Posted on 09/07/2013 5:37:21 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
Nikko Jenkins left prison in July well short of the maximum time he could have spent there. That's renewing questions over prison time and state law.
Sgt. John Wells, with the Omaha Police Officers Association said, "He was definitely one of those people that when he was released from prison, had grave concerns that something like this may happen."
Wells and his partner had taken Jenkins into custody a decade ago for robbery. By the time the case worked it's way through court, Jenkins had been sentenced to 18 years in prison. Under the Good Time law, he was released after serving a little more than 10 years.
"This is a serious situation and it is absolutely nothing to make light of," Wells said. "Our elected leaders in Lincoln have failed us miserably, that they allow somebody this dangerous, and with this type of record out early with his sentence cut in half."
Nebraska State Senator Brad Ashford disagrees. He says the issue is with sentencing choices of the judges. With judges deciding the amount of time served, Ashford said the responsibility must fall to those with the gavel.
"I don't think you can make any policy decision about any policy we have in place until we really hone in on the numbers. Who is really at risk to re-offend?" Ashford said.
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I can’t blame you really all that much for your new enthusiasm. The Episcopalians grieve the Holy Spirit worse today. However your church has mixed the gospel with club spirit and I don’t mean something from a bottle. They are acting towards their evangelical and Orthodox brethren like the older brother in the parable of the prodigal son. They can barely bring themselves to say of the others “this son of yours” let alone brethren.
Here’s a clue: don’t wait up to a week and stand in line to confess. Just pray up the Lord and DO it.
And ultimately... my earnest suggestion to you, Wonder... look for where the fruit of the Spirit is. This fruit can’t be faked. Don’t go where the sour, bitter men and women are, who love to torture themselves and call it virtue, who are proud of how much of whatever earthly artifacts they have. Go where the joyful exaltation of the Lord in the congregation is, and where people tell of repeated overcoming in the midst of trials, and giving away a gospel that sells itself, with joy and charity that has no explanation other than the Holy Spirit.
P.P.S. “Becoming perfect” means taking on more and more of the perfect Christ.
I don’t know about the theology that says some can be absolutely perfected on earth... certainly that energetic apostle Paul made no claim to it and set himself boldly forth as an example.
Nobody would be able to know all his or her sins on earth, which is the knowledge that would be needed to become perfect. The Roman Catholic organization, the same one that diluted itself over and over by becoming entangled in earthly government (losing the gospel that sold itself and gaining a caricature of that which had to be enforced via earthly terror) have taken the needful reconciliation with the Lord in heaven with a full view of what finally must be reconciled, and built it into a formal, dreaded purgatory. We would not want to dread being in such a place inasmuch as it exists, any more than we would dread the rest of our earthly life; we would welcome it because the Lord would be right there. It would be the final stage of overcoming with the joy that is promised. However Roman Catholics get a long face over purgatory. Does not compute to me.
I guess I will make this a quadrilogy and then that’s it. Men are standing between the Holy Spirit and you in a lot of places, and want you to know they and their organization deign to give it to you. In a few, however, men will pass on the Holy Spirit to you absolutely free. That is the place to go and that is the gospel to share. It’s the gospel that sells itself. And it’s worth the risk of making people annoyed to pass it on because once it dawns on them what you are passing on, they become quite grateful! And I wish to see this gospel shared with you, I don’t care who does it, whether it is me or somebody I will never meet.
But I'm not going to hijack the thread any more than I already have. If you want to discuss further, there is Freepmail.
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