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by Szdfan
Thu Mar 01, 2018 9:11 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Mennonite investigator jailed
Replies: 14
Views: 616

Re: Mennonite investigator jailed

I've never heard of the profession of being a defense investigator. Is it something done by an attorney? From what I understand, it's not unusual for the defense in murder and death penalty cases to hire their own investigators and to examine the evidence as part of the defense strategy. I think a ...
by Szdfan
Wed Feb 28, 2018 8:12 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Mennonite investigator jailed
Replies: 14
Views: 616

Re: Mennonite investigator jailed

Bootstrap wrote:Jeremy, I gather this is happening near you? Do you know her?
She looks familiar, but I don’t know her personally. The Denver Post article mentioned Vern Rempel, who is a colleague who belongs to the same pastor group as I do.
by Szdfan
Wed Feb 28, 2018 10:38 am
Forum: Politics
Topic: Mennonite investigator jailed
Replies: 14
Views: 616

Re: Mennonite investigator jailed

Interestingly, since the reinstatement of the death penalty in 1977, Colorado has only executed one individual - Gary Lee Davis in 1997.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_p ... n_Colorado
by Szdfan
Wed Feb 28, 2018 10:34 am
Forum: Politics
Topic: Mennonite investigator jailed
Replies: 14
Views: 616

Re: Mennonite investigator jailed

I was about to add the story, but you beat me to it. :P Here's the Denver Post story: https://www.denverpost.com/2018/02/27/investigator-jailed-robert-ray-death-penalty-hearing/ While Lindecrantz is spending her second night in jail, the legal drama has been playing since Jan. 20, when Newman first ...
by Szdfan
Sun Feb 25, 2018 12:43 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Billy Graham dies
Replies: 14
Views: 1252

Re: Billy Graham dies

Twitter being Twitter and the Internet being the Internet, there have been some really nasty things written about Billy Graham. Slate columnist Ruth Graham (no relation) reflects on this: https://slate.com/human-interest/2018/02/billy-graham-has-hovered-over-me-my-whole-life-and-not-just-because-i-s...
by Szdfan
Mon Feb 05, 2018 12:58 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: President Trump: A MennoNet Poll
Replies: 222
Views: 10983

Re: President Trump: A MennoNet Poll

Just saying “WASHINGTON—Stressing that such an action would be highly reckless, FBI Director Christopher Wray warned Thursday that releasing the “Nunes Memo” could potentially undermine faith in the massive, unaccountable government secret agencies of the United States.” .. .. https://politics.theo...
by Szdfan
Tue Sep 12, 2017 4:06 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Arkansas law mandating "In God We Trust" in every classroom
Replies: 8
Views: 955

Re: Arkansas law mandating "In God We Trust" in every classroom

Here we have been getting ultra-con propoganda in the mail and in our government. As a liberal in a conservative area, I resonate with this. I'm not sure what Temp describes is any worse than the eight years of propaganda about Obama's birth certificate or that he was a secret Muslim terrorist. Bot...
by Szdfan
Wed Sep 06, 2017 2:12 pm
Forum: MennoLight
Topic: Why Don't Mennonite Men Hug?
Replies: 32
Views: 5264

Re: Why Don't Mennonite Men Hug?

I'm a bit late to this conversation, but I wonder if this might not be also generational. Neither set of my conservative Mennonite grandparents were physically affectionate in public or to their children. I remember I once impulsively told my grandparents that I loved them. There was this moment of ...
by Szdfan
Mon Sep 04, 2017 4:42 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Compensatory violent fantasies
Replies: 13
Views: 1532

Re: Compensatory violent fantasies

I don't know about the Muensterites being specifically precursors of the Nazis unless you either think of the Nazis as a fanatically religious millenarian movement or of the Muensterites as a racially motivated genocidal movement. What I do see they had in common is an overriding ideological impera...
by Szdfan
Mon Sep 04, 2017 4:38 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Compensatory violent fantasies
Replies: 13
Views: 1532

Re: Compensatory violent fantasies

haithabu wrote: Szdfan, I would be interested in seeing your paper if you would be willing to share it.
I'm happy to share it if I can find it. It's been almost a decade :shock: