for being a stumbling block in the way of sinners. (EGW – GCDB APR.13,1891 (1SM 43))
Though rebellion probably played a major factor in this scenario, I still cannot see how the parents could allow their sixteen year old daughter to hang out with someone with such a morbid taste in music. (if you can call it that)  People have told me time and again that what we hear and see on the television, the radio and the big screen, has absolutely no bearings on how we live our lives, to them I simply say, allow me to present exhibit number one!
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We are required to bring up our children in a manner that would please our Father in heaven.

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As she found out later, when Lisa Faber knew that her boyfriend Donald Miller was handcuffing  and starving his daughter in order to get her to do her homework, she should have said something to the authorities. The sheriff department in Livingston Parish arrested Donald Miller for treating her in a manner that could be construed as worse than a dog. Mr Miller has been accused of beating and handcuffing his daughter to a desk, where she sometimes stayed through the night. Mr Miller is also accused of slamming the head of his eleven year old daughter on to the desk, where she is said to have chipped her teeth.
No one else can lessen our influence as we ourselves can lessen it through the indulgence of uncontrollable temper. A naturally petulant man does not know true happiness and is seldom content. He is ever hoping to get into a more favorable position or to so change his surroundings that he will have peace and rest of mind. His life seems to be burdened with heavy crosses and trials, when, had he controlled his temper and bridled his tongue, many of these annoyances might have been avoided. It is the “soft answer” which “turned away wrath.” Revenge has never conquered a foe. A well-regulated temper exerts a good influence on all around; but “he that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down, and without walls.” (EGW – 4T 367)
We are required to bring up our children in a manner that would please our Father in heaven. Sadly, many in today’s society have a difficult time differentiating between a spanking to maintain control and abusing the child, in some cases to near death. There is no part of this “training exercise” that was carried out by Mr. Miller that could be considered as anything but barbaric. As far as I am concerned, the Bible does say that we should not spare the rod, yet no where does it suggest that we torture them or else.
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