Monroe County Sheriff Richard Roth
NINCOMPOOP OF THE MONTH
NINCOMPOOP OF THE MONTH
The school principal, an educational leader, thinks that an American citizen can be trespassing on a public sidewalk and the country sheriff, a leader in law enforcement, agrees.
This country has a leadership problem.
Its a sign of the times....Jesus told us this was coming.
Political Correctness is a tool of the dark side....and its use is destroying the Constitution.
Here is a link
http://www.therealitycheck.org/TRCMediawire/adf020807.htm
And the text seems to be the same here
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=54150
Thank you for posting this outrage.
I'll be forwarding the following to the prinipal, School Board, Sheriff and ADF.
Volume 18, Issue 1
January, 2000
REPORTS FROM BELARUS
The following testimonies were submitted by International Field Representative Victor Goncharenko
following his visit to the former Soviet Republic of Belarus:
NOVOPOLOSTSK:
“Novopolostsk is a wonderful camp where the brothers take the word of God to their city with no fear.
When the local Gideons went to one of the schools to make a distribution the director would not allow
them to go into the classrooms. The Gideons stood in the hallway of the school giving New
Testaments to the students. The director saw her students form a long line to receive The New
Testaments. She then asked The Gideons to go outside and quickly there was a line there as well.
Seeing this the director asked The Gideons to leave the school property. When The Gideons left the
school property the students followed and formed a long line to receive God’s Word. The director
became very upset and called the police. The police came, arrested The Gideons, and took them to the
police station. When they arrived at the police station and found out what had happened, the
policeman in charge asked The Gideons to distribute The New Testaments at their station. When this
distribution was completed they drove them back to the school and asked them to please finish the
distribution.”
VITEBSK:
“The Vitebsk, Belarus camp is a great camp where Gideons work unselfishly distributing Scriptures in
their city. During a recent distribution in the women’s prison I saw many women kiss The Gideon
New Testament and many accepted Christ as their Savior. While placing the Scriptures in the hospital,
I witnessed many patients crying when they saw The New Testament at their bedside. These people
thank The Gideons for giving them a chance to read God’s Word which brings hope to their seemingly
hopeless situations.”
POLOTSK:
“This camp is beginning to understand the effectiveness of The Gideon ministry. When we were
distributing New Testaments at the local police station, the chief said, ‘I think most of us here are
atheist but you Gideons are trying to do something we also believe in.’ I spoke to these men for ten
minutes and at the end asked those who believed that there is a God to raise their hands. More than
50% raised their hands. The chief of police thanked The Gideons for not being afraid to come and
distribute Scriptures at the police station.”
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MOGILEV:
“This is a good camp. However, the economy of this region is really bad. Prices are very high (one
gallon of gas cost over three dollars) and their monthly salaries are very low (thirty to forty dollars a
month). These Gideons make various sacrifices to buy gas for their cars and to go and distribute The
New Testaments. We came to one of the local colleges and prayed that the Lord might work out a way
for us to have a distribution. There were over five hundred students in this school. As we came to the
door of the school one of the teachers came out and asked about the contents of our boxes. We told her
what we had in the boxes and she became very excited. She hurried to the director with us and said,
‘These are the people who can tell our students about the two thousand years of Christianity in the
world and will give each of our students a copy of God’s Word.’ The Lord used this teacher to open
the door. The teacher went before us to every classroom making sure that we could distribute New
Testaments to every student of this college. She was happy to do something for the Lord.”
My son came home from school (6th-9th) a few months ago with a small New Testament that he got from the Gideons sitting on the sidewalk outside his school. He said many kids picked one up and said "Wow - I've never had a Bible before". I think my son likes his as its a bit different from the ones he's gotten from us and church as its more HIS!
One older kid did complain to the school - which is understandable. The teacher explained to all of the kids the next day that they were within their rights to hand out literature on the sidewalk and a little lesson on free speech, etc. She also went over some of the safety issues involved with talking to strangers, taking things from strangers, etc. I thought she and the school handled it well.
I am very thankful for the Gideons every time I open a hotel drawer and find a Bible. Giving to them is a great way to spread the word. One of their programs, the Memorial Bible program, allows you to donate Bibles in memory of someone. It is a special way to say goodbye to a loved one or express sympathy.
Meanwhile, distributing the Koran, the Communist Manifesto, or Bobby's Two Fabulous Daddys would not be considered trespassing.
Endorsed by Marilyn Monroe!
"I'll be in my room alone every post meridian
And I'll read my diary and that book by Mr. Gideon...
Bye bye baby,
Remember, you're my baby,
When they give you the eye..."
You can smear graffiti all over the steps of the US Capitool, but please don't pass out bibles near a school!
Monroe County is the Florida Keys including the "gay bastion" of Key West.
The rad left has power in this neighborhood.
"Ve took Poland in 7 days"
It looks to me like the county is going to be footing the bill for more bibles after the law suit for false arrest.
THIS is where the focus should be. Everyone is bashing the Sheriff. The PRINCIPAL is the villain here.
Separation of Church and State bump!
I hope the Gideons are planning to sue the pants off both school district and sheriff's department. They should be able to print thousands of Bibles with their settlement.
INTREP
They should have been peddling dope.
Then neither the Pricipal nor the Sheriff would have cared.
