Mark's Views, Perhaps — from behind my eyeballs
Perhaps Philip Zodhiates is unfamiliar to you. In short, he’s another man who drew a prison term for helping Lisa and Isabella escape back in 2009. At the end of this post I have some links to give you background. Anyway, here is a portion of a recent letter from him: Read it all
Lisa Miller was transferred to New York yesterday. Her arraignment in Buffalo in the Western District of New York was scheduled for 1:00 pm Eastern today. She is charged with conspiracy and international parental kidnapping. The charges carry a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine. Read it all
Greetings in the name of our Lord, the ONE Who is All-Knowing. I greet you today from the Florida Detention Center in Miami. I arrived here on Jan 27 and I am still in quarantine — day 21 (my bunkie tested positive for COVID, so instead of being released, today I took another swab COVID test and will wait for the results right where I am — in quarantine.), in a 2 bunk, approximately 14 x 7 feet cell which is locked 24/7.
My food is served through a 12 x 4 inch slot (within the main door) which is also kept shut and locked except when used to pass items such as mail, clothes and books from guard to inmate or when we needed to be handcuffed (we turn our back to the door, stoop a bit and thrust our hands through the opening).
I am so grateful that God knows all I need. Even though I am in prison, God has blessed and spoiled me with rest and quietness after the experiences of being propelled through the realities of being handcuffed by marshals (I had 5 escorting me at one point!), patted down, strip searched, questioned endlessly, fingerprinted at every “station” of processing, and other such memorable actions before being placed in cell 31 of the Solitary Housing Unit (SHU) (in lieu of being brought directly into the women’s unit). My God knows just what I need.
Thank you to all who have written to me. Words cannot express enough how I have been encouraged and built up in Christ by your kindness. Even though you may not receive a personal thank you, (I am limited to how many stamps I can order per month and I am not permitted to receive stamps from the outside), please know that you have blessed me by your letters of encouragement and with your prayers for both my daughter and me. THANK YOU!
Please continue to pray for my daughter. Even though I believe God IS taking care of her she still needs the prayers of His people. I miss her! Even so, I feel comforted knowing that she has prayer coverage.
Please continue also to pray for me. Pray that I will “make myself a servant to all, that I might win more of them” (I Cor. 9:19b), and that I “give no offense to Jews or to Greek or to the church of God” ( I Cor 10:32). Personally, I have prayed (for years) that God would put me in the places where He wants me to be; consequently, I know that I am to be here. Please pray that I honor God in His choices for me.
In His Service,
Lisa Miller #27502-509
P.O. Box 019120
Miami, FL 33101
Federal Judge Gary Miller in Texas ruled on Friday that a military draft as the US has used it in the past is unconstitutional.
Before you start cheering, be aware that the focus isn’t on the draft but on its male-only nature. In other words, this is about making the military draft constitutional by drafting women as well. Judge Miller proclaimed that “the time has passed” to be debating whether or not women belong in the US military.
Though the US has no military draft at the present (and hasn’t had any since the last millennium), it does require young men to register for the draft with the Selective Service System. (Young men, it is your duty under God to comply. If you’re 18 or older, get yourself to a Post Office and do it.) Read it all
As I understand from two different news sources, Timo was sentenced today to time served plus one year of probation. As far as I know, he has been released by now.
Timo Miller Family (201_?)
So Canada’s highest court has just ruled that some sex acts between humans and animals are legal.
Despite all the acceleration of the normalization of perversion in the last few years, this still has to at least kinda shock the sensibilities.
Some folks (including the dissenting judge) expressing dismay at and condemnation of the 7-1 ruling seem to be exercised primarily by the animal abuse angle.
The human morality slippery slope is a bigger issue to me. The pursuit of certain “rights” is definitely leading to what’s morally wrong being rebranded as right. Even a leftist should find that repugnant.
Well, here are two excerpts from the story: Read it all
I had forgotten Ken Miller’s appeal was in the works.
A Mennonite pastor from Virginia convicted of helping a woman flee the country rather than share custody of her daughter with her former lesbian partner says his federal conviction should be thrown out because no part of the crime occurred in Vermont, where he was arrested, prosecuted and found guilty.
Attorneys for Kenneth Miller argued in documents filed with the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that the effort to get Lisa Miller and her daughter Isabella out of the country began in Virginia and ended in New York state when the pair crossed the Rainbow Bridge to Canada in September 2009 before flying to Nicaragua.
The documents, filed Monday in New York, said Miller’s right to be tried before a jury near his home could be traced to England’s Magna Carta in 1215, the basis for much of the U.S. Constitution.
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The criminal case stemmed from a custody battle decided by a Vermont family court. Miller turned himself in to federal authorities in Vermont in December 2011, and was sentenced in March to 27 months in prison. His sentencing has been delayed pending his appeals.
U.S. Attorney Tristram Coffin in Vermont said Wednesday he had not seen the appeal but would make the same argument as his office made to the trial court — that Miller’s criminal actions became complete once the mother and child left the U.S. and were therefore subject to prosecution where Miller was arrested.
“The crime was not completed until they entered Canada,” Coffin said.
Ken is called a Mennonite here. Close enough. I think he’s actually Beachy.