OBEDIENCE
"I came into the world to save sinners of which I Am Chief" Federal law suits were recently filed against the county towns of Ferguson and Jennings, Missouri on behalf of poor people who spent time in their jails for failure to pay fines for traffic violations and minor offenses. The lawsuits claim that those jailed were held indefinitely; were not provided with attorneys; and were kept in unsanitary conditions without adequate medical care. The suits claim that at least four people unable to pay for their freedom have committed suicide in jail in the past five months. The U.S. Constitution, explicitly, forbids incarceration as punishment for indigence...or... in other words... incarceration for being poor in America. How can it be that the most wealthiest and professed - holiest - nation on earth still maintains poverty and racism as the darkest scourges in the fabric of American society? Today the spotlight is on Ferguson and Jennings. A few days ago the