http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/amish/ en-us Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:20:06 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2049101/posts Collision might be due to growth in municipalities not accustomed to lifestyle Among the 600,000-plus hunters heading out for last year’s gun-deer season were three Clark County brothers who were cited for not wearing blaze orange — clothing, they said, that was against their Amish religion. Members of the religious sect noted for their black felt hats, dark trousers, long dresses and bonnets are barred from wearing bright clothing. But a Clark County judge ruled last month that there’s nothing in the Amish religion that compels them to hunt deer. So each brother was fined $143.10. It was the latest... Journal Sentinel http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2049101/posts#comment Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:20:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2047365/posts I hadn’t gotten beaten by my mom that day, and we hadn’t had any significant arguments over anything. I thought that if I died, I wanted to die without being mad at my mom. So I thought, I might as well take the opportunity to do so before I got back to the house—at which point who knows whether there would be another fight or a beating. I put a bullet in the chamber and raised the rifle up. The closer it got to my head, the faster my heart beat. I was taught that whoever committed suicide would go... The Blog of Tim Feriss http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2047365/posts#comment Fri, 18 Jul 2008 09:10:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2046054/posts NEILLSVILLE, Wis., July 14 (UPI) -- Wisconsin officials say they're having more hunting- and farming-issue run-ins with the state's Amish population, which has doubled since 1992. The latest case happened during last year's deer hunting season when Clark County officials cited three Amish brothers for not wearing required blaze-orange clothing, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported Monday. Attorneys for the brothers say it is against their beliefs to wear anything but traditional clothing. Other cases involve registration of farms needed by health officials to track outbreaks of swine flu and other animal diseases. Observers say the growth of the Amish population,... UPI http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2046054/posts#comment Tue, 15 Jul 2008 23:54:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2045127/posts (Collision might be due to growth in municipalities not accustomed to lifestyle) Among the 600,000-plus hunters heading out for last year’s gun-deer season were three Clark County brothers who were cited for not wearing blaze orange — clothing, they said, that was against their Amish religion. Members of the religious sect noted for their black felt hats, dark trousers, long dresses and bonnets are barred from wearing bright clothing. But a Clark County judge ruled last month that there’s nothing in the Amish religion that compels them to hunt deer. So each brother was fined $143.10.It was the latest in... JSOnline http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2045127/posts#comment Mon, 14 Jul 2008 12:38:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2035974/posts Can anyone JOIN the Amish people? I mean, can you become Amish and go live in their Society?That's sounding pretty good to me right now.... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2035974/posts#comment Wed, 25 Jun 2008 02:42:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2034826/posts SEA Jails Amish Criminals A Sign of Very Bad Things to Come You may never have heard of the SEA, and may not believe it when I tell you what it is. I am not making this up. The SEA is the "Sewage Enforcement Agency." The, "Cambria County Sewage Enforcement Agency," protecting society from two dangerous Amish outhouse operators, apprehended them for violating Pennsylvania state sewage laws. They "were sentenced Thursday to 90 days in jail." Their crime? "Andy Swartzentruber and Sam Yoder do not have permits for outhouses at a school and have been disposing of waste "improperly." The... Independent Individualist http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2034826/posts#comment Sun, 22 Jun 2008 20:44:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2030343/posts In a clash of conservative traditions and society’s modern laws, two Amish men may spend 90 days in prison for refusing to pay fines over the use of an outhouse. District Judge Michael Zungali on Thursday ordered Sam Yoder and Andy Swartzentruber to serve 90 days in the Cambria County Prison beginning July 21. The men had refused to pay $1,000 fines each for violating state sewage-disposal laws at the sect’s Barr Township school. The Tribune Democrat http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2030343/posts#comment Fri, 13 Jun 2008 02:20:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1982231/posts CEDAR SPRINGS, Mich. — A 33-year-old man's decision to run away with a 15-year-old Amish girl has left his family nearly destitute. Julissa Jaimes says she and the couple's four children are unsure of their future as her husband, Osvaldo, sits in a Mexican jail awaiting possible extradition to Michigan. Michigan authorities say he planned to marry the teenager. The Cedar Springs resident was arrested Monday trying to enter Mexico at the Laredo, Texas, border with the girl who was listed as a runaway. "I'm just waiting for an eviction notice or a shut-off notice so the FIA (Family Independence... foxnews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1982231/posts#comment Sat, 8 Mar 2008 00:12:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1972543/posts Denise George never thought she was breaking the law. Living on the outskirts of Dayton, Armstrong County, she didn't think twice about helping her Amish neighbors — whose religion prevents them from owning vehicles — make a trip or two into town during the week for supplies and other reasons. That is, until she got a letter informing her that her actions were illegal. The story is similar for Woodie Kirkwood, of Dayton. A longtime driver of the Amish, Kirkwood was a little shocked and upset when he received two letters warning him of the same. The letters, sent by... Indiana Gazette http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1972543/posts#comment Tue, 19 Feb 2008 01:37:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1970887/posts BARR TOWNSHIP, Pa. -- Controversy over a manmade outhouse could end up with members of an Amish community in jail. Neighbors of the Cambria County Amish community complained about the bathroom facilities the Amish are using because they take waste from their outhouse and dump it onto their property. The property is in the same area near underground wells for nearby residents. The complaints made to the Cambria County Sewage Enforcement Agency were investigated and citations were filed against the Amish property owners. The owners said they refuse to pay any fines, because it is against their religious beliefs, and... www.wjactv.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1970887/posts#comment Fri, 15 Feb 2008 16:10:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1712226/posts NICKEL MINES, Pa. The county coroner says at least six people were killed in a shooting at a one-room Amish schoolhouse, where state police said earlier a gunman killed "a number" of people Monday in Pennsylvania's bucolic Lancaster County. "So far six confirmed dead and the helicopters are pulling into (Lancaster General Hospital) like crazy," Lancaster County Coroner G. Gary Kirchner said. It was unclear if the shooter was among the six. State police Cpl. Ralph Striebig had said earlier the shooter was among the dead, and a number of people were injured. Three girls, all critical with gunshot wounds,... Breitbart http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1712226/posts#comment Mon, 2 Oct 2006 18:08:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1936084/posts HONEY BROOK, Pa. (Map, News) - A simple traffic stop in Chester County ended up involving a buggy and a truck before police captured a man wanted on warrants from three counties. State police say a trooper tried to pull a car over Thursday on Route 322 but the driver took off, drove into a parking lot, abandoned the vehicle and ran through neighborhoods and fields. He jumped into a moving Amish buggy, but jumped out when troopers closed in and ran into a cornfield. Then a motorist in a dry wall truck offered troopers a lift and they surrounded... The Examiner http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1936084/posts#comment Fri, 7 Dec 2007 14:01:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1923422/posts Lancaster, PA - Civil rights advocates criticized plans by the Police Department to map the county's Amish communities, calling it racial profiling. The LCPD's counterterrorism bureau plans to identify Amish enclaves in order to determine which might be likely to become isolated and susceptible to "violent, ideologically based extremism," said Deputy Chief Michael P. Drowning on Thursday. "We want to know where the Shakers, Quakers and Amish are so we can reach out to those communities," said Drowning, who heads the counterterrorism bureau. Downing said the plan is still in its early stages, but the LCPD wants to work with... http://gzforum.wvgazette.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1923422/posts#comment Fri, 9 Nov 2007 17:08:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1916948/posts Link only: http://www.buffalonews.com/258/story/192038.html?imw=Y Buffalo News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1916948/posts#comment Fri, 26 Oct 2007 21:33:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1914782/posts Indianapolis - Five people were killed Sunday afternoon when the van they were riding in flipped on Interstate 69. The van was carrying families from Amish communities in New Haven and Rockville. State police say at one point last night they had seven helicopters lined up in the northbound lane of I-69 to transport the victims. Some were taken to Indianapolis hospitals, others to Fort Wayne. Five were pronounced dead at the scene. State police say around 4:45 pm Sunday afternoon, a 15-passenger van was headed southbound on I-69 when it left the roadway, crossed the median and flipped several... WTHR http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1914782/posts#comment Mon, 22 Oct 2007 21:24:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1905956/posts Elizabethtown, Pa. - ONE year ago today, a shooter entered a one-room Amish school in Nickel Mines, Pa., dismissed all but 10 girls, and fired at them execution-style, killing five before shooting himself. Within hours, the Amish community forgave the killer and his family. News of the instant forgiveness stunned the outside world – almost as much as the incident itself did. Many pundits lauded the Amish, but others worried that hasty forgiveness was emotionally unhealthy... ...Members of the Amish community began offering words and hugs of forgiveness when the blood was barely dry on the schoolhouse floor... ...As the... Christian Science Monitor http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1905956/posts#comment Wed, 3 Oct 2007 16:49:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1899221/posts The Jefferson County sheriff said he and his deputies received several death threats from an Amish bishop with regard to a child custody dispute, prompting him to have the regional SWAT team on standby Tuesday. Sheriff Fred Abdalla was ordered to take Wilma Troyer's daughters, ages 21 months and 9 months, as part of a domestic dispute with her husband who currently lives with his family in Potter County, Pa. The sheriff said he and one other deputy went alone up to the school to serve the court order, but said Troyer, an Amish teacher, instead locked herself in the... WTOV http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1899221/posts#comment Wed, 19 Sep 2007 23:26:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1896387/posts PHILADELPHIA - An Amish community that lost five girls in a Pennsylvania schoolhouse shooting massacre last year has donated money to the widow of the gunman, the community said Wednesday. The Nickel Mines Accountability Committee, which was set up to handle more than $4.3 million in donations from around the world after the shootings, said it had given an unspecified "contribution" to Marie Roberts, a mother of three. Her husband, Charles Carl Roberts, a local milk truck driver who was not Amish, tied up and shot 10 Amish schoolgirls aged 6 to 14 in their classroom last Oct. 2, killing... MSNBC.Com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1896387/posts#comment Fri, 14 Sep 2007 12:26:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1896461/posts PHILADELPHIA - An Amish community that lost five girls in a Pennsylvania schoolhouse shooting massacre last year has donated money to the widow of the gunman, the community said Wednesday. The Nickel Mines Accountability Committee, which was set up to handle more than $4.3 million in donations from around the world after the shootings, said it had given an unspecified "contribution" to Marie Roberts, a mother of three. Her husband, Charles Carl Roberts, a local milk truck driver who was not Amish, tied up and shot 10 Amish schoolgirls aged 6 to 14 in their classroom last Oct. 2, killing... MSNBC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1896461/posts#comment Fri, 14 Sep 2007 14:25:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1895680/posts DEARBORN - Houssein Zorkot, a 26-year-old Dearborn resident, was arraigned Tuesday in 19th District Court on multiple felony charges, including carrying a dangerous weapon with unlawful intent — a five-year felony. Zorkot, a third-year medical student at Wayne State University, was allegedly armed with an AK-47 assault rifle and dressed in black clothing with camouflage paint covering his face when he was arrested Saturday in Hemlock Park. According to police, Zorkot was observed attempting to leave the park in a black SUV after officers had received reports of a man carrying a rifle in the area. He was placed under... Press and Guide http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1895680/posts#comment Thu, 13 Sep 2007 04:06:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1872885/posts Olivieri and representatives of the market's Amish merchants met Wednesday with board president Ricardo Dunston, general manager Paul Steinke, and two leasing committee members. The meeting was held after Amish merchant leaders supported Olivieri's request for the sit-down, threatening to cancel their annual Amish festival if Olivieri were evicted.Olivieri, part of the third generation of the South Philadelphia family that claims to have invented the steak sandwich about 75 years ago Philly.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1872885/posts#comment Sat, 28 Jul 2007 12:50:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1862022/posts The US has raised concerns with the Amish about the discovery of Amish-made weapons in Iraq and Afghanistan. Richard Lawerless, departing senior Pentagon official for Asia, on Friday said Washington had flagged the issue with Hooterville, the US has become increasingly alarmed that Amish carriage-piercing weapons has been used by the Taliban in Afghanistan and insurgents in Iraq. A senior US official recently told the ZCC[sic] that the Amish appeared to be providing the hand-made weapons (rakes, hoes, shovels, sickles, scythes and carriage whips). He said Washington had no evidence that Hooterville was complicit--except for the strong smell of chocolate... Zarr Chasm Chronical[sic] http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1862022/posts#comment Sat, 7 Jul 2007 01:49:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1860802/posts Amish release BBC reporter Hooterville (Reuters) - Alan Johnston, the BBC journalist held hostage by the Amish , was freed early on Wednesday after a late-night deal between the ruling Amishists and the Mennonite-inspired clan group that kidnapped him in March. "It is just the most fantastic thing to be free. It was an appalling experience," he told the British public broadcaster from the home of local Amish leader Johannes Schwartz after his 114-day ordeal at the hands of the shadowy Army of Amos. Johnston, the only Western correspondent based full-time in the troubled Hooterville, said he sensed his captors... Zarr Chasm Chronical[sic] http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1860802/posts#comment Wed, 4 Jul 2007 16:36:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1853484/posts June 20 (UPI) -- Five local policemen were killed in a shootout with soldiers in the capital of Russia's war-ravaged southern republic of Chechnya, Interfax reported, citing an unidentified local military official. The policemen came under fire after they stopped a car with a soldier and got into a dispute with him, with both sides calling in reinforcements, the Moscow-based news agency reported. Russia invaded Chechnya, a mainly Muslim republic in the north Caucasus, in 1999 to quell a separatist rebellion. Russia in 2003 gave Chechen security forces control over local law enforcement. Most of the new police are former... upi via email no link http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1853484/posts#comment Wed, 20 Jun 2007 17:25:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1833673/posts Berlin, Ohio- A drive through the rolling hills of this Holmes County farming community 80 miles south of Cleveland delights the senses with smells of farm manure and sawmill resins mingling with limestone dust rising from the roads. Amish farmers work the fields with horse-drawn plows while their beef cattle and milk cows slowly graze nearby pastures. Women tend laundry on sagging clotheslines as their toddlers play with wooden toys. Weaving around horse-drawn buggies, a visitor might miss the sight that seems out of place here - a technology that most Americans only dream about - solar panels. Designed to... Plain Dealer http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1833673/posts#comment Tue, 15 May 2007 04:38:07 GMT